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Vol. 107, No. 92

Let the Debates Begin

POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR FAYETTEVILLE RENTAL PROPERTIES Walton College of Business to Collaborate with Brazilian College Walton College officials sign agreement to collaborate with Fucape School in Brazil Full Story, Page 3

Megan Smith Staff Writer New rental properties being constructed in Fayetteville might not affect homeowners as originally thought, according to a study.

Fayetteville has been known for high numbers of rental properties in both homes and apartments. It’s an easy assumption that this many rentals could negatively impact a person looking to sell a home.

Fayetteville has started these new addition to make a

dent housing,” Smith said. Because the apartment is closer to the university, students will be closer to the services they need, she said.

A study by Harvard University found that subsidized housing can create more positives than negatives. One major positive found was an increase in real-estate development, since abandoned buildings are either demolished or remodeled and resold. A negative found was that stereotypes are weighed heavily. If a subsidized housing unit is built in or near a predominantly white neighborhood, it was noted that

“The university and city has made a call for more student housing.”

Local Band Little Chief to Release New Album The band’s first EP was recorded at East Hall Studios in Fayetteville and released Friday on iTunes.

Full Story, Page 5

Hogs to Duluth, Ga., for SEC Tourney The women’s basketball team plays in the SEC Tournament today.

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Today’s Forecast

Lindsey Smith

Communication Director for Fayetteville more walkable environment, said Lindsley Smith, communication director for Fayetteville.

“The city’s plans have a focus on infill,” Smith said. Infill is a planning term meaning that instead of building out, building are built within existing area.

“The university and city has made a call for more stu-

many would move away if the unit was rented to mostly minorities.

Fayetteville has likely seen an economic boost from traditional renting. It was found that many homeowners across the United States were avoiding foreclosure by renting out their homes and moving somewhere more af-

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Caroline Potts Staff Photographer Ellen Rudolph, Will Simpson, Bo Renner, and Ellie Keffler speak that the 2013 ASG Executive Debate 2 at the Graduate Education Building, Tuesday, March 5.

For the story on ASG Executive Debates, visit UAtrav.com

High-Tech Digital Kiosks Set to Appear around Campus

David Wilson Staff Writer

When members of the Student Technology Committee and Associated Student Government saw a deficit in the connection students had to campus, they turned to

a new, high-tech and innovative solution — digital kiosks.

Tony Cosgrove, the primary student pioneer of the project, said he felt like students needed to be more aware of what was going on around campus and that the kiosks would be a great way to increase student engagement as well as retention.

“A lot of the information that you find (at the kiosks) will be easy to scan and easy to look at,” said Chris Nixon, director of digital design development for the UA. “You get it as you walk by. It almost creates this situational awareness. You know what’s going on in the building. You know what’s going on when you get

out of class, and even whether it’s raining or not when you leave.”

A digital kiosk is a cross between an iPhone 5 and the monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey” mounted on a wall. With a price range from $5,500 to $9,500, the

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Students Begin Cycling Trek

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Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Students leave the Outdoor Connection Center, Tuesday, March 5, for a 15-20 mile Intro to Road Cycling bike ride across Fayetteville. Staff at the OCC provided basic cycling instruction and took students through trails across town.

ASG Delays Voting on Parking Legislation Bailey Deloney Staff Writer

ASG will vote on a bill next week to introduce a more consistent warning system for firsttime parking violations.

The current warning system runs on a case-by-case basis, and this makes it really difficult to for warnings to be issued consistently, said Sen. Amy West, author of the bill. The system is very confusing for and unfamiliar to students because warnings are given based on how the ticket issuers see fit, West said.

The University of Arkansas Parking and Traffic Regulations is 12 pages and over 4,500 words in length. The regulations are sometimes difficult for students to understand, and “students often pay hefty fees for first-time violations without knowledge of the regulation,” according to the bill.

ASG senators talked with Gary Smith, director of transit and parking, about ways to improve the warning system and make it more coherent for students.

Gary Smith was very open and receptive to ideas about revising the warning system and making it more consistent and clear for students, West said.

Next week, ASG will also vote on a bill last night 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

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ASG continued from page 1 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.

Other ASG proposals include a bill to allow syllabi to be added to the course information on ISIS before students enroll and a resolution to permanently provide students with testing materials.

With course syllabi available to students before they enroll, ASG senators hope this will give students a better idea about the expectations of the course, so that they can enroll in the courses that best suit their learning styles.

“Students who are better informed about the demands of a course will be less likely to drop once classes begin,” according to the bill.

In order to permanently provide students with testing materials, ASG senators proposed a minimal raise in tuition.

According to the ASG Student Poll, over 90 percent of students enjoyed having testing materials such as Scantrons and Blue Books provided for them last semester. In addition, 7 out of 10 students who responded to the poll said they would be in favor of a small increase in tuition in order to have these materials provided by the UA. ASG will vote on these proposals next week as well.

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Officials with the Walton College of Business and the Fucape Business School in Brazil have signed an agreement that they will work together to exchange students and faculty and to collaborate on programs, according to a news release.

Dean Eli Jones of the Walton College and Dean Arilton Teixeira of the Fucape School signed the agreement to “establish a formal agreement of cooperation and friendship which is intended to further the academic objectives of each institution to promote better understanding between the faculty and students of each institution,” according to a news release.

One issue focused on with this agreement is language.

“The students generally don’t know Portuguese,” Teixeira said.

The Walton College of Business ranked as one of the best public undergraduate business schools, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings.

Fucape Business School is ranked as one of the top 10 colleges in Brazil and offers four business majors, according to a news release.

Jones is optimistic about the agreement.

“The agreement with Fucape Business School establishes a framework for programmatic collaborations that will build on the strengths of both institutions,” Jones said.

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KIOSKS continued from page 1 kiosks come in with a wide range of functions, including interactive campus maps, news and weather.

Mike Duncan, the project manager for the kiosk project, said there were also functions like “way-finding,” the ability to navigate from building to building, as well as internal way-finding, which can reveal levels and locations within the building the kiosk is stationed.

Duncan also spoke about the need for uniformity in design in terms of signage around campus. The new model kiosks will all be of the same make and model, and have held places on cruise ships, in hotels and in a number of Vegas locations, which speaks to their attractiveness.

Speaking of attraction, the kiosks also features something called “attract mode,” which is a form of specialized display meant to advertise content directly to the student — a much-desired ability for any

RSO to utilize on campus.

Duncan said other campuses that had adopted the technology were able to improve attendance rates to events where before only a handful of students would have even been aware. The kiosks also

prevalence that RazALERT may play.

As of now, the kiosk project is in its pilot phase, with two installments planned for the Arkansas Union and one for the library. The UA is currently in possession of 30 licenses

“A lot of the information that you find will be easy to scan and easy to look at.”

Chris Nixon

Director of UA Digital Design have a video function with the intention to display UATV programming in the future.

“The goal is for students to really drive the content,” said Susan Adkins, IT Services associate director and deputy CIO. Adkins also noted the ability of the kiosks to convey information during times of urgency through emergency broadcasts and the potential

that will be distributed to campus groups, departments and other interests, which Adkins says will have the ability to “customize based on their functions.”

When asked about the future role of technology, like that of the digital kiosks, will play in the UA’s future, Duncan said, “I think it’s going to be useful in the way it ties in

students’ mobile devices, to get information to coincide with an app on your phone.”

Donnie Blagg, another kiosk project team member, responded by noting his own excitement for not only the kiosks themselves, but the whole infrastructure that comes with it that “allows us to spread awareness across campus.”

“We have a network of public display devices, which we can utilize across campus when we need to,” Nixon said.

Harkening back to his comment on the ability of technology to raise situational awareness, he emphasized the importance of rapid message deployment in times of trouble.

“The main thing for me is that students become more involved,” Duncan said.

With a dedicated team and innovative technology like the digital kiosks, that goal will hopefully soon become a reality.

There are many regulations on how structures can be built in Fayetteville. For example, some zones require a building to be a certain width or sitting a certain distance from the street. This has affected some new apartment complexes like The Vue, Sterling Frisco and The Domain.

Height regulations play a role in how these new complexes can be built. The Vue falls into a zoning area that limits height to 60 feet. The areas that Sterling Frisco and The Domain will be located are limited to four stories or

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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.

Results of these legislations will be published after they are voted on.

RENTALS continued from page 1 fordable, according to Smart Money magazine. It was estimated by the Center for Responsible Lending that every household within one-eighth of a mile from a foreclosed home had their home values drop anywhere from 7 to 13 percent.

Another way Fayetteville has not suffered from rental properties is because of zoning areas. Fayetteville tries to create an assortment of zones in the city to create variety and thus boost the value of the city as a whole, according to the city website.

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56 feet, whichever is less. This gives The Vue more flexibility to move upward rather than outward. Sterling Frisco and The Domain will have to built out rather than up.

This may or may not create a negative impact. Many studies have shown that the U.S. is trying to build up rather than out in order to create more space. Building up rather than out allows for a high density building but offers more green space, according to the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

However, there’s also the concern that if a building has

so many floors, then it would be impossible to escape in case of a fire.

Concerns may be great, but especially in our city, renting seems to have a neutral or even positive effect on the economy. Fayetteville is “one of the country’s best-kept secrets with its thriving economy and a family-friendly atmosphere nestled in the Ozark Mountains,” according to Sperling’s Best Places. That could be attributed to many things, but as far as the housing market goes, a big part of it may be rental properties.

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Give Power Back to Southern States Tyler Wells Campus Crossfire What do the following states have in common: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia?

These states, and a host of other counties and municipalities, are subject to Section Five of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Section Five says these locations must get federal approval to change voting laws.

In the heyday of the Civil Rights Movement, it made logical sense, given that many of these states were trying as hard as possible to cling to policies from 1859. However, Section Five is no longer needed.

Take, for example, the state of Mississippi, which held fast to continuing oppressive voting registration policies and polling procedures like no other state during the Civil Rights era. Between literacy tests, poll taxes and a litany of other oppressive devices, the state was determined to keep blacks from voting. Now, however, Mississippi can boast it has the highest percentage of black elected officials and more black state legislators than any other state in the nation.

Mississippi has turned the page, and so have all of these other states. Bull Connor isn’t terrorizing AfricanAmericans in the streets of Birmingham anymore. We’ve established that the South isn’t stuck in 1859 and, as a matter of fact, we’re moving ahead with gusto in pretty much every area.

The bigger issue is whether

federal law should be unevenly applied to the states. This is the issue the Supreme Court must tackle in the case of Shelby County, Ala., v. Eric H. Holder Jr. Oral arguments have already began, and our justices must decide whether the timetested constitutional principle that all states are equal before the federal government should be upheld.

In my opinion, as you look around, you see the Southern United States has moved past the days of oppression and disenfranchisement. What if a rare case of voter oppression does happen?

We enforce Section Two, providing various tools to both federal and state governments, ensuring every adult has the basic, fundamental, American right to vote. Part of ensuring this happens is through requiring voter identification at the polling place.

Alabama passed a law saying you must show a photo ID to vote. The state would give one for free to those without an ID in order to vote in elections. Reasonable enough?

Yes. However, on the left, the proposal has drawn ire. Liberals claim voting rights will be disenfranchised for minorities, the disabled and the elderly. I’ve never seen anything that supports these claims. The Voting Rights Act should be modernized, and the Supreme Court should do the right thing and strike down Section Five.

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Students, Beware of “Wacktivism”

Will Watson Staff Columnist

All of us active on social media have seen a heartbreaking photo of a child with an incurable ailment or a photo of an abandoned pet with “click like to show your support” captioned below.

We’ve all been a part of commenting on blogs or tweets or Facebook posts related to a social or political conditions we want to rectify.

In 2008, I worked on the president’s election campaign, and we had a term for people who wanted to talk about the issues, the latest news or post about the campaign on Facebook but wouldn’t actually go knock doors or make calls with us: “wacktivists.”

The age of social media and easier online communi-

cation has made wacktivism a lot more prevalent. I saw a recent tweet about the abortion debate raging in Little Rock refer to people “tweeting up” online as being “in the trenches” of the policy decision.

I hate to break it to you, but you’re not in the trenches if you’re posting a 140-character comment online that only a few dozen or even a couple hundred people might see. It’s offensive to the men and women who work every day for social justice, economic opportunity and equal rights to claim the same mantra of social activism at your keyboard as they do each day on picket lines, in the courtroom and at the ballot box.

In a 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, a panel discussed the topic “From Activism to Slacktivism” — I guess they came up with a different term for these folks — that provided a whole lot of unfinished business for finding out the true effects of social media activism. The main point: We don’t know yet if posting on the Internet leads to anything other than greater awareness of an is-

sue.

In the last election, I had the pleasure of seeing people from all walks of life — women and men, young and old, all ethnicities and sexual orientations, and both sides of the aisle — come together to hit the pavement or the phones supporting ideas and candidates they believed in. They were performing old-fashioned voter contact: asking others to back their choices in local races.

The examples I cited above — the sick kid and the abused animal — have relevancy too in this conversation. So many hoaxes have been spread on social media about nonexistent donations being made to charity for each “like” or “retweet” a post gets. How about actually getting up and volunteering at an animal shelter or making a donation to a hunger relief nonprofit group?

Many forms of activism don’t cost a dime and can be done on weekends or whenever you have free time. Even taking the time to submit a letter to the editor of your local newspaper on an issue you care about is more significant than expressing a viewpoint to a limited group

of friends who probably already know how you feel.

The appeal of social media is evident. It’s easy and free to get your opinion out there. Frankly, in a modern campaign of ideas, social media is a necessity. An article last year by the University of California’s Digital Media and Learning Resource Hub highlighted the use of social media campaigns by undocumented immigrants and their ability to spread their message of passing the DREAM Act to a greater audience by taking advantage of Facebook. So I’m definitely not arguing that social media is all bad.

I’ve opined before on how social media provides an easy and free route to communicate with your legislators. I’m not trying to knock the medium as totally worthless. But the fact of the matter is, if you truly want to make a difference, step away from the keyboard, get into the real world and go see what you can change.

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

creates this situational awareness. You know what’s going on in the building.

You know what’s going on when you get out of class, and even whether it’s raining or not when you leave.”

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Actors Use Spotlight To Help Others Hebron Chester Guest Columnist As many know, the Oscars happened a while back.

Some students set aside time specifically to watch the show, while others weren’t interested at all. Some students love to keep up with celebrities’ lives, while others have no concern for it. But as a society as a whole, we can’t get enough “Brangelina” gossip about celebrities’ lives and relationships.

It must be normal to be interested in stars because we always have been. Even in the days of black and white film, we had iconic images of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley still famous today. Many became interested in their lives and deaths more than their movies or music. But they were just the beginning.

Now, tabloids line every aisle of almost any grocery store around the nation. These magazines usually are not

about people’s art. They’re about people’s personal lives.

In today’s world, we get snapshots of celebrities almost constantly. We can’t forget them even if we’d like to. The Internet is filled with celebrity gossip, some of it true, some of it untrue. But either way, we eat it up. Has it become detrimental to our society to be so caught up with who so-and-so is dating rather than politics and world issues? Or is this normal, and we just have easier access than before?

Many celebrities use their fame as an avenue to make important changes to the world. Even early on, John Lennon realized our fascination with gossip could get attention for important issues, so he sat in a bed for days and talked about bags and long hair. He didn’t care to be called crazy because he knew, in turn, people would hear about a social issue he found important. A song written during his bed-in, “Give Peace a Chance,” was

sung by half a million people in Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War and became a theme for that movement.

Modern actors are still using fame to make changes they believe in. Sean Penn became a huge activist for Haiti, and Harrison Ford made several emergency relief flights to the island.

Matt Damon has used his fame to co-found Water.org.

He also has become a celebrity spokesman for problems in the educational system.

Oprah Winfrey has The Angel Network, the Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation, the Oprah Winfrey Foundation and The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. Bono has three Nobel Peace Prize nominations and an honorary knighthood.

Celebrities can use their spotlight in positive ways.

They can become role models to those of us who are constantly watching.

On the other hand, we

continue to watch other, less positive, people. The “Jersey Shore” cast, for example. Especially popular with college students, certain individuals in that show have exploded into the collective cultural conscience.

Why do we keep up with reality stars like this? Because they’re on TV a lot?

Reality stars usually have no ability to act, sing or entertain in the traditional sense, but often make the front cover of magazines more often than famous humanitarians and philanthropists of the world. The Kardashians have become the punch line to so many jokes and headlines, it is difficult to find a college student who couldn’t name at least three of them. Are these overly dramatic people healthy role models? Why are we watching them in the first place? Have we now become more interested in people’s lives than their art?

Hebron Chester is a staff cartoonist for the Traveler.

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DIY Cleaning Supplies Save Money and the Environment

Georgia Carter Staff Writer

Everyone, whether they live in a dorm, an apartment or a house, needs some kind of arsenal of cleaning supplies. Doing laundry and cleaning surfaces throughout your home take a variety of different products, which can take up space and eat your wallet.

There are various ways to make your own cleaning supplies, though. These versions of cleaning supplies are great for those interested in DIY and saving money. They may also serve those who have allergies to certain chemicals found in everyday cleaning supplies or those looking for a substitute when they have run out of something. Making household cleaning supplies may also cut down on waste and be more environmentally friendly.

Even though you use showers to clean yourself, they can get pretty dirty. If you want to take off all that soap scum and other gunk that somehow accumulates all over the walls and fixtures in your shower, try this concoction. Mix equal parts Dawn dishwashing soap and white vinegar in a spray bottle. Spray the mixture throughout your shower and let it sit for two hours, and then wipe off.

Finding the perfect outfit before going out and then realizing that one of the elements is severely wrinkled is quite often a great annoyance, especially when you don’t have time to throw it in the dryer to straighten it out.

Mixing together equal parts fabric softener, water and white vinegar and spraying it lightly on clothing can help pull out the wrinkles. Just make sure to straighten out the material after spraying it.

Sharing a sink and a shower with more than yourself, especially if those you share with are people with long hair, can clog up drains pretty quickly. This technique cleans out clogged drains without using harsh chemicals. First, pour 1/2 cup baking soda in the drain. Then, pour a mixture of 1 cup white vinegar and the juice from 1/2 a lemon down the drain after the soda. Wait five minutes, then pour in 1 gallon of hot water.

Baking soda cuts through the stuff clogging your drain, and the vinegar makes it bubble, which helps it cut more. The lemon adds acidity to help eat away at the clog as well.

An all-purpose cleaner can be used on countertops

and surfaces throughout the home. Using a homemade, more natural cleaner ensures that these surfaces aren’t harmed by chemicals. To make one yourself, mix 1 teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon dish soap and 2 tablespoons vinegar into a spray bottle. Give the mixture a few shakes, then fill the bottle with warm water. Let it sit for a while, and then you are in the clear to start cleaning.

Laundry detergent is one of the mostused cleaning products in the home. Using a homemade detergent is cost effective because it makes larger quantities cheaper and can be a great solution for those with sensitive skin because it uses less chemicals.

Ingredients: • Borax powder • Castile soap • Washing soap • Baking soda • Lemon, lavender or • grapefruit essential oil

For liquid detergent: • Bring 1 quart water to a boil.

• Take the pot off the stove, and stir in 2 cups borax powder, grated castile soap and 2 cups washing soap. Stir in until all of the powder and soaps are dissolved.

• Allow mixture to cool down, and pour into a 5-gallon bucket.

• Add 2 gallons of water, and stir mixture again.

• Store this mixture covered, and use ½ of a cup per load.

For powder detergent: • Pour 16 cups baking soda into a bucket.

• Add 12 cups borax powder into the mix and 8 cups of grated castile soap.

• Add 3 teaspoons essential oil into bucket.

• Using a whisk, mix the ingredients together thoroughly.

• Store this mixture with a lid, and use 1/8 of a cup per load.

There are numerous techniques and ingredients you can use to make your own cleaning products. Using the most natural ingredients can help lower your carbon footprint and reduce the amount of chemicals used in the home. More recipes for making cleaning supplies can be found online. There are also recipes for more specialized types of cleaning supplies, like oven cleaners and silver polishes.

For those concerned about their impact on the environment, saving space on their shelves, saving some money or just trying something new, making your own cleaning supplies is something to try out.

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Flying Frisbees Fill Fayetteville Front Lawns

MaryKate Pffifner Staff Photographer Janine Boyers enjoys the weather and plays frisbee with friends on Old Main Lawn Monday, March 4.

Caroline Potts Staff Photographer Members of the local band, Little Chief, Matt Cooper, Andrew Myers, Matthew Heckmann, and Ellie Turner, pose for a band photo at Gulley Park, Sunday, March 3rd.

Local Band Little Chief to Release New Album Madelynne Jones Staff Writer As the story goes, Little Chief was an old oil boom town in Oklahoma in the 60s. After the oil fields stopped working, it became a deserted ghost town.

“So that’s kind of where we got our sound,” said Matt Cooper, who does lead vocals and guitar in the Fayetteville folk band Little Chief. “We think that our sound is kinda ghosty, but at the same time it has a lot of relatability. We think that name does it justice and we fell in love with it.”

The band said the Indian name had a tribe feel, which they liked. “It’s a big family, for sure,” Cooper said.

The tribe of Little Chief includes Cooper, Matthew Heckmann on cello and vocals, Ellie Turner on vocals and Andrew Meyers on drums.

The mellow harmonies of Cooper, Heckmann and Turner compliment the complicated rhythms of Meyer’s beats and Cooper’s picking on the guitar, making the perfect blend of a smooth, confident, gung-ho sound.

The band’s first EP was recorded at East Hall Studios in Fayetteville and released Friday on iTunes, available for only $5. “Everyone’s got five bucks,” Cooper said.

Fans of artists like The Head & the Heart, The Lumineers, and Mumford & Sons can easily listen to Little Chief ’s tracks on repeat, or see them live at their upcoming show in the UA’s Battle of the Bands this Friday.

The band entered a contest put on by East Hall Studios in May of last year. “They basically gave us a free album because they were impressed with our sound,” Cooper said.

“That was completely paid for by an anonymous donor.”

“You don’t realize how much recording five songs is until you record songs,” said Heckmann. “I always imagined you go in and record, and it’s so much fun and games and everyone’s laughing and throwing daisies in the air, but it’s not.

It’s a lot of work and it’s frustrating, and sometimes you disagree on stuff, but we put a lot of work into it and we think it turned out really well.”

Meyers described the album as upbeat, but with the chill, ghostly feel that the harmonies Turner, Cooper and Heckmann provide. “All these are originals, and my favorite song is all of them,” Meyers said.

Heckmann and Cooper met last year though Beta Upsilon Chi, a Christian fraternity on campus.

“I knew Matt (Cooper) played music because he put this one song on SoundCloud, and I kind of listened to it like 40 times creepily, and really liked it,” Heckmann said. Cooper found out Heckmann played cello and the two started playing together.

“It was kind of a series of jams at first,” Cooper said. “We would just kind of get together and play for a while. We kind of built up a chemistry and started playing random shows.”

The two played under Cooper’s name for a while before they decided to record their own music. Meyers joined the band originally on banjo, but soon switched to his preferred drum set. The three began recording videos, which are all on Cooper’s Youtube channel.

“Then when we decided to make a band and call it Little Chief, we decided to add Miss Ellie Turner, which actually happened right as we started recording this new album,” Cooper said.

Turner said Cooper called her in to hear some of the final recordings of the album. “They handed me a sheet of paper, that had a bouquet of flowers drawn on it that said ‘Join our band,’ and I was like, ‘Heck yes!’” Turner said.

“Just like that,” Cooper said. “The magic started.”

“The rest is history,” Turner said.

The band laughed as they described Ellie’s voice as honey dripping on a living cat, alluding to Turner’s passionate love for cats. “Who doesn’t like that?” Cooper said.

“You couldn’t get a cat covered in honey away from you.

It sticks to you,” Meyers said.

“That’s basically what Ellie Turner’s voice is,” said Cooper. “It sticks to you forever.”

Cooper said the process for writing the band’s original songs comes naturally to them. Cooper said he will write the first half of a song, and then run it by Heckmann, and the two will work on it. Most of their songs start with guitar and cello. Then Cooper takes the song to Meyers and Turner in practice.

“Then we throw in Ellie’s voice, and we just let Andrew drop a beat,” Cooper said. “That’s pretty much the process, it’s pretty simple.”

Little Chief ’s music is available on iTunes and so is their app, which is an interactive tool that includes shows, videos, and updates.

Fans can also purchase CDs with hand-stamped logos of the band’s name, with a geometric border on the cover.

The band is selling blue T-shirts with a large chief on the back, whose headdress feathers have ornate tribal shapes.

The shirt, which is on sale for $20, has a frocket (a pocket in the front) with the band’s name in the center. “You can put girls’ numbers in here,” said Heckmann.

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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 Robin Stears

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

ACROSS 1 __ polloi 4 Prom gown material 9 Jitter-free java 14 ShopNBC competitor 15 Gulf State native 16 Start of a historic B-29 name 17 __ Sam: 49ers mascot 19 Obie contender 20 It comes straight from the heart 21 Fate who spins the thread of life 22 Of main importance 24 Lake Geneva water fountain 25 Some Korean imports 26 Maker of Touch of Foam hand wash 28 Old-style “once” 29 Hipbone-related 31 Ape who rescues baby Tarzan 33 Filled (in), as a questionnaire box 34 Fun Factory clay 37 Back (out) 40 Unsteady gait 41 Debate 43 Caesar’s “Behold!”

47 Appearances 50 Napoleon’s exile isle 51 Mystery man

53 Jigger’s 11/2 55 High society types 56 Firth or fjord 57 Infant ailment 58 Olympic sport since 2000 62 Fool 63 S-shaped moldings 64 Slice of history 65 Boneheads 66 Hot, spicy drink 67 Where the wild things are DOWN 1 Command ctrs.

2 Egg head?

3 Post-op setting 4 Doomed city in Genesis 5 Indifferent to right and wrong 6 How tense words are spoken 7 “Young Frankenstein” seductress 8 Govt. medical research org.

9 Handed out hands 10 Protect from a cyberattack, say 11 Fastening pin 12 Lei Day greetings 13 “Like, wow, man!”

18 __ Gorbachev, last first lady of the USSR 21 String quintet

instrument 22 Stack 23 “Kills bugs dead!” spray 24 Family name in “The Grapes of Wrath” 25 Brooks of country music’s Brooks & Dunn 27 Video chat choice 30 Sgt.’s subordinate 32 Sound of a light bulb going on?

35 Long rides?

36 Jacques’s significant other 37 Look like a creep 38 Guinness servers 39 Darjeeling, e.g.

42 Right-hand page 43 Volcanic spewings 44 Black and tan 45 Restaurant chain with a hot pepper in its logo 46 Inveigle 48 “Thanks, already did it” 49 Stewed 52 Cruise ship levels 54 Like long emails from old friends 56 “I hate the Moor” speaker 58 Playpen player 59 Pince-__ 60 Scrappy-__ 61 Beatle wife

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BASKETBALL

Hogs to Georgia for SEC Tourney Zack Wheeler Staff Writer

The Arkansas women’s basketball team has completed the regular season of play and are ready to take on the postseason. The Hogs earned an No. 8 seed for the Southeastern Conference tournament in Duluth, Ga., where they will face No. 9 seed Florida.

Arkansas finished the SEC season strong with a blowout victory over Ole Miss Sunday afternoon. The Hogs finished with a mark of 18-11 with the 93-52 win over the Rebels in Bud Walton Arena.

Florida will be coming off a loss in their regular season finale, dropping their game to South Carolina 67-56.

Arkansas and the Gators played each other last Thursday. The Razorbacks lost, 69-58, after storming back to erase an early game deficit. Sarah Watkins had 16 points off the bench and Erin Gatling added 11 in the loss as Arkansas only shot 31 percent.

The Razorbacks and Gators meet at 11 a.m. in a game that is scheduled to be aired on Sports South/Fox Sports Southwest/Sun Sports networks.

Arkansas will need key contributions from everybody to make a run through the postseason.

Leading scorers Watkins and Quistelle Williams need to continue their scoring prow-

SOFTBALL

Razorbacks Ready for Wolverines

Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer

Mary McKay Staff Photographer Melissa Wolff defends the ball in the Pink Out game against Missouri, Sunday, Feb. 17. The Razorbacks head to the Southeastern Conference tournament today. ess, along with contributions from Calli Berna, Gatling and others.

The Razorbacks have averaged 67.3 points per game while holding their opponents to 57.1 points per game to give them a margin of +10.2 this season. They have shot nearly 40 percent from

the field this season, while shooting roughly 29 percent behind the arc.

The Hogs average 13.3 free throws per game, with an accuracy of 68.4 percent.

The Hogs have proven to be offensively a good team, but defense will be the key for a postseason run.

The Hogs have a turnover margin of +3.4, along with a 1.0 assist/turnover ratio.

These two areas could be the key to making it all the way in the SEC tournament.

Arkansas needs to look to win the turnover margin to avoid easy point opportunities for Florida. The Hogs

struggled a little in SEC play, posting a 6-10 mark, 3-5 both at home and on the road.

Arkansas, if they beat Florida, will face No. 1 Tennessee in the tournament. Solid defense and limiting turnovers will be of the utmost importance to spark a run through the tournament.

CLUB SPORT

The Arkansas softball team begins its final nonconference series of the season Friday against Utah Valley University.

The team’s hot hitting is expected to continue, head coach Mike Larabee said. As a team, the Razorbacks are hitting .330 and have six individual players that are batting over .300, including sophomore Devon Wallace.

Wallace has hit seven of the team’s 22 home runs this season and has a batting average of .491. Her 7-for-11 performance at the Woo Pig Classic over the weekend earned her Southeastern Conference Player of the Week honors.

“I really love the way we’re swinging the bats,” Larabee said. “(Wallace) had a phenomenal weekend. I think she’s one of the premier hitters in college softball right now and I wouldn’t trade her for anybody.”

Along with Wallace, the Razorbacks have been getting solid production from sophomore Sierra Bronkey.

Bronkey was moved up in the lineup to the two-hole spot after freshman Stephanie Canfield suffered a stress fracture in her leg Feb. 23. Since filling in for Canfield, Bronkey is batting .294 and has four RBIs.

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Hogs Host SemiAnnual Classic

Tamzen Tumlison Senior Staff Writer

The UA’s disc golf club will be putting on the 11th SemiAnnual Razorback Classic on Old Main Lawn Saturday, March 9.

The tournament is the disc golf club’s main fund raiser for the year. The money collected from fund-raisers will go toward helping the team travel to competitions. The club intends to compete in the National Championship tournament in North Augusta, S.C., April 3-7.

“We encourage people to come out and play in this very special event that the club works hard to make unique and enjoyable for everyone,” said Robert Davis, club president.

COMMENTARY

In the fall semester, tournaments in Appling, Ga., and Austin, Texas, saw Arkansas’ club team compete. Though the club performed well, it did not earn a bid to the April National Championship.

“We were faced with stiff competition that we just weren’t prepared for and could not clinch a win,” Davis said.

This semester is the club members’ chance to redeem themselves with a final competition at the Gateway Collegiate Classic in March. Davis, James Wall, Erik Bailey and rookie Kevin Barnes will be playing for a bid for Nationals.

The registration fee for the tournament is $25, which covers entry, lunch and a chance to win local sponsors’ prizes.

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Photo Courtesy of Razorback Disc Golf The Razorback Disc Golf club competed in the 2012 National Collegiate Disc Golf Championship last April.

The Hogs did not receive a bid to host the championship this year.

For Injured College Stars, a Time to Get Litigious Mike Bianchi MCT Campus

Hope NBA Commissioner David Stern, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and their elegantly suited minions are happy in their plush, palatial New York offices.

Their stupid, senseless, dumb and dictatorial rules may have just robbed two talented young athletes of their financial futures.

If I’m University of Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel and I never fully recover from a severe knee injury suffered earlier this week in a loss to the Florida Gators, I’d sue Stern, the NBA and the NBA Players Association for the $200 million Noel might have made in the course of his professional career.

Noel was projected by many

to be the first pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, but he went down in a heap at UF’s O’Connell Center Tuesday night, grabbing his knee and screaming in agony after landed awkwardly following a blocked shot.

“It was gruesome,” Florida center Patric Young said after the game was over and Noel had been taken from the building in a wheelchair. Noel was later diagnosed with a seasonending ruptured ACL in his left knee.

“I don’t want to think about it,” Young added.

Well, Stern ought to think long and hard about the inane one-and-done rule that forced Noel to play college basketball in the first place. It would be one thing if Noel had been hurt after signing a mega-milliondollar contract with the Magic, but it’s inexcusable that he has risked his future masquerading

for one year as a college “student-athlete.”

Why does the NBA _ and the NFL for that matter _ continue to force basketball players to go to college when they have no intention or desire to be there? If an elite athlete wants to play in the NBA _ or the NFL for that matter_he should be able to go pro whenever he wants.

“I don’t understand how we can keep an 18-year-old from earning a living in his chosen profession,” former Magic coach Stan Van Gundy says. “I don’t even understand how it’s legal and not a violation of federal law. Kids can play hockey for money, baseball for money, work at McDonald’s, start their own business, but they can’t play NBA basketball. I don’t get it.”

We won’t even get into how the one-and-done rule is a perversion of what college ath-

letics is supposed to be about.

We could spend three columns writing about how universities prostitute their real mission as educational institutions of higher learning to become athletic prostitution of higher earning.

But today is about how despicable it is that the NBA and NFL forces kids to put their financial future at stake just so they can preserve their unholy alliance with college sports.

Charlotte Observer columnist Tom Sorensen wrote a thought-provoking piece the other day suggesting Jadeveon Clowney, the monster defensive end from South Carolina, should consider sitting out his junior season this year, signing with an agent and preparing for next year’s NFL draft.

Why? Because Clowney, after two seasons of college, has already solidified himself as a

top-5 NFL draft pick. But, of course, the NFL has a rule that players must be three years removed from high school before they are eligible to be drafted.

Why should Clowney risk his future by coming back and playing for the Gamecocks next season? What if he wrecks his body like his South Carolina teammate _ running back Marcus Lattimore _ did. Lattimore probably would have been a first-round draft pick after a stellar freshman season, but he tore up one knee as a sophomore and shredded the other knee as a junior. Now, he probably won’t even be drafted.

Van Gundy is right. How is it that hockey players, baseball players, tennis players and golfers can turn pro right after high school, but basketball and football players cannot? Could it be because college football and college basketball provides

a free minor-league system for the NFL and NBA and unlimited marketing for the future stars of those leagues?

“We’re calling these kids student-athletes, but they’re not,” says high-powered Orlando attorney John Morgan. “They’re professional athletes forced to play for free in a minor league called the NCAA. It’s indentured servitude for the college athletes. The NBA, the NFL and the NCAA are in collusion.

Everybody is making a lot of money but the kids.”

Hope David Stern, Roger Goodell and their minions are happy.

Here’s hoping Nerlens Noel and Marcus Lattimore sue the smiles right off their faces.

This editorial appeared in The Orlando Sentinel on Feb., 18, 2013. Retrieved from MCT Campus.

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READY continued from page 7 “We just tell our team that if someone goes down, that gives somebody else the opportunity to step up and Bronkey did a nice job stepping into that twohole spot,” Larabee said.

In the pitcher’s circle, senior Chelsea Cohen has emerged as Arkansas’ ace pitcher and sophomore Kimmy Beasley has been solid out of the bullpen.

Cohen and Beasley have combined to pitch 60 percent of the innings the Razorbacks have played this season. They also own ERAs of 2.27 and 2.86, respectively.

“They complement each other really well,” Larabee said.

“Kimmy being left-handed and throwing in the mid-60s will complement any of our righthanded pitchers.”

The Razorback pitchers will have their hands full this weekend with the Wolverines, who have six players with batting averages over .300. They are led by junior Amanda Robinson, who has a .419 batting average.

Arkansas will also need to cut down fielding errors this weekend, after committing six errors in five games at the Woo Pig Classic. Their team fielding average is now .956, which is last in the SEC. “Defensively, we need to be more consistent,” Larabee said.

“We’re really going to focus on defense this week.”

The series begins Friday at 6 p.m. at Bogle Park.

CLASSIC continued from page 7 Registration begins at 9 a.m. Saturday.

“All levels are welcome to compete in this tournament, and the public is encouraged to come out and watch,” Davis said.

To prepare for competitions, the disc golf club practices at Lake Fayetteville on Thursday.

The club is open to new members, even those that have no prior disc golf experience.

Pat Walker Health Center http://health.uark.edu

Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Head softball coach Mike Larabee speaks at the Olympic press conference, Tuesday, March 5. The Hogs play the Utah Valley Wolverines this weekend.