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Emily Rhodes Photo Editor UAPD officers direct traffic Tuesday morning, March 26, after an automobile hit and injured two UA students. Maple Street was closed to traffic from Garland Avenue to Leverett Street.

Anna Davis Staff Writer Two students were hit by a car while crossing the street Tuesday morning, police official said.

One male student and a female student were hit at the intersection of Maple Street and Lindell by a UA student

driver around 7:56 a.m., said Lt. Gary Crain police spokesman.

Both students were taken to the hospital, he said.

Wallace Richardson, 29, of Roland, Ark., was driving a white Chevrolet Tahoe. He received two citations, obstructed windshield and failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, according to the police report.

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Bailey Deloney Senior Staff Writer ASG voted Tuesday to pass a bill to support permanently providing testing materials for students.

The bill proposes “the establishment of a permanent funding source to provide Scantrons, Blue Books and other testing materials for students.”

In order to ensure that supplies do not run short as they have in the past, this bill suggests that the univer-

Sophomore Mackenzie Moore witnessed the event.

The female student was injured more by the accident because she was struck completely by the car, whereas the male student was just grazed, Moore said. The female student rolled onto the hood and windshield, and then hit the ground face down.

“It was a very scary thing to see. I was really scared for

her health seeing how hard the car hit her,” she said. “It absolutely made me think twice about crossing walks and also driving around campus. It could have happened to anyone.”

UAPD want to take extra precautions in the mornings since the sun might affect drivers’ vision to make sure this does not occur again, Crain said.

During the past semester, ASG has passed a number of resolutions and begun working with administrators in various areas of campus.

In order to boost crowd enthusiasm and increase student presence at basketball games, ASG passed a resolution to increase student seating near the court at Bud Walton Arena.

Senators are currently working with administrators to find a way to make this happen.

The athletics department is excited to hear from ASG and wants to get more students near the court, said Channing Pejic, author of the bill.

Administrators are discussing ways to make it happen, Pejic said. The challenge is finding the best place to add student seating.

In February, ASG passed a bill to establish a new impeachment process. The new process is modeled after the U.S. government’s national impeachment process and the system that is in place at LSU. This month, ASG passed a bill to introduce a more consistent warning system for first-time parking violations.

Senators talked with Gary Smith, director of transit and parking, about ways to im-

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Standing Up for Equality

tem in place to regulate the use of the testing materials, it is not fair to blame the faculty alone, Kieklak said.

“Many other SEC schools including Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Vanderbilt provide Scantrons, Blue Books and other testing materials for their students,” according to the bill.

This bill was written and supported by multiple senators who represent various colleges on campus.

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Senator and Author of bill sity requires departments to use a request form and provide class numbers before they could obtain testing materials for their students.

Last semester, departments and teachers in certain colleges overestimated how many scantrons they would need for their classes and supplies ran short, Kieklak said.

Since there was no sys-

with administration to make this happen,” said Sen. Joe Kieklak, author of the bill.

In addition, the bill proposed to add syllabi to the course information on ISIS failed.

Last night, ASG senators also proposed a bill to award GPA forgiveness to students

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One of the biggest problems for students suffering with depression is moving away from home, said Kieklak, author of the bill.

This bill is for students that have been inhibited in their academic ability by their depression, Kieklak said.

The bill proposes that administration allow students suffering from depression “to count up to two (2) academic years at the University like transfer credit that will not affect GPA.” In order for students to qualify for this type of credit, they must have originally passed the course and they must also enroll in Counseling and Psychological Services, according to the bill.

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“ASG can be more visible to the student body by helping those students who sometimes feel invisible,” Kieklak said.

Among other ASG proposals from Tuesday’s meeting include a bill in support of gender neutral housing at the university in the near future and a bill to support the investment in more durable and efficient tissue paper for university restrooms.

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An artist visited the UA to discuss his life as an artist, the materials he uses to create his pieces and the meanings behind many of his works.

Leonardo Dean is best known for his works with large-scale sculptural installations. This is a style of art that uses three-dimensional models to transform the perception of a space with designs that are generally specific to one site, according to an article by Oliver Grau of the MIT Press.

“I really enjoy this type of art,” said Kayla Kimball, a freshman fine arts student.

“It’s able to be slightly different from the norm, while still being beautiful and interesting.”

Throughout the lecture, Dean spoke about pieces that he created, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation exhibiting said works, and focused on the materials he

used and what he tried to show through his works.

“I began with just paper and black ink,” said Dean in regards to his early pieces. “I limited my talent and curved my skills.”

Dean then discussed how he later used straw, animal pieces found from road kill, rags, rusted metal and other extreme materials to create many of his works. Using objects found around the streets of New York, he displayed them in meaningful ways in an effort to represent the nature of life, focusing on death, decay and resurrection.

Collaborations Dean completed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and a work he completed with over 250 school kids in New York were also discussed.

“I gave the kids trash bags and told them to go and collect anything that they could find,” Dean said. “I taught them how to use non-store bought materials in an effort to teach them how to express

themselves.”

Dean’s works come in all shapes and sizes; some are about the size of a painting, roughly 24 inches by 24 inches, while others can cover an entire wall or room, one spanning as long as 109 feet.

“I make these large monstrosities to create living breathing pieces, but I do get worried that kids will run into the ones that hang too far off the wall,” Dean said about some of his larger works.

Dean was born in Tallahassee, Fla., in 1961 and received his bachelors of fine arts from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art at New York in 1985. He also attended the Parsons School of Design in New York from 1981 to 1982. Dean has had more than twenty solo exhibits dating back to 1992 and had his first work exhibited at the age of thirteen. Dean now splits his time between living in San Antonio, Texas and Brooklyn, N.Y., according to his website .

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Smith was very open and receptive to ideas about revising the warning system and making it more consistent and clear for students, said Sen. Amy West, author of the bill. He told ASG to put together a proposal to be considered, West said.

Another aspect of the proposal ASG put together is to lower the fine for parking in a space not authorized by a permit from $50 to $30.

This change was proposed in light of the fact that the fine for parking on campus without a permit at all is only $40.

“There is a regulation dissonance in that a driver without a permit would

face a lower fine than a driver with a permit,” according to the bill.

Senators will present this proposal to the transit and parking department.

ASG also passed a bill, authored by West, to recommend that the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences return to the fivepoint grading scale. This is the accepted grading scale used by the UA and was the system used by the college prior to 2005, according to the bill.

Senators have discussed this recommendation with several faculty members, including the dean of the college, Michael Vayda.

The dean was also onboard to consider this recommendation, West said.

Within the college, the

grading scales used by teachers are inconsistent, West said. Some teachers implement a plus/minus scale, while other use the 5-point scale, and still others use a variation of the two.

DBCAFLS students compete for the same scholarships as the rest of the UA, but under the 12-point system must maintain higher grades to maintain and qualify for those scholarships, according to the bill.

“I anticipate that this project will come down to a round-table discussion between faculty and students to come to a compromise, and Dr. DiBrezzo, the vice chancellor of academic affairs, is definitely behind our college on a compromise like that,” West said.

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Kevin Rector The Baltimore Sun Within a week of arriving on campus this semester, University of Maryland junior Grace Freund felt the familiar symptoms of a depression creeping up _ ones she knew to address quickly, lest they slip from her control.

The 21-year-old psychology major called the counseling center on the College Park campus soon after to set up an appointment.

However, she said, her request was rebuffed.

“They said, ‘Call back next week. We can’t even schedule an intake appointment today,’ “ said Freund, a graduate of Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City.

Across the nation, college students _ an age group particularly prone to mental illness _ report similar frustration. Campus counseling centers often have insufficient staff and long waiting lists, mental health professionals say. In Maryland, counseling center directors say they are nearly overwhelmed with the ballooning numbers of students requesting services.

Last month, a graduate student at the University of Maryland shot and killed one housemate and wounded another before turning the gun on himself, police say. The family of Dayvon Green told police that he had been treated for a mental illness in the previous year.

Hours after the shooting, Maryland President Wallace D. Loh said the university had increased mental health resources in recent years to address the needs of troubled students.

But students and others at College Park paint a different picture _ one of poor access to help and few resources at their fingertips _ that appears to be more in line with national trends.

Ninety-two percent of campus counseling centers surveyed

last year said the number of students seeking help had increased in recent years, according to the American College Counseling Association. Eighty-eight percent said the increases in demand and in the number of clients with “more serious psychological problems” had “posed staffing problems.”

Reasons for increases in demand vary, according to professionals. Awareness of mental health on campuses has grown in recent years. Centers have advertised their services more heavily since campus shootings by troubled students at Virginia Tech and elsewhere.

And more students are also showing up to college already on psychiatric medications.

“In general, there’s a little bit of a sea change going on right now in recognizing that overall success in college has a lot to do with a student’s mental health and well-being,” said Alison Malmon, founder and executive director of Active Minds, a mental health nonprofit that works on college campuses. “But there’s not additional money going to mental health on campuses.”

At a campus vigil after the shooting at Maryland, Loh followed his comments about increasing resources on campus by saying the shooting presented “lessons to be learned, policy questions to be discussed, changes to be made.”

The university has employed part-time contract counselors in recent years, and had posted a job opening for a new staff psychologist a few weeks before the shooting.

But that position hadn’t yet been filled when Loh spoke, and the posting followed years in which full-time staffing at the campus counseling center remained flat.

The number of students seeking help at the counseling center for stress, depression, anxiety or

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other mental health problems rose from 1,466 during the 20072008 school year to 1,986 last year _ a 35 percent jump.

During the same period, the number of full-time counselors remained steady at 12. eased” its counseling staff and the fact that the full-time staffing had remained flat over several years.

Students say they wish more attention were paid to the struggles thousands of their peers deal with on a regular basis.

Freund said the status quo is discouraging.

“It seems often the only way you can get help is if you have this very extreme situation,” she said.

“But mental health issues are so common and everyday, and it’s frustrating that it’s not treated as such.”

The problem, Maryland sophomore Selena Roper said, is that the most common mental health struggles that students have are “insidiously boring” _ and so don’t attract the attention they deserve.

“It’s not like you’re sitting in the bathroom crying with dramatic music playing and your friends banging on the door saying, ‘We want to help you!’ “ said Roper, 19, who has battled depression since she was a student at Broadneck High School in Annapolis. “It’s more laying in bed watching Netflix all day.”

Malmon, of Active Minds, said universities and colleges “like to come in after the fact when there’s been a tragic incident and talk about how to prevent that tragic incident, but these are issues that impact many more people.”

“If we did more on the early side, we wouldn’t have to get to that tragic situation,” she said. are addressed on campus.

“We are putting so much effort into this, and we are asking for phone bill money, and it’s so hard to get it,” Roper said. “Until someone dies.”

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Kris Johnson Staff Photographer University Programs officials issued an apology for offending any students with the exhibit “Dress Up Against Aids.” “The event was meant to be educational as the artist was inspired to use condoms in her work when volunteering for an AIDS prevention group and has a passion to remind people of the need for protection when having sex,” according to UP’s Facebook.

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

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Senior Job Seeking Classes Should be Required

Joe DelNero Opinion Editor A study by the Institute for College Access and Success reported that 66 percent of graduating seniors will have a student loan debt averaging $26,600. Every single one of these graduating seniors is entering into a competitive job market with unemployment rates of 7.7 percent as of February this year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor.

How can I ensure I will not be one of those statistics in debt, unable to even work my way out of an ever-deepening financial hole? What is the UA doing differently to prepare me for my job prospects? In these last few months before I walk, how am I preparing myself for the trials ahead?

With financial threats lingering, a job is an absolute necessity. Yet, as a near-graduating senior, the only thing I can do is build my resume with previous job and internship experiences, create my LinkedIn account to connect with local businesses, and constantly talk with my professors, family and friends, exhausting my connections and praying one of them may have a job opportunity waiting.

Currently, I am still in confusion. I know I will have my broadcast journalism degree, but whether or not I want to get a job in broadcast, or journalism for that matter, is still unclear. How to divide my interests and what jobs are even out there for me ... it’s all just confusing.

Ideally, I would have a business in mind. A company I am excited about joining already prepared, but I really don’t even know all the potential options.

I have recently earned an internship with a human rights

organization maintaining their social media and promotions.

The job opportunities within the organization and with some of their collaborators may be endless. However, at the end of three months, the internship may falter out, putting me in the unemployed and indebted category.

Furthermore, I’ve been looking at jobs within the U.S. government. I was astonished to find how much red tape and work it takes simply to meet the qualifications for even the starter jobs. I thought about working in the parks department or forestry service because many of my photography and writing interests correlate with the great outdoors.

Because 26 percent of students are now graduating in five to six years instead of four, according to CNN.com, it’s already clear there just isn’t wiggle room in my schedule to fit in elective classes geared toward finding me a job. However, if academic requirements at the UA change three hours of my nine required social science hours, or took from my eight required math hours, since I am not a math-related major, and added a new job search requirement geared to get me a job after college, I would not need to seek out wiggle room.

If the university stressed jobs after college within the curriculum, I would be able to explore more creative job opportunities available with a faculty member who, over the course of the semester, could help me gear my resume and experiences toward a job that will work for me.

My entire college career is preparing me for life after graduation. Two months away, I have trouble defining my skill set and what I bring to a career table. A required class would give me a full semester to get ready for a job, to apply, to interview and to work with a specific faculty member on decreasing the risk of unemployment after I snag my diploma.

Rather than optional fairs, I want a mandatory, full course.

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

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Personal Finance Education As A High School Graduation Requirement I work at Walmart as a cashier. Monday evening I was working and a young woman, no older than most students, came to my register and began unloading her cart which was packed full of all kinds of basic groceries.

I began ringing her order and about a quarter of the way through the items she asks I stop ringing when her total reaches $130.00. So I keep ringing and I finally get to $129.80 with tax. She runs her card through, takes the items and leaves. She only managed to buy half of the total items she had in her cart.

I am fortunate enough to have family members who taught me you don’t just go in, overflow a shopping cart and tell the cashier when it gets to x stop ringing.

Instead, you make a list and budget accordingly to pay for the items you need.

Not everyone has a fam-

ily that can teach them basic finance skills. That’s why I support the state of Arkansas requiring as a condition of graduation from high school, all students must take and pass a course in personal finance.

Arkansas is one of the 10 poorest states in America, according to USNews.com.

A personal finance course for Arkansas students may be what we need to be more financially responsible.

Little Rock Lunacy

Last year, for the first time in 138 years, the Republican party took control of both houses of the state legislature. Instead of focusing on real issues and tackling challenges by offering meaningful solutions, we’ve seen the exact opposite.

Case in point, Rep. Randy Alexander of Springdale filed a bill several weeks ago with the purpose of “asserting the sovereignty of the state of Arkansas against the United Nations.” Yes, because the UN is going to be busting down our doors next Tuesday night. Give me a

break! The UN can’t do anything right and has such limited force it’s not even funny.

Now, I’m a good Republican and I worked hard to help get a lot of these people elected, with the understanding they wouldn’t do stupid things. Let’s also not forget holier-than-thou state senator Jason Rapert of Conway, who is setting the state up for a legal battle we cannot afford. Sen. Rapert, of course, is the fellow behind the restrictive abortion legislation which was passed over Governor Beebe’s veto.

I’m pro-life, but again, we’ve got more important things to worry about.

Oh, but, for those of you who like tennis, you can now get an Arkansas Tennis Association custom designed license plate for your car.

Thanks Little Rock!

Sequester Politics President Obama and his executive cabinet heads have managed to make the sequester political. Why this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me.

But, I want you to know

what the government has cut and what the government has continued spending money on. The White House has closed tours, a cost of $18,000 per week, because of Secret Service cuts, the people who protect the tours, according to Breitbart News.

The White House spent $348,000 on an NSF grant to study duck genitailia, according to Politifact.com, as well as $50 million on new uniforms for Transportation Security Administration agents, the friendly folks who grope you at the security station at the airport, according to CNSnews.com.

Then the White House, working on budget cuts, has opened 4,600 new federal jobs, according to Breitbart News, and, of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

You know, we can do better than this. And, by the way, President Obama, where’s your budget?

Tyler Wells is a political correspondent for the UATV show Campus Crossfire, live Wednesday nights at 7 at uatvonline.net.

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I’m certain Sarah Palin spoke for many when she tweeted upon hearing the news a New York judge prevented implementation of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to regulate sugary drinks: “Victory in NYC for liberty-loving soda drinkers. To politicians with too much time on their hands we say: Govt, stay out of my refrigerator!”

No doubt those “liberty lovers” view dietary habits as a matter of free will and personal responsibility. If only things were so simple. There’s no question most of us can do something about our weight.

Two solutions are as old as time: Exercise and make your own dinner. But science and research used by food manufacturers make it harder to stay non-obese, let alone get thin.

If you want to know why one in five kids, and one in three adults, is considered clinically obese, while 24 million Americans are afflicted by type 2 diabetes, and an additional 79 million have prediabetes, it’s partly because the food manufacturers have your number. They’ve succeeded in getting you hooked on foods that are readily accessible and inexpensive. So argues Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Moss in a new book called “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Moss calls those key ingredi-

ents the “pillars of processed foods,” and told me that the “most perfect version” of a food in many palates is often a combination of the three.

It’s not that the food giants are nefarious. They’ve gotten too good at what they do. The food they’re making is hard to resist, at a time when too many are increasingly sedentary.

In 2012, Taco Bell sold 375 million Doritos Locos Tacos Nacho -- that averages out to more than a million per day.

We all know fast food is best as a last resort. But even when you’re running through a supermarket after work, you don’t stop to appreciate the product you are thumbing was literally hatched in a lab by a process called “optimization,” where food engineers alter a litany of variables and use science and mathematics to come up with the very perfect formulation that will “send people over the moon,” according to Moss.

This processed food tastes good, it has a long shelf life and is inexpensively produced, creating $1 trillion per year in grocery sales in the US. To Moss, an even more revealing figure: 60,000 -- the number of different products found in large supermarkets.

Moss details the methods used by Howard Moskowitz, who holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard, as he worked for Cadbury Schweppes to create a line extension for Dr Pepper: “Howard, a legendary fig-

ure in food science, walked me through his recent creation of a Dr Pepper flavor, and it was extraordinary the effort that he put into coming up with a version, a formula that was guaranteed to fly off the shelf.

He doesn’t call his food invention a food invention; he calls it engineering, and for a great reason.”

Looking for the “bliss point” involved 61 distinct formulas, which were then tasted nearly 4,000 times in four cities. That’s how Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper was born.

“The food companies really convincingly argue they have not intended to make America obese or otherwise ill, and they consider nutrition to be part of their agenda, along with convenience and price, and that any one single product can’t be blamed for the obesity crisis or diabetes or high blood pressure, et cetera, but collectively there is no question that the companies themselves now know and hold themselves accountable for at least part of the obesity crisis, and I think they’re at a tipping point here.”

Moss is optimistic people such as Moskowitz who know how to invent foods will now turn their attention to making foods healthier. In the meantime, there are steps we can all take, besides diet and exercise.

First, you need to appreciate the science and research that have been committed toward getting you hooked.

Second, act on the empowerment -- you still decide what

to buy and what to put in your mouth. Third, attempt to navigate the labels, specifically the box titled “Nutrition Facts,” mindful that a “serving size” might not match your own habits (one Oreos serving size equals three cookies; one Pringles serving size equals 16 crisps). Fourth, not everything that sounds healthy is.

“Some yogurts have nearly as much sugar as ice cream, and yet they carry this halo of health, and I think you can see this on a number of fronts in the grocery store,” Moss told me. “Fruit is something you’re seeing splashed across the labels increasingly, and when you look at the details often it’s a smidgen of fruit added or fruit concentrate along with a whole lot of sugar. So companies naturally try to market their products with their best foot forward, and to play to consumer concerns.”

One final caveat for boomers. Moss told me a fascinating story about Frito-Lay. Its marketers had initially assumed that, as baby boomers aged, their snack consumption would decline. Instead, they figured out in the 1980s that we started eating fewer meals and began snacking more.

They know us better than we know ourselves. And it’s making an already difficult task harder.

Michael Smerconish writes for The Philadelphia Inquirer and this story was retrieved from MCT Campus.

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University of Arkansas Health Week

Associated Student Government will be pairing up with multiple local organizations to host a health week next week, which will include health centered events Monday, April 1 through Thursday, April 4.

The event — the first of its kind, even in the SEC — is tailored to college students’ interests, with free food at every event, new workout methods with free classes and a food fair on Old Main lawn and late-night yoga taught by Matt Gibbons (better known as Yoga Matt).

“Our generation is predicted to die before our parents, so things aren’t looking good,” said Christina Crowder, student government director of dining services, who organized this week’s health week. “I think college is a good time where habits are being formed and minds are being shaped. Hopefully, we can intervene and develop better lifestyle practices.”

More than a third of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control.

“You look around and see we’re all unhealthy and sick and that really hampers everyday life and productivity in your job and relationships, physically and mentally,” she said.

“It’s important to take care of your body.”

ASG President Tori Pohlner said she can’t be more excited that such a lively, interactive and beneficial program is coming out of ASG. “I hope that this is only the beginning and that future cabinets will make this week a tradition for years to come,” she said.

Crowder said the main vision of health week was prove to students that eating healthy and working out doesn’t have to be expensive nor time consuming.

“Anyone can do it,” she said. “We’re showing students another side of very much publicized diet mentality: working out like a crazy person all the time to get the body you want. It doesn’t have to be that way.”

GO HOGS GO HEALTHY April 1

April 2 Tuesday

Wednesday

April 3

April 4

WOMEN’S HEALTH EVENT

Healthy Food Fair

Work Out Wednesday

Metabolic Effect lecture

Monday

Working out can be as easy as a small workout in a dorm room or office and healthier choices are available in restaurants and dining halls, and students can still enjoy treats and desserts, Crowder said.

“Balance variety in moderation, and all things,” she said. “It’s not black and white. Food brings people together. It’s community, sharing time over a meal or exercising.”

Crowder said she’s most excited to give students the opportunity to experience things they have might not once they’re on their own in the real world.

The Monday of health week is devoted to women’s health. A greek yogurt parfait bar will follow a lecture on essential vitamins and minerals for women by Dr. Elizabeth Woods of Pat Walker Health Center. Brough, Fulbright and Pomfret dining halls will host health nights, where chefs will cook healthy choices of quinoa, chicken, beef and veggies for students with meal plans as part of Chartwells’ “Balanced You” campaign.

“We’re really trying to encourage students

Thursday

to broaden their palates and check out things they might not normally buy,” Crowder said.

Ozark Natural Foods will be camped out on Old Main lawn Tuesday, as experts from the local healthy foods store hold a food fair of comfort foods made healthy. Health week volunteers will be conducting a survey of organic versus conventional foods, seeing if students can taste the difference.

A screening of “Food, Inc.,” sponsored by University Programs, will follow the food fair.

The food-based documentary will help enlighten students as to where food comes from and all the additives and hormones added to foods, Crowder said.

Wednesday will be highlighted by a tabata workout, followed by a smoothie bar. Tabata is a new method of interval training. It uses 20 seconds of high-intensity workouts and 10 seconds of rest repeated about eight times. Five different exercises for four minutes each adds up to a 20-minute workout.

“It’s great for burning fat and building lean muscle,” Crowder said. “Many studies have

Substitutions Provide Healthy Alternatives when Cooking Georgia Carter Staff Writer

When cooking or baking, it’s pretty easy to get swept up in the process and not really think about what’s going into your food.

Sometimes substituting a fairly standard ingredient, like butter or flour, can make a difference in the food’s nutritional value, whether by lowering calories, adding a vegetable serving or giving the recipe some additional vitamins, among other things. Substituting ingredients for other ingredients is also a technique to use if you or the person you’re cooking for has a certain food allergy or intolerance (like a gluten allergy), or if they are trying to cut down on certain things to attain better health.

Black beans may not seem like the ideal thing to use in a cookie recipe, but they can cut down the caloric intake by about 100 calories and add in some extra

fiber when used in place of flour.

Make sure to use a black bean puree, which can be made fairly simply using a food processor or a blender.

All-natural, unsweetened applesauce makes a great substitute for oil, sugar or butter.

It not only lowers the calorie count of a food usually baked with sugar, but it also adds the fiber from the apples used. Depending on the type of food you are baking and the role of sugar in the recipe, you can substitute anywhere from the full amount to half of the amount.

If the recipe is not actually cooked, like no-bake cookies or a cold dessert, the amount of applesauce can equal the amount of sugar. In many heated dishes, you can replace the amount of applesauce to two-thirds the recommended amount of sugar.

For cakes, which need the sugar to become aerated, cut down the amount of sugar to a half and then use that amount, plus about a third, of applesauce. For example, when a recipe calls for 1 cup of sugar, use 1/2 cup of sugar and 3/4 cup of applesauce. You must reduce the amount of applesauce in relation to the amount of liquids used in a recipe, so that your recipe does not end up a soggy mess. Reduce the main liquid in the recipe by ¼ cup for each cup of applesauce added.

When you add the applesauce is also important. If the

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recipe is not heated, add in the sauce when you would add in the sugar. If the recipe is baked, add in the applesauce before you put in the eggs. If the recipe also calls for butter or oil, mix these ingredients with the eggs and then add the sauce.

Heavy cream is full of fat and calories. It can be replaced, though, by either coconut milk or evaporated skim milk.

Flax seeds can be used to replace eggs in baking. Avocado can be used to replace mayonnaise, if you don’t mind adding the green color to your food.

Plain Greek yogurt can be used to substitute any fat used in baking. It has less fat than the ingredients you would use and adds protein to your recipe. Instead of using 1 cup of butter, try using 1/2 cup butter and then ¼ cup of plain Greek yogurt. Three-fourths cup of yogurt can be used to replace 1 cup of oil. Yogurt can also be used to replace mayonnaise, sour cream, buttermilk or cream cheese.

These are just some of the most widely used ingredient substitutions, but there are a great deal more. Sometimes substituting simple ingredients, like carob chips for chocolate chips or whole wheat flour for regular flour, can make the recipe a bit healthier without sacrificing any main ingredient.

shown effectiveness of this kind of training verses if you just ran three miles. It builds endurance and stamina and increases muscle mass.”

There will be three 30-minute tabata workout sessions on Old Main lawn, starting at 4, 5 and 6 p.m.

Also on Wednesday yogi Matt Gibbons (Yoga Matt) will teach a late-night yoga session in Union Room 509 from 9-10 p.m.

Dr. Jade Teta will be health week’s guest lecturer. Teta is a naturopath, holistic doctor, and author of “The Metabolic Effect: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest.”

Teta uses weight training in intense intervals to burn energy. It’s very effective, and slightly controversial–at the forefront of science, Crowder said.

“People have been doing this for the last couple decades, but in the last few years it’s really come to the front of fitness news and research. It follows cross fits principles– doing what our bodies were made to do,” Crowder said.

Teta’s lecture will be in Willard J. Walker Auditorium 218 from 7-9 p.m. Seating begins at 6 p.m. There are only 300 seats, so come early, Crowder advised.

Crowder said she stumbled across Teta’s work recently and has implemented it in her own life. A competitive gymnast for most of her life, Crowder found the importance of healthy eating and working out early in her life, “especially to maintain a good physique and wearing a leotard all the time,” Crowder said. She went from working out 20 hours a week to working out once a week when she came to college. She couldn’t cut back anymore on eating either.

“Now I can work out like a normal person and get to the gym when I can, and when I can’t, it’s okay. I eat foods that my body likes.

I feel good and I look good,” Crowder said. “It really has just brought me into a much healthier place in my life.”

STUDENT PROFILE

UA Ceramic Student Showcases Art in Houston Alex Golden Staff Writer

A four-channel video installation that featured a UA student lip-syncing on each monitor was recently displayed at a ceramics arts exhibition in Houston. Second-year graduate student Cambry Pierce-Duperier-Newton traveled south with other ceramics students and faculty on a rider bus packed with their artwork.

Because graduate student Laura Polaski was not able to make it, Pierce set up Polaski’s ceramic collage installation at the exhibition. Polaski’s mixed-media installation was intended to show various platforms for different life stages.

“You land in different places, and they are what they are when you’re there,” she said.

Pierce’s video installation was a play on “YouTube culture”; that is, she said, “seeking attention, but controlling the attention.”

Through ceramics, Pierce has begun to delve into the functions of TV, movies and other media. She said she is exploring “what we’re willing to put on display when there’s a camera and a screen between us and the viewer.”

Much of Pierce’s artwork deals with personal history, identity and memory.

“It’s really not difficult for me to put those out there,” she said. “By viewing myself through a screen, (I allow) a separation.”

Last year, Pierce put together pieces for the Garland Avenue Project.

“It was a number of objects that relayed this mismatch of memories that came together to make one narrative,” she said.

Most of Polaski’s work deals with “the exuberance and precariousness of life, the overwhelmingness of how we can make our way through challenges,” she said, “and what it does to our inner networking.”

Polaski received her undergraduate degree at College of the Ozarks in Missouri, where she initially went to study art education, but was soon overtaken by studio art when she took ceramics as an elective.

“Clay just made sense,” she said.

Pierce did her undergrad at Southern Illinois University and, like Polaski, chose to come to the UA because she wanted to work with the faculty here. She had heard Jeannie Hulen, chair of the art department, speak at a ceramics art conference.

Polaski said that her work has evolved rapidly over the course of her first year here.

“There’s no option but to grow and expand,” she said. “You’re always working with a small group of people who challenge you all the time.”

There are only four ceramics graduate students, and everyone brings something to the table, Polaski and Pierce said.

Ceramics is different than most artwork because it is not one artist sitting at an easel painting or drawing on a sheet of paper, Polaski said. Ceramics involves the making of three-dimensional, and sometimes large, objects that often have to be fired.

It takes up more space, and it helps to work with other people.

Lately, Polaski has been working with fragile objects that often break.

“About 50 percent of the stuff I’ve made this semester has not survived, but I’m okay with it because you have to fail to get to the other side of that failure,” she said.

Both students said that, ideally, after college, they will make art full time, but both would like to teach or work in a gallery or museum.

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Comics Pearls Before Swine

Dilbert

Calvin and Hobbes

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Sudoku Stephan Pastis

Scott Adams

Bill Watterson

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Crossword

Doonesbury

Non Sequitur

Garry Trudeau

Wiley Miller

By C. C. Burnikel

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

ACROSS 1 ‘60s activist Bobby 6 Forward sail 9 Flavonoids-rich berry 13 *Shady spot 14 Mesabi Range output 15 Not for minors 16 *Furry forecaster?

18 Chain with a red cowboy hat logo 19 Some spring rolls?

20 Former “Today” co-anchor Curry 21 Plant sold in animal-shaped pots 22 Gave away, as true feelings 25 One __ time 27 *Jolly Roger, e.g.

30 *Formal beginning 33 Lip balm stuff 35 Subleased 36 __-ray Disc 37 Gives substance to, with “out” 39 Decks out 41 L.A.’s __ Center: second-tallest building in California 42 Salsa ingredient 44 Hard-to-hit server 45 *Freedom from control 48 *Leave the ground

49 Stoplight color 50 “Done!”

53 Vagrant 55 PSAT takers 57 Acct. accrual 59 Summers in China?

61 Big name in publishing, and a visual hint to the three adjacent pairs of answers to starred clues 64 “My Little Grass Shack” singer 65 Die down 66 Hoover rival 67 A&W rival 68 Versatile Scrabble tile 69 Small bite DOWN 1 Loses muscle tone 2 Dashing Flynn 3 Dwelling 4 Reed of The Velvet Underground 5 Compass point ending 6 Poet Keats 7 Historic toolmaking period 8 Importune 9 Lacking purpose 10 Tropical rum drink

11 Prince __ Khan 12 “__ in the bag!”

15 “That hits the spot!”

17 “Body of Proof ” actress Delany 21 Insertion symbol 23 Cancún uncles 24 Like many an easy grounder 26 New Orleans school 28 IM user 29 Safari sights 31 Like grizzlies 32 Tack on 33 Solo 34 Pitch in 37 Flunk out 38 Año beginner 40 Slurpee cousin 43 PennySaver ad subjects 46 Big times 47 Black-box analyzers: Abbr.

51 Takes for a spin 52 Pass 54 Theater program item 56 Chafes 58 Little one 59 Tack on 60 Accessorizing wrap 61 Below-average grade 62 Parking place 63 Stat for R.A. Dickey

Sports Editor: Kristen Coppola Assistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2013

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TRACK & FIELD

Nine Hogs to Run in Stanford Invite

BASKETBALL

Powell to Enter NBA Draft, per Tweet Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor

The Razorback basketball team finished the season without making a postseason tournament and one key member of the team has decided to enter the NBA draft.

Caleb Cross competes at the Texas State Elite competition, Saturday, March 23, in San Marcos, Texas.

Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer The No. 2 Arkansas men’s track and field team travels to Palo Alto, Calif., this weekend to compete in the Stanford Invitational.

They are just one of seven top-10 teams sending athletes to compete in the race and one of 14 top-25 teams.

The Razorbacks are led by seniors Drew Butler and

David Flynn and junior Solomon Haile, who will compete in two events each.

Butler will run in the 800and 1,500-meter races, Flynn will run in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and 5,000-meter race, and Haile will run in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races.

Last year at the Stanford Invitational, Butler set personal outdoor bests of 1 minute, 49.43 seconds in the 800 and 3:52.68 in the 1,500.

Haile’s personal bests also came at the Stanford Invitational. He ran a 14:09.81 in the 5,000 last year and a 28:43.35 in the 10,000 in 2010.

Six other Arkansas athletes will also make the trip.

Senior Anthony Lieghio, sophomore Patrick Rono and freshman Cale Wallace will run alongside Butler in the 1,500.

Rono is coming off of a seventh-place finish in the

800 at the Indoor Championships March 9, while Lieghio is coming off of a 12th-place finish in the 1,500 at the Texas State Elite last weekend.

Along with Flynn and Haile, juniors Kemoy Campbell, Cameron Efurd and Stanley Kebenei will also run in the 5,000.

Campbell splashed onto the scene at the Indoor Championships in Fayetteville when he finished second in the 3,000-meter race to

Courtesy Photo clinch the championship for Arkansas. This will be his first race of the outdoor season.

This will also be Kebenei’s first race since he finished seventh in the 5,000 at the Indoor Championships.

Arkansas will be one of six Southeastern Conference teams competing in Palo Alto.

The others are No. 3 Florida, No. 5 Auburn, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee.

The meet begins Friday and concludes Saturday.

Powell Junior forward Marshawn Powell announced on Twitter Tuesday that he made the decision to move to the professional level. “@MarshawnPowell: decided that im entering the 2013 #NBAdraft thank God for even being in this position,” the tweet said.

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GOLF

Hogs to Compete in Bryan Collegiate in N.C. Ben Enyart Staff Writer

The No. 8 Razorback women’s golf team will travel to Brown’s Summit, N.C., this weekend to compete in the Bryan Collegiate. The tournament is hosted at the Bryan Park Championship Course, a par-72 course.

The Hogs performed well last weekend at the LSU Golf Classic where they took the title as a team and also had junior Emily Tubert take the individual title. The team was just named the golfweek.com team of the week, and Tubert was named the golfweek.com player of the week.

“This is obviously a very strong field to end our regular season,” head coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said. “I think we are coming off of some pretty good momentum after LSU, and we are really trying to just rest up and get ready to go again tomorrow. We played there in the past a few years ago; it is a great golf course, real similar to what we saw this past week, so most importantly just trying to get healthy and rest up and be ready to go on Friday.”

Coming off the victory this past weekend, they are hoping to continue performing strong and competing well, but the highest ranked teams they went up against were Georgia and NC State, and this weekend will provide much steeper competition. The Hogs are the third highest ranked team in the tournament.

There are 17 teams competing at the tournament, including No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Florida, No. 10 North Carolina, No. 12 Vanderbilt, No. 18 Georgia, No. 19 Virginia and No. 22 Tulane.

“I think this week, they will have a little confidence and a little boost of energy after coming off of the victory,” Estes-Taylor said. “I think this golf course sets up really well for us. Although the competition will be tough, as we get closer to the end, it only gets tougher every week and playing in a field like this really gets us ready to go for the postseason.”

Duke last competed at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Championship at the end of February where they placed third and Letitia Beck tied for eighth overall.

Virginia competed in the SunTrust Gator Invitational where they tied it for fourth, but they had Portland Rosen place second and Brittany Altomare placed third.

North Carolina also competed in the SunTrust Gator Invitational mid-March to tie for eighth, and Florida finished third.

Florida has two players ranked in the top 10 individually; Camilla Hedberg is ranked third in the nation, and Isabelle Lendl is ranked ninth.

Arkansas’ Tubert is currently tied for No. 33 with Purdue’s Paula Reto; Gabriela Lopez is close behind her in the rankings at No. 39.

“We haven’t changed the lineup this spring,” EstesTaylor said. “It has just been a great group who have just been a really team effort each week that we have been able to play, and we have had consistently some really good players out of our young kids, and our older veterans have done a nice job, and their team chemistry is fantastic and they’re learning so much each and every week that we are going to go with the same lineup this week at the Brian.”

COMMENTARY

Athletic Media Relations Gabriela Lopez competes at the LSU Golf Classic, Saturday, March 23. The UA women’s golf team was ranked 8th.

Madness Maximized: Liz’s Take on the Big Dance

Liz Beadle Staff Writer Ah, March, the time of year when it’s acceptable to leave work at noon, hit the nearest sports bar, and cheer for

schools you’ve never heard of.

This week I thought I’d take two of the major and Arkansas-relevant storylines and give you my take on them.

First, we must address the Rotnei Clarke issue. Now, I liked Rotnei. His mom would always keep me company when I worked for guest services and had to spend a boring two hours in Bud Walton before anyone showed up.

They were good people. So his leaving hurt in a sense. It was understandable and even logical, but I felt almost personally dissed, and I know I’m not the only Arkansas fan who felt that way.

Watching him play for

Butler was strange. My dad kept saying, “See, if he’d stayed with us, we’d be winning this tournament.” I told him he was wrong. Clarke is a talented point guard and a good shooter but watching him play Saturday night also made me remember some of the reasons I don’t miss him (i.e. his play in a few crucial possessions late in the game).

Only Arkansas fans could get this bent out of shape about a player leaving for decent reasons and finding success somewhere else — did it with Damian Williams, doing it with Rotnei Clarke. No reason to believe this won’t happen again.

Second, I of course would not let this column go without mention of the Eagles of Florida Gulf Coast University.

What a great story. This is what March Madness is all about.

It’s not just a Cinderella team; it’s a Cinderella team that didn’t have anything resembling an established basketball program a mere five years ago, a Cinderella team with size and talent and excellent dunking skills, a Cinderella team that celebrates by clucking like chickens even though they’re the Eagles, which I still don’t understand at all but love with my whole entire heart.

Next up for Florida Gulf Coast is a matchup with the

cross-state rival (that’s a joke) Florida Gators. Now the question for Southeastern Conference fans becomes: root for the best story of the tournament to continue or root for your conference’s only shot at the “better than you at the things we aren’t even good at” victory?

This isn’t a call I’ve made yet, but regardless, it will be a phenomenal event and although not a rivalry going in, it will probably resemble one coming out. FGCU’s coach Andy Enfield said Sunday of Florida that “we tried to schedule a scrimmage with them in the preseason, but I guess now we’ll get our shot.”

The possibility of playing in

the Sweet Sixteen against each other was surely unimaginable to Billy Donovan when he shot down Enfield in October — he might like to have that decision back.

So with these few thoughts, I hope you all keep enjoying your Madness, keep neglecting other responsibilities and keep cheering your hearts out.

It’s only March once a year, and this year is more than we ever could have asked for.

Liz Beadle is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every other Wednesday.

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GYMNASTICS

TRACK & FIELD

4 Hogs with SEC Awards Razorbacks to Compete in Relays in Austin, Texas

Photo Courtesy Athletic Media Relations Katherine Grable was selected as a member of the All-SEC team for the second time in her collegiate career. Three other Gym‘Backs also received honors.

Kristen Coppola Sports Editor Four Razorbacks will be recognized at the 2013 Gymnastics Southeastern Conference Awards.

Katherine Grable and Kelci Lewis are on the All-SEC team, while Keara Glover and Sydnie Dillard were named to the SEC All-Freshman team.

The four gymnasts are the

largest class selected in program history.

“It is great to have four selections to the All-SEC team,” co-head coach Rene Lyst said in a release.

Grable is recognized for the second time in her collegiate career, and Lewis, Glover and Dillard are recognized for the first time.

“It is great to have Kelci as a senior finish up her career in such a strong manner to be recognized,” Lyst said. “Also

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The Newport News, Va., native started 30 games this season and averaged 14.5 points per game 5.3 rebounds per game.

Powell was named honorable mention All-Southeast-

ern Conference by the Associated Press. He was also named second team All-SEC by the conference coaches.

During his Razorback career, Powell became the fifth player in Arkansas history

Katherine for her to have multiple honors is great for not only her but for the program as well. It is especially nice for the freshman to be recognized after their first SEC Championship; it just shows how much they have contributed this season as well as how hard they have worked.”

The Gym‘Backs compete again at the Corvallis NCAA Regional at 6 p.m. April 6, in Corvallis, Ore.

to record 1,000 points, 450 rebounds, 75 blocks and 100 assists.

The 2013 NBA draft will be take place at Madison Square Garden Thursday, June 27.

Athletic Media Relations Gwendolyn Flowers competes at the Texas State Elite meet, Saturday, March 23.

Tamzen Tumilson Senior Staff Writer At No. 12 in the USTFCCCA preseason poll and a season-opener under its belt, the Razorback women’s track and field team is ready for the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, beginning Wednesday.

Many teams will be competing at the Texas Relays, including fellow Southeastern Conference schools No. 4 LSU, No. 6 Texas A&M, Mississippi State and Ole Miss.

“Texas Relays is an event that usually is traditionally where we’re able to get sunburned for the first time and an opportunity to run lightning fast 4 by 100 relays, 4 by 4s, the hurdles,” head coach Lance Harter said. “A lot of marks usually stay in the books all the way through the season.”

The competition is also a good place for jumping events, Harter said. Team members vying to make it to the National Championship

in these events will be competing to make high enough marks to secure a position in regionals.

The relays will last until March 30 Later in the week, beginning March 29, Hog runners will compete in the Stanford Invitational, an event Harter is using as practice for the distance runners.

“We’re going to kind of ease in to the distances a little bit this year,” Harter said. “Using it as maybe our nonprimary event, but to give them some diversity and an opportunity to either test their speed or test their strength.”

Senior Stephanie Brown, who did not compete in the 2013 indoor season, will be returning for the outdoor season, making her debut Friday at the Stanford Invitational in the 5,000-meter.

The Razorbacks collected seven wins over the weekend at the Texas State Elite, the outdoor season opener for the team in which the Hogs placed third.

Regina George got off on the right foot at the Texas State Elite, racing in the first open 800 of her outdoor collegiate career. George finished with a time of 2 minutes, 3.79 seconds, which set her as the NCAA-leader.

“Much to our surprise, we walk away with Regina George running an off event, and she runs the 800 in one of the fastest times — the fastest time — in the U.S.,” Harter said. “2:03, which is an incredible mark anytime in the season, let alone as an opener.”

Sparkle McKnight also ran to be a NCAA leader in the 400-meter hurdles at 56.62 seconds. McKnight and George are the only two outdoor performers for the Hogs that are ranked No. 1 for their events in the SEC, the west and the NCAA. After the Texas Relays and the Stanford Invitational, the Razorbacks will compete in the Razorback Spring Invitational, held in Fayetteville, as their first home meet.