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“We’re going to have to push back a little bit,” Hoyt said. “We’re going to have to get up to the trough. We’re going to get up there and get something to eat. Don’t let them push you back.”

Two weeks later, Hoyt and Democrats statewide lost control of the state legislature for the first time since Recon-

The one-year anniversary of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was Sunday.

Since its opening, the museum has brought education and economic benefits to the area, officials said.

“The year we have been open has exceeded our expectations. We have had wonderful support and attendance,” said Diane Carroll, Crystal Bridges media relation manager.

Crystal Bridges has been an icon in northwest Arkansas since it opened in November 2011 and has also had an impact on the local economy.

“The presence of an artistic center absolutely boosts northwest Arkansas’ reputation as a worthwhile place to live and work, which has positive economic effects,” said Preston Scrape, senior.

Though the impact the museum has had on the economy seems obvious, there has been no way to generally estimate the impact, an official said.

“There is no definite way to calculate the impact the museum has had on the economy, but there has been an increase in foot traffic and an astronomical increase in number of tour buses that visit the area,” said Tom Ginn, vice president of economic development for the Bentonville and Bella Vista Chamber of Commerce.

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Full Story, Page 5 Gareth Patterson Staff Photographer Veterans gather aboard the Arkansas-Missouri train Sunday afternoon to honor those who served in the United States Armed Forces. On display in the train was a large variety of items from the different wars during american history.

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Jack Suntrup Asst. News Editor HATTIEVILLE, Ark. — Yard signs for local Democrats blanketed the rolling hills of Hattieville, a small town about 15 miles north of Interstate 40 in central Arkansas.

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beans, gathered at the town’s old school house, now a community center, for a get-outthe-vote event.

After blessing their barbecue, local political leaders introduced themselves, and proceeded to vent their frustrations to the friendly crowd; the outside money and the “nasty mailers” that came with it were infiltrating the quiet community, threatening their age-old

Democratic heritage, they said.

“How many of you raise cattle?” asked Johnny Hoyt, a state senate candidate. “Well the good cows, they’ll stand to the back. And the cows with the horns — the mean cows — they’ll come up to the trough and they’ll knock all the other cows out of the way.”

Hoyt used the cattle analogy to illustrate the battles for the Democratic Party.

Fall Colors Are Not as Bright Kayli Farris Senior Staff Writer The UA, known by locals for its beautiful campus, regularly attracts visitors to explore the area. The fall foliage this season, however, might not be as colorful as usual because of the summer drought.

UA was named one of “10 Must See Campuses for Fall Fanatics,” according to Schools. com. Nestled in the Ozark Mountains, the university is one of only seven U.S. campuses distinguished on the international list.

Between Old Main Lawn — the campus arboretum — Maple Street and tree-lined sidewalks, fall is the perfect time to admire the more than 480 trees on campus.

“It’s our native plants we have here,” said Garry McDonald, assistant professor of landscape horticulture. “We have a lot of different hickory, elms, sweet gums that naturally turn very bright colors.”

Even though Fayetteville has the prime location and perfect climate for vibrant fall colors, after the drought this summer, it’s possible there will be more crunchy, dead leaves than bright and colorful ones, McDonald said.

“The last couple of summers, we’ve had extreme drought and extreme heat,” McDonald said.

This summer, the trees went into a self-defense mode by shedding their leaves, McDonald said.

“And so, that puts a lot of stress on trees,” McDonald said.

“You know if a tree loses half its canopy, then there’s just not going to be that much leaf left to color up.”

The heat scorched many leaves, leaving only a portion of healthy foliage. So instead of having healthy trees this fall, many leaves were brown before the season even started, McDonald said.

“In some respects, we’ve had perfect conditions for fall color development, but on the other hand we’ve had a lot of heat stress on our trees this summer, so the color may not be quite as good this year, as maybe it’s been in the past,” McDonald said.

Day length is the main trigger of fall color, depending on temperature conditions, McDonald said.

“We have the perfect climate, as far as cooling off by the end of September, we get those few nights that are really cold, but not freezing, and then we still have nice warm sunny days,”

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Gareth Patterson Staff Photographer Leaves change in the fall weather on UA campus at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry House on Maple Street.

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Greek Houses to be Remodeled Jaime Dunaway Staff Writer

The Kappa Kappa Gamma and Lambda Chi Alpha houses are being remodeled to update their aging buildings and to accommodate the growing number of students interested in Greek Life, facilities management officials said.

It has been several years since either of the houses has been updated, said Jay Huneycutt, director of campus planning for facilities management.

“This renovation is occurring simply because it is time to update,” said Julie Sherrill, Kappa Kappa Gamma president. “It has been quite some time since any other renovations have been made, and our house board wanted to ensure our house is up to date and that it is able to ac-

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commodate our large chapter size.”

Kappa Kappa Gamma is adding more common areas, a larger dining room, more study rooms that include group and individual rooms, more living rooms and a bigger chapter room to allow for more students to live in the house, Sherrill said. The new homes will likely attract new recruits making the organizations more competitive during fall and spring rush.

“The girls are very excited about the additions to the house,” Sherrill said. “Our sorority has experienced a large expansion in numbers.

Basically everything will be bigger and better.”

In addition, a patio will be added to the side of the house. There will be new furniture in all the bedrooms and officer meeting rooms and laundry rooms on every floor, Sherrill said.

“It’s going to basically be

all new, but the best part is the front of the house will look exactly the same with the big white southern columns,” Sherrill said.

The projects are expected to be completed in about 15 months, Honeycutt said. Designing the plans for the new building will take approximately nine months, while construction could take anywhere from six months to a year. Ideally, the homes would be completed in August in time for rush, Honeycutt said.

“While our new house will be very appealing and will certainly not harm our recruitment process, it is truly the amazing young women in this chapter that allow us to have a successful recruitment,” Sherrill said.

Both organizations are paying for their own renovations. Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae and members have made donations through

multiple fundraising events to secure funds for the project, Sherrill said. The remaining amount is being provided through loans from the Bank of Fayetteville. Lambda Chi Alpha is still in the process of raising funds for the project, Honeycutt said.

If space is available, students would be moved to oncampus housing while their houses are being renovated.

Students have been moved to Buchanan-Droke and Gladson-Ripley in the past, Honeycutt said.

However, if on-campus space is not available, sorority and fraternity members would be moved to nearby apartments, Honeycutt said.

Walking distance from campus and other conveniences for students would be taken into consideration when deciding where students should live. About 120 Kappa Kappa Gamma members are staying at the Grove Apartments.

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Carroll ploys about 130 people, Carroll said.

In 2010, nonprofit arts and cultural industries had impacts of $61.1 billion and accounted for 0.87 percent of the workforce, according to a Americans for the Arts study.

Because the permanent exhibits are free at the museum, the majority of the revenue is generated from endowments, the museum store and the café, Carroll said.

“I can not speak of UA student involvement. We have a constant need for volunteers and we have volunteers of all ages. Also, we are beginning a new program next year specifically for college students, a collaborative group that involves students from area universities. It will meet monthly and interactions will involve art, history and culture,” Carroll said.

The average city that participated in the Americans for the Arts study had 5,215 arts volunteers who donated 201,719 hours to nonprofit arts and culture organizations, a donation valued at $4.3 million. The participating organizations had an average of 116.2 volunteers who volunteered an average of 44.8 hours each, for a total of 5,204 hours per organization, according to the study.

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Fayetteville Police will invite the public to an information session to comment on whether the department should be accredited, police said.

The information session will be at 5 p.m., Nov. 19 in the Fayetteville District Courtroom.

The session will provide an opportunity for community members to voice their opinions concerning the accreditation process. UAPD has been CALEA accredited since July 1995.

“The public information session is actually a forum for people to get up and speak about our department and the job we feel that we do,” said Sgt. Craig Stout, Fayetteville Police public information officer. “We open ourselves up a bit knowing we will get both good and bad feedback.”

People may comment by phone if they are unable to attend the session, police

said. Phone calls and comments in the session will be limited to 10 minutes, and are required to address the agency’s performance related to CALEA standards.

“Currently, we are not accredited and this is our first step in the accreditation process,” Stout said. “We have been working towards this accreditation for several years.”

The assessment team will examine policies, procedures, management and support services of the Fayetteville Police Department. The department must fulfill 190 requirements before gaining accreditation, which is renewable every three years,

as long as the department continues to comply with CALEA standards.

“CALEA’s standards for law enforcement agencies and its accreditation programs are recognized as benchmarks for professional law enforcement agencies,” according to the Fayetteville Police Department’s Facebook page. “Accreditation is a means for developing or improving upon agency relationships with the community. Accreditation strengthens an agency’s accountability, both within the agency and the community, through a continuum of standards that clearly defines authority, performance and responsibility.”

FALL continued from page 1 McDonald said. “So those are the climate conditions that coupled with the plant species, sets us up to have one of the prettiest parts in this part of the United States for fall color.”

Mid-October through the first week of November is typically the best time to view the array of fall foliage in northwest Arkansas, McDonald said.

Some drives that are particularly pleasant this time of year are on Highway 71, Interstate 540, Fayetteville to Eureka Springs, and from campus on Wedington Drive west to Lake Wedington, McDonald said.

“So you really don’t have to get more than about 15 minutes out any direction here and it’s very beautiful,” McDonald said.

The Fayetteville tourism office incorporates several tactics to invite visitors to the area.

“We get quite a few seasonal tourists to Fayetteville,” said Jessica Leonard, communications manager at Experience Fayetteville. “We offer scenic driving tour brochures and help visitors plan fall sightseeing tours at the Visitor Center on the Square.”

The visitor’s center tour manager drives groups through campus to tour the local attractions and view the

foliage, Leonard said.

Despite campus and road construction, students appreciate the beauty of northwest Arkansas during the fall, and many have favorite locations to visit, both on and off campus.

“All of the maples at the library are so colorful that they seem to give off light,” said Nathan Tompkins, a senior turf management student.

Other students said they enjoy visiting the Greek Theatre, Old Main Lawn and the Arkansas Union mall in the fall.

Because northwest Arkansas is situated in the Ozark Mountains, students often visit off-campus areas to view the scenery.

“Just recently, I went to Crystal Bridges for the first time, and I think that the fall colors on the trails around there are magnificent,” said Nicholas Brennan, a junior biomedical engineering student.

Wilson Park, Lake Fayetteville, Lake Wedington, Mount Sequoyah and Devil’s Den State Park are among students’ favorite locations to enjoy the outdoors.

“Mount Sequoyah is beautiful in the fall,” said Taylor Bassham, a junior hospitality student. “Lots of college kids go up there and take pictures.”

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DEMOCRATS continued from page 1 struction. Though Hoyt carried Hattieville and most of Conway County, he lost the rest of the district.

Through conservative nonprofit political groups, money flowed to local legislative races from the bank accounts of rich financiers like Charles and David Koch. The goal was simple: elect a legislature intent on curbing regulations and cutting taxes.

The groups and the Republican Party were successful, and leaders from both parties predict that the change will be sustained.

“The Democrats have responded in other times, but this time it’s different,” said David Sanders, Hoyt’s opponent and former syndicated columnist who wrote about the state’s shift toward Republicanism.

success, they were never able to “transform” the party, and turn the tide, Sanders said.

The strength of the Democratic Party peaked in 2008 when Sen. Mark Pryor, son of Sen. David Pryor, won 80 percent of the vote in his race against Green Party candidate Rebekah Kennedy. No Republican ran.

In Lake Village, Eddie Cheatham was battling against outside money and $150,000 his opponent, Mike Akin, raised.

Though Cheatham had outside help, he said he depended mostly on name recognition and meeting with people faceto-face. Cheatham won by 363 votes.

“I don’t have an agenda,”

about education and healthcare and this community.”

Though Cheatham was successful, most other Democrats were not. The Republicans now hold a 21 to 14 seat majority in the senate, and control the House lies with one undecided race in Eastern Arkansas.

Tea Party Takes Hold Though voters almost never supported a Democratic presidential candidate touting more liberal policies, Republicans made a breakthrough in 2010, able to link local politicians to the Obama administration, a mounting national debt and the unpopular health care reform law.

again this cycle. Republicans vowed to fight its mandates, while Democrats here campaigned on the Medicaid expansion which would add an additional 250,000 Arkansans to the program.

Support for the expansion was evenly split, according to the Arkansas Poll, but PACs like Americans For Prosperity attempted nonetheless to label the spending as irresponsible, hoping to tie it to the growing $16 trillion national debt.

While Democrats complained about their photos being posted alongside Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on mailers, Republicans like Sanders asserted that the characterization was fair.

long line of Democrats that with name recognition and large personalities were able to carry the party into the 21st century. His term expires in 2014, and so far, no one has risen to replace him.

“He calls me a Beebe Democrat,” Rogers said. “He’s referred to me that way numerous times.

It’s our mission to work with people and work across the aisles, compromising, but we still have those values at heart too.”

Reed, who spent time recruiting candidates, said that with white males migrating to the Republican party, he expects the Republicans to win with popular personalities.

“As we grow our bench, I think you’ll see more [retail pol-

A Long History The Democrats sustained their century-old majority by enlisting retail politics. Politicians projected an economically populist message by shaking hands and explaining issues.

The message was received in Arkansas because of the state’s poverty, said Janine Parry, a UA professor and director of the Arkansas Poll, a yearly measure of the state’s political leanings.

While states like Alabama and Georgia boasted prosperous plantations, Arkansas did not, she said.

“There never was a privileged class of any size here; most people can identify with what it is to be poor and, in a way that’s not easily measurable, admittedly,” Parry said. “I’ve always believed it has made us more empathetic to our neighbors.”

Charismatic leaders like David Pryor, Dale Bumpers and Bill Clinton carried the well-oiled Democratic machine through the decades with their personalities. Republicans sputtered, unable to produce a continuous contingent of candidates that could connect with voters.

Republicans had a chance to take Arkansas in the mid-20th century when Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy helped convert the rest of Dixie and her Southern Democrats into red-blooded Republicans. Because Arkansas lacked a large African-American population, black candidates did not run here, keeping a white male coalition together, Sanders said.

“Civil rights started working from within the Democratic Party, but Arkansas did not have diversity pushing through like other states,” Sanders said.

While Republican governors like Winthrop Rockefeller and Mike Huckabee had bouts of

them.”

What the Republicans have offered through messaging, Democrats have outlined detailed policies, she said.

“We don’t put out these tax plans without any substance to it. We say what we’re really going to do,” she said. “The Republican Party platform this year has said that they want to do away with the Arkansas income tax, but they’ve offered no alternative resource for what they’ve wanted to replace it with.”

While Democrats had a diverse array of political leanings statewide, many still portrayed themselves as fiscally conservative and socially moderate. To survive, the Democratic Party might have to endure a bruising 20 years of going at issues from the left, Parry said.

“That strategy (running conservatives) isn’t going to work if Republicans are saying the same thing and still running their own candidates,” Parry said.

“Now the Democrats are going to have to regroup and say, ‘Maybe acting like a Republican isn’t the way to get votes anymore, so do we come at it from the left?’”

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Jack Suntrup Staff Photographer Jerry Bolin, the chairman of the Conway County Democrats, argues for a Medicare expansion and the election of local Democrats to the state legislature on Oct. 20.

Cheatham said at the Lake Village Fall Festival in southeast Arkansas. “When I went to Little Rock, I went without an agenda and I still think I’m that way, but I’m just trying to help the people in my district and I would rather work on local concerns. When people are hurting with state agencies, I like meeting with those people more than anything.”

This has been the way Democrats have gotten elected for generations, said Parry, who directs the Arkansas Poll.

“They’ll want to walk in the parade in Lake Village and shake people’s hands because they know them,” Parry said.

“You know, they’ll often say I’m not Nancy Pelosi, right, I’m not Barack Obama; you know me.

I’m not a baby killer. I’m comfortable with a gun, but I care

Clint Reed led the 2010 elections for the Republicans.

By running a strong group of candidates, population shifting to Republican-leaning regions in northwest Arkansas, outside spending and Tea Party enthusiasm, the party was able to make historic gains, Reed said.

But while those factors all contributed to Republican gains, President Obama’s policies sealed the deal for Republicans here, he said.

“It’s the policies that have really pushed people away from the Democratic Party,” Reed said. “If you look at Cap and Trade, if you look at Obamacare, you look at more of just a very proactive federal government, we’ve seen those things.”

The Affordable Care Act, dubbed “Obamacare” by many, was brought to the forefront

“There was a lot of disenchantment with the Democrats,” Sanders said, referring to how the party “fought like dogs” to implement portions of the Affordable Care Act, namely the health care exchange and Medicare expansion, he said.

Beebe’s Party Democrats hedged their bets on a secret weapon this cycle: Gov. Mike Beebe, who has a 70 percent approval rating, according to the Arkansas Poll.

“I’ll be honest with you: one of the biggest things we’ve got going for us is Gov. Beebe, there’s no doubt about that,” said Tiffany Rogers, in the heat of a tight race to represent a part of central Arkansas in the state senate. Rogers lost by 10 points.

Beebe could be the last of a

itics],” Reed said. “I think you’ll see a lot of our local candidates who have great retail personalities sort of work their way up through the legislature and ultimately run for congress and run for governor.”

Democrats Adapt Some candidates argued a taste of Republican control will turn voters back to the Democratic Party, though they said it could take more than one election cycle.

“They have blinders on,” Rogers said of the crop of Tea Partiers that came to the legislature in 2011. “They don’t try to work. They’ve been programmed by national organizations on what to think and what to say and what to believe and there was no real working with

It wasn’t that the people gathered at the Hattieville community center were die-hard Obama supporters. Many lamented about how they had to pray to support Barack Obama after he endorsed same-sex marriage. Nearly everyone said the Democratic Party of today wasn’t the same as when their parents and grandparents cast their ballots.

The politicians campaigning at the event contended that their party was one fashioned on building up their community: its schools, roads and hospitals.

However, in order to survive in this era of nationalized politics the prospect of the resorting to characteristic partisan politics and raising thousands of dollars was present, if not inevitable. Gone were the days of depending on a handshake, a county fair or a parade to springboard a political career.

Hoyt, who lost his senate race to David Sanders, said before the election that he was ready for a fight with Republicans. He did not return calls after the election.

His opponent said the years ahead for the Democrats will be tough. As the party loses its conservative white male base to Republicans, minorities and labor unions will have a greater say in the nominating process, potentially turning off voters to more liberal policies.

“It’s simple attrition,” Sanders said.

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To the Veterans of America:Thank you!

Saba Naseem Opinion Editor I often think about how thankful I am to live in this great nation. I’ve been to many countries around the world, and as much as I loved those other places, there is no place like home.

And so, I’d like to take the time (and space) to thank those men and women who have fought for this country and who have sacrificed their lives to protect ours.

Yesterday was Veterans Day. Originally known as Armistice Day, the date was chosen because, “November 11 was intended to observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which marked the armistice of World War I,” according to a National Geographic article.

The first Armistice Day was November 11, 1919 and was declared a legal holiday by Congress nearly 20 years later. In 1954 “the name was changed to Veterans Day, following a national campaign to have the day honor all veterans, not just those who served in World War I,” according to the article.

According to the 2011 U.S. Census, there are 21.5 million veterans in the United States.

Last week, I had the opportunity to interview a UA veteran. He had served in the army and was deployed to Afghanistan twice, both times for a year. He’s only 23.

As I sat there listening to his stories, I didn’t try to pretend that I could truly understand what he went through as a soldier and how he is coping with the transition from a war zone

to a college campus. I can’t imagine being in an area where I’m shot at every day, where taking a shower is a rarity, where food only comes in packages, or where I have to deal with losing fellow comrades.

He told me that one of the most memorable moments in his life after returning from Afghanistan was at a family reunion, where, as he walked through the doors, everybody stood up and started clapping for him.

People were thanking him, and a lot of them didn’t even know everything that he did.

We may never know all the sacrifices these men and women have made, but I think we can understand that we are living here today, in a safe and free country, because of them.

Just to give some perspective, I’d like to share the numbers of U.S. soldiers who died in various wars. In WWI, the total number of deaths was more than 116,000, in WWII the total was more than 400,000, during the Vietnam War the total was more than 58,000 and more recently, in the “War on Terror,” which includes both the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, more than 6,000 U.S. soldiers have sacrificed their lives.

I would like to thank not only those who have served, but also those who continue to serve.

I have a good friend in the Marines and when I asked him why he decided to join, he told me he wanted to serve for his country and “fight for the ideals that it represents and ensure that those ideals continue, not only for this country, but for the world.”

Thank you Nick, for all you will be doing for this country, and thank you to all other troops, both past and present, for defending our freedom.

Saba Naseem is the opinion editor. She is a senior journalism, Middle Eastern studies and French major.

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Shawnya Wethington Staff Columnist College is the final test before students are kicked into the brutality of the real world.

We’re all in training. As such, we’re going to make a mistake or two along the way.

There are going to be times when we simply don’t know what to do. It’s in those periods of uncertainty that awkwardness strikes.

College is brimming with awkward moments. Students are feeling out the proper protocol for what to do and when to do it. Many times, the protocol is not merely breached, but crumpled up and tossed by the wayside. It happens. That’s why college is a period of learning.

It’s not just about studying the information you read in your textbooks. College teaches a fair bit about how to carry oneself in the real world. It teaches students how to deal with all types of interactions – normal, as well as those painfully awk-

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Some people just have a knack for making situations uncomfortable. While other times awkward situations cling to people with dogged perseverance. That’s okay. Awkward isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

You just have to learn to appreciate it.

With a bit of practice you can bolster through the potentially awkward and avoid the brunt of the weirdness. Being able to diffuse that atmosphere is a beneficial skill to possess.

People become desensitized to awkwardness the more they are exposed to it. The uncertain nature of college makes it a perfect time to train yourself on how to handle uncomfortable and unusual situations. These situations are everywhere. College thrives on awkward. Learn to love it.

People appreciate awkwardness because everybody has experienced it firsthand.

People even try to out-awkward one another with storytelling competitions. “That Awkward Moment When…” has become a sensation. There are dozens of “Awkward” accounts on Twitter; even the UA has gotten in on the act.

In fact, awkwardness has become one of the new standards of humor. Some of the best sitcoms are funny because they take advantage of situ-

ational awkwardness. Forget slapstick comedy, awkward reigns.

Why do people love awkward? They can relate to it.

We’ve all been in one of those situations when you can feel the awkwardness coalescing into a massive cloud that’s just hovering overhead. When awkwardness starts to set in, you have to learn how to go along with it. It’s not something that you can fight – embrace the moment and have a good chuckle out of it later.

If you find yourself in the midst of one of those awkward moments, laugh it off. Years from now, when you look back on all the silly situations you got into, you’ll laugh. You might as well start appreciating it now. Squeeze as much amusement out of those uncomfortable memories as you can.

The next time you’re sitting on the bus, and you make eye contact for the seventh time in the past three minutes with the stranger who’s sitting across the aisle from you, go ahead and bask in splendor of the moment. A little awkwardness is good for the soul.

Shawnya Wethington is a staff columnist. She is a sophomore English/ Journalism major.

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ward ones.

With Fayetteville’s eccentric blend of students, some encounters are bound to get slightly uncomfortable at times. Awkwardness does not result as a fault of either party.

Instead, it’s just a natural consequence that comes with the blending of different personalities and cultures.

College is a time to make mistakes yourself. It’s a time to watch others, friends and strangers alike, as they make mistakes. Learn from these experiences. Not a single person on this campus will escape the throes of awkwardness. Learn from it and go a different route next time around.

Odd situations will pop up throughout the natural course of life. How you handle them determines how you define them. Situations become awkward when they’re treated as such. People often use the phrase It’s only awkward if you make it awkward, because awkwardness is very subjective. It’s not a clear-cut concept.

It’s definitely a matter that’s left up to interpretation. When people are flexible and deftly deal with whatever conditions are thrown their way, they tend to be oblivious to the weirdness of a situation.

Similarly, you’ll run into awkward people in your life.

This past weekend, I went back to Dallas, the city I come from. I arrived around 7:30 p.m. and went to dinner with my parents at the same restaurant we go to whenever I visit. We dined, caught up and made a rough draft of the agenda for my 3-day stay.

As we were walking out, my mother spotted some family friends across the room. They didn’t see us.

“Oh! The Holmes’ are sitting back there! Should we go say hel-?“ “NO!” I interrupted and continued out the door. My mom followed me asking when I had developed such a strong loathing for the Holmes family. It was here that I spoke for all college

students when I explained that we can only take so many instances of adults asking us the age old questions: “How are you liking school?” and “What are you majoring in?” and sometimes the hard, yet detectable curve ball, “What are you planning on doing with your major?”

I do understand the college years are an integral part of our lives, and we are often the subject of interrogations and scrutiny as a result, but this is just overbearing. I’ve found myself numerous times in a tragically pedantic conversation with an adult, drifting off into a dream sequence where I, accompanied by every other college student, hold a bi-yearly press conference.

For hours on end, we dedicate ourselves to getting all these conversations over with. We would sell tickets, serve concessions, and adults would line up outside, hours prior to the event, clutching their notebooks and pens, ready to write down every minute detail to satiate the ‘college kids’ section of their

minds. It’s a shame financial backing isn’t readily available for this endeavor.

So, since the press conference idea would be a dud, I hope to someday write a small guidebook for adults, full of better questions to ask a college student. Instead of asking how we’re enjoying school, ask what is our favorite place in our respective college towns. Allow me to give another example.

As an alternative to asking how we feel about being away from home for the first time, ask, “which meal from home do you miss the most?” or, “What is the most creative college meal you’ve made in your dorm?” There is so much more meat on the bones of those questions.

No matter how students try to avoid the nit-picking questions adults have for us, there will always be a certain breed of adult who will find us. This breed I like to call “The Comparison Concoctors”. These adults simply want to compare our answers to those of their offspring in college, or to their own col-

lege experiences.

As the questioned individual, detecting this particular strain of interrogator requires above average perception skills. You must be on your guard, your toes and your A-game. As an upperclassman, I have had time to develop and hone this set of skills, and I believe I am somewhat equipped to offer advice: lie. Lie through your teeth.

With each degree of insecurity you detect in the adult, add a degree of magnificence to your answer.

Whether you are spending your summer in Paris, interning with the U.S. Ambassador to France, or writing the screenplay with Tina Fey for the final episodes of 30Rock, all while maintaining your grades, it doesn’t matter. Anything goes for these people. Have a field day and enjoy the look on their faces when they regret ever asking you about college at all.

Mary Margaret Gowdey is a staff columnist. She is a junior English and creative writing major.

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile” Companion Editor: Nick Brothers Assistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill Monday, Nov. 12, 2012

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International Education Week Spotlights UA’s Diversity Sarah Villegas Staff Writer

Once a year, international students get the chance to forget about the cultural differences that exist between their home country and the United States and teach others a thing or two about what life is like in the country they came from.

International Education Week (IEW) is a weeklong event that takes place in schools across the globe and educates the world about the benefits of “international education and exchange worldwide,” according to International Education Week’s website.

At the UA, this includes celebrating the students who come from all over the world to join the Razorback family and applauding those who venture out to study abroad, bringing back with them unique experiences and stories to share.

“What we’re really doing is celebrating the students’ contributions to our campus,” said Namiko Ochi Bagirimvano of the Office of International Students & Scholars (ISS).

International Education Week began in 2000 and is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. The event is now celebrated by more than 100 countries, according to its website. The UA has celebrated IEW since it began in 2000.

However, the UA was celebrating international education well before International Education Week ever began. The International Bazaar, an event where students set up booths highlighting their home country, has been on the UA campus for 25 years.

Students also provide traditional dishes from their countries and perform dances, both traditional and popular, from their culture. The bazaar is not open just to UA students; elementary and junior high students can come and enjoy the diversity of the world too without leaving Fayetteville.

Dating back more than 50 years is the Diwali Festival. The festival is similar to the popular Indian celebration “Festival of Lights” that is significant to Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism. Long before IEW was established, the UA was celebrating international diversity on campus.

Since the declaration of IEW as an official week of recognition, ISS has added events and community involvement to make IEW a campuswide celebration that involves both students and faculty from almost all campus departments.

“I think (International Education Week) is really gaining momentum,” said Cynthia Smith, director of IEW at the UA. “Our planning team is growing, we have direct support from the Chancellor’s Office and more offices on campus are getting involved.”

This year, Associated Student Government is sponsoring a social for IEW, which will be the first year ASG will sponsor IEW. The celebration week also has outside sponsors, including KUAF Public Radio.

The events put together for IEW are also growing. The “Taste of Africa” event offers food from all countries of Africa prepared by students and faculty who are familiar with the dishes. The event has had more than 500 people attend in recent years, with that number expected to remain constant or increase in the future.

IEW has many events organized by students and RSOs, including International Dress Day. The day encourages all students, not just international students or students who have traveled abroad, to dress in clothing that represents cultures from around the world.

“You can event wear a jersey from a sports team you like in another country,” Bagirimvano said. “We just want the students to be able to have a sense of pride and be able to say, ‘This is my country.’”

International Education Week is not just to celebrate the diversity brought to campus by international students, but also the diversity brought by students who have been international students in other countries and came back with experiences and knowledge about other countries.

“This is really all about recognizing the students, where they came from, where they have been and what they have learned,” Bagirimvano said.

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STUDENT PROFILE

Gareth Patterson Staff Photographer “I was definitely excited and looking forward to living in another country,” said Jeremy Page. Page studied abroad in London during the fall 2011 semester.

Same Language, Different Culture: A Student’s Study Abroad Experience

Alex Golden Staff Writer

Reading tabloids about Kate Middleton is the closest to England that some Americans will ever get. That is not the case for UA students who choose to take advantage of the many study abroad opportunities, like senior Jeremy Page, who studied in England during the fall 2011 semester.

“I was definitely excited and looking forward to living in another country,” Page said, though he admitted he was nervous and anxious. He said that upon first arriving, “you’re so out of place.” Getting used to everyone speaking a different accent was the biggest adjustment, he said.

Page studied abroad through a program called Globalinks. He said he chose England because he always wanted to go there and because he is not fluent in any language besides English, so he wanted to study in an English-speaking country.

A public administration, political science and economics major, Page went to Queen Mary University of London to study politics and economics. He said there are some things that cannot be taught to the fullest extent in an American classroom. Because he took a political science class where he was able to discuss whether or not the Euro would fail with people it would directly affect, he got insight he would not have been able to in the United States, he said.

“It was interesting to hear opinions from Europeans because it would have more impact on their lives,” he said.

Page stayed in a flat on campus with seven people. He had his own bedroom and an en suite bathroom. The flatmates shared a kitchen. Page’s Chancellor’s Scholarship and additional money from Fulbright Honors College helped pay for his semester.

Traveling to a different country from Arkansas and traveling to a different coun-

try from London are not quite the same.

Page was able to take affordable, short train rides to Italy and France, instead of long, pricey flights, so although he was only able to choose one country to study abroad in, studying abroad also provided him the opportunity to visit other European nations.

Page said he was also able to go see “The Phantom of the Opera” for about $20 in its original theater.

Page said what surprised him the most was that “they all really like Americans.”

Page said he was well-received and almost instantly made friends. He also took note of how many American influences he saw in London. American music was played on the radio, and there were billboards advertising American movies and American TV shows, he said.

“American culture has flooded other countries,” Page said.

Although there were reminders of home, some aspects of British life took some adjusting.

“They’re much more open in discussing politics and religion,” Page said. “They’re things you talk about within the first few days of meeting someone,” Page said. In British culture, people are more casual about subjects that Americans are not as relaxed about, he said.

Most people watch TV online because they have to pay to watch broadcast TV, he said. British TV is also not as censored as American TV is, and the comedy is primarily dry humor. People also tend to talk much quieter than they do here, and people wear black and dark colors; bright clothing is rare, he said.

“And everyone smokes,” he said. “London was really clean, and they had really great public transit.”

In fact, he said he had to adjust to taking public transportation everywhere. London is a big city. Everything is expensive, and there was a lot of ethnic diversity, Page said.

“I would definitely suggest (studying abroad),” Page said. “It allows you to experience new cultures, new people and new ideas. There are so many things to do and see outside of America.”

RSO OF THE WEEK

International Students Organization Embraces American and Foreign Students Alike Stephanie Ehrler Staff Writer

Qù zhū, ir cerdos and đi heo are all different ways to say ‘go hogs’ in Chinese, Spanish and Vietnamese, the languages of three of the top five countries represented by international students at the UA. Foreign students represent 115 countries, and many of these students aim to discover more about UA culture through the International Students Organization.

Any international student is automatically a member of the International Students Organization, but ISO welcomes everyone.

ISO encourages any American student to join, said Danilo Tchoupe, president of ISO and senior landscape architecture and horticulture major. Members of ISO want to learn about American culture while teaching each other about their own homes, he said.

The mission of ISO is to promote diversity and to initiate, promote and support interaction and globalization between international students, domestic students and the northwest Arkansas community, according to ISO’s website.

Students can join the RSO by liking ISO’s Facebook page or emailing iso@uark.edu.

ISO wants to give international students a platform for connecting with people from the same countries while simultaneously educating them on different countries, too, Tchoupe said.

“We want to share our culture with locals, and we strive to become more integrated with the northwest Arkansas community,” Tchoupe said. “We really want to reach out to UA students because ISO is a place where all students can have fun and hang out.”

There are over 500 students who have liked ISO on their Facebook page, and over 1,100 international students at the UA, according to the University of Arkansas Fall 2012 Enrollment Report.

ISO is larger than many RSOs on campus, but it uses its size to form friendships through academic and social events.

Thao Dao, ISO vice president and sophomore interior design major, said one of her favorite ISO events is education week.

“My major is pretty stressful,” Dao said, “and it’s a good stress reliever that allows me to have fun and take a break from school.”

ISO began with international students, but the future of the RSO may be shaped by any student at the UA. Since last year, the RSO has created more events, with one goal of ISO being to have more American students involved, Dao said.

“Last year, we did not really reach out as much, and we really want to improve on expanding,” Dao said.

ISO can help freshman choose where to study abroad

or help find their roommate at Holcombe Hall, Tchoupe said.

“ISO spreads the word by mouth,” Tchoupe said. People have joined the RSO after hearing about and attending an ISO event, he said.

During International Education Week, ISO will be hosting “dress day,” where people dress up in their culture’s traditional clothing. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, there will be posters in the Union that display data about education in the United States compared with other countries.

“I love the carnivals that ISO hosts,” Dao said. “It is a great mix of dancing, games, food with people coming together.”

While it is impossible to create a personal bond with everyone in ISO, the organization’s size allows for new friendships to evolve constantly.

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Tchoupe said that while he cannot know every single member of ISO, he loves getting to meet new people at ISO’s social events.

ISO enjoys educating the UA student population through social events, but members also teach students about their home countries from their experiences.

Dao said that as an officer of ISO, she enjoys creating and promoting events for the organization. She said that just by having a conversation with an international student, an American can experience a country’s culture without having to pay to go around the world.

While 5 percent of UA students are growing accustomed to the American lifestyle, the commonality of Arkansas pride is found within ISO as its members continue to find their home in Fayetteville.

The UA is one campus, and international students are Razorbacks like everyone else, Tchoupe said.

“We came here to study, but that does not mean that we do not want to learn about the people here,” Tchoupe said. “We may be from around the world, but we are not strangers.

The best way to learn about a country is through someone, and ISO wants the UA to know about international culture while we learn about theirs, too.”

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Comics Pearls Before Swine

Dilbert

Calvin and Hobbes

Monday, Nov. 12, 2012

Sudoku Stephan Pastis

Scott Adams

Bill Watterson

© 2011 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

Crossword

Doonesbury

Non Sequitur

Garry Trudeau

Wiley Miller

By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

ACROSS 1 Actress Jessica 5 Uses spurs, say 10 Sports squad 14 Fortuneteller 15 Not yet burning 16 Taper off 17 Light reddish shade named for a fish 19 Tehran’s land 20 Uganda’s Amin 21 Drawer projection 22 Env. stuffing 23 Flows slowly 25 Children’s imitation game 29 Deal, as a blow 31 “Then what happened?”

32 Govt. hush-hush org.

33 “Grody to the max!”

34 Dessert served in triangular slices 35 Grub 36 Sticky breakfast sweets 40 Relax in the tub 41 Solemn promise 42 “__ as directed” 43 Do some sums 44 Crank (up) 45 Dormitory, to dirty room 49 Grated citrus peel 52 Onetime capital of Japan

53 Swigs from flasks 54 Tiny bit 56 Chili __ carne 57 Go steady with 58 Winter cause of sniffles and sneezes 61 “Deal me a hand” 62 Heavenly path 63 Golden St. campus 64 Kennel guests 65 Pre-meal prayer 66 Bouquet DOWN 1 Birthplace of St. Francis 2 Hard to lift 3 Religious conviction 4 Shirt part 5 ‘50s-’60s TV detective Peter 6 Not AWOL 7 Perp-to-cop story 8 Crowd noise 9 Wall St. buy 10 Minnesota baseballers 11 Auditory passage 12 Some therapists 13 “Little __”: Alcott novel 18 Thumb-andforefinger gesture 22 Finish 24 Put (down), as a bet 26 Common street

name 27 What a solo homer produces 28 Airline to Copenhagen 30 Venezuelan president Hugo 34 “Batman” sound effect 35 Song of mourning 36 Alias for a secret agent 37 Words of confession 38 “Shake a leg!”

39 Native of Japan’s third most populous city 40 Mineo of “Exodus” 44 OR staffers 45 Like numbers in the periodic table 46 Ornate 18th-century style 47 Ring-shaped reefs 48 Workweek start, or an apt title for this puzzle based on an abbreviation found in its five longest answers 50 Starts the show 51 “The Lion King” king 55 Beach bag 57 Salsa, e.g.

58 Gear tooth 59 Hockey immortal Bobby 60 Coffee container

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VOLLEYBALL

Hogs Win Final Three Sets to Beat Kentucky Liz Beadle Staff Writer

The Razorback volleyball team played the Kentucky Wildcats in a thrilling five-set match Sunday, which eventually resulted in a Razorback victory.

Both teams looked very evenly matched. Arkansas is now 19-8 and 10-6 in the Southeastern Conference, while Kentucky is 17-10 and 11-6 in the SEC. The Wildcats sit at third in the SEC East and the Hogs sit at second in the West.

The Razorbacks beat Kentucky in three sets in Lexington earlier this season.

The first set Sunday was very back and forth with constant ties and lead changes until the Wildcats jumped out to a late 24-19 lead. Arkansas kept it interesting, making the score 2422 before losing set one 25-22.

The second set looked very promising for Arkansas at first.

The score was tied at seven, then again at nine, then again at 10. The Razorbacks took their first and only lead of the set at 11-10.

From there, things seemed to fall part for the Hogs. Kentucky jumped out to an 18-12 lead. The Razorbacks took three timeouts through the course of that Wildcat scoring spree and still could not seem to get organized.

Pulliza made a lot of substitutions and the confusion ended up costing the Hogs. Largely thanks to defensive effort by junior libero Emily Helm, the Hogs managed to stay in the set a little longer, but eventually lost it 25-16.

The Razorbacks were outperformed in kills, assists, blocks and digs in the second

set.

The third set started out very similarly to the second, but it was obvious that the Razorbacks had turned some things around during the break.

‘The biggest thing that happened between sets two and three is that we decided we were going to win,” head Coach Robert Pulliza said. “We could have just laid down and given it to them but we decided not to do that.”

“We’ve beaten them in three sets before, we just had to remind ourselves that we can do this,” senior Jasmine Norton said.

“There was no sentiment of ‘Oh my gosh we’re going to lose,’” said Roslandy Acosta, who had a career-high 20 digs Sunday. “We were fully aware that we had everything needed to win.”

The set was tied at 12, but instead of falling apart, the Razorbacks took a 13-12 lead and never looked back. Arkansas was up 19-16 when Kentucky called a timeout to regroup.

The score remained close. A controversial point to make it 21-17 was awarded to Arkansas after much heated discussion from both benches.

The controversy helped get the crowd at Barnhill Arena into the match and swung some momentum for the Hogs, but the Wildcats were not going away.

Kentucky narrowed the lead to 21-19 when Pulliza called a timeout. After that timeout, the Wildcats did not score again in the set and it ended in a 25-19 win for Arkansas.

Norton showed her maturity and leadership, getting eight kills for the Hogs just in the third set. Arkansas outperformed Kentucky in kills,

assists, digs and blocks in the third set.

Kentucky scored first in the fourth set but after trailing 1-0, the Hogs never trailed again in the set and eventually won 2520.

Norton once again led her team with five kills, the most of any player, in the final stretch of the fourth set.

Kentucky called a timeout to regroup, down 14-11 to the home team. They never really found a rhythm as Arkansas pulled away to an 18-12 lead.

Kentucky would not give up on set point though. The Hogs were in position to close out the set up 24-15 but the Wildcats hung around and made it 2420 before Arkansas finally hit a game-winner.

The Razorbacks had 12 kills in this set to the Wildcats’ 11 and 14 digs to Kentucky’s 11, but the Wildcats outdid the Hogs in blocks and both teams had eleven assists.

Arkansas has struggled in fifth sets this season, but did not trail at all in this fifth set against Kentucky, eventually winning it 15-10.

“We had to prove to the country and to ourselves that we could do it in the fifth set,” Norton said.

This 19th win of the season marks the winningest season for Arkansas volleyball under Coach Pulliza.

“This game was about proving to the country that we belong, we belong among the best in the nation, and our kids really believe that,” Pulliza said.

Next up for the Razorbacks is a match against Georgia 7 p.m. Friday at Barnhill Arena, then a match with Ole Miss 3 p.m. Sunday. These will be the last two home games of the 2012 regular season for Arkansas.

FOOTBALL

Freshmen Highlighted in South Carolina Match Up

THE RAZORBACKS PLAYED FRESHMEN IN KEY POSITIONS DURING THE LOSS TO SOUTH CAROLINA. Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor

In Arkansas’ 38-20 loss to South Carolina Saturday, there were two main storylines: opportunities lost and freshmen.

“We made a lot of mistakes.

First half we had a chance, we just stubbed our toe, made mistakes,” head coach John L. Smith said after the loss.

At halftime, the teams were tied with 192 passing yards,

threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown.

“The pick-6 was a big momentum changer that hurt us,” Smith said.

The Razorbacks were once again held back by their inability to extend drives. Arkansas only converted on four of 12 third downs, just over 33 percent.

For comparison, South Carolina converted seven of 13 third-down opportunities, or just over 53 percent.

On defense, the Razorbacks

“They’re going to learn a lot from this, which, they have to.”

John L. Smith Head Coach

and the Gamecocks had only one more rushing yard, but they held a 21-10 advantage.

The Razorbacks scored on four out of five of their trips into the red zone. The one time they didn’t score was because of a fumble by running back Dennis Johnson.

Twice Arkansas was forced to settle for field goals rather than touchdowns. But not all of the Razorbacks woes came in the red zone.

On the first drive of the second half for the Razorbacks, the Gamecocks were called for two penalties to move the Hogs down the field before senior quarterback Tyler Wilson

started three freshmen and one redshirt freshman. Of the 10 offensive players that caught passes, four were either freshmen or redshirt freshmen.

Ten out of 26 – almost 40 percent of Wilson’s passes – went to one of these freshmen.

Freshman Nate Holmes has taken over the role of returning kicks. Saturday he had two returns: one for 14 yards and one for 24 yards.

Freshman Jonathan Williams led in both rushing yards and all-purpose yards with 61 and 74, respectively.

Williams averaged 8.7 yards per carry while senior Dennis Johnson only managed 3.7

yards per carry.

“Jonathan played well,” Smith said. “He stayed in and battled hard.”

Freshman Otha Peters led all defensive players with eight tackles.

Despite their statistical success, freshmen are still inexperienced. There were several plays, especially on defense, where the young players looked almost lost.

South Carolina “without a doubt” tested the young defensive players, Smith said.

The Gamecocks scored at least one touchdown very easily because young defensive players were out of position.

“They’re going to learn a lot from this, which, they have to,” Smith said.

“Particularly the young linebackers and (defensive backs), they’ll learn a lot,” Smith said.

Despite the loss, three players once again wrote their names in the Razorback record books.

Cobi Hamilton had 72 receiving yards to bring his total for the season to 1,149, breaking the record set last season by Jarius Wright.

Zach Hocker brought his total career points scored to 285, breaking the previous record of points scored by a kicker of 280 set by Steve Little in 1974-77.

Wilson threw 26 completions to bring his career total to 539 and break the record of 528 set by Clint Stoerner in 1996-99.

Kris Johnson Staff Photographer Senior Roslandy Acosta hits the ball back across the net in the Razorbacks 3–2 victory over Kentucky Sunday. The Razorbacks were down 2–0 but rallied in the final three sets to get the win.

CROSS COUNTRY

Razorbacks Get Bids to NCAA Championships Tamzen Tumlison Staff Writer

Arkansas women’s and men’s cross country teams finished first and second place, respectively, in the 2012 NCAA Division I South Central Regional Championships Friday at Agri Park in Fayetteville.

The women’s team clinched the regional title for the second-straight year with five runners in the top 15, and all seven runners in the top 40 of 134 finishers.

The win gives the Arkansas women’s team its 23rd automatic bid into the NCAA Championships. Arkansas has made 25 appearances altogether.

Senior runner Semehar Tesfaye finished third individually with a 6K time of 20:54.4. Sophomore Grace Heymsfield followed swiftly behind at 20:55.0 in fourth place.

“I’m very happy with my race today,” Tesfaye said.

“After (the Southeastern Conference Championship) being so disappointing, it felt good to bring my all and see good results. I am very pleased with the team’s winning effort today.”

Sophomore Diane Robi-

son earned a 10th-place finish at 21:15.7. Sophomores Jessica Kamilos and Paige Johnston came in 12th and 15th, respectively, while Shannon Klenke ran for 22nd and Kaitlin Flattmann rounded out Arkansas’ roster in 39th.

“Obviously, we are really excited not only to host the regional championships, but with the opportunity to walk away with the victory makes it even more special,” women’s head coach Lance Harter said.

“Considering some strategies, we held out two of our top five and we will try to put them back into the lineup for the national meet,” Harter said.

The Texas Longhorns placed second overall and finished with 68 points to Arkansas’ 44 points. Texas A&M garnered third overall, lagging behind with 140 points.

The men’s team earned their second-place finish with 53 points overall while Texas clinched the regional title with 38 points. This will mark the Razorbacks’ 42nd appearance at the national meet.

Arkansas placed all six of their runners in the top 41 finishers of the 10K, with ju-

nior Kemoy Campbell leading the Hogs with a thirdplace finish and a time of 29:43.0.

Junior Solomon Haile followed Campbell in fifth place at 30:07.5. Senior Eric Fernandez rounded out the top-eight finishers at 30:19.8.

Senior runner Layne Nixon ran for a 14th-place finish of 30:47.5. Junior David Flynn brought a 23rdplace finish and senior Cameron Efurd placed 41st.

“Our goal today was to come in and qualify for Nationals,” Campbell said. “I think the guys did a great job of executing the plan.”

“I’m looking forward to the NCAA meet but I know it’s going to be a tough race, so the team and I are going to come away from today ready to prepare for next week,” Campbell said.

“Our goal going into every meet is to win but with this one, we just wanted to finish in the top two to get the automatic qualifying position,” men’s head coach Chris Bucknam said.

The end of the cross country season will be marked by the 2012 NCAA Division I Championships at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 17.

Garreth Patterson Staff Photographer Student athletes compete at Agri Park. The UA women’s cross country team finished first in the 2012 NCAA Division I South Central Regional Championship, Friday, Nov. 9.

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