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The Etymology of ‘Hipster’

Students comment on their perceptions of the “hipster” culture in Fayetteville.

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Emily Rhodes Photo Editor People campaign outside of the Washington County Courthouse Monday, Nov. 5. To find out where to vote, see Polling Places in Fayetteville on page 3.

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University Programs will host a watch party where students can gather together to watch the US presidential election.

The party will take place at 7 p.m. tonight in the Walton College of Business room 116.

University Programs officials said they want students

to be involved in watching and voting the election and want to offer them a place to gather.

“The event is for students to engage to watch the result of election and discuss about their opinion about it with each other,” said Annalise Setorie, graduate assistant. “We will offer food and small gifts for participants.”

The event is also co-sponsored by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. NAACP is nation-

UA, City Officials Plan Training for Emergencies

Bailey Deloney Staff Writer

University housing officials, in cooperation with UAPD and Fayetteville emergency professionals, have continued to develop a contingency plan, in case of an emergency.

UA has aggressively pursued the plan, as far as maintaining student safety, said Reggie Houser, assistant director of logistics and risk management.

Most schools rely solely on outside authorities to keep their students safe, like the city police or fire department, Houser said.

“Student safety is my job; it’s all I do,” Houser said.

UA is different in that there is someone within the housing department who works with emergency professionals, Houser said.

Having someone on the inside, who is familiar with the specific needs and concerns of UA students, makes a huge dif-

ference in preparing for unexpected events, Houser said.

University housing is planning a full scale emergency drill involving UAPD, Fayetteville police and the Fayetteville fire department, said Florence Johnson, executive director of University housing.

Originally scheduled for the week of Nov. 5, the drill has been pushed back, said Lt. Matt Mills emergency management.

Because of the hectic semester and the conflicting schedules of various groups involved, the drill had to be rescheduled, Mills said.

“We are moving forward to try to build consistent emergency preparedness throughout campus,” Lt. Mills said, regarding UAPD involvement with University housing.

“My role is to be the emergency manager as far as the contingency plan,” Mills said.

In addition to preparing campus authorities for emergency situations, it is important to focus on individual pre-

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al civil rights organization that fights for the social justice of all Americans.

“They co-sponsored the event because they want everyone to go out and vote,” she said.

Department officials are expecting about 200 students to come and watch the election.

“I think that is a good idea.

I will definitely try to go and watch the election with my friends. I think watching the

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Local Election Watch Parties Political Parties Washington County Democratic Party Chancellor Hotel (Second Floor Eureka Springs Ballroom) 70 N. East Avenue Fayetteville

Washington County Republican Party Springdale Holiday Inn 1500 S. 48th St. Springdale

Mayor Parties Jordan Watch Party Mexico Viejo 2131 W. Martin Luther King Blvd.

Fayetteville

Coody Watch Party Fresco Cafe 112 W. Center St. Fayetteville

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Voters Crowd During Last Days of Election

Emily Rhode Photo Editor People line up to vote at the Washington County Courthouse Monday, Nov. 5.

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ASG Proposal to Change Blood Drive Unsuccessful Miranda Campbell Staff Writer

The UA homecoming blood drive competition will continue in future years, despite concern from student government that members of student organizations were being punished or fined for not giving blood.

Associated Student Government Sen. Samantha Vaughn, a sponsor of a proposal that originally aimed to remove the blood drive from the homecoming competition, said that students were being punished for not giving blood. “The resolution was largely targeting Greek organizations on this campus who implemented fines and other punishments in the past for members not donating blood; with any penalization there are going to be complaints,� Vaughn said. “I overheard girls and boys alike speaking of their fear of donating or giving each other explanations of why they were unable to give blood, yet they were practically forced into doing it.�

Although a university policy banning these punishments and fines already exists, Vaughn said that it was not being followed and other students shared the same concerns, she said.

Greek organizations that punish their members for not participating in a blood drive will be disqualified and lose 100 percent of their final blood drive points, according to the homecoming competition’s rules and regulations, published by the Arkansas Alumni Association.

The UA homecoming blood drive, the largest Red Cross blood drive in Arkansas, received more than 1600 pints of blood last week during homecoming, more than the UA has

PARTIES continued from page 1 election with other students is good, so that I will get to know what other students think about the result of the election,� Iseulle Kim said. “The event seems very interesting,� Xin Qiao said. “Although I am an international student, and I do not have a right to vote, I want to join the event. I think it will be the one of the ways to learn about the US election and what US students think about the result.�

TRAINING continued from page 1 paredness as well, Mills said.

Students must be educated and have the knowledge on how to respond in these situations A new aspect of the drill this year will be the evaluation of housing staff, Houser said. In the event of an emergency at a dorm, RAs, Coordinators for Residence Education, maintenance and housekeeping will be the only staff on the scene until emergency officials arrive. For this reason, actions taken by housing in order to calm the frenzy are imperative, Houser said.

A new lanyard system will also be implemented into the developing contingency plan, Houser said. Should a disaster arise, RAs will each grab a lanyard, with specific instructions on where to go and what to do.

Simple but efficient, “this lanyard system is like the paperclip,� Houser said. The system will alleviate confusion and help RAs spread out and cover certain areas in a more systematic way, Houser said.

The emergency contingency plan is ever changing, because of the addition of new buildings and new staff, Houser said.

Updates and revisions are good; the idea of a contingency plan is to have “a preset plan in order to guide people through an emergency,� Houser said.

For this to work, there has to be continuing conversation about possible threats to the university and the best solutions, in advance of the emergency, Houser said.

ever received, said Sen. Ashton Williams, who opposed the proposal.

In the year that there was not a homecoming competition, turnout at the blood drive was extremely low, Williams said. “The homecoming competition was recently taken away and the students begged for it to return,� Williams said. “The blood drive we hold at homecoming is the largest blood drive for the Red Cross in the state of Arkansas.�

Because of concern from senators that the blood drive would not be as successful without the competitive aspect, the proposal in its original form failed in the student senate and instead passed as a reminder to student organizations of the already existing policies against such punishment.

The senators who wrote the legislation come from one sole Greek organization (Chi Omega) and there was no evidence of hazing that had been filed, said Williams, who is also a member of the same sorority. “There is a homecoming advisory committee made up of faculty members that listen to complaints and reports of violations including hazing during homecoming,� Williams said. “There has never been a complaint charged on any organization about the homecoming blood drive.�

In all Greek organizations every member has a right to say no, Williams said. “We do have the process to file for complaints if there is hazing. What people turn a blind eye to builds up frustration and then the question is ‘do you just not like what is going on in your own organization or is there actual hazing going on?’ And that is just something that has never been clearly defined.�

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Fayetteville Recognized for Volunteering

for Agricultural Project Hunter Hawk Staff Writer

A UA team will work with the city of Fayetteville and local non-governmental organizations to create Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario Plan. This urban agricultural project will be designed to develop and improve a city that is expected to double in population over the next 20 years.

The plan is based on a proposal developed by the UA Community Design Center, an outreach center of the Fay Jones School of Architecture. The design center received $15,000 from the American Institute of Architects to begin the project and received an award from the AIA for their unique, progressive project plan, said officials with the UA Community Design Center. “The goal of the Decade of Design program is to engage architecture schools to participate in research that addresses problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities in the United States and the world,� said Jeffrey Huber, assistant director for the Community Design Center and professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. “When completed,

Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario Plan will serve as a national and international model for agrarian urbanism.�

The Food City Scenario, which is one of four phases of the Fayetteville 2030 project, is a project that allows UA students, faculty and community to come together to try to build for the future, Huber said. “This collaboration is similar to what happened a few years ago with the trail system,� Huber said. “We’re not working simply to update our landscape and plant crops but we really want to encourage people to be active and getting involved is a great way to do that. It’s all about helping our community.�

Huber stresses that even though Fayetteville and UA officials continue to prosper from an economic standpoint, agricultural needs have surfaced. “Although in recent years there has been a greater emphasis – and actual development – on infill as a solution to some of our urban problems, Fayetteville’s current model for growth is sprawl,� Huber said. “And sprawl places more strain on the land available to grow food for the local population. “Currently, we need about 100,000 acres of agricultural production to support about 50,000 people. There is a lot we

can do to reduce this ratio. As designers, it is our responsibility to address what the local food movement is trying to do – to support a local, urban food network.�

Many believe the industrialbased system is unsustainable and environmentally irresponsible. Huber points out the average food product travels more than 1,500 miles from producer to consumer, and in that time it has lost 80 percent of its nutritional value, according to a news release. “Since the 1950s, American agricultural production has become an increasingly concentrated and industrialized enterprise, so much so that most Americans have forgotten where food comes from or how to grow it, store it and preserve it,� said Matt McGowan, science and communications officer.

The local food movement – in Fayetteville specifically but also nationwide – is a response to an industrial-based system of food production, said Stephen Luoni, director of UACDC. “The mission of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center is to advance creative development in Arkansas through education, research and design solutions that enhance the physical environment,� Luoni said.

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Neither of These Guys is Inspiring Peter Goldmark Newsday For this voter, it’s been a discouraging campaign.

The trouble we’re in is big, but the candidates both seem small to me, though in different ways.

Do you recognize these words? “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate. ...

The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew ... and then we shall save our country.”

That was Abraham Lincoln in an address to Congress in 1862.

A century and a half later the occasion is again “piled high with difficulty,” but no one has been talking to us in that spirit.

From where I sit, Gov. Mitt Romney has been blowing smoke. He presents himself as confident and determined, but his ideas aren’t clear or concrete. He acts energized, but he has not energized us with powerful ideas or a compelling vision. On the big issues _ the economy, energy and climate policy, growing inequality, terrorism _ he gives us empty phrases that don’t add up in terms of budgets or common sense. Plus he says he’ll undo the progress we’ve made on health care for those who need it most.

We had a lot of fantasy economics under President George W. Bush, and we don’t need more of that. We need to get out of the trouble Bush II’s crazy ideas got us into.

President Barack Obama has been consistent, belabored and inoffensive _ but to my ear he hasn’t given us a real plan to close the deficit and get jobs and investment flowing again, or what he’ll do about global warming and the energy policies that are strangling us. He just says he’ll do more of what he tried to do during his first four years.

Which Romney says is exactly the problem.

And neither of them can explain how they will get anything serious moving if we reelect a polarized Congress.

On foreign policy the two candidates have not quarreled much _ or said much. Romney

says he won’t cut the defense budget, as he has said he won’t cut Medicare or Social Security, but will somehow mysteriously close the deficit. Both promise to be “tough” with China. But they also recognize, to varying degrees, that they must treat China as an uneasy but important partner, not just a threatening rival.

There were three presidential debates. Obama napped through the first, and neither candidate said anything impressive in the second or third. At the town hall debate at Hofstra University, most of the audience sat stony-faced and uninvolved. At a moment of great national peril, neither candidate succeeded in engaging the audience positively or eliciting from them any strong reaction of any kind whatsoever.

My hunch is that great swaths of the American public feel unconnected to either candidate and have little hope that either will pull us together and move us forward out of the dismal economic doldrums in which we find ourselves. It may be hard to summon the enthusiasm to get out and vote _ and the impact of Sandy just makes us feel the need for good leadership all the more.

Now I understand this is a campaign, and that candidates have to couch their ideas in terms and values that appeal to voters. But great leaders take that requirement as an opportunity, not a constraint.

They rise above the tired checklists of code-words and special interest obsessions to paint a broader vision of what we need to do and why. A great leader shares his sense of the large measures that will be necessary and lays out in broad terms what he or she will ask of us.

The Western world is stumbling economically, weapons of mass destruction are spreading, and we are frying the planet. I’m ready to follow someone who will “think anew and act anew.”

I will vote Tuesday. Voting is a sacred trust in a democracy. But the leader I am looking for will not be on the ballot.

Peter Goldmark is a former budget director of New York State. His column appeared in Newsday.

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Prescription for Recovery Starts with Democrats

Matt Seubert Guest Columnist The equivalent of economic sirens were ringing from Wall Street to Main Street to North College.

The economy didn’t have a pulse and the blood drained out of the faces of millions of Americans, looking at the prospect of telling their families “the job is gone,” “we can’t keep the home,” or “honey, you’re gonna have to change your college plans.”

The economy was in cardiac arrest and the symptoms were reverberating through the lives of every American family.

This was the situation that President Obama inherited as he came into office, and he sprung into action sweeping the patient from the emergency room to the operating table: passing the Recovery Act to stem the blood loss, saving the Auto industries to preempt the death of a vital organ and policies to improve access to credit, the lifeblood of the economy. Through decisive action the President and his team brought the American people back from the brink.

However, that wasn’t enough, like any critically ill patient the road to recovery would be hard, and we would need big changes to make sure we wouldn’t turn back to the economic ER. Democrats have led our nation on a path of a recovery built to last; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is medicine to ensure the health of our people; acts like the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and executive orders like deferments for the children of immigrants who have always called America home make us a fairer nation ready to use all our talents to grow, and Wall Street Reform stops the behaviors that put us in the ER to start.

By refocusing our international priorities, bringing our enemies to justice and our troops home, Democratic polices have made us safer, and with investments in do-

mestic energy sources we can break our addiction to oil.

Today, we face the difficult medicine of debt reduction, but we must do so with treatments that do not damage the well-being of those who can least afford it or by cutting short paths to the middle class like education and job training. An economy where work pays, the middle class succeeds and dreams don’t have to be deferred.

We have seen the beginning of a return of vitality to the American economy.

Housing prices have stabilized, and 32 months of job creation have returned hope to millions workers. The medicine is working.

It has not been easy and for too many families the recovery has been slow, but we cannot afford to turn to dangerous prescriptions.

Adding $5 trillion to the deficit, cutting funding for education and repealing Wall Street reform are the scripts of a recipe for a return to the operating table. President Obama and Democrats have moved us toward an economy that is built to last and a return to economic health.

Here in Arkansas, Governor Beebe and Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature have prescribed just the right policies to guide our state through the economic turmoil of the Great Recession.

While other states have descended into deficits, slashed funding for education and lost ground, we have run balanced budgets, improved educational standards and created over 27,000 new jobs. We are poised to emerge more competitive and more prosperous. UA graduates can look forward to being the leaders in a recovery led

by Arkansas businesses and entrepreneurs.

Our state and our country succeed when the middle class succeeds, when we employ policies that make lasting employment for our people, particularly our graduates.

Here in northwest Arkansas, a vote for Arkansas Democrats like Greg Leding, David Whitaker and Adella Gray can keep us on the road to recovery at home. Nationally, strong leadership in the White House can keep the recovery on track and keep the recovery moving forward. Don’t forget to vote!

Matt Seubert is the 20122013 president of the UA Young Democrats.

Republican Tax Policies Best Decision for US

Grant Hodges Guest Columnist I honestly have no idea if President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney will take the oath of office Jan. 20.

It’s just too close to call.

However, I do know that Arkansas’ six electoral votes will be cast for Gov. Romney. Sen. John McCain won the state by 20 points in 2008, and I expect it’ll be more like 25 or 30 this time around.

So instead of telling you why you should vote for Romney (though you should), I’m going to focus on why the other Republicans down the ballot deserve your vote and your trust.

As Arkansas has voted for the Republican candidate for president seven of the last 10 elections, with 1992 and 1996 being for favorite son Bill Clinton, it has been dominated by Democrats on the state level. For instance, in 2008, Democrats held all nine statewide offices.

They also had 27 of the 35 state Senate seats and 71 of the 100 state House seats.

Then came 2010. Now Republicans have four statewide officers, 15 state senators and 46 state representatives. And on Tuesday, Nov. 6, all signs point to the GOP winning the majority in the state legislature for the first time in 138 years.

What does this mean for Arkansas? Right now we rank in the bottom 10 among the states for per-capita income, yet we have one of the highest tax burdens. The highest state income tax rate of 7 percent kicks in at just $33,200. Our Medicaid program is projected to have a $250-$400 million shortfall, which could mean cuts to higher education funding. And even though charter schools like Fayetteville’s

Haas Hall Academy are dramatically outperforming public schools, the state government is refusing to expand school choice.

That’s where the SIMPLE Plan comes in. Our party has laid out a bold vision for reforms to help boost our economy, improve education and make our state government more efficient and accountable.

SIMPLE stands for Spending restraint, Income and other tax reform, Medicaid sustainability, Protecting Arkansas’s future, Legal and regulatory reform and Educational excellence.

These changes will make the Natural State a better place to live, work and raise a family.

Fayetteville’s own state Rep. Charlie Collins’s plan would lower tax rates across the board, with the biggest relief going to lower income and middle class workers, putting more money in their pockets and driving economic growth. Randy Alexander, whose state representative campaign I’m managing, will be a leader in expanding school choice for students and parents who don’t want to be forced into a public school that doesn’t meet their needs.

And Republicans will fight the implementation of the Affordable Care Act which would cost the already-broke Medicaid program millions of dollars in the coming years.

This Tuesday will be the end of a long campaign, but the start of a new one. It is a campaign to take Arkansas in a new direction. Are we going to settle for the same big government, high taxes and mediocre schools of the past 138 years? Or is 2012 the year we finally decided it was time for a change? I think we are ready. Join me in electing Brian Scott, Paul Graham and Charlie Collins as our state representatives, and all of our other state and local GOP candidates.

Grant Hodges is the 20122013 president of the UA College Republicans.

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Pac-Man is Back for More John Mullins Staff Writer

Rebekah Harvey Staff Photographer Cassidy Damore, freshman music education major, is a self-titled hipster at the UA. Damore shows her hipster style through her choice of 90s fashion and “hippie” personality.

The Etymology of ‘Hipster’ Evan Barber Staff Writer

A lot of people these days throw the word hipster around, usually to playfully degrade a person’s taste in clothing, music or vices.

But somewhere along the line, “hipster” must have changed meanings. Dictionary.com defines the word as “a person who is hip” or “a person, especially during the 50s, characterized by a particularly strong sense of alienation from most established social activities and relationships.”

These days, when people use the word, it’s typically in response to one of a handful of bullet-point qualities. We all know the drill: thick-rimmed glasses, the ironic mustache, flannel clothing, piping hot beverages drunk from household mugs in public places and an association with American Spirits, Pabst Blue Ribbon and bands who could never become mainstream radio material.

“I was eating at Hammontrees and I couldn’t get my waiter’s attention,” said Tommy Maunakea, sophomore English major. “So I played this Radiohead song on my iPhone, and immediately he came over like, ‘Hey, what’s up, man?’ It was like Pavlov’s dogs. Hipsters are conditioned to respond to depressing music.”

At one time, there was surely a more obvious connection between the sort of people outlined above

by Dictionary.com and the stylistic choices that most often get people labeled hipsters today.

As popular fashion continues to latch onto the style, the connection between the style and the substance becomes more and more — wait for it — obscured. It becomes difficult to tell what a “real” hipster is and what a phony is.

“I think there’s a difference between a poser hipster and a real hipster,” said a UA student, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of offending her friends. “I have some friends who always try to dress like hipsters, and I’m always like, ‘What are you doing?

That is not you at all.’”

In the same sense that our understanding of the word has shifted, the manifestation of hipster culture is also shifting. If the culture is continuously stepping back from mainstream culture, now that ironic mustaches have been plastered all over every car bumper and window storefront — now that T-shirt outlines of Arkansas are labeling Fayetteville with mustaches — this aspect of the hipster style is almost guaranteed to get pushed out of circulation. But the real game-changer will be when the same thing happens for abstaining from showers and deodorant.

“I’m not a hipster,” said Andrew Fontenoy, a UA student. “But I’ve definitely been called one, at a time when I was probably dirty, not wearing any shoes and smoking a pipe that went all the way down to my knees. I don’t know, maybe I just give off that vibe.”

If someone is unwilling to assimilate into social culture, or unable to fit in at large parties, most people today probably wouldn’t call that person a hipster. They might call him a hermit. If he actually showed up to a party, a lot of the partygoers would probably be too raging or preoccupied to notice him. But the most deliberately mean-spirited may fulfill their role by calling him a poser, a nerd or a perhaps a geed, depending on the context of the party.

“I think, in a way, the style can still carry the root of its meaning,” Fontenoy continued.

“I feel like most true hipsters still aren’t going to fit into society’s norms. But it’s become so much more about fashion, and people being unkempt and not caring. Or maybe it’s not that they don’t care, but that they care so much that it’s become a huge statement that shows its colors through fashion. That’s what it seems like to me.”

Shea Mathis, owner of Arkadia Retrocade, grew up with arcades and used them as a place to both socialize and play some classic games. Mathis and many others his age missed having an arcade in Fayetteville, so Mathis began to formulate a business idea.

“With a little research, I figured out how affordable many of these classic video game machines are on the collector’s market,” Mathis said. “A little more research, and I became convinced that the business model is a viable one.” This was all Mathis needed to know to jump into creating an arcade that would mirror the type of atmosphere he had been so fond of in the arcades he grew up in.

After taking some time to raise startup money, Mathis said “it simply took off.” Being a first-time business owner, Mathis ran into some challenges along the way, but he said it would be well worth the effort to bring an arcade to Fayetteville.

Arkadia is set to be located a few doors down from Ozark Natural Foods at 1478 N. College Ave. in the Evelyn Hills Shopping Center. Mathis said his pick of location was simply a process of elimination. Locations in downtown Fayetteville

by Dickson Street and uptown Fayetteville near the Northwest Arkansas Mall were both extremely expensive.

“There were a lot of empty spaces around the mall that I inquired about, but the cheapest one I found was $22.50 per square foot,” Mathis said. “Crazy.”

Mathis finally settled on the location in midtown for a variety of reasons. “(There are) fair prices, less traffic than downtown or the mall, but still easily accessible,” Mathis said.

Once Mathis had narrowed his search for location down to midtown Fayetteville, he chose the Evelyn Hills Shopping Center for two reasons.

“The particular space I am renting was empty for a long time, so the realtors were willing to cut me a pretty good deal,” said Mathis, “and since we are doing a vintage-themed arcade, the fact that Evelyn Hills is a very old shopping center ... kinda jives with the theme.”

In addition to these practical advantages of the location, there is a legacy in it as well. Arkadia is in the same location where one of Fayetteville’s best arcades, Showbiz Pizza, was in the ‘80s, Mathis said.

The arcade will feature a plethora of classic video game machines, ranging from games like “Sunset Riders” to “Spiderman.”

“We have collected over 65 games so far, almost all of them from the 80s (with) a handful from 1990, ‘91,” Mathis said, “but that’s about as new as we will get.” Mathis is striving to recreate the feel of an old arcade from “back in the day” and is only populating his game floor with authentic, classic games.

After doing all of this, Mathis’ journey is almost complete, and his dream of bringing an ar-

Kristen Coppola Sports Editor Fayetteville native Shea Mathis went to auctions and shopped on Craigslist and eBay to collect more than 60 arcade games for the Arkadia Retrocade.

cade back to Fayetteville is about to come to fruition. However, the path was not without cost.

“There are still a lot of costs going on as we wrap up construction ... but it’s fair to say by the time we open the doors to the public we will have likely spent close to $20,000,” Mathis said.

Customers of Arkadia will be able to play all they can stand for just $5. In addition to the games, the arcade will make food and drink available for an extra fee. The arcade will not be accepting credit cards at first.

“We don’t think people will have much trouble coming up with $5, $10 or $20 in cash,” Mathis said, “and keeping it all in cash for now helps keep the accounting simple for us as well as cut out the costs of credit-card processing fees.” The use of cash will help save Mathis and his customers money in the long run.

In this technological age, where people can instantly get most of these games on smartphones and tablets, it will be a battle to get customers for an arcade like Arkadia, but Mathis thinks it is a battle that can be won.

“The experience of playing (these games) in their original form is a unique pleasure, is lots of fun and we think will keep people coming back, especially as we continue to add more and more games,” Mathis said.

Mathis maintains that Arkadia will be a place where kids and young adults can go hang out, get out of the house and play some video games. To Mathis, this arcade isn’t simply a way to make money; it’s a way to bring back an aspect of his childhood he cherished and give the experience to the today’s youth in Fayetteville.

“We hope people will enjoy the social aspect of gaming in our unique environment,” Mathis said.

Crystal Bridges Architect Featured in His Own Exhibit Mandy McClendon Staff Writer

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has been a source of creativity and culture in the northwest Arkansas community since its opening in 2011. The museum is nationally and internationally known not only for its outstanding collection of American artwork, but also for the architecture of the building itself. The museum was designed by international architect Moshe Safdie and has been recognized as an incredible space in which visitors can observe and enjoy artwork, architecture and nature.

Crystal Bridges is currently featuring an exhibition on its architect entitled “Moshe Safdie: The Path to Crystal Bridges,” which opened Oct. 13 and will be on view until Jan. 28, 2013. The exhibition is comprised of photographs, videos, scale models and architectural drawings of previous designs by Safdie that inspired the work he did for Crystal Bridges.

The exhibition traces Safdie’s design development and focuses on four of Safdie’s previous projects that helped inform his design for Crystal Bridges. According to the museum’s official website, the exhibition also attempts to “highlight his aesthetic language of transcendent light, powerful geometric form, and metaphoric imagery.”

The four buildings that will be highlighted include Habitat 67, Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, The National Gallery of Canada and Skirball Center in Los Angeles.

Habitat 67 is described by Crystal Bridges’ website as a “multi-family dwelling” that brought international attention to Safdie in the 1967 Montreal World Exposition. The building is comprised of many rooftop gardens and a marriage of landscape and architecture, attributes that are also present in Crystal Bridges’ structure.

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum resides in Jerusalem and features a skylit tunnel that goes directly through one of the site’s hills. This work displays Safdie’s penchant for utilizing light as a means of creating “atmosphere and emotion,” ac-

Courtesy Photo Moshe Safdie, the architect for Crystal Bridges, is currently featuring his exhibits of photographs, videos, scale models and architectural drawings of his previous designs among other creative works. The exhibit opened Oct. 13 and will be on display until Jan. 28, 2013. cording to Crystal Bridges officials. The tunnel ultimately leads to a “panoramic view” of the surrounding countryside, again showing how Safdie makes the most of landscapes.

The National Gallery of Canada is comparable with Crystal Bridges in that there is an innovative use of glass and that light is once again put to use in the whole space. The Skirball Cultural Center is said by Crystal Bridges officials to most closely resemble Crystal Bridges due to its uses of architectural concrete. Pavilions are featured on two levels of the site, once again combining architecture with natural landscape. Like Crystal Bridges, outdoor courtyards and amphitheaters link interior spaces together.

The museum’s official website offers an indepth personal background of Safdie, stating that he is not only an architect, but also an “urban planner, educator, theorist and author” and that through his designs, he strives to support and enhance “the geographic, social, and cultural elements that define a place, and that respond to human needs and aspirations.”

According to the same background briefing, Safdie was a professor at Yale who relocated to Boston in 1978, where he became director of the urban design program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Safdie was born in Israel and grew up in Canada. His other major works include Habitat 67 of Montreal, Canada; Exploration Place Science Center in Wichita, Kan.; the Salt Lake City Public Library; and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.

“The Path to Crystal Bridges” is showing concurrently with “See The Light: The Luminist Tradition in American Art,” which explores the evolution of the use of light throughout American art history. Members of the museum will be invited to a preview of both exhibitions. “See The Light” will also be on view until Jan. 28, 2013, and will include work from Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Dan Flavin and others.

There is no fee to view Safdie’s exhibition, and no advance tickets are required. The exhibition is sponsored by Nabholz Construction Service.

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Razorbacks Pick Up Win Without Young Jessie McMullen Staff Writer

The Razorback men’s basketball team squared off against the Leymone-Owen Magicians Monday night in its final exhibition game. Arkansas sailed to a 111-45 victory.

The Hogs played without last season’s second leading scorer sophomore BJ Young.

Young was suspended for violation of team rules.

He will also miss the season opener Friday.

“I hold my players to a high standard both on and off the court,” head coach Mike Anderson said. “BJ fell short of those standards and as a result has been suspended for two games. He will continue to practice and be a part of all team activities during the suspension.”

No further comments were made from Anderson or the Razorback Athletic Department regarding the suspension.

The Razorback defense was too much for the Magicians to handle. The Hogs forced 30 turnovers and had 17 steals.

Six of the Razorbacks scored in double figures.

Coty Clarke led the Razorbacks with 15 points and 10 boards. Freshmen Jacorey Williams and Michael Qualls also dropped 15 points.

Samuel Hill led the Magicians with 12 points. Jordan Daniels pulled down five boards.

The Hogs scored 18 unanswered points in the first seven minutes and caused 10 turnovers. The Magicians hit a three to get on the board, which started a small run for Leymone-Owen.

The Razorbacks led the Magicians 56-19 at half after a 21-2 run to close out the half.

Clarke led the team in scoring and rebounds in the first half with 11 points and eight boards.

The Razorbacks forced 21 turnovers in the first half and had 12 steals. Twenty-one of the Hogs first half points came off of turnovers.

The Razorbacks struggled offensively and allowed 13 turnovers and seven steals.

They also struggled slightly at the free throw line and made only 13 of 23 attempts.

Samuel Hill led LeymoneOwen in the first half with 10 points and three steals at half.

Qualls got the crowd riled

up halfway into the second half after a frightening dunk on an alley-oop from freshman DeQuavious Wagner.

Qualls also had another thunderous dunk on a alleyoop off the backboard from Kikko Haydar.

Both dunks received attention on social media, and local journalist Matt Jones tweeted that Qualls’ second dunk should be on ESPN SportsCenter’s top 10.

The official men’s basketball twitter account posted a tweet encouraging followers to help get Qualls’ dunks on the top 10.

The tweet included a link to the Youtube video of the dunk and had a hashtag of Fastest40, which hearkens back to Anderson’s goal for the Razorbacks to play the fastest 40 minutes of basketball.

Qualls also led the team in dunks during the Italy tour in August.

The Razorbacks hit the 100 point mark with around six minutes left to play on a layup from Jacorey Williams.

The Razorbacks will host Sam Houston State for the season opener 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9 in Bud Walton Arena.

Logan Webster Staff Photographer Freshman Jacorey Williams (left) scored 15 points in the exhibition game Monday night against Leymone-Owen. The Razorbacks won 111-45.

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Razorbacks Prepare for Difficult Road Matchup Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer

The Razorbacks improved to 4-5 on the season with a 19-15 Homecoming victory over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane Saturday.

“Any time you can get a win, it’s a good win,” UA interim head coach John L. Smith said. “Our guys played hard, and they battled.”

Arkansas appeared in the news for negative reasons again Sunday morning, as senior linebacker Terrell Williams was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Williams has been suspended indefinitely, and Smith is “very, very upset” at him, he said in his weekly press conference.

Williams was already filling in for injured seniors Tenarius Wright and Alonzo Highsmith, who will miss the rest of the season. Freshmen A.J. Turner and Otha Peters and sophomore Braylon Mitchell are expected to replace Williams.

“I talked to Otha Peters and A.J. Turner about (filling in) and I trust those guys,” junior defensive end Chris Smith said. “They’re getting better and better every week.”

Smith Williams’ suspension creates issues with the leadership role on defense, Smith said. “(Middle linebacker) is a leadership spot; it’s like the quarterback spot,” Smith said.

“Now you have guys without as much experience, so what

you have to do is transfer that to other people.”

Smith expects senior safety Ross Rasner to step up and “take more control.”

Junior wide receiver Brandon Mitchell’s status for Saturday is still uncertain.

Mitchell was suspended before the Ole Miss game for violating team rules and has not played the last two weeks.

terback Tyler Wilson said.

“I’m going to put a little emphasis on that. I’ve got to have faith in them that they’ll battle with (Clowney).”

Even without Lattimore, Arkansas’ defense will be challenged by South Carolina’s offense and junior quarterback Connor Shaw, who can pass and run effectively.

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“Any time you can get a win, it’s a good win.

Our guys played hard, and they battled.”

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Head Football Coach On the injury front, junior running back Knile Davis is questionable and senior tight end Chris Gragg is doubtful for Saturday’s game.

Arkansas plays the first of two consecutive road games Saturday as the travel to Columbia, S.C., to face the South Carolina Gamecocks. South Carolina is coming off of a bye week, making them the sixth team to face Arkansas with extra time to prepare.

The Gamecocks are 7-2 overall and 5-2 in Southeastern Conference play and boast a No. 8 ranking in the BCS poll. Despite the loss of star junior running back Marcus Lattimore, they are a very athletic team, Smith said.

“It’ll be a tough (game).

They’re a good football team, as everybody knows,” Smith said. “We’re going to have to prepare well and play well.”

Offensively, the Razorbacks are facing a team that has sacked the opposing quarterback 30 times this season, tied for seventh most in the country. Potential firstround NFL draft pick in 2014 and sophomore defensive end Jadeveon Clowney leads them with 8.5 sacks.

“I am going to meet with my (offensive linemen) and talk about that,” senior quar-

ing yards per game and 38.9 rushing yards per game.

“He’s a very capable player and does a lot of good things for them,” Smith said.

After having eight tackles against Tulsa and forcing a fumble to clinch the victory last Saturday, Chris Smith was named the SEC Co-Defensive Lineman of the Week and Smith thinks he will have another good game against South Carolina.

“He had a good game last week and had a lot of production,” Smith said. “He’s going to have a lot of family there, being from North Carolina, so we’re expecting him to have even a bigger game this week.”

Chris Smith, who is from Mount Ulla, N.C., said he will probably have close to 20 family members at the game.

“It’s always good to try to put on a show for them,” Smith said. “(South Carolina) did not (recruit me), so that’s one thing I have as a chip on my shoulder.”

Although Arkansas’ record is not what they wish it were, Chris Smith believes the team will go out and give great effort.

“Our record doesn’t define our team,” Smith said. “When we play together, it’s hard to beat us.”

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Next Year Make the “Smart� Choice

Zack Wheeler Staff Writer As I was watching the Alabama Crimson Tide visit Death Valley Saturday evening, one particular thing had my attention. No, it wasn’t the vast amount of talent displayed on

the field, it was the maestro coordinating one of the most dominant defenses college football has ever seen.

The guy I was watching is the Alabama’s defensive coordinator, Kirby Smart, and not the great Nick Saban.

As all Razorback fans know, Arkansas is in the process of searching and ultimately hiring a new head football coach.

I know many names and rumors are floating around, but I believe the best man would be Smart.

Arguments can be made against him for the lack of head coaching experience, but this man has done miraculous work on the defensive side of the

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Arkansas, who has lacked on defense at times, needs to adopt a defensive philosophy to win on a consistent basis in the Southeastern Conference.

I don’t want to take credit away from what Bobby Petrino accomplished at Arkansas with his coaching philosophy, but college football fans have seen that a dominant defense along with a strong running game can lead to National Championships.

However, if Jeff Long is unable or unwilling to pursue Smart, there are some other viable coaches that should be taken into serious consideration.

Names such as Sonny Dykes, Charlie Strong, Tommy Tuberville or possible NFL options may be sought after.

The ultimate factor when hiring a new coach is getting a guy who truly wants to be a Razorback. Even though it is cliche, the next coach must be

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Long has expressed that he will have his coaching search concluded by early December, shortly after the regular season has ended.

He has also said he doesn’t want to prevent a coach from fulfilling his responsibility at his current school. He wants to be respectful while being very calculated with his decision.

But to come full circle to my first point, the man I would put in position to lead the Razorbacks is Kirby Smart. Along with his own defensive ability, he has gained valuable knowledge under Saban. The knowledge from Saban coupled with familiarity of the SEC could bode very well for Arkansas.

He would not be able to convince all the defensive players he recruited at Alabama to come to Arkansas, but recruits will see his track record and know what he has been able to do for his previous players. I feel very strongly that he has the ability to take over a program after all the knowledge he has gathered following Saban around.

Dykes, Strong and Tuberville would all be a good fit for the Hogs, but Smart is the guy I will be keeping my eye on throughout the rest of this season.

Arkansas is continuing its final push to make a bowl following their 19-15 victory over Tulsa Saturday. All the while, Long is searching for the guy that will be able to build the program back up and have success for years to come.

Zack Wheeler is a staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday.

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