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‘Around the World, Around the World’ ‘Cabaret’ Draws

Big Crowds on Opening Weekend

by SYDNEY GANUS Staff Writer

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The Verizon Ballroom was packed Saturday night for the International Student Organization’s annual banquet. The evening included performances from all around the globe as well as speeches by ISO officers and Chancellor Gearhart.

by MATILDE BONIFAZ Staff Writer

The International Students Organization hosted their yearly banquet April 21 in the Union Ballroom.

The banquet is a yearly event done by the organization in order for students to

present their cultural diversity.

“The purpose of this banquet is to present everyone’s culture around the world through food and performances. There will be many dances, people singing and games for people to enjoy,” said Housseine Mohamed,

member of ISO. “The event is the biggest one that ISO organizes and it is the most attended event on campus. Every year we have a variety of performances from different cultures through music, dance, and skits. This year we had 120 performers, which is a great number. It

shows that our International Students are involved in campus,” said Mohamed Boudhoum, President of ISO. “This event is my favorite one of the year, and it’s the ISO biggest contribution to bring world cultures to the University of Arkansas,” Boudhoum said.

The Broadway musical “Cabaret,” a UA drama department production, drew more than 250 attendees opening night, theater officials said.

“The play is very wellknown,” said Ashley Cochea, theater business manager.

“Cabaret,” which is set in 1930’s Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power, has been a subject of controversy.

The plot centers around a budding romance between a German cabaret dancer and an aspiring American writer and features young, scantily clad dancers and strong themes of sex and power.

In spite of the production’s subject matter, 265 guests attended opening night on Friday, April 20.

“The controversy helps attract a younger audience, but the play is not so controversial that it keeps the older generation away,” Cochea said.

The following night’s performance on Saturday drew a crowd of 165 people. This number is on par with that of other musicals, Cochea said.

“There were quite a few people when I went on Saturday,” said sophomore Sam Myears.

“The play was hilarious. There were moments when I literally couldn’t stop laughing.”

The production, directed

by Kate Frank, is based on the Joe Masteroff book of the same name. Cabaret’s music is a collaborative effort by John Kander and Fred Ebbs. The musical has become a Broadway regular and was recently adapted as a film.

The drama department will continue to perform the musical until Sunday, April 29.

Students can attend the production for free during the Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday performances. Show times and other performance-related details can be found on the drama department website.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the University Theater box office, cost $16 for adults, $7 for children, and $14 for faculty and seniors, according to the drama department website.

The box office is open from noon until 3 p.m., but tickets are also sold before each showing. Attendees are encouraged to buy tickets ahead of time, Cochea said.

Recruiting Programs Aimed at Women Engineers Students Prep for Summer Music Festivals

by KAREN STIGAR Staff Writer

Some students save up all year attend summer music festivities like Bonnaroo, Wakarusa Music Festival and Memphis in May. “I work 30 hours a week and always save up money to go to at least one festival during the summer. I went to Wakarusa last year and this year I am going to Memphis in May,” said sophomore Samantha Luker.

This year will mark the 36th anniversary for Memphis in May. Over the past decade, more than 1.1 million music fans have attended the multistage three-day event, best known for its eclectic mix of rock, blues and soul. The festival is held in a 25-acre riverfront park at the foot of the historic Beale Street overlooking the Mississippi River, according to the Memphis in May website.

Ticket prices range from $32.50 for a single day pass to $75 for a three-day pass, according to the Memphis in May website.

The Wakarusa Music Festi-

val began in 2004 in Lawrence, Kansas as an outdoor celebration of music. The festival relocated to Mulberry Mountain, outside of Ozark, Ark., four years ago. More than 100 artists have played at the festival since its inception, according to the Wakarusa Music Festival website.

For general admission tickets, each person entering the festival requires their own Event Pass such as Full Event, Three Day or Two Day, which can range from $99 to $179.

In addition to each person having their own Event Pass, every vehicle entering the festival requires a Camping or Parking Pass such as Main Venue, West Woods, which ranges from $29 to $99. Up to five people can ride in one vehicle and split the cost of camping, according to the Wakarusa Music Festival website.

Ticket prices for Bonnaroo range from $209.50 to $259.50 for general admission, according to the Bonnaroo website.

Both Bonnaroo and Wakarusa offer camping, accord-

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The incoming and outgoing officers of the Society of Women Engineers meet with their adviser, Julie Carrier, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, to discuss the group’s goals for next year. See story on page 3.

Local Musicians Honored Commuter Bike Use on the Rise in NWA at NAMA Ceremony

by SARAH DEROUEN Staff Writer

The Northwest Arkansas Music Awards honored local musicians last night at George’s Majestic Lounge, said NAMA director Susan Porter.

“Musicians work very hard,” Porter said. “They have day jobs and families. We like what they are doing contributing to the vitality to north-

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More bicycles were sold in the U.S. in 2009 than cars and trucks, according to the National Bicycle Dealers Association.

Bicycle sales grew nearly 15 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to the National Bicycle Dealers Association. Bicycle sales generated $6 billion in 2010.

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The UA has strong ties to the event, which was presented by UA faculty members Kyle Kellams, news director of KUAF, and Robert Cochran, director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, hosted the event.

This event have been showcasing local musicians from all genres for 16 years,

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Nationwide gasoline prices are rising, and that might prompt even more U.S. residents to switch to bicycles for everyday trips, said Dennis Markatos, founder of Sustainable Energy Transition.

The average specialty bicycle retailer had gross annual sales of $860,000 in 2011, compared to $550,000 in 2005, according to the NBDA.

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Throughout the Year: How the Time Flies A Traveler columnist discusses how time flies throughout our college years, and how we will impact our time here.

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Bicycles appeal primarily to a recreation market in the U.S., but there is increasing evidence of more people commuting on bike, according to the NBDA. Several cities and companies have instituted bike-sharing programs that allow people to borrow a bike for transportation and return it later.

Riding a bike over short distances rather than driving can help consumer confidence and support economic recovery, Markatos said. Bikes save costs and drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions, he said.

The federal government has budgeted transportation money for construction of bicycle-specific paths and road improvements for coming years, which is another sign of the emergence of bicycling as an important form of transportation, according to NBDA. The outlook for the future in bicycles is very positive, according to NBDA. National trends related to the green movement, environmental sustainability, the need to address health problems related to inactivity and higher gas prices also bode well for the future of humanpowered transportation.

For the first time, cyclists can travel longer distances safely, Markatos said. The East Coast Greenway Alliance, for instance, aims to connect Key West, Fla., to Calais, Maine, by a 3,000 mile-long paved bike trail.

Despite the growing numbers of bicycle riders, there is no federal law in the U.S. requiring bicycle helmets, according to the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety. Arkansas is one of 14 states that has no statewide or local helmet laws, according to NETS. “I don’t think it’s really safe riding a bike anywhere without a helmet,� said UA graduate Brad Cardwell. “But I don’t think there should be a law. I’d be pretty indifferent if there was one.�

Nationwide, 630 bicyclists were killed and 51,000 were injured in 2009, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The death toll is 12 percent lower than in 2008. “I haven’t been hit yet, so I feel pretty comfortable riding my bicycle around Fayetteville,�

Cardwell said. “It helps being in the bike lanes.�

Federal and state legislators need to give more support to the construction and maintenance of safe bike lanes, as such work can be a much-needed source of job growth, Markatos said.

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ing to the festival websites.

Bonnaroo offers group camping with a minimum requirement of 24 people per campsite. Group camping costs $30 per person plus applicable fees, according to the Bonnaroo website. “It’s awesome that you can camp at Bonnaroo and Wakarusa. It makes things a lot easier and it’s just all around more fun,� Luker said.

she said.

Last year, the event was expanded to a week-long event called rockIT Music Week.

This year will include performances by nominees at Legacy Blues and other clubs Saturday, April 28, Porter said.

Last night’s event at George’s included performances by a 13-year-old and bands that have played together for more than 15 years.

Performers included Afrique

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Nominees for NAMA are chosen by a committee and then the public can vote online. Musicians who win NAMA awards for three years are placed in the Hall of Fame, Porter said.

The award categories change each year based on which musicians are nominated, she said.

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At 19 percent, the percentage of women enrolled in the UA College of Engineering is higher than the national average. But engineering recruiters are working to bring in even more female students, officials said.

The seventh annual Equal Pay Day on April 17 highlighted the disparities between men and women in certain fields —especially technology.

Although more women than men are graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees, women earning degrees in technology fields, specifically engineering and computer sciences, remain drastically lower. Only about 17 percent of engineering graduates nationally are women, according to the American Society for Engineering Education.

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count for 548 of the 2,858 enrolled in the College of Engineering, according to the UA Office of Institutional Research.

This is a 42-percent increase from 2005, when only 313 female students were enrolled in the college.

“We’d love to get to 25 percent — that’s the long term goal,” said Bryan Hill, assistant dean of student recruitment and international programs for the College of Engineering.

There are two main recruiting programs aimed at bringing more female students into the engineering department, Hill said.

One is the Engineering Girl Camp, a program that provides hands-on engineering activities to draw girls into the field. The program is aimed specifically at eighth- and ninth-grade girls, according to the UA engineering website.

The other is a mailing campaign by the Society of

Women Engineers to en- lege graduates across the courage prospective stu- board earn about 71 cents dents and the respect of fe- to every dollar male gradmale students on campus, uates make, even in fields Hill said. where women outnumber In addition, the College men, such as clerical and of Engineering pairs pro- accounting, according to spective female students the American Association with current female stu- of University Women. dent recruiters in order to The gap in Arkansas is give them a role model, almost 10 cents wider than Hill said. the national average. The This year, engineering gap widens even further for was one of the fastest grow- female minorities. ing careers in the nation, as African-American well as one of the highest women make about 63 paying, according to the cents to the dollar and Federal Bureau of Labor Hispanic women make 52 Statistics. cents to the dollar — less Overall, the job market than women made in the looks promising for female 1960s, according to the engineers, although a wage Government Accountabilgap still persists. ity Office.

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DREAM Act Comes Alive At Fayetteville Forum Today marks a big day for supporters of the DREAM act, as five UA students will come together to discuss their experiences with the public. Not only have students and faculty been invited to the event, but state legislators and policy makers have also been asked to attend the forum, “Undocumented: Living in the Shadows.”

The DREAM Act would allow undocumented students who were brought to the U.S. by their parents to gain citizenship through military service or through attending higher education.

Though it has received a great deal of negative publicity in the past, UA Chancellor Gearhart, among other notable figures, has been an active supporter for the passage of the Act. We look forward to the event tomorrow, and for the message that these students will bring to others. It is important, as students who most likely have an opinion about the topic, to attend these events and educate ourselves about these ideas.

We stand behind the Chancellor and his support of the DREAM Act, and believe that all students should have a right to education, no matter what their status is. Education is a basic human right, and no student should be denied.

Access to education is something that should be available to everyone, along with the tools needed to gain a higher learning, whatever they may be. From private scholarships to federal funding, we should support all students and educate them to provide a better work force for the future.

We look forward to the event today, and future events that offer education about topics like these that we see in the daily news.

The “Undocumented: Living in the Shadows” forum will be in the Fayetteville Town Center at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

Student Events Provide Needed Rest During Week Finals week is almost here, and many of us are starting to move our social lives to Mullins Library in preparation for our end-of-semester exams. Yet, it’s important during the weeks leading up to Dead Day to remember to take a break and get some much needed stress relief while hitting the books all day.

It’s easy to get overwhelmed in the countdown to the end of the semester with projects, tests and study guides. Fortunately, UA students can gain some much needed rest and relaxation this week to ensure that we are destressed and ready for finals in the upcoming days.

Kid Cudi, the spring headliner this year, will perform on campus Sunday night, and we look forward to the weekend event.

Instead of studying our night away, we can head to campus, not to hit the books, but rather to enjoy some time with our friends at what is sure to be a great performance. The weather has been so great that a trip to Devils Den for an afternoon or weekend hike is much needed, and a great mini-vacation before the big week. The UA Drama department is performing the new play, Cabaret, this week, and a night at Baum Stadium for the last few baseball games is sure to be a stress buster.

Whatever way you decide to destress this week, remember that whether you are graduating or staying here for another year, it is still important to enjoy our time here at the UA. Remember this week that it’s important to study, but it is just as important to rest, so that we can push through to the end of semester and finish out strong.

Traveler Quote of the Day “The controversy helps attract a younger audience, but the play is not so controversial that it keeps the older generation away.”

-Ashley Cochea, theater business manager, “‘Cabaret’ Draws Big Crowds on Opening Weekend,” page 1.

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Throughout the Year: How the Time Flies Good To Know

by CHRIS SONNTAG

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As we near the end of the semester, I feel as if one of the most common statements we’ll hear will be something along the lines of, “I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by.” And really, looking back at my sophomore year, I’ll be one of those people and say the same.

The feeling that time moves faster as you get older is cliché, but it’s true. It really hit me this semester when I was volunteering at an Honors College event, as high school seniors came to interview for scholarships. I looked over at one of my older friends who was also a mentor at the event, and realized that when I interviewed two years ago, he was one of the sophomores. He’s about to graduate, making me feel like I was taking his place,

and that very soon some of the high school kids around me would take mine.

As mind-numbingly obvious as that statement is, it was a bit of an epiphany for me that my time here at this university would go so fast. It was akin to the feeling of standing by an ocean or watching the night sky and suddenly feeling very small. Maybe it’s a product of human nature—hoping that things (when they’re at least somewhat half-decent) will stay the same. But they don’t, even during the “timeout” portions of our lives like summer break.

Let’s start with something memorable from our lives— some would say the biggest event of the last decade. There are teachers out there in middle schools across the U.S. who are now starting to teach about the events of September 11, 2001, to kids who were not alive at the time. It’s already become “just a day in the past” for them, in the same way that we think of Pearl Harbor being something awful but still just a part of history. Eventually, there will be a point where teachers won’t even spend an entire class period on it.

I guess that shouldn’t surprise me, though. 9/11 was over half my lifetime ago. Besides, an 80-year-old per-

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If these executives were elected by the students, then they have a right to have their opinion be heard about who will be replacing them. Adding more convoluted rules, which by the way, sound like they have no teeth, seems rather obstructive and pointless.

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birds at some larcenous pigs.

And the people involved in many of the events possible often made a huge impact and then fizzled out. Lee Harvey Oswald, who killed the man that made the moon launch possible, when from being a complete nobody to being one of the most famous people on Earth to being dead in under 48 hours. The Beatles released their albums only between 1963 and 1970, making a huge impact on the music world in what is arguably a short amount of time; they innovated, and after their breakup mostly became part of the crowded scene they helped create.

In the context of that, the conclusion of this school year suddenly seems so insignificant. The saying, “The years are short but the days are long,” probably explains why we look forward to it— we’re ready for a break from the routine. And it’ll be a nice break, but then most of us will be getting right back into the swing of things come August, if not sooner. It’ll just be another step on our life journeys, as we hope to make an impact in the time we have here.

Chris Sonntag is a biochemistry major, and a Traveler columnist.

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I agree with the previous comment. Plus it is a limitation of free speech. Why are senators like Ellie Keffler in favor of more regulations and less freedom?

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son has lived through a third of U.S. History and our 10th president has living grandchildren. Children being born right now will graduate high school in 2030. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is older now than Bewitched was when Will Smith was starting his acting career. And by the time my little brother graduates college, by saying the “20s,” we won’t necessarily be referring to the 1920s. I wonder if they had that thought out in 1912, and wonder if we’ll eventually be asked, “Wow, you were born in the 1900s?”

But at the same time, I should probably get used to change. I mean, if you look through this wibbly wobbly, time-y-wimey stuff we call recent history, change is the only thing that has stayed constant.

It was only 66 years from the Wright Brothers plane to the Moon landing (and if NASA had kept its budget through the 70s to today, we’d probably have been to Mars by now).

At this very moment you can have almost the sum total of human knowledge beamed through the air to a little box in your pocket. That little box has more computing power than NASA did in 1969. They used it to launch rockets at the big rock floating us, while now we use it to launch very angry

Camille Richoux:

You’re comparing the senseless deaths of over 1,500 people (almost half as many people as died on 9/11) to... divorce, broken hearts, and homework? Pop culture?? People (of any age) such as yourself may or may not be vapid, but you clearly have a stunning lack of perspective.

Oh, and the American revolution started with the so-called “shot heard ‘round the world” in Lexington, and effectively ended with the British surrender at Yorktown. And it’s Schoolhouse Rock and various history classes (that I actually paid attention to) that I have to thank for that knowledge, not Google.

Grish: I completely disagree with the comment below.

Not only does this column show “perspective,” it also asks an important question. Why are people in this country so quick to pull down our teens... who are learning and growing... rather than build them up at a time when they need it the most? The comment below is a prime illustration of exactly that.

It seems to me that we should all think before we tear down a group of people who are learning and expanding their horizons. It’s possible, that by constantly criticizing our teens, we run the risk of sinking the Titanic that represents our future.

The focus of the column isn’t to minimize the tragedy of the Titanic, it’s to point out the larger tragedy that’s going on today. Teenagers have a lot to deal with in 2012, and they’re doing it in a world that is more complicated than ever before in history, but every time they make a misstep, someone is there to criticize them.

Re: Don’t Rush It: The Real World Is Stressful DCM0117 :

I attend UA - Monticello; I completely agree. I originally was planning on going to the U of A for Architecture, and then had the reality that I would drive myself insane, even though I love geometry and trig, and drawing blueprints, I knew I had another love-- education through music. So I decided to attend UAM for Vocal and Instrumental Music Education Comprehensive, of which this is my fourth of six years I had long ago accepted to have to undergo. So yeah, don’t ever rush, especially if you are doing something you don’t find awesome. Change it, if you don’t like it. Do something you KNOW you will be happy with, I did, and I am already happy, and have yet to even begin my career(s).

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UA Students Join in KONY 2012 Campaign to “Cover the Night”

by EDDIE GREGG Staff Writer

Armed with posters, stickers, tape and sidewalk chalk, about 30 UA students gathered at the fountain in front of the Student Union Friday night to “Cover the Night.”

They were there in response to a video most of us have probably seen: Invisible Children’s KONY 2012, a 30-minute exposé on Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army and the atrocities they have committed—the rape, mutilation and murder of thousands of men, women and children in Uganda and the surrounding countries over the last two-and-a-half decades.

In the video, which has been viewed well more than 100 million times in less than two months, Jason Russell, the co-founder of the Invisible Children organization, calls for (among other things) viewers around the world to meet at sundown on April 20, to “Cover the Night” and “blanket every street in every city until the sun comes up” with posters, stickers and other materials intended to spread Kony’s name and calling for his justice.

The heightened awareness, according to Invisible Children, covering the night will bring about is intended to pressure politicians and world leaders to work towards the arrest of Kony, who is at the top of the International Criminal Court’s most-wanted list.

Jaycob Baker, a senior kinesiology major, said he was participating in “Cover the Night” because he had seen the KONY 2012 video and “wanted to jump on this bandwagon.”

Baker is among Invisible Children’s millions of supporters around the globe. But the organization has

its critics, too. Some have called attention to how Invisible Children spends the millions of dollars it takes in.

“Eighty-one percent of our money last year went to programs,” Russell said, responding to this criticism in an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon.

But only 37 percent of Invisible Children’s $8.89 million in expenses last year went to programs specifically in Africa, according to the financial reports the organization has posted on its website, invisiblechildren.com.

Thirty-six percent went to “AWARENESS PROGRAMS” and “AWARENESS PRODUCTS.” Another 11 percent went to “FUNDRAISING” and “MEDIA & FILM CREATION.” The remaining 16 percent--$1.44 million--went to “MANAGEMENT & GENERAL.” In a YouTube response to KONY 2012, Rosabell Kagumire, a Ugandan blogger, voices other concerns and says the video oversimplifies the stories of millions of people.

“If you are showing me as voiceless, as hopeless—you have no place telling me story. You shouldn’t be telling my story, if you don’t also believe I have the power to change what is going on. And this video seems to say the power lies in America... this is the same narrative we have seen about Africa for centuries. And in this 21st century, we ought to see something more different,” Kagumire said in the video.

Other critics have pointed to the negative reaction the KONY 2012 film attracted when it was screened for Ugandans in Lira, Uganda, an area affected by Kony and the LRA. People there reacted negatively to the KONY 2012 film because it was targeted at Westerners, said Bailey

Cox, a sophomore political science major who participated in “Cover the Night.”

“It needs to be taken into account how awareness-driven our first film was. A news outlet inappropriately screened it to a couple of communities and did not offer background knowledge on Invisible Children,” Cox wrote in an email, “And so you can see how individuals could be entirely irritated if this were the first time they were introduced to

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UA Students Lose Extreme Weight

by MATTIE QUINN Managing Editor

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As the semester comes to an end, students like UA senior Eric Allen are polishing up their wardrobes to land that dream job or summer internship. “The way you dress says a lot about how you care for yourself and your concern for how others perceive you,” Allen said.

Internships Bring Job Experience to UA Students

by CAITLIN MURAD Staff Writer

College professors teach you everything they can about the logistics of your future job, but no class can compare to the experience of working or interning in your actual field of work. Summer is the perfect opportunity for students to stretch their legs and gain experience in their future field through an internship. Internships can be very competitive but here are some tips and tools from the Career Development Center tips to help you nail that internship interview.

The first step is the job application. Until your interview, this maybe the only impression the company has of an applicant. Many applications ask applicants to include a resume, which provides an

opportunity to show experience and strengths.

“The resume should be tailored to the specific position so that the applicant can adequately show how their previous experience matches the qualities the employer is looking for,” said Erica Estes-Beard, Associate Director of Career Education and Staff Development at UA Career Center. “Applicants can also stand out by focusing their experience descriptions more on accomplishments and results than on tasks and duties.”

In addition to putting experience and positive qualities at the top of a resume, applicants should also include a GPA if it shows an academic accomplishment.

“The general rule is to include GPA if it is above a 3.0,” Estes-Beard

said. “However, in some industries such as engineering, slightly lower GPAs are acceptable as well.”

The second step in the internship process is the interview. Before meeting with a potential employer it is important to research the company or organization beforehand, as well as the job description of the advertised position.

Optimal Resume is an online tool provided by the Career Development Center that can assist students in practicing for their interview. The program has different interview questions that students can practice answering out loud.

What to wear to an interview is also an important component.

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Imagine losing half of yourself.

No, I am not talking about losing your soul mate after a tragic accident or having a mental breakdown during which you don’t know who are you are anymore. I am instead referring to losing half of the weight that you have now.

Most people not only could not physically accomplish such a task, because it would be too unhealthy and probably result in death. But for UA graduate student Josh Wadley, not only has it been a reality, but something that has enriched his life for the better.

“Growing up, I was always fat, overweight, whatever you want to call it. I was starting to realize that I wasn’t going to be able to live for as long as I would like to because of how heavy I was,” Wadley said.

When Wadley’s brother, who had always been skinny growing up, obtained a injury that left him unable to be active, he found himself in the same weight position as Josh.

“Two years ago he decided to finally lose the weight he had gained while being in a cast during his injury. He started limiting his portions and not drinking anything but water; he still hasn’t had a soda in those two years. Eventually, he was able to lose 112 pounds,” Wadley said.

Watching his brother finally obtain a healthy weight made a switch go off in Josh’s head.

“I graduated on the 18th of May 2011 and decided that on May 20 I was going to do what he did. Just limit all my portions and cut back on unhealthy things.”

From May until December,

Wadley was able to lose around 50 to 60 pounds just by eating healthier. He still claims to be able to eat all of the same foods he was able to enjoy before, just “not as much of it. For instance, if my friends are grilling out, I will still eat a burger, but just leave off the bun.”

Once the New Year came around, both Josh and his brother decided to start working out to see how much more weight they could lose. Now he finds himself in the fitness center of the HPER every day for at least an hour.

“I know people say you shouldn’t work out everyday, that your body needs at least one day off. But I rarely do that. It’s like an addiction to me now. I am more motivated to just go seven days a week rather than give myself one day off.”

To date, Wadley has lost 115 pounds. At his heaviest, he weighed in at 290 pounds. Now he is down to 175. While he is proud of the amount of weight he has lost, he still wants to lose about “15 more pounds. My ideal weight would be about 160.”

Wadley is not alone in his quest for wellness. Seeing the need for motivation to get fit, the campus ministry Chi Alpha started their very own spin-off of the popular NBC show “The Biggest Loser” to try to help people to reach their weight goals.

“We just wanted to bring a healthier student to campus. Everyone wishes they went to the gym more, everyone wishes they could be a little healthier. But it is hard to get the motivation to complete those goals,” said Mack

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Depending on the job, criteria for dress code may be different.

“We recommend wearing a suit to an interview. It is always better to be over-dressed than underdressed,” Estes-Beard said. “Applicants can ask the HR [human resources] manager what type of dress is expected as well.”

During the interview it is important to give off an aura of confidence and poise. Before leaving the interview, make sure to ask when the decision will be made about the position. This will offer a time frame for following up with the employer to thank them for their time and also to check on the status of the hiring process.

Estes-Beard suggested following up after an interview with a thank-you card. Cards can be sent by mail or electronically, but it is important to do it right after the interview so that it will reach the employer before any decisions are made about the position.

“An additional way to follow up is to connect with the employer on the social media tool LinkedIn,” Estes Beard said.

The Career Development Center offers online resources at www. career.uark.edu to help students in the application and interview process. The online tools include videos, tips for interviews, interview advice, and the Optimal Resume feature.

“We also offer information and resources related to networking, resume, job search and choosing careers and majors, as well as events to learn and practice all of these areas,” Estes-Beard said.

The Career Center encourages students to stay connected with the resources that they offer by visiting their office and using the resources on their website.

Invisible Children.”

The film screening was actually put together by a Ugandan chapter of the African Youth Initiative Network, which offers care and rehabilitation to those affected by the conflicts in Northern Uganda.

Malcom Webb, a reporter for Al Jazeera English, covered the March 13, screening. His report can be found on YouTube.

One man in the report, Leo Adongo, said he was abducted by the LRA and lost his arm and four of his friends to a landmine explo-

section to their website to address these and other criticisms.

Back in Fayetteville, the students were preparing to set off into the night. Among the students gathered, Flannery Wasson, a vice president for the UA Invisible Children club, arrived with a toothbrush in addition to her posters. As the activists trickled in, Wasson proceeded to wet the toothbrush in the fountain in front of the Union. She then knelt on the concrete nearby and started scrubbing the ground in the shape of a letter “K.” Wasson explained that she was making reverse graffiti, which involves cleaning a dirty surface to

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While Adongo said he supports the campaign against Kony and the LRA, he added that some of the promotion methods used by Invisible Children “sounded offensive.”

“If people in those countries care about us, they will not wear T-shirts with pictures of Joseph Kony for any reason. That would celebrate our suffering,” Adongo said.

The screening ended with rocks being thrown and the crowd scattering into the night, according to Webb.

In response to questions about Invisible Children’s relationship with and sensitivity to locals in Uganda and the surrounding countries, Cox pointed to Invisible Children’s follow up to KONY 2012, “KONY 2012: Part II – Beyond Famous,” of which she wrote in an email, “It goes further in depth with the LRA conflict, has voices from community members and leaders currently affected, and shows from the ground solutions.”

Invisible Children has also posted an extensive question and answer

leave a message or image behind, similar to how a person might write on a dirty car window.

The concrete didn’t appear especially dirty, and there was barely enough water transferred from the brush to the concrete for Wasson to shape a wet spot in the shape of the first letter in Kony’s name. She abandoned the effort.

By 11 p.m., the students had split into groups. Some went to the Fayetteville square to chalk the sidewalks with KONY 2012 slogans and put up posters to expose the Saturday-morning attendees of the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market to their message.

They put up dozens of posters around the square, some with images of Kony and slogans such as “Stop at Nothing” and “Make him visible.”

On the sidewalks, they drew the flags of Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Central African Republic, the four countries that have been directly impacted by Kony and the LRA. They also wrote on the sidewalk, “26 years” and “30,000 abducted,”

WEIGHT

and bike out to Lake Fayetteville and back, which is easily 18-20 miles round trip. I have racked up about 300 miles on my bike total since the start of the competition,” Simpson said.

For Wadley, the weight loss has been nothing short of life changing.

“I am an introverted person naturally, but when I was bigger I would always just keep my head down. Now it isn’t hard for me to be out-going and I will talk to just about anyone now,” Wadley said.

“I’m just happier and in a better mood.”

Despite the perks of the weight loss, both Wadley and Simpson acknowledge the downside that many don’t recognize when you do finally reach your goals.

For Wadley, some are worried that he has lost the weight too quickly, and his own brother had gall stones that the doctor attributed to his dramatic weight loss.

His weight loss was not without some quirks. Having lost 43 percent of his body weight, he has had to buy an all new wardrobe which has proven to be expensive.

“It’s been nice, though, because my mom told me, ‘You lose it, I’ll pay for it,’” Wadley said. “It has been a nice change being able to buy clothes off the racks instead of having to special order because a store would only have one XXL in stock.”

Simpson noted that he did gain a little bit of the weight back after the competition and is hoping to start training for a biathlon to get back on the wagon.

Despite this, they both admit that the high from people’s compliments is the best motivator.

“Sometimes I look like a fool because I will wave to people I know who I haven’t seen them in a while and they don’t even recognize it is me. It always takes them a minute and then you see a switch go off in their head,” Wadley said. “When I go home obviously my family knows it is me, but friends from high school will just walk right past me on the street. It’s strangely a good feeling.”

Simpson echoes those sentiments.

“You can say all you want that you want lose weight for yourself.

But when someone comes up to you and is like, ‘Have you lost weight?’ or ‘Wow, you are looking great,’ that is what makes you feel the best. That is what keeps me going.”

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Chi Alpha recruited 150 people to compete, which exceeded Clements goal of 100 students. While the show is a strenuous effort with trainers blowing on whistles and yelling at contestants, Chi Alpha’s version was much more laid back so students were free to lose the weight how they wanted.

“We offered fitness boot camps with a Crossfit certified trainer, as well as swimming and self-defense classes, but those were all optional.

We also had non-exercise classes such as scrapbooking and songwriting that we hoped would just help people be accountable for themselves by checking in with others in the competition,” Clements said.

The competition started on Feb. 1 with the initial weigh-in and ended on March 15 with the weigh-out and a celebration banquet. Clements admits that only about half of those recruited to the competition ended up weighing out.

“Despite that, everyone who did weigh in lost at least 5 percent of their body weight. The winner lost 16 percent of his body weight (43 pounds total), and he was just beaming. Everyone was excited by how much they lost.”

The winner, Joe Simpson, is not a stranger to the struggle to lose weight.

“I’ve lost a dramatic amount of weight before, but I was cutting myself off from everything so I didn’t keep it off. Losing weight just isn’t something I can willy-nilly do.

I need a goal, something to work towards,” Simpson said.

Simpson admits to being a very competitive person who just “doesn’t like to lose. The combination of a competition and weight loss made it easy for me.”

Instead of cutting himself off from certain foods, he decided to stick to three square meals a day with limited carbs. Breakfast typically consisted of an egg with toast, lunch was a sandwich on wholewheat bread and dinner was typically chicken breast and brown rice.

Unlike Wadley, Simpson never once stepped inside a gym to lose the weight. Instead, he bought himself a bike.

“I live at Hill Place apartments, so I would bike to and from class everyday. A couple times a week I would go out on the biking trail

the number of children the LRA has kidnapped and killed or turned into child soldiers or sex slaves since he and his army have been active, according to Invisible Children.

Close by, someone drew a frowning face and wrote “Kony sucks.” By the end of the night, the blue and white character painted on a handicap-parking spot had a chalk face and a speech bubble drawn around a Kony 2012 poster taped to the ground.

The other group, about 10 students, hiked from the Student Union to Dickson Street.

Christy Harrington, president of the UA Invisible Children student organization, led the group to the intersection of Dickson Street and West Avenue. The students had a projector with them. Management at Hog Haus Brewing Company had given them permission to project a KONY 2012 image on the outside of the building. But none of the students could find an electrical outlet. The projector was not used that night.

Cox and one of her high school friends, Courtney Marshall, a freshman at John Brown University, set out on their own to “Cover the Night.”

The two students diligently snapped pictures of each poster they taped up or chalk inscription they made. Using the picture-sharing application Instagram on their smartphones, they hashtagged each picture with “KONY 2012,” “Cover the Night” and “Arkansas” and posted the pictures to Facebook and Twitter.

Cox explained that all the people participating in “Cover the Night” were supposed to take these pictures and tag them so that participation could be tracked and the pictures could be used to further spread the message.

“What would we do without social media?” Marshall said, as she posted a picture online.

The students stopped on the

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sidewalk in front of Jose’s on Dickson and started chalking a large, four-tiered inverted triangle, a symbol used by Invisible Children.

In the KONY 2012 video, Russell uses a triangle to illustrate what he says is the old structure of society.

In the top section are “the few with the money and the power.” In the next tier down are the government and media. Below, another tier, the everyday people.

But Russell goes on to explain that the global connectivity we now have through social media and other 21st century forms of communication is “turning the system upside down,” literally inverting the societal structure and adding another, bigger tier that puts the common people in the position of power.

As Marshall drew the inverted pyramid on the sidewalk, she narrowly avoided kneeling on a loogie left by a passerby. Two inebriates tried to play hopscotch on the drawing as they went from one bar to another.

This didn’t for a minute stop Cox or Marshall. They continued hiking through the chilly air, weaving in between the noisy Friday-night revelers that crowded Dickson Street.

For about two hours they put up posters on walls, windows, parking meters and benches. With sidewalk chalk, they wrote slogans like “Our liberty is our bond” and “One thing we can all agree on”—always stopping to snap pictures of their work with their smartphones.

By 1 a.m., Marshall and Cox met up with the group on the Fayetteville square. The students had completed their mission: you could hardly walk around the square or down Dickson Street without noticing a KONY 2012 poster or chalk message.

By last call, the crowds of drinkers on Dickson Street had thinned.

The posters, chalk messages and Instagram photos remained. But how long they will last--and what impact they might have--is yet to be seen.

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Tale of Two Defenses

by ZACH TURNER

Asst. Sports Editor

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson erupted for 467 yards and two touchdowns on 75 percent passing Saturday in the Red team’s 65-0 win over the White squad in the Razorbacks’ annual spring game.

WIlson threw for a total of 1,600 yards and 15 touchdowns with no interceptions during Arkansas’ four spring practice scrimmages.

One-sided Game

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Bobby Petrino didn’t call plays for Arkansas in the RedWhite game, but that didn’t slow Tyler Wilson and the Razorbacks offense down.

Wilson threw for 467 yards and two touchdowns, leading the Red team to a 65-0 win against the White on Saturday.

The Red team –– comprised of starters and key reserves –– scored on six of its eight firsthalf possessions and dominated throughout the game.

“We moved the football up and down the field,” offensive coordinator Paul Petrino said.

“There were a couple plays here and there that we could have executed a little bit better with the first group, but it was overall a real happy day. The other group didn’t play as well as they needed to. That’s just something they have to keep working on and keep improving.

“I’m really happy with the first group.”

Wilson found tight end Chris Gragg for 6-and 60-yard touchdown passes and senior running back Ronnie Wingo had 2, 1 and 11-yard touchdown runs for the Red team, which led 37-0 at halftime.

Wingo ran for a game-high 88 yards and the three touch-

downs on just 14 carries.

“He played good,” Petrino said. “It was nice to see him get out and use his speed. He got his pads down, he finished his runs at the end. I was really happy with Ronnie.”

The first play of the game featured a cameo from junior running back Knile Davis, who hasn’t been hit since breaking his ankle in August. Davis motioned out of the backfield, ran a route and wasn’t thrown to, then left the game and didn’t return.

“He begged us,” Petrino said. “He wanted to be in there one play, so we just put him in motion and told him to ‘get out

of the way, make sure nobody falls on you.’ At least he got in there for one play. It will be great to have him out there next year, back running and making plays for us.”

The Red defense shut down a White offense led by backup quarterbacks Brandon Mitchell and Brandon Allen for much of the day. The White offense had just 85 yards with Mitchell and Allen in the first three quarters.

“We get (linebacker) Alonzo Highsmith back (from a pec injury) it is going to be scary,” defensive end Chris Smith said.

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Arkansas Second at SECs Sophomore Emily Tubert fired a final-round 73 and finished third overall, leading the No. 36 University of Arkansas women’s golf team to a runner-up finish at the Southeastern Conference Championship at Blessings Sunday.

The Razorbacks finished the round with dramatic flair, nearly forcing a playoff after regulation. The lead seesawed most of the day between the Razorbacks, No. 2 Alabama and No. 5 Auburn

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who were all paired together for the final round.

Arkansas had as much as a six-stroke lead with three holes to play, but the Razorbacks were 11-over coming into the clubhouse. Auburn was plus-seven in the same stretch hanging on to win with a par putt by the Tigers’ final player on 18.

“It is a little bittersweet right now,” Arkansas coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said.

“This group has put in so much hard work this year

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see GOLF on page 9 LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore Katherine Grable finished sixth in the nation on beam in the NCAA individual championships after helping lead the Razorbacks to a Super Six appearance.

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore Emily Tubert shot a 73 in the final round of the Southeastern Conference Championships Sunday in Fayetteville to finish third overall, while the Razorbacks finished second overall as a team, one shot behind SEC champion Auburn.

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas safety Eric Bennett had two tackles in the Red team’s 65-0 win over the White team Saturday in Razorbacks’ annual spring game. The Red team, made up of the Hogs’ starters and key reserves, allowed just 126 yards against the White team’s offense.

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Arkansas’ Red team defense executed a shutout, but the White team defense was another story.

The Red team, comprised of Razorbacks starters and key backups, put up almost 700 yards of offense on a White team of reserves in a lopsided 65-0 win in the spring game.

Even with the score being one-sided, both defenses kept the schemes simple with firstyear defensive coordinator Paul Haynes calling plays, he said.

“I am very pleased,” Haynes said. “The things we were looking for was getting the terminology down, getting the defense down and we did that.

The guys don’t have a problem with the terminology, they don’t have a problem with the defense and now we just have to improve and get better.”

Red team quarterback Tyler Wilson threw for 467 yards and had a running game racking up 165 yards behind him against mostly

inexperienced defenders.

“We tried to get the Red team a lot of looks,” Haynes said. “With the one’s you were hoping they would dominate, and that is what happened.”

Though the White defense surrendered 698 yards of total defense and nine touchdowns, the Red defense proved its worth by allowing zero points from the reserves.

The Red team gave up just 126 yards, while recording eight tackles for loss, including five sacks, two by junior defensive end Chris Smith.

“Give credit to Paul Haynes because he is a great coach and been helping us since the Cotton Bowl,” Smith said. “We had to come out there and make a statement.”

Sophomore defensive end Trey Flowers added two sacks, while senior defensive tackle DeQuinta Jones had one sack.

“Trey Flowers did good as well and so did all the defensive ends with Austin Flynn and Colton Miles-

DULUTH, Ga. –– Arkansas’ gymnastics team finished sixth at the NCAA Championship finals on Sunday for its fourth top 10 finish in the last five years.

The Razorbacks advanced to the Super Six for the second time by finishing third in Friday’s NCAA Championship semifinal. In the last five years, Arkansas finished 10th in the nation in 2008, fifth in 2009, tied for ninth in 2011 and sixth in 2012. The Razorbacks reached the Super Six for the second time in four years after advancing for the first time in 2009.

“We had a lot of questions marks toward the end of the season and even leading up to the regional with injuries,” Arkansas co-head coach René Cook said. “Just to get to the Super Six is fantastic.”

Alabama won the national championship Sunday at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga. The final team standings were No. 4 Alabama 197.85, No. 1 Florida 197.775, No. 2 UCLA 197.75, No. 10 Stanford 197.50, No. 7 Utah 197.375 and No. 8 Arkansas 196.30.

“I’m really proud of the team,” senior All-American Jaime Pisani said. “We gave it our all.”

Pisani and sophomore Katherine Grable still have another day to complete. Both are in the individual event finals on Sunday at noon (central). Pisani is competing on floor and on beam, and Grable on beam.

Pisani, Grable Get Top 10 Finishes Arkansas’ gymnastics team closed its season on Sunday in the NCAA individual event finals with senior Jaime Pisani and sophomore Katherine Grable competing among the nation’s best for event championships.

Pisani finished ninth on

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At the beginning of football season, every fan is hopeful that this is going to be the year that their team wins it all.

The journey to the Super Bowl starts with the NFL Draft.

As always, the NFL Draft is packed with young talent.

From Alabama running back Trent Richardson to USC offensive lineman Matt Khalil, this draft is loaded with young talent sure to help fix holes and ignite the fan base for every team. Despite all of the quality players throughout, though, the NFL Draft is about one thing.

Quarterbacks.

This year is a very interesting year for teams looking for quarterbacks because unless you have the top two picks, you are going to be taking a huge risk if you draft a quarterback in the first two rounds.

There are two stud quarterback in this year’s draft, Andrew Luck of Stanford and

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from FOOTBALL on page 8 “We have got a good defensive coordinator (Paul Haynes). So I am happy to see what happens.”

Wilson and the Red offense were stopped on just one drive in the first half and also had the half end with the ball on the White 27-yard line.

Wilson finished spring practice 101 of 146 passing for 1,600 yards, 15 touchdowns and no interceptions.

“He is the face of the program, in my mind,” Haynes said. “Tyler and Knile. Guys like that. They’ve proven it, so they deserve it.”

Wilson addressed the team before it left the field after pregame warmups, a speech delivered by Bobby Petrino in

from DEFENSE on page 8 Nash,” Smith said.

The Red secondary helped force the White team quarterbacks into 16 for 29 passing for just 118 yards on the day.

Cornerback Kaelon Kelleybrew –– a walk-on who spent his first two collegiate seasons at Mississippi Valley State –– had the only interception by either team and led the Red team with five tackles.

“He is a kid at corner that you like just because he challenges every route,” Haynes said. “He doesn’t play soft and he tackles. He has been a pleasant surprise for us this spring.”

The Hogs’ most experienced member of the secondary, junior safety Eric Bennett, said he could see Kelleybrew starting next season.

“He hasn’t been a surprise to me because I had already seen him when he first got here,” Bennett said. “He has worked his way up the charts and I think he has the chance to start because he is a real good corner.”

Kelleybrew got more reps with the first-team defense this spring after starter Tevin

from COMMENTARY on page 8 Robert Griffin III from Baylor.

I know it is a bit ridiculous to call two kids sure things when they haven’t even taken a snap in the NFL, but I don’t care. To spare you the details, these guys are really, really good and a lot of fun to watch.

It doesn’t matter if you ask Mel Kiper Jr, Todd McShay or Jon Gruden –– they all agree that Luck and RG3 are a shoo in as the top two picks.

After that, things get a little bit tricky.

The next likely pick is Texas A&M quarterback-turned receiver-turned back to quarterback Ryan Tannehill. If I am an NFL General Manager, Tannehill scares the crap out of me.

Tannehill, also known as the guy who wasn’t good enough to beat out Jerrod Johnson for three years, took over the QB duties for A&M in 2010 and was surprisingly good, winning the last six games of the season before

from GYMNASTICS on page 8 floor and 12th on beam, while Grable was sixth on beam.

The Razorbacks concluded their team competition earlier in the weekend by reaching the NCAA Super Six for the second time in the program’s 10year history and the second time in four years. Arkansas finished sixth in the country for its fourth top 10 finish in five years.

from GOLF on page 8 and this was one of our main goals to be able to compete in front of our home fans and win a championship. To fall one shot short after hitting 800 plus shots is disappointing.

“There is truly no lead out here and you are always just one shot away from a big number.”

The Razorbacks also finished second overall in 2008

the past.

“Veltkamp said, ‘Hey Tyler, it’s yours today,’” Wilson said. “So I just said, ‘We’re all out here together,’ mentioned a couple things I said in the meeting … I said, ‘Hey, everything I talked about we’re playing for today. We’ve got great support.’”

Wilson threw for 404 yards in the first half and spread the ball around to different weapons.

Gragg finished with nine catches for 130 yards and the two scores, while senior receiver Cobi Hamilton hauled in 11 catches for 156 yards and sophomore receiver Marquel Wade had six catches for 136 yards.

“He knows he’s the guy,” QB Tyler Wilson said. “He knows that any time we’ve got 1 on 1 coverage, he’s got to be the guy.

You see a difference in his attitude, you see a difference in his demeanor coming to practice every day. I’m lucky to have Cobi Hamilton on my team.”

Mitchell and Allen both struggled while on the White team.

Mitchell completed 8 of 13 passes for 72 yards, but was sacked three times. Allen completed just 5 of 12 passes for 28 yards and was sacked twice.

Both were better with the Red team, though. Allen completed 4 of 6 passes for 38 yards and a touchdown, while Mitchell ran for a 4-yard touchdown on a bootleg.

“Wanted to get those other quarterbacks a couple reps with the ones in the second half,” Petrino said. “They did a great job.”

Mitchel was limited because of a hamstring injury prior to the second spring scrimmage.

Mitchel, a member of the Red team, finished with three tackles and one quarterback hurry Saturday.

“With the hamstring injury, I thought I did decent,” Mitchel said. “I thought I could have done more than I did, but I didn’t want to risk it.”

Gragg ends spring on high note Arkansas tight end Chris Gragg was Wilson’s go-to target to start the game.

The senior had six catches for 96 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter during the 65-0 win by the Red squad.

“I had a good day in the scrimmage,” Gragg said. “Some of the things I have been working on in practice such as being consistent and trying to go out there and make plays for Tyler when my number is called.”

Gragg finished the game with nine catches for 130 yards, but did have one drop in the second quarter that would have resulted in the 6-foot-3, 236-pounder’s third touchdown of the day.

“I should have had that one,

but I guess I was just being a little lazy,” Gragg said.

Crowd Support Impresses Coaches, Players Though it wasn’t nationally televised on ESPN like the spring game last year, the game Saturday drew an Arkansas spring-game record 45,250 fans.

Some players weren’t expecting to break the existing record by more than 3,000 fans less than two weeks after Bobby Petrino was fired as head coach.

“I wasn’t expecting that many fans until I got out on the field and thought ‘I haven’t ever seen this many fans before,” safety Eric Bennett said.

“It is the Razorback support we know and we have the best fan support in college football.”

Assistant coach Taver Johnson, who assumed administrative duties after Petrino’s firing, led the team onto the field for the first time since being named to the Arkansas coaching staff.

“It was amazing, a great feeling,” Johnson said. “It was exciting to run out there and go through the A for the first time period. Running out with the players and seeing all the fans it was awesome.”

being throttled by LSU in the Cotton Bowl (we can forgive him for that).

Last season was a year where A&M was supposed to be really good, even compete with OSU and OU for the Big 12 title. With those high expectations, Tannehill sunk and the Aggies along with him.

This doesn’t instill the kind of confidence that a NFL GM needs to draft Tannehill in the first 10 picks which is why you see teams like the Seahawks, which have the 10th pick but signed free agent Matt Flynn instead, making moves.

Russell Wilson will most likely be the next quarterback taken.

Wilson is solid and after years of toiling away at NC State showed exactly what he could do when he joined Wisconsin. With a great run game and solid receivers, Wilson led the Badgers to an 11-3 record and a narrow loss to Oregon in what was one of the best bowl games all season.

The problem with Wilson is

that he is too small at 5-foot11 and the running game at Wisconsin was too good. He showed that he could run a pro-style offense, but the Big Ten competition was less than stellar.

Next likely to get drafted will be either Kellen Moore of Boise State or Case Keenum from Houston.

I like Kellen Moore because he wins unlike anybody else has before. Sure the competition he is playing is pretty bad, but that doesn’t change the throws.

His throws are right on the money and put in a spot where only his guy can catch it a commodity found in all great QBs. Then there is Keenum, with a couple of knee surgeries under his belt and six years in college, let’s just go ahead and call him Jason White 2.0.

I think that is all that needs to be said.

Harrison Stanfill is a staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.

Over the last five years, Arkansas has finished 10th in 2008, fifth with a trip to the Super Six in 2009, 11th in 2010, tied for ninth in 2011 and sixth with another trip to the Super Six this season.

In Sunday’s event finals at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Ga., Pisani, the Southeastern Conference Gymnast of the Year, closed her decorated career. She was 12th on vault and 10th on floor in the 2010 event finals, and fifth on floor

and seventh in the all-around in 2011.

She also finished third in the nation in the all-around this year. The all-around is determined during the two semifinal sessions, which were Friday. Pisani had a 39.625 with a 9.875 vault, 9.90 on bars, 9.95 on beam and 9.90 on floor.

Florida’s Kytra Hunter won with a 39.725 while Georgia’s Kat Ding was third with a 39.65. The top seven all-around finishers were from the SEC.

and tied for second in 2009.

Arkansas finished the day shooting a 25-over, 313 in some of the toughest conditions Estes-Taylor has seen at the golf course. Winds gusting to 30-miles-per-hour impacted players’ drives off the tees but was also moving balls on the very fast greens in the final round.

Despite that, the Razorbacks were in the hunt until the final putt fell finishing with a three-day 917 with rounds of 309-295-313.

Tubert rallied from a firstday 78 shooting 70-73 for a 221, just two strokes behind medalist Patricia Sanz from Auburn. The Burbank, Calif., native turned even and finished the day with three birdies and four bogeys Sunday.

Sophomore Emma Lavy finished tied for sixth overall shooting a 288 for the three-day event. Lavy was the Razorbacks’ leader the first round rounds going 73-72 but struggled with an 83 in the final round for 228.

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