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Jaime Dunaway Staff Writer Changes could be coming to the Academic Challenge Scholarship, which is funded largely by the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, because of a shortage of funds, officials said.

The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery provides Arkansas students with scholarships

for two- and four-years schools within the state, but state legislators have predicted that at the current rate, funds will decrease within the next four years.

“There’s a shortfall in the funds,” said Suzanne McCray, vice provost for enrollment. “I’m assuming it’s because more people are attending four-year schools rather than two-year schools.

It’s not producing enough

funds to keep up with the scholarship demand.”

If changes are implemented, it could affect thousands of students statewide. A total of 33,440 students were given awards for the fall 2010 and spring 2011 terms, according to the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.

Administrators at the UA will make adjustments to accommodate students if changes to the Academic

Challenge Scholarship are made, McCray said.

“We will try to be very proactive and provide scholarship packages that are as attractive to students as we can,” she said. “We will be hitting the road trying to recruit every student that wants to go to the UA and help them with financial aid.”

The state is considering

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In the past decade, religious affiliation and belief has decreased by 13 percent in the U.S., with young adults making up the bulk of those moving away from religion, recent surveys show.

People are generally confused about atheism, said Camille Richoux, an anthropology major from Camden, Ark. Richoux also is president of Occam’s Razors, a secular student society.

“They think that it means you believe that there is no God, but I just don’t have a belief in a god.”

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Arkansas’ many struggles continued Saturday in a 58-10 loss to Texas A&M in College Station, Texas.

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The Razorbacks extended their winning streak to four over the weekend, beating LSU in four sets Sunday afternoon.

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Aneeka Majid Staff Photographer Clean-up crews work to vacate parking lots after the Bikes, Blues and BBQ event, Sunday, Sept. 30. BBBBQ ended late Saturday night, and clean-up started immediately at midnight.

Hillside Completion Delayed SITE EXPECTED TO OPEN OCT. 22, PLANNING OFFICIALS SAY

Travis Pence Staff Writer The construction of The Hillside Auditorium is running behind schedule once again, officials said.

The auditorium was originally scheduled to be completed by Aug. 1, said Mike Johnson, associate vice chancellor for Facilities Management. The project is now expected to be complete Oct. 22.

The project was delayed for several months before construction began while officials made bids with local contractors and for materials, he said.

“August 1 is an original completion date that we use for most of our construction projects,” Johnson said, “very rarely do we ever meet that deadline.”

Fortunately, workers experienced a mild winter, allowing them to continue construction during the winter months, Johnson said.

The new auditorium will replace the old auditorium and the geology building, Johnson said.

“Both buildings were outdated and did not meet our

efficiency standards any longer,” he said.

The location and slope of the hill played a role in the design of the construction.

“The site for this project required a very sensitive approach,” said Bob Beeler, director of Design and Construction Services for the UA. “The auditorium is being tucked into the hillside so that it does not overshadow

the view of the Greek Theatre,” he said.

There will be two different auditoriums within the building. The upper auditorium will hold about 275 students while the lower auditorium will hold about 500 students, Johnson said. The two auditoriums will be connected by a lobby that runs transverse to the sloping site.

The budget for this proj-

ect was about $ 9.7 million, Beeler said, and was designed to be as efficient as possible.

The auditorium will be “going green,” Johnson said.

“All of our newest construction projects are designed to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver ranking requirements,” he said.

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“They think that it means you believe that there is no God, but I just don’t have a belief in a god,” Richoux said.

“I don’t say, ‘there is no God’ instead I say, ‘show me the evidence.’ God really doesn’t have an effect on my life. I live my life by treating other people well and maybe leaving this world better than when I came into it. For me, that’s always been enough.”

There’s a good base in northwest Arkansas for an alternative to religious groups, Richoux said.

“One of the things that gives the atheist movement a lot of hope is that among the 18-to-26 age group, nonbelief is at its highest levels ever,” said Douglas Krueger, philosophy and world religion professor at Northwest Arkansas Community College. Krueger is also author of “What is Atheism?”

From 2005 to 2012, individuals who identify themselves as religious fell from 73 percent to 60 percent. In comparison, atheism has increased from 1 percent to 5

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Aneeka Majid Staff Photographer Students walk past Hillside Auditorium Friday, Sept. 28. Construction was supposed to be completed by the end of September, but the completion date has been pushed to Oct. 22.

Members of the Northwest Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists will perform their annual Gridiron show Oct. 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rogers Little Theater.

The performance, dubbed “Occupy Gridiron” this year, is designed to poke fun at events that happened over the last year, said Katherine Shurlds, an organizer of the event.

The writers started brainstorming in July, Shurlds said.

The skits will focus on lo-

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Shelby Gill Asst. Companion Editor Doug Krueger (left), Kevin Lyon (center) and Darrel Henschell (right) are members of the Fayetteville Freethinkers, a secular society that has been active in Fayetteville for the last 14 years. The group has regular meetings at the Fayetteville Public Library to promote “Free Thinking,” which they categorize as “a method of arriving at conclusions, not a set of beliefs.” percent, according to WINGallup International’s “Global Index of Religion and Atheism.”

Seventy-one percent of Americans believed that religion is losing its influence on American life, according to a 2011 Gallup religion poll.

Ages 18-to-29 make up 31 percent of people who identify themselves as “unaffiliated”, according to the Pew Forum, “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.”

“There’s a large group of people who are not interested in religion, or they’re agnostic.

They don’t believe in God, but that doesn’t necessarily follow mean they accept the term ‘atheist.’ The category of atheist doesn’t represent the group that doesn’t believe in God because it’s a term that has a lot of baggage over the years,” Darrel Henschell, co-founder of the Fayetteville Freethinkers.

Fayetteville Freethinkers promotes “a method of arriving at conclusions, not a set of beliefs.” The group has been active in Fayetteville for the last 14 years. Although many members are atheist, Fayetteville Freethinkers is not an atheist group, Henschell said.

“We have people who sit on church boards and come to the (FreeThinker) meetings,” Henschell said. “One fellow said he goes to church for his heart and comes to our meetings for his head.”

Thomas Senor teaches philosophy of religion at the UA. The question of God comes up in his class all the time and “for the most part students are interested” in learning about the different arguments for and against God, he said.

In recent years, students, in particular, are becoming more tolerant of atheism, Krueger said.

“I’ve seen, just in the past five or six years, more and more students who are sympathetic to the arguments against God’s existence and less sympathetic towards the argument for God’s existence and even here in the bible belt in a more conservative country, Benton County, that suggests that there is some sort of a seat change taking place among the young that they are much more open to religious arguments than they used to be,” Krueger said.

Although Krueger sees an increase in tolerance in his students, he still sees a fair share of students who are uncomfortable talking about the idea that God may not exist, he said.

“I don’t want to project on everyone else they have their

own reasons for responding the way they do. I was very insecure in my beliefs,” said Kevin Lyon, a UA graduate student. “When someone questioned my beliefs, it scared me and sometimes I responded kind of viciously.

So I’m not angry towards religious people who respond in that fashion because I’ve done it. Your whole worldview and your comfort are being attacked just by someone standing there. If you understand it, it’s hard to be angry.”

Lyon is now a self-proclaimed atheist. Moving from a religious upbringing to fullblown atheism was a slow process, he said.

“I’ve always had an insecure belief structure, religiously, and it just evolved. I figure whatever is behind the universe has things under control and it is clearly not seeking any relationship with me or wants me to know about it,” Lyon said. “There doesn’t seem to be any evidence for that. I just go on the assumption that we are on our own. That implies that we have responsibilities. If God isn’t going to save the people who need to saved, guess who gets to do it?”

Lyon thinks that the need for a belief in God comes from a fear of mortality, he said.

“I’m a big proponent for rationality; it sure feels good to believe that were going to live forever and God will come back, but here’s the thing that doesn’t seem to be the case,” Lyon said. “People can manipulate that need so easily to make good people do bad things they wouldn’t normally do. I think it’s best to accept

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our mortality and just deal with it.”

One of the main arguments against atheism is that there is no proof that there is no God, but Lyon pulls his ties to atheism from the lack of proof that there is a God, he said.

“My whole perspective is a lack of evidence for God,” Lyon said. “You can’t define God; when you start putting limits on Him, that’s when you can logically walk your way out of it and eventually you are just accepting God as this vague ideal.”

Last year the UA played host to LogiCon, was an event that started as a “joint effort by many secular groups in Arkansas.” Secular refers to attitudes or activities that have no religious basis. The event was used to project “the importance of reason, logic, scientific education, support equality for all and assist in advancing the secular movement forward,” according to the LogiCon webpage.

“I liked the atmosphere. It was very non-anti-religious.

I used to have the view that atheists were just angry people who had a hard run on religion, but more and more you start to see people and it’s just not anger — no hatred, no dislike,” Lyon said.

The Secular Student Alliance at the University of Central Arkansas began in the fall of 2011 and has grown steadily for the past year, said Lukas Deem, senior at UCA. “I helped start the atheist club at this school,” Deem said. “Our membership has been increasing pretty steadily throughout time and peo-

ple have been really interested in it. It started with around 10 members and now we are up to 30 members who come all the time. Our Facebook group has about 150 members, and our official organization online has 50 members.”

The UA also has its own secular student group called “Occam’s Razors.” The name of the group comes from a phrase stated by William of Ockham, English Scholastic Philosopher, Richoux said, president of Occam’s Razors.

“People identifying as atheist, agnostic or non-religious are the largest increasing group of people in this country, so we want to reach out because a lot of people don’t know there is a secular group on campus,” Richoux said.

Occam’s Razors is not defined as an atheist group but as a skeptic group. The members promote scientific literacy, reason, logic and skeptical inquiry of the world, Richoux said.

“It’s not necessarily a club for people to talk about atheism but it’s there for students to talk about things affected when you start looking at the world through a scientific and skeptical lens,” Richoux said.

Occam’s Razors has more than 100 members on Facebook, and has 30 to 50 members at each meeting. Their membership is steadily on the rise, Richoux said.

“Maybe I’m wrong.

Wouldn’t that be great?” Lyon said. “I don’t think God would be such a jerk to punish you for making the rational decision.”

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If you thought that university rules on smoking would be more lax two years after implementation, you would be wrong: UAPD has amped up its effort to eliminate smoking on campus, officials said.

After the law was passed in 2010, UAPD officers were giving warnings to people caught smoking on campus as a way to give them a heads up about the new law. Since spring 2012, however, officers have started issuing tickets, said Lt. Gary Crain, UAPD spokesman.

The law banned smoking on college campuses, in addition to authorizing fines. The fines can be no less than $100 and no more than $500. People caught smoking on campus receive a court date and the judge then decides how much the fine will be, Crain said.

Some students think that a fine of at least $100 is excessive for a smoking offense.

“A hundred dollars seems like a little much,” said junior Kyle Johnson, mechanical engineering major. “I definitely think $500 is way too much.”

Many students and faculty find other places to smoke to avoid receiving a ticket.

Streets with residential properties and land not owned by the university are popular

places for smokers to gather.

People with houses on North Lindell Avenue and Cleveland Street are often plagued with smokers trying to escape the no smoking rules on campus.

“We’ve had a lot of complaints for Cleveland Street, around (North) Hall Avenue, about cigarette butt litter,” Crain said. “It’s got to be a problem for landowners on that side. Most people don’t want you on their property for any reason. And anywhere that you have a large group of people gathering to smoke and don’t pick up after themselves, it’s a problem.”

“With all the studies of how second hand smoking is worse on others than the smoker, this will help everyone in general.”

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Spanish major at Auburn Some students who are smokers try to entirely avoid smoking on or near campus.

“I usually just wait until I’m done with class and can leave campus to smoke,” Johnson said.

Before the statewide law was passed, the UA already had a tobacco-free campus policy, adopted in 2008. The campus policy includes all tobacco use, including chewing tobacco, Crain said. Students caught smoking or using tobacco of any kind on campus would then be subject to university rules, but not a court date or a fine.

The trend of campuses becoming tobacco-free environments is growing nationally.

As of January 2012, 770 college campuses nationwide had smoking bans, up from 466 last year, according to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights.

Four other Southeastern Conference schools also have smoking bans on their campuses: The Universities of Kentucky, Missouri, Florida and Auburn University, according to no-smoke.org.

This year was the first year Auburn officials banned smoking on campus.

“I think it’s a wonderful idea. With all the studies of how second hand smoking is worse on others than the smoker, this will help everyone in general,” said Elizabeth Nguyen, sophomore Spanish major at Auburn.

“I think it’s a good thing,” said Caitlyn Duffy, sophomore environmental science major at Auburn, “but I don’t think it really works because there’s no enforcement for it.”

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Courtesy Photo cal and national events. For example, writers adapted the “Bye Bye Birdie” musical song into “Bye Bye Bobby”, poking fun at the firing of football coach Bobby Petrino.

Chancellor G. David Gearhart, coming from a

family involved in the newspaper business, will emcee the event.

“I have an affinity for anyone with printers ink in their blood,” Gearhart said.

The Society of Professional Journalists is planning on donating to scholar-

ships with the profits from the show. The American Association of University Women, a co-sponsor of the event, will also donate to scholarships.

Tickets are available for $25 and available online at nwagridiron@gmail.com.

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many reform options, McCray said. One of the most popular choices is to create a graduated system in which the amount of the scholarship will increase after each year of college completed.

“I’m still hopeful they will not choose to do a graduated system,” McCray said. “It’s great to encourage retention, but to offer $2,000 for freshman year, especially to those with need, will not help them go to college.”

Another possibility is simply to reduce the amount of the award for all individuals. This year, the award fell from $5,000 to $4,500. Next year’s scholarship might only be $4,000, McCray said.

“If it turns out I got some money taken away because they didn’t have funding, I’d be kind of mad,” said Brannon Daniels, sophomore agricultural business major.

Daniels still would have been able to attend the UA without the Academic Challenge Scholarship,

LEED provides building owners and operators a way to identify and implement practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions, according to the LEED website.

“We wanted to make it as efficient as possible. This way we will not only cut spending during construction but we will also have less maintenance costs in the long run,” Johnson said.

This project was commissioned by Rick Jones of Jones Architecture LLC, located in Salem, Mass.

Hillside Auditorium is not the first construction project that the UA has commissioned with Jones Architecture. The university has worked with the company on three projects over the past eight years, said Jill Anthes, campus planner.

“The greatest value that Rick brought to the process was his ability to balance program, conceptual design and project cost in the face of significant site and budget challenges,” she said.

but he said the scholarship has taken a lot of financial pressure off his parents, who are paying for his education as well as his two brothers.

“It gives me a little extra money so I don’t have to worry about expenses,” he said.

Other students rely more heavily on the scholarship to cover their academic fees.

“I barely have enough now,” said La’Teaikia Brown, freshman apparel studies major. “If it weren’t for that I wouldn’t be able to pay my tuition.”

If the scholarship amount was reduced, Brown said she would try and pick up some other scholarships because the UA is the only school nearby that offers her major.

“There are some issues and problems with it, but it does one really good thing: it gives me money to go to school,” Daniels said. “I’m thankful for the money I have.”

Continue in 2013 Miranda Campbell Staff Writer ASG’s initiative to provide scantrons to professors for students is in full swing this semester and many students and faculty have said they find it more convenient.

“This year is a pilot. If we get positive feedback from students and faculty we’ll look for funding to continue the program,” said Tori Pohlner, ASG president.

Now, all students have to worry about when preparing for an exam is showing up with a pencil — no more last minute dashes to the union or Club Red, said journalism professor Carol Rachal.

“For professors — you bring your exams, you bring your scantrons and you don’t have to worry about it,” Rachal said. “It just makes it a whole lot easier and it streamlines the process. With scantrons provided all you as a student need to do is worry about showing up to the test.”

Since ASG is paying for the scantrons and blue books, professors are required to estimate how many they think they will need during the semester and they order them, Rachal said.

“They are stored in an office here in the journalism department, and I just have to go grab what I need before each exam,” Rachal said.

The new process also helps with rogue scantrons that once had to be graded manually, Rachal said.

“I think it is more convenient because in the past when I’ve told students to bring scantrons - I have gotten some really interesting ones,” Rachal said. “And I have to grade those by hand. It is nice because now the only thing I have to be concerned about is if students have pencils.

Rachal hopes the initiative continues next year, she said.

“I think it is really great that ASG has decided to do this. It is an excellent idea and I hope it continues,” Rachal said.

Kaitlin McDowell, junior, also said that she hopes the program continues.

“I do like the new system of teachers providing scantrons because we, as students, go through so many and it is one less thing we have to worry about getting in time (they ran out a lot last year) or paying for,” McDowell said.

“I certainly think the program should continue next year. It is very convenient.”

Ayla Campbell, junior, said that she likes not having to deal with the hassle of buying scantrons anymore.

“They weren’t very expensive but it was always so frustrating when Club Red or the Union would run out of scantrons on the day of your exam and you would just have to hope that your teacher would still let you take the test,” Campbell said. “Now that the teachers have to provide the scantrons it is a lot less stressful.

I hope it is like t h i s ever y year.”

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Joe Kieklak Opinion Editor The New Orleans TimesPicayune followed through with plans to end the paper’s 175year run as a daily newspaper yesterday. New Orleans is now the largest city without a daily newspaper, according to the American Journalism Review.

Not only has the paper has lost its “daily,” status, but for 200 of the Times-Picayune staffers, Sunday was their last day.

Residents will say goodbye to familiar bylines.

“Sometimes I just want to scream about what is happening around me,” Kari Dequine Harden, a reporter for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, wrote. “Those of us laid off still have jobs to do until the 30th of Sept., but it’s going from bad to worse ... I desperately want my job until October because I love it. But I also can’t just keep my mouth shut and pretend everything is okay, or that it doesn’t matter.”

I am not one to link bad premises together, but it is a sorry coincidence that Arthur Sulzberger, longtime publisher of the New York Times, died Saturday. Sulzberger served as the New York Times publisher from 1963-1992.

“He was a firm believer in the importance of a free and independent press — one that isn’t afraid to seek the truth, hold those in power accountable, and tell the stories that need to be told,” President Barack Obama said of Sulzberger. Where will those stories be told?

We have heard time and time again that the newspaper medium is dying. In fact, 14 daily newspapers have closed since March 2007, according to newspaperdeathwatch.com.

In addition to this, 10 newspapers have been listed as “Works in Progress,” meaning that those papers are former dailies that, “have adopted (as) hybrid online/print or onlineonly models,” according to the website.

Even USA Today columnist John K. Hartman was cynical as the newspaper giant celebrated its thirtieth birthday. “… the paper (USA Today) lost its print circulation leadership to The Wall Street Journal, fell way behind The New York Times in the emerging Web/digital realm, and lost its position as top sports publication to espn. com, among others,” he said.

“The secular slump in the newspaper industry and the bad economy pushed USA Today back into the red and led to massive staff and distribution cutbacks. It has all the makings of a death spiral,” he said.

So, we have the death of a newspaper legend, the death of a daily paper and columnist who sees death on the horizon.

So, what is happening to the daily newspaper?

For USA Today, it is a matter of hard work with little purchase. Only 36 percent of USA Today newspapers are actually purchased for the $1 price as many of its papers are given to hotels and student distribution services, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. One may say that the paper is still being purchased, which is true, but the paper is sold at a discounted rate. The newspaper is losing money because of amenities.

Yet, USA Today has taken advantage of the newspaper’s online opportunity. Online “general news” readership increased 12 percent in April 2012 and USA Today saw 34.1 additional viewers, according to a report by comScore, an independent rating service. In addition to this, general news readership hit an all-time high in April as, “nearly five out of every six U.S. Internet users,” used an online news service.

I am split.

I want to say that progressive journalism ought to be the dominant paradigm; then again, you are reading this in print today. I presume that it is the fear of every nationalist journalist that he or she will walk into work and find that it has fell to the same fate as the Times-Picayune. I hope that we all rebound and the newspaper is once again “white, black and read all over.”

Joe Kieklak is the opinion editor. He is a sophomore philosophy and political science/ journalism- news/editorial major.

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Ashley Flippin Staff Columnist Have you ever wondered if your parents have a favorite child? Well, Buzz Bishop’s children have proof.

Bishop, a Canadian blogger who writes under the name “Dadcamp,” recently wrote a blog post about the unconventional start to his family and his two sons, ages 5 and 3.

Bishop details the sudden start to his family when his girlfriend of two months became pregnant with their first child in a post titled “Not Every Guy Leaves: The Time My Girlfriend Got Pregnant.”

To round out his “first came baby, then came love” story, Bishop finished his post with these controversial words: “If I were to be absolutely honest, my older son is my favorite of the two. He and I are adventurous partners in crime, and I can’t imagine life without him.

He was an accident waiting to happen, and I’m so glad it did.”

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The things I bring to my parents’ lives are different than that of my siblings. We all have different memories together and relate to our parents in different ways.

My oldest sister and I take after my dad, while my brother and younger sister take after my mom. But that is not grounds for me to suspect they favor any of my siblings over me.

My parents, like most, would never verbalize favoritism or even suggest such a thing. They understand the importance of loving all of their children equally and making each of us feel loved and valued.

Our self-worth begins to develop as children, and our relationship with our parents is correlated with the way we view ourselves and our place in the world.

I cannot imagine how I would feel if, as a 3-year-old like Bishop’s youngest son, my father took to the Internet to explain why he favors my other sibling to me.

If our time in college has taught us anything, it is that what is on the Internet is there to stay. This means poor little Charlie Bishop is bound to find out one day that his father does, in fact, have a favorite.

Sorry, buddy, it is not you.

The stage is set for Bishop and his eldest son to have a complicated relationship in

which Zacharie strives for his father’s approval and constantly feels he comes up short as he tries to maintain his spot as the favorite.

Charlie, on the other hand, will spend his teenage years in rebellion and break from the shadow of his brother at first chance. All the while, he will resent his father for proclaiming his favoritism to the world.

As college students, most of us are not yet parents. However, we are friends, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters and employees. While we may not yet fully understand the consequences of publicly announcing a favorite child like Bishop did, we should understand the effect our words have on others and ourselves.

Today, let us remember that no matter what the situation, we cannot take our words back. Bishop, though he may not know it now, has likely done irreversible damage to the relationship he has with his youngest son.

In our digital age, words published on the Internet there here to stay. Unlike Bishop, we should take a moment to consider the repercussions of sharing too much and reflect on who may be reading our words in the future.

Ashley Flippin is a staff columnist. She is a senior English- creative writing major.

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In response to the controversy sparked by these words, Bishop wrote a second post titled “Admit It, You Have a Favorite Kid. I Do.” In this second and arguably more controversial post, “Dadcamp” admits he fell in love with his eldest son, Zacharie, when Zacharie was 26 months old.

The post reads: “My choosing Zacharie as my favorite is not about ‘playing favorites,’ or ‘preferential treatment’ when I’m parenting. I don’t let Zacharie get away with anything because he’s my first pick, I just .. y’know .. like him better.”

Oh, I am glad he cleared that up.

As the third child of four, I know what sibling rivalry is like, especially when siblings are arguing over their parents’ love and attention.

Just last week I brought it to my mother’s attention that she had bought Sarah, my younger sister, more clothes than me in recent months. “You obviously like her more, you always take her shopping!”

Sarah is even jokingly in my mom’s phone as “Sarah My Favorite.” I retaliated by replacing my name with “Ash is Prettiest.”

But never in my 21 years did I actually suspect that my parents preferred Sarah or my two eldest siblings.

We all have our differences.

Bikes, Blues and BBQ was in Fayetteville this weekend, and while I love the rumble I get in my teeth at night, I decided to go home for the weekend. I chose a quiet weekend over a giant, fried turkey leg.

It seems like every semester all the big assignments fall on the same weeks of the calendar, and when the week ends, it is already time to gear up for the next cycle of tests.

So, is there ever time to go home? Some of us may never

go home all semester, much less call or have any contact with our families.

But what kind of impact does that have on a college student? When we grow up, our parents always tell us not to talk to strangers, yet we go to college and are surrounded by them. We turn 18 and go off to college, and we think we are all grown up. If we go by the book, we are grown up. Any advice that comes from our parents is outdated or delusional. It is an embarrassment to talk to them in front of our friends.

But without them, we would not be where we are today, succeeding at whatever it may be.

Children whose parents advise them about alcohol are less likely to develop drinkingrelated problems, according to the National Institutes of Health. Fatherless children are at a higher risk of suicide, drug abuse, teen pregnancy and poor educational performance, says the U.S. Department of

Health and Human Services.

So, when we leave the nest, why would we shut our parents out of our lives?

“Take the time to eat a meal with your children.” “Talk to them.” I have seen the advertisements like this on the television. Just because we are “grown up” does not mean we cannot listen to what our parents have to say anymore. New problems are constantly arising in our lives. Who knows better than someone who has been that age before?

Some of the problems we face are not even a mystery.

Here is a quick test. If you found out your parents were coming to visit you in 30 minutes, what would you do with your place? Would you make your bed? Hide the beer bottles? Take your posters down from the wall? (You never know.)

Seventy percent of teens hide behavior from their parents, according to a McAfee survey. Whatever these issues

may be, hiding them will not solve the problem. If you can consciously determine that your parents would not approve of what you are doing, then you should not do be doing it. If nothing else, a call to your parents is a sensible reminder to make better decisions.

My friend in class told me his mom made him feel guilty, so he went home last weekend; but his friends and he were going to “get into trouble with the bikers” this weekend. I wonder if his mom would join him in getting in trouble with the bikers.

Of course, some of us may live too far away to take a weekend drive home from school, but there are still things you can do. Keep in touch. Call. Send a dove. Whatever it is, the point is to remember where we came from and how we were raised.

Blake Mertens is a staff columnist. He is a senior biochemistry major.

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Procrastination: Why It Happens and How to Stop It

Mason Sams Staff Writer

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senior international relations major sits at his computer. His eyes are tired from spending hours in class, so he rests his head to the side on one hand.

He knows that he has a few chapters in his history book to read, a worksheet to complete for his foreign language course and a paper due in just a couple of days; however, he just can’t seem to get started.

In reality, Connor Gamradt is spending his time on Facebook looking at photos from last weekend’s party and on Reddit searching through pages and pages, clicking each and every link. He is slowly killing his productive potential with every click of the mouse.

“Part of the reason I spend so much time on these sites is because I feel too disorganized to start on anything, so I just don’t start at all,” Gamradt said.

Procrastination is a type of experiential avoidance in which a person avoids thoughts of a heavy workload, stressful emotions and overbearing situations, according to S.C. Hayes, author of “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.”

Even though procrastination is a minor case of experiential avoidance, it is nonetheless important to be mindful when it becomes a problem since there isn’t a pill to make it go away. Students should be aware of when procrastination starts to happen.

A study published in 2007 by Carol Dweck and her team at Columbia University showed that most students who are praised for their intelli-

Mary McCay Staff Photographer UA students are starting to pick up their phones instead of studying. Procrastination has become an issue for many students especially with mid term exams coming up. gence rather than their effort have poor test scores.

The study suggests that students who are “smart” don’t want to attempt more rigorous coursework at the possibility of enduring an embarrassing failure.

So, what happens when these students grow up? How do they adapt to the difficult academic situations that are inevitable in college?

Dweck’s study suggests that the fear of failure means people won’t put in as much effort as they

should on coursework. The only thing left for these students to do is to let their brain go on autopilot and allow the Internet, bad reality TV and sub-par talent shows distract them for an excessive amount of time. Over time, these distractions become a habit, much like junk food or cigarettes.

Now, when the papers start stacking and the tests start coming, students feel they can afford to push it off because, one, someone or other has affirmed their intelligence, and two, there are dis-

UA Photo Club Resumes This Semester

tractions everywhere. Part of the reason instructors give such heavy workloads is to encourage better time-management skills, not to see who is the most intelligent person in class.

Recently, Gamradt has begun to change his habits in an attempt to develop different ways to manage his daily activities. He read up on a seminew time-management technique called the “Pomodoro Technique” in which he breaks down his day minute by minute with a checklist of tasks.

He sets up a timer for 25-minute study or writing sessions, called “pomodoros,” and then takes a 3-to-5-minute break in between activities on the checklist. He then places an “X” next to his task and moves on to the next one.

“I can already see a difference in my productivity,” Gamradt said. “I even found an extension on Google Chrome called ‘StayFocusd’ that only allows me to be on certain websites I designate for an hour a day.”

Students having problems like Gamradt may want to take a few notes from him. The guidelines are simple: First, structure your time with the Pomodoro Technique. Then, once the tasks for the day are done, figure out what causes you to procrastinate, learn to appreciate your hard work and effort, and make sure you turn your studying into a healthy habit.

“It’s a lot like working out or learning an instrument,” Gamradt said. “It takes practice until it develops into something productive.”

Remember, college isn’t about average intelligence. It’s about diligence, time management and quality work. Make sure to spend time wisely, or else these four years will seem like a complete waste of time.

STUDENT PROFILE

A Devotion to Teeth and Primates

Alex Golden Staff Writer

Kris Johnson Staff Photographer Kat Wilson, graduate assistant, speaks at the first UA Photo Club meeting, Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Fine Arts Building.

RSO OF THE WEEK

Student Association Builds

Network for Hindus in the South

Stephanie Ehrler Staff Writer

Delivering someone’s mail that accidentally got sent to the wrong address, allowing a person with less groceries to go before you in line and driving a friend across campus late at night are all examples of good deeds that could affect a person’s karma.

Karma, which is the Hindu law of cause and effect, might have been misconstrued in the 2005 TV series “My Name is Earl.” The Hindu Student Association’s mission is to accurately educate those eager to learn about Hindu culture and religion.

The UA branch of the Hindu Student Association was founded in November 2009. According to the national Hindu Student Association, the missions of the organization are to empower young Hindu adults, to cultivate cross-cultural dialogue and interaction on issues pertaining to Hindus, to improve the level of representation at universities and corporations and to build a network amongst younger Hindus in America.

The first HSA was founded at the University of Texas in Austin. Since then, the organization has expanded to seven universities in the states of Texas and Arkansas.

“A group of students from colleges in Texas felt the need to start an inter-collegiate association geared towards students re-discovering and growing in their Hindu roots,” said Padma Mana, president of HSA. “They started the Hindu Students Association, and the organization has grown from there. Today, HSA has branches in colleges across the nation.”

HSA currently has 30 members, but those interested can join by emailing hsauark@gmail. com.

“Meetings starting this year will be every two

weeks, at which we will present and discuss on different topics and issues in Hinduism,” Mana said. “We usually have one event per semester, along with monthly group trips to the Hindu Temple in Bentonville and community service projects.”

Unlike most organizations on campus, HSA does not have dues to become a student member or any other requirements besides interest in the Hindu religion.

“Come explore HSA,” said Aswini Rajan, HSA historian. “Whether it is the leadership skills, the cultural experience or the social aspects, HSA would love to have new members.”

While the association’s main goal is to grow in their faith, they welcome anyone who is interested in the Hindu religion to join HSA. “HSA is meant to serve as a resource to people of any faith who would like to learn about Hinduism,” Mana said.

Mana said her favorite thing about being a member is religious and intellectual discussions and the personal growth that comes from those two.

With over 19,000 students attending the UA this fall, finding a comfort zone can be challenging. The Hindu Student Association strives to bring interest and faith in the Hindu religion together in a comfortable atmosphere.

“I joined HSA spring semester when I was a freshman in 2010,” Rajan said. “I joined because I wanted to be a part of something and learn more about Hinduism.”

HSA also participates in several Hindu student projects, according to the national website.

The RSO seeks to expose the UA to the unique aspects of the Hindu culture and religion by hosting events that increase awareness and tolerance for Hinduism and all religions as a whole, according to the HSA website.

The UA branch of HSA hosts Garba, which

is an Indian dance, and Taal, which is Indian classical music.

Students can become involved with Hindu culture by getting splattered with brightly colored paints and powder during the festival of Holi. Last April at Wilson Park, students were covered in bright colors and paint while celebrating the new life and energy of spring.

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“Whether it is the leadership skills, the cultural experience or the social aspects, HSA would love to have new members.”

Aswini Rajan HSA historian

to many people. Through HSA, students have grown in their faith while creating friendships that began with a common belief.

“I love getting to know other members. I have become great friends with all them,” Rajan said. “It is great to get involved in organizing events, and I have learned so many skills by being a leader in HSA.” With school, work and social lives, finding time for religious involvement can sometimes be challenging. HSA brings its members together culturally while inspiring them to stay involved and spread the knowledge of Hinduism across campus.

“For me personally, HSA was an outlet to express my upbringing and sometimes dis-attachment to Hinduism,” Mana said. “I could talk to other Indian students who grew up in the States and see how they felt about this religion that was, in a sense, handed down to us.”

Most patients would be startled and possibly embarrassed if their dentists could tell exactly what they have been eating by looking at their teeth. That may be the case if their dentists have a background in biological anthropology.

For his honors thesis, senior biological anthropology major Charles Withnell is researching the dental microwear of shrews in order to show that shrews reconstruct the paleo environment.

Confocal microscopes have an optical system designed to reject background from matter outside the focal plane and allow images of different sections of a specimen to be obtained.

Withnell uses a confocal microscope to look at the texture of teeth to try to tell what kinds of food the shrews have eaten. For example, hard food creates pits in teeth.

“We are looking at living species to see what they did in the past,” he said.

Withnell has worked with Peter Ungar, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology, for the past year and a half. Withnell said he has been very helpful.

“He’s the world’s leading teeth guy … he knows his stuff,” Withnell said.

Anthropologist Jane Goodall will be giving her lecture, “Making a Difference: An Evening with Jane Goodall,” at Barnhill Arena Oct. 5.

She is known for her environmental and humanitarian work, and her work with chimpanzees in particular.

“It’s intense … It takes a special type of person to do what she does,” Withnell said.

Withnell said that although he admires Goodall’s willingness to live in exposing, uncomfortable environments in order to study animals, he would not like to do the same type of research.

“I’m more of a dead animal kind of guy,” he said.

He said that to study animals such as chimpanzees, one has to follow them, as they are constantly on the move. They can also be dangerous, and the researcher usually has to live in uncomfortable conditions while mostly cut off from communication with the outside world.

Withnell studied abroad in Tanzania last summer with Ungar and saw the chimpanzees Goodall had worked with.

“When we were in Africa, we joked around about her coming here,” he said.

Little did he know, she would be coming to speak a few months later.

Withnell said he also traveled to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. to get molds to make casts for teeth.

Withnell said he was always interested in anthropology growing up and wanted to study primates. He plans to go to graduate school and travel to South Africa to continue his research, he said.

Withnell is considering the University of Chicago and Duke University for his future.

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26 “The Ballad of John and __” 27 Men 28 Bearded flower 32 Barely get, with “out” 34 Added a chip to the pot 36 Maine college town 37 Bearded fairy tale trio 40 Cartographer’s book 41 Oven setting 42 Word in most Commandments 43 Finger-on-hot-stove reaction 44 Sinister 45 Neuter, as a horse 47 Seasonal potable 48 Stand the test of time

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6 Word with hatch or prize 7 Gin fizz fruit 8 Broadway awards 9 “The Tao of Pooh” author Benjamin 10 Either of two Monopoly sqs.

11 Venus de __ 12 Little chirp 15 Makes a mad dash 17 Western wolf 21 Wasn’t honest with

23 Gives a thumbs-up 24 Second of two bell sounds 27 Caught wind of 28 Outlet store abbr.

29 Tournament in which you play everyone else at least once 30 Facts, briefly 31 Tender-hearted 32 Site for cyberbidders 33 Flier on a string 35 Trinidad’s partner 36 Made goo-goo eyes at 38 Murphy’s __ 39 Communicate with hand gestures 44 Leafy hideaway 46 Charlie Brown’s tormentor 47 Hosiery material 48 Draw forth 49 Bring to mind 50 Tennis great Bjorn 51 Like some doctorate seekers’ exams 52 Queue 53 “Livin’ La Vida __”: Ricky Martin hit 54 “In memoriam” writeup 56 Viewed 59 Superman nemesis Luthor 60 Allow

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VOLLEYBALL

Hogs Defeat LSU in Four Sets

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SOCCER

Hogs Shutout

by Florida for Third SEC Loss Tamzen Tumlison Staff Writer

Kris Johnson Staff Photographer Freshman Liz Fortado (left) and senior Amanda Anderson (right) block against the Tiger offense sunday in a win over LSU.

Liz Beadle Staff Writer The Razorbacks extended their winning streak to four over the weekend, beating LSU (6-9, 2-4 in Southeastern Conference) in four sets Sunday afternoon.

The Hogs are now 13-3 overall and 4-1 in SEC play.

The Razorbacks also defeated Auburn this weekend, beat-

ing them in three sets Friday night at Barnhill Arena.

“It’s not easy to get one and it’s even harder to get two,” head coach Robert Pulliza said of the Razorbacks’ weekend. “It’s always hard to close out the weekend and get a sweep but we did that today and I’m proud of our kids for that.”

“We know when we play together we do great,” senior Roslandy Acosta said. “And that’s the key for us – to just

play together.”

The Hogs lost the first set against LSU 25-21 before winning the next three sets.

“We were just a little bit off in that first set,” Pulliza said. “And part of that was what LSU was doing to keep us off. We did some bad things, and against a good team that’ll get you a loss most of the time.”

The Razorbacks’ hitting average was .167 to the Tigers’ .323. However, Ar-

kansas had more kills and more digs in set one, but just couldn’t come up with the win.

“After that first set, we all just came together, remained calm and realized we just need to keep doing our jobs and playing together,” senior Amanda Anderson said.

The second set was very close throughout, the two teams tying several times

see SETS page 8

The Arkansas soccer team suffered a 4-0 shutout loss against the No. 24 Florida Gators Sunday after dishing out a 1-0 shutout win against Tennessee on Friday.

The Arkansas defense and sophomore goalkeeper Sam Wolf held off Tennessee’s offense for the duration of the game, but they couldn’t keep Florida’s offense from scoring three goals out of five attempted shots in the first 45 minutes Wolf had saved two shots before Florida’s Annie Speese scored from 15 yards out off of a pass from Maggie Rodgers in the 17th minute of play to put Florida up 1-0.

Twelve minutes later, a free kick sent the Gators up 2-0. Florida’s Christen Westphal took the kick at midfield and sent it inside the box to Holly King, who shot the goal from the 4-yard line.

Arkansas tried to put points on the board with passes between junior forward Yvonne DesJarlais and sophomore forward Jeriann Okoro in the 25th minute and between Okoro, fresh-

man forward Ashleigh Ellenwood and senior forward Allie Chandler in the seventh minute, but to no avail.

Florida struck again at 36:24 when Annie Bobbitt passed to McKenzie Barney, sending her through the defense for a one-on-one shot against Wolf. Her shot landed in the left corner of the net and cushioned the Gator’s lead 3-0.

“We fixed some things for the second half and put in the energy,” head coach Colby Hale said. “It was 45 minutes for us to play a quality team and get better.”

The Razorbacks kicked off the second half with an early shot attempt from Okoro. The shot flew over the net, though, leaving Arkansas scoreless.

Wolf blocked a shot from inside the box with the help of redshirt freshman defender Margaret Power in minute 62.

In the 78th minute, Ellenwood split a pair of defenders to take a shot, but the ball went too far to the left. One minute later, Wolf made a save on a shot from 10 yards away.

In the final 10 minutes of play, Arkansas set themselves

see SOCCER page 8

FOOTBALL

Arkansas’ Struggles Continue in College Station Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer

Arkansas’ many struggles continued Saturday in a 5810 loss to Texas A&M in College Station, Texas.

The loss was their worst road loss since Sept. 17, 2005, when they lost at No. 1 Southern California 70-17. It also dropped Arkansas’ record to 1-4 overall, their worst start to a season since 1992, which was their first season in the Southeastern Conference.

After giving up a touchdown on the first possession of the game, the Razorbacks bounced back, scoring 10 points and taking an early lead.

Senior running back Knile Davis scored on a 64-yard screen pass from senior quarterback Tyler Wilson. The next drive for Arkansas resulted in a field goal by junior kicker Zach Hocker.

By quickly responding, the Hogs displayed the ability to

stay focused on the road and answer their opponent.

However, this focus quickly disappeared as the Aggies rattled off 51 unanswered points. During this stretch, the Hogs allowed three field goals, two passing touchdowns, three rushing touchdowns and a fumble return for a touchdown.

The defense just could not stop Texas A&M’s redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was 29-for38 with 453 yards and three touchdowns through the air and had 104 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries.

Manziel had ample time in the pocket to find open receivers or open holes to run.

Much like the ULM game, the Hogs weren’t able to bring him down, even after they got a hand on him.

Not only must the Hogs pressure the quarterback, they must also wrap him up and tackle him to prevent him from making plays. Kiehl Frazier of Auburn, Bo Wallace of Ole Miss, and Conner

Shaw of South Carolina are all quarterbacks that can run around and make plays.

Arkansas’ secondary also didn’t perform very well.

Manziel’s 453 passing yards topped his previous singlegame high by 159 yards and broke a Texas A&M singlegame record.

Defensive backs for the Razorbacks seemed confused at times. Senior wide receiver Ryan Swope hauled in an 80yard touchdown on a relatively easy seam route. When they laid off the receivers, Texas A&M chewed up yards on quick, short passes.

With an already thin secondary, freshman safety Rohan Gaines and senior cornerback Kaelon Kelleybrew were injured during the game.

The teams left on Arkansas’ schedule are sure to see this and will target young, inexperienced players, such as freshmen Will Hines and Dayvon McKinney and sophomore Alan Turner.

see A&M page 8

Ryan Miller Staff Photographer Under head coach John L. Smith, the Razorbacks have started the 2012 season 1-4. This is the first time the Razorbacks have started 1-4 since 1992.

COMMENTARY

Long Has Brought Wins to More Than Football Haley Markle Asst. Sport Editor

Fans tend to judge the university’s athletic department by one program. Football is the most popular sport in the country, and especially the most popular in the Southeastern Conference. There-

fore, when the football program is not winning, there is a sense among fans that the sky is falling.

When things start to go badly, fans start looking for someone to blame. Blame gets directed toward players, coaches and even the athletic director. It certainly lies with each of these groups of people, but those members of the fan base calling for Athletic Director Jeff Long’s head should probably have their own brains examined.

For starters, an athletic director is responsible for much more than the football program. He is charged with the task of making sure that 17 different athletic programs

have every opportunity to have success. So far, Long has done a pretty good job.

Long was named the Athletic Director January 1, 2008. Since then, he has made Arkansas sports among the premier programs in the nation.

The volleyball program is a great example of one Long has helped grow. In the 200708 season, the team went 1219. In July 2008, Long hired Robert Pulliza to replace Chris Poole, who had left for Florida State.

In Pulliza’s first season, the team took a step back with a record of 7-23. Since then, the team has improved each year and has not had a season

with less than 13 wins. This year, the team is 12-3 with many games left to be played.

Long is also responsible for bringing men’s basketball head coach Mike Anderson back to Fayetteville. In Anderson’s first season, the team did not have the success that many fans would have liked and missed the NCAA tournament. But they did beat ranked Michigan early in the season, foreshadowing that there is hope for the upcoming season and seasons to come that Anderson will be able to return the team to its former glory.

Of course, Long’s biggest hire, and the first one he made at Arkansas, was that of

former head football coach Bobby Petrino. Long might be even better known for his firing of Petrino. At the time, most fans were behind him. They wanted to protect the integrity of the football program, the athletic department and the University.

However, now that the team is losing, many fans have changed their minds.

Some would even like to make a mockery of the UA by rehiring Petrino. Anybody holding out hope that Petrino is back on the sidelines for next season really needs to let that go. It’s not going to happen.

Long did the right thing in letting Petrino go, and he

made the best decision that was available to him in hiring interim head coach John L. Smith. Now he is working, and will continue to work, to find a long-term solution.

I have complete faith that Long will make the right hire.

I would imagine that he hates to see the Razorbacks lose as much as the fans do, and he will do everything in his power to return the program to the glory and success it had started to enjoy.

Haley Markle is the assistant sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @ UATravSports.

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SOFTBALL

Razorbacks Defeat Crusaders Jessie McMullen Staff Writer

The Arkansas softball team opened its 2012 fall season with a 7-1 win against Evangel University.

Freshman pitcher Kelly Young started for the Razorbacks. The right-hander from Madison, Miss., pitched through five innings for her first career start.

Young struck out seven batters and allowed one run on three hits.

Sophomore pitcher Kimmy Beasley finished the game. She struck out two batters in the top of the sixth and three batters in a row in the seventh inning to close out the game. She did not allow a hit.

Arkansas swung the bat well with eight hits on the game.

Freshmen Claire Clark and sophomore Devon Wallace led the team with two hits each. Wallace was last season’s Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year.

Clark hit a double in the second inning and a single in the fourth. Wallace picked up

a double to right-center in the third inning and a two-run double to right in the sixth inning.

Junior outfielder Jennifer Rambo picked up a two-run home run in the fifth inning to score Amanda Geile, who reached base on a double.

Sophomore outfielder Alyssa Bass picked up the first hit of the game in the first inning with a single to left. Stephanie Canfield, a freshman outfielder, singled to center at the beginning of the fifth inning to start a rally for the Razorbacks.

Catcher Jaymee Gee singled

Mary McKay Staff Photographer The Razorback softball team opened the season with a 7-1 win against Evangel University at Bogle Park Friday.

to center in the bottom of the sixth that would start up another rally for the team.

The Razorbacks did well defensively against the Crusaders. The Hogs recorded zero errors and allowed only one run after allowing Evangel to reach base eight times throughout the game.

The Crusaders’ run came in the top of the fifth inning when Bethany Bacon doubled to right and Rachel Rhoten came in to pinch run. Rhoten scored from third on a single from Katie Tollefson.

The game showed that the Razorbacks have a young yet strong team for this upcoming season.

The Razorbacks roster is made up of only four seniors, eight juniors, five sophomores and ten freshmen.

After starting a freshman pitcher, the team then put in a sophomore to take over. Beasley had an outstanding freshman season for the Hogs. Last season, she was SEC Freshman of the week twice and was also named to the SEC All-Freshman Team. Beasley picked up huge victories over No.1 California, then-No. 7 Baylor, No. 3 Alabama, No. 11 Georgia and Kentucky. Beasley might be a huge factor for the Hogs again in the upcoming season.

The top two hitters during the game were a freshman and sophomore, which showed that the Razorbacks have young depth on both sides of the spectrum — hitting and defense.

The team is composed of many underclassmen, but they are proving not only that they have potential for a great season but also that the future of the program looks bright.

SETS continued from page 7 during the set. The final tie of the set was at 21 before the Razorbacks pulled away to win the set 25-21.

“In the second set we were able to regather, gain some momentum, then after the break we came out and looked like the Arkansas team I expected us to be,” Pulliza said.

Razorback hitting improved dramatically in the second set, from the .167 in the first set to a .323. This was largely thanks to Anderson, Acosta and Janeliss Torres-Lopez who had 14, 15 and 15 kills respectively on the match.

“I’m very proud of all of those three guys, in terms of scoring they did a great job for us,” Pulliza said. “Different people keep stepping up on different nights and it’s a collective effort.”

“I knew we could do it, we’re a good team,” TorresLopez said. “Our team needed us today and we came ready to play.”

The third and fourth sets

were controlled by the Razorbacks. In the third set, the Razorbacks hit a .314 to the Tigers’ .189. The Razorbacks won the third set 25-20 before dominating the Tigers in the fourth set to win 25-15.

Raymariely Santos had 47 assists on the day, as she made sure the ball was distributed where it needed to go.

“She’s doing some really good things right now,” Pulliza said of Santos. “She’s a mature leader for us and she knows offensively what needs to happen.”

The Hogs had 66 kills to LSU’s 47 and had 54 digs to the Tigers’ 42.

Next up for the Hogs is a trip to Gainesville to play Florida, the team that has given the Razorbacks their only SEC loss this year.

“That game is not over,” Torres-Lopez said of their competition with Florida this year. “We didn’t finish it last time, and we’re ready to go down there.”

SOCCER continued from page 7 up with multiple scoring opportunities, including a foul with a free kick and two corner kicks.

The Razorbacks had a handball in the last minute of play, giving Florida a penalty kick. Tatiana Perez scored the final goal for the Gators in the right corner of the net.

“We put extraordinary mental and physical effort and energy into the game on Friday,” said Hale. “We came out a touch flat and paid for it. Florida is an excellent team. They move the ball and we got caught chasing it.”

Florida came out of the game with 15 total shots,

eight of which were on goal.

Arkansas had five shots.

Arkansas’ record went down to 5-6-1 overall and 2-3-1 in the league.

The Razorbacks are back home this weekend for two more games. Vanderbilt visits Razorback Field 7 p.m.

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A&M continued from page 7 Offensively, the Razorbacks moved the ball well, gaining 515 total yards, but mistakes cost them points.

They fumbled five times, losing one of them, and Wilson threw two interceptions.

On the season, Arkansas now has a -13 turnover margin.

Davis had his best game of the season, rushing for 65 yards and gaining 64 yards and a touchdown through the air. These numbers, though, are marred by his three fumbles. He could not hold on to the ball. Against SEC opponents, this could prove to be problematic if he doesn’t fix it.

While the offensive line only allowed one sack, Wilson still got knocked around in the backfield. Texas A&M had five quarterback hurries, but even when Wilson didn’t rush his throw, he ended up being hit as he threw the ball.

Although Wilson has proved his toughness time and time again, he is still human. Against ULM, he suffered a concussion and missed the second half of the game, as well as the Alabama game. If he continues to be hit repeatedly, odds are he’ll get injured again.

Tulsa is first in the country in sacks with 26 through five games, and South Carolina is tied for second with 22 through five games. Kentucky and Ole Miss are also in the top 25 in sacks, each with 13 through five games.

The offensive line is going to need to improve greatly, or Wilson may be on the ground for the rest of the season.

Senior wide receiver Cobi Hamilton turned in another solid game, catching 11

passes for 162 yards. His 591 yards this season are fifth best in the country.

With his performance the last two games, teams will pay extra attention to him. Other receivers, such as junior Brandon Mitchell, freshman Mekale McKay and junior Javontee Herndon, will have to make plays to help ease the pressure on Hamilton.

Special teams improved slightly against Texas A&M. Hocker missed a 38-yard field goal in the third quarter, but he sent two out of three kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks and averaged 64.7 yards per kickoff.

Senior punter Dylan Breeding had another good game, averaging 48 yards per punt and pinning one inside the 10-yard line. His season average of 45.5 yards per punt is the 13th best in the country.

Senior Dennis Johnson finally got something going in the return game, returning two kickoffs for 56 yards. His 31-yard return in the first half broke the SEC record for career kickoff return yards.

Also, Arkansas’ punt coverage was able to limit Texas A&M senior Dustin Harris to -7 punt return yards on two attempts. He had been averaging 20.4 yards per return.

The special teams will need a similar performance against South Carolina and LSU, which both have punt returners in the top 20 for punt return yards.

Saturday’s 58-10 loss was another disappointing outing in many aspects, but the Hogs must use it as a learning tool and improve on their mistakes before traveling to Auburn Saturday.

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