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Staff Report Students, Family Weekend is here. That means cleaning dorms and apartments in preparation for parents, planning family-friendly activities throughout Fayetteville, showing parents around campus, and the construction, going out to dinner at some of the local eateries, maybe some shopping and showing some love for the Hogs “family style.” Family Weekend, which is planned by the Division of Student Affairs, is an opportune time to reconnect with parents and show them all the UA and Fayetteville has to offer. Realistically, most students are like Lori Schubach, junior biochemistry major. “It’s kind of weird when my parents come up here because I don’t know what to do with them. I mean, it’s not like us, as students, do a lot of family activities,” she said. “I didn’t even know they offered family activities through the university.” Lucky for Schubach, there is a whole department on campus that plans dozens of events for her and her parents to partake in —literally a list of family-oriented activities. Before her parents even arrived, she knew she needed to do. “The only time I do clean is when they come up here,” she said. Odds are, that statement applies to more students than Schubach. It might be considered smart to prepare a living space if the people who help pay for it are coming to see if their investment has been worthwhile. While it’s a terrifying thought to have parents evaluating the worth of their investment in your “future”, don’t give them a reason to think otherwise. While it might not be student’s preferred weekend activity, the minds at Student Affairs have made sure you aren’t at a loss. Even if it isn’t your first choice, your parents made you, so do them a courtesy and be their host as you show them a day-in-the-life of a Generation Y college student.
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Hot Summer Brings Hot Fall Jannee Sullivan Senior Staff Writer
Fayetteville residents can expect a slightly warmer than average fall, following a hotter than average summer, an official said. Information from the National Weather Association’s 90-day forecast shows that Arkansas will likely experience a slightly above normal fall outlook in temperature for the next three months. The precipitation is expected to be average for the area, according to the NWA forecast. This area usually starts cooling down around Labor Day. “Generally speaking, in
Fayetteville, we get our first decent cold front coming in around Labor Day,� said Professor John Hehr, Fulbright climatologist. “I had a grad student who did a study on when we get our first cold front; it’s around Labor Day weekend.� The particularly hot summer has little to do with any major climate trends; it was simply a high pressure system that just sat above the area from mid-June until late August, he said. Sophomore food sciences major Julie Isenhower said she noticed that the summer heat seemed to stay longer than usual. “It didn’t feel hotter than other summers, necessarily,� she said. “I remem-
ber in previous summers it seemed like it was only in the 100s (degrees) for a couple of weeks or so in August. This year it got hot and stayed that way starting in June through August.� She can barely even remember a day when the high was below 95 degrees this summer, she said. It is a little unusual to have two hot summers in a row, but Fayetteville has had especially hot summers in years past, he said. The summer and fall of 1988 was one of these abnormally hot periods. The high on Sept. 10, 1988 was 90 degrees, while this year the high on Sept. 10 was 63 degrees, according to the
Farmers’ Almanac website. Data from as far back as 1945 show that it’s not unusual to have a high of 90 degrees in early September. The high temperature around this time varies from about 90 degrees to 60 degrees with a median of around 75-80 degrees, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. The recent rainfall could help cool the area down. A lack of precipitation, which Fayetteville residents may have noticed this summer, contributes to higher temperatures. The clouds also serve to cool it down a little because the sun’s rays are not trapped and heating up the ground, Hehr said.
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Student enrollment at the UA increased by 5.8 percent as compared to last year and beat numerous records, officials said. The UA has a total of 23,537 students this year, according to a news release. Last year, 23,199 students attended the UA, according to the Office of Institutional Research. This year’s total enrollment also set a new record for the UA, according to the release. “This reflects on the quality of students we have and quantity,� said John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for University Relations. Some universities that experience an increase in enrollment have a decline in preparedness of students and thus have a drop in the academic quality of the school. This is not the case for the UA, Diamond said. We are getting an increase of quality and quantity, he said. “We are setting records. Just this year, more than 32 percent of the freshman
class was in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. More than 17 percent had an ACT score of 30 or higher,� Suzanne McCray, vice provost for Enrollment Management and dean of Admissions, said in a statement. This year, there are 20,349 undergraduate students. This is the first time there have been more than 20,000 undergraduates on campus, according the release. The number of freshmen increased by 2.8 percent. Other areas of enrollment also increased this year. “Minority student enrollment increased by 10.4 percent since last year. Minority students now make up 17.2 percent of the total student population,� according to the release. Latino student enrollment had the largest growth with a 21.8 percent increase. Also for the first time at UA, more undergraduates are women than men. Men make up 50.3 percent of the total enrollment and women make up 49.7 percent of the total enrollment, according to the press release.
The Study Abroad Fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Connections Lounge of the Arkansas Union; students will be presented with potential opportunities and places they can study across the globe. “Students can go to almost any country they wish to, excluding those that are not deemed currently stable,� said Laura Moix, UA study abroad and exchange coordinator. “They are all over the world. We have many different programs, from faculty-led program options to exchange partners to recommended program provider options, and students can
use all of these different options to travel abroad, depending on their needs.� Study abroad is an important part of the UA experience, Moix said. “Last year we had a little over 600 students study abroad during the year: this includes summer, semester and year,� Moix said. “Currently I major in political science, and one of the requirements is to study a foreign language, and since European politics is my concentration, I chose French,� said Iseulle Kim. “Studying abroad influenced me into a more well-cultured person. Surprisingly I had no difficulties. The language was easy and I learned streets the of Paris in two days,� she said.
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!"#$%&'()$*)+& ,$+*-)+.&/0*(&12 Kristen Coppola Sports Editor The UA drama department formed a partnership with TheatreSquared, Fayetteville’s professional theater. The agreement made formal a longstanding relationship between the two institutions, officials said. In six seasons, T2 had provided an outlet for UA drama students, faculty and alumni to gain professional experience. With the start of the fall 2012 semester and the seventh season of T2, the theater will now serve as a “learning laboratory and a professional training outlet” for the drama department, according to a UA announcement. “It makes it policy to a certain extent, which means a lot,” said Martin Miller, managing director of T2. “It makes it something we have both openly said we are interested in preserving and growing.” As a part of the partnership, theater appreciation students are required to go to a T2 play for class. Also, visiting assistant professor Bob Ford is receiving support from the UA to invest time as the artistic director of T2. “Certainly with the new stipulation that students who take the appreciation need to come to a T2 production, that has automatically brought more students in,” Miller said. “What’s more valuable about it is for the students that are working on productions and the students that do come to the theater (Ford) is able to
take more time connecting the experience for them.” Another part of the agreement was advertising trade-out between the University Theatre and T2. When the University Theatre is running a production, T2 will display promotions at Nadine Baum Studios and vice versa, Ford said. “They’re allies in that regard, too,” Ford said. Other than bolstering the exposure of T2, the dual role of Ford helps to recruit interested students to become involved with the theater on stage or behind the scenes. “The familiarity that we get from being on campus and being involved in their education process allows us to create those links in a way that we wouldn’t be able to do if were completely just relying on someone else to funnel those students to it,” said Morgan Hicks, director of education and program development at T2 and visiting instructor at UA. The partnership began after Miller met with Robin Roberts, dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences. “I reached out to Dean Roberts in the Fulbright College to see if we could meet to chat, and we had lunch together,” Miller said. “In that way, I guess I made the overture. “To be honest it seemed like she had either been waiting for me to call or about to call us because she had a whole list of ideas and was extremely enthusiastic about tightening our ties.” Leaders at T2 are looking into the future of the partnership, which may grow in the
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future to allow students to get college credit for internships at T2 or to allow T2 to award candidacy points to students interested in joining a union. “It gives them an advantage going into the professional career that they wouldn’t have otherwise,” Hicks said of awarding candidacy points to the unions. “The door is open to those conversations in a way that they weren’t really before because we hadn’t formally heard back from the university that they’re interested in pursuing those things.” Miller also said that college credit could be an option for student internships. “We’re very interested in that,” Miller said of providing credit for internships. “We’ve done it a couple of times on a project by project basis. I think that we’re all interested in being able to offer credit through crew positions at T2. “It’s all a question to what extent student interest exceeds the four credit opportunities in the university theater department,” he said. “If it gets to the point that there students are interested in doing crew or working on a production or even working on sort of the producing aspect of making theater, then I think we’ll be able to offer more opportunities because they’ll be looking for venues for those students to work.” The relationship is exemplified with the T2 production “Noises Off,” which runs through Sept. 23. Eight UA students and 11 alumni are on the cast and crew. Hicks directs the production and is an alumna as well as a visiting instructor.
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No Problem Too Large, Look for ASG Changes
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The first ASG meeting took place Sept. 18 and while the session was “up to par,” we expect more from future meetings. It is not to say that our ASG had a bad meeting, but we expected more from an ASG built of leaders who claim to be different from the years’ before them. ASG Senate meetings are supposed to mean more than most RSO meetings. ASG represents all RSOs as ASG is the head of an umbrella organization that is — the RSO. Yet, as the Traveler reported, the meeting was more focused on committee nominations that legislation. We did not expect this meeting to be without legislative formalities and procedures, which included the nominations for committees. However, we did expect a more productive meeting concerning what legislation would be introduced. There are returning leaders that could have used this first meeting to set an example for the “freshmen.” We are pleased with the ASG Chair of Senate, Mike
Norton, for two reasons. First, Norton introduced legislation. Both items of new business, The ASG Senate Standing Rules Act and the ASG Senate Modernization Act, will help ASG reach the organization’s enduring goals to serve students by creating a standard to hold our student government to. Second, Norton assured students that no problem is too small to be fixed on this campus. With so much construction happening on the Hill, it is often easy to forget about the little things. We implore ASG senators to follow Norton’s idea that nothing is too small to be changed on this campus. Norton could not be more right. Every student can make a change on campus and we hope to see this out of our student government. We hope that senators will look at more at the potential changes that can be made at UA than the titles on his or her résumé. Each senator made promises in his or her platforms that thousands of students voted on. Now, it is time to act on those promises and serve the constituencies that senators were elected to represent.
Enrollment Report Shows Increase Editorial Board The Arkansas Traveler
The 11th day report, with details of enrollment and student demographics, shows progress in Chancellor G. David Gearhart’s goal to be one of the top 50 public research universities by 2021. The report is the UA response to a statewide requirement that colleges and universities take data of student enrollment. “We are setting records. Just this year, more than 32 percent of the freshman class was in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. More than 17 percent had an ACT score of 30 or higher. Thirty-seven percent had a high school GPA of 3.75 or higher,” said Suzanne McCray, vice provost for En-
rollment Management and dean of Admissions. A common saying among Arkansans is, “Thank God for Mississippi.” Traditionally, this maxim was used to take pressure off Arkansans’ shoulders when best efforts failed in the legislature. Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe gave a speech in Conway three years ago where he pledged to never have to say, “Thank God for Mississippi,” again. Gov. Beebe might never have to use the saying again as UA continues unparalleled progress and school prestige. Once again, the UA enrollment record was surpassed and these are not underachieving students. Now we need to focus on keeping these students enrolled at UA.
Traveler Quote of the Day [The record number of student enrollment] reflects on the quality of students we have and quantity.
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Scrap the Victim Mentality in Class Shawnya Wethington Staff Columnist
The day of the first test marks a pivotal moment in classroom dynamics. Test day signifies the end of the honeymoon period. School isn’t new anymore; you can’t get by with excuses or warnings. You soon find out how much – or how little – you know. Armed with a pencil, you have just a single class period to show the extent of your classroom effort. The first test permanently changes students’ views of the course. During the class period before my first test, my professor predicted that some students would see their test scores and suddenly dislike her. They’d say how awful a teacher she was, or how the class was just terrible and how they won’t ever need to know the information. People tend to base the worthiness of things on their ability to do them. Everybody knows someone who storms off every time they lose a game. They’re the people who angrily mutter about how stupid the game is and how it doesn’t matter. Then they’ll suggest doing something else, something that they are good at. Classes too are judged by students’ success in them. The quality and worthiness of a
class is directly proportional to how easy it is for students. Ratemyprofessor.com is a website where students give professors scores based upon different categories, including easiness, and rank them on overall quality. After I found the UA on the ratemyprofessor website, the very first page that popped up was a list of professors with last names beginning with an A. I tallied the easiness scores for the professors rated poor, average and good quality. The professors with a good rating were also the easiest, with an average score of 3.76 (out of a 5.0). Next were the average professors, with their mean easiness score being 2.94. The poor quality professors also had the lowest level of easiness, with a 2.82 average. Likewise, the professors with last names beginning with N were ranked in the same order. While my little study is far from conclusive, it does show a certain tendency to favor easy classes. Students think that when a class is difficult, the professor is to blame. However, this isn’t necessarily true. Most people don’t like to admit failure. They don’t like to admit that something is their own fault. People fall into a “victim” fallacy where they don’t believe that they’re
responsible for things going poorly. Instead of taking the blame, they find ways to pin their incompetence upon circumstance and chance. “It takes guts and courage to take responsibility for your own actions, to stop hiding behind the ‘victim’ mentality,” according to the UpgradeReality blog, a personal development and self-improvement blog. If you’re not happy with your test scores, put in some effort now. Don’t blame the professors for having a hard class or being a bad teacher if you never prepared yourself or if you only showed up to class twice this semester. As a student, it’s much easier to think that it’s okay to do poorly on things that “don’t really matter.” To think that the subject which they are failing is something that they’ll “never use again.” It’s not that these things won’t come in handy. Instead, people just don’t know how to do them and they don’t want to take the time to learn. Stop throwing out excuses and complaining. If you’re bad at something, work on it. Don’t handicap yourself by saying that you can’t do something. Practice what you don’t know. “Studies show that practice aimed at remedying weaknesses is a better predictor of expertise than raw number of hours,” said Gary Marcus, a
cognitive psychologist at New York University. “Repeating what you already know is not necessarily the same as efficiently reaching a new level. Most of the practice that people do… yields almost no effect.” If you want to get better, work on what is difficult for you instead of just what you’re good at doing. If something comes naturally, don’t spend as much time working on it. You have to struggle a little before you can improve. Students have been having their first tests these past few weeks. Even if you bomb these tests though, it’s still early in the semester. Keep up with your schoolwork and don’t put things off for the last minute. Study what’s confusing and the concepts you don’t understand. Then you’ll be prepared for next time. However, if you don’t place a particular emphasis on education, you don’t have to study. Nobody will make you. Just don’t complain about your grades when you don’t like what you see. Consequences aren’t inflicted at random. Own up to your effort. Shawnya Wethington is a staff columnist. She is a sophomore English/journalism- news/ editorial major.
Fact vs. Mitt Romney’s Fiction on Income Taxes Editorial Board Kansas City Star Meet Claudine Thomas of Kansas City. In recent years she has been part of the 47 percent or so of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes. That group came screeching into the nationwide political debate this week with the release of a video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney speaking to well-heeled donors at a May fundraiser. Romney analyzed his campaign against President Barack Obama in startling terms: “All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to youname-it,” Romney said. “These are people who pay no income tax. ... 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. ... (M)y job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them that they should
take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Romney was speaking to his amen corner, not knowing his blunt comments were being recorded. Even so, his broad brush swept far outside the lines. The Republican presidential nominee has insulted tens of millions of Americans who have legitimate reasons for not paying income taxes. Among their ranks are retired senior citizens, disabled Americans, low-income workers and college students. They are people like Thomas, 82, who was an office worker for Ford and General Motors before going back to school to become a nurse. “I worked all the time my children were growing up,” she says. She paid into Social Security and Medicare, which covers part but not all of her medical expenses. Thomas lives in a modest Brookside-area home, on which she pays a “big hunk” of real estate taxes, close to $3,000 a year. She responsibly pays for her taxes, utilities, food and most other living expenses
with funds from Social Security, a small pension, a 401(k) and a few investments. Thomas is also a passionate traveler. She just returned from a 4,600mile, month-long car trip to the eastern United States. “I love America,” she says. “I love seeing the country.” By Tuesday, Romney conceded some nonpayers support him and some deserve to be exempted from paying, such as retirees and members of the military. This flare-up could actually benefit the country by helping Americans better understand who pays federal income taxes, and why. Several eye-opening facts rolled out this week: —v 60 percent of those who don’t pay income taxes still pay into Social Security and Medicare. Many pay up to 15.3 percent in payroll taxes (including their employers’ share), higher than the 13.9 percent federal tax rate Romney paid in 2010. 22 percent of nonpayers are retirees, like Thomas, often with low or no incomes from taxable sources. The Bush tax cuts, along with other federal rules, have reduced or eliminated the tax
load on millions of people. That includes some of the super-rich, plus low-income households that use the Earned Income Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit to legally avoid paying income taxes. Romney’s derogatory comments swept up many of his Republican supporters as well — such as the Deep South (a solid GOP bloc), plus older Americans who tend to vote for his party’s nominees. In fact, eight of the 10 U.S. states with the highest percentages of people who don’t pay income taxes are expected to be in the Romney column this November. During his talk to wealthy donors, Romney said that Americans who don’t pay income taxes are “people who will vote for (Obama) no matter what.” That’s simply not true. As the figures above prove, many nonpayers will support him. But not Thomas. She’s a longtime liberal who’d love to have an Obama bumper sticker for her car. This is an editorial from the Kansas City Star that appeared Sept. 19.
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DIY Music Venue Emerges in Fayetteville
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Photos By Dalton Seat Contributing Photographer Above, Hayden Johnson, 22, (left) and Bryce Martin, 22, (middle) perform with their band, “May the Peace of the Sea be With You”. They provide a venue for DIY shows at The Pleasure Chest. Left, Jarred Hennessy, 21, lead guitarist of the band SW/MM/NG, croud surfs during a performance at The Pleasure Chest. The band regularly plays there. Now, music has become a regular weekend activity for Johnson and Martin, so much so that it has become a lifestyle. They found a place located in a remote area and deemed it “The Pleasure Chest.” “We’ve slowly built this community at our shows,” Johnson said. “It’s almost like a family, even though we see new faces every show.” It takes time and effort to run these events. There needs to be someone willing to park cars, someone else collecting donations (which they give to the touring bands post-show), another person selling merchandise and someone to provide maintenance when the night is over. “But it’s easy to find these people,” Martin said. “I have friends who are willing to help out. One of my best friends always helps park cars. It’s kind of like a carnival.” “It looks like it is carefully planned and organized, but it definitely wasn’t planned that
way,” Johnson said. The Pleasure Chest was created because Fayetteville needed a place where students could go to a show and not have to pay a cover charge or be of age. “The bands at the Pleasure Chest are often very good, and the best part is that it is free,” said Haley Cannon, 22-year-old UA alumna. A typical night involves a load of dancing, energy, sweat and camaraderie. Shows usually last from 9-11:30 p.m. to comply with Fayetteville’s sound ordinance. “Every time I go, it seems like a huge crowd of people I’ve never met,” Cannon said, “but their faces seem familiar.” Johnson and Martin have their own band called “May the Peace of the Sea Be with You” that regularly plays. KABF, a Conway radio station, called them “nautical thrash folk.” They have an upcoming show at JR’s on September 22. The band’s drummer still lives in the White House, where he sets up shows.
Johnson and Martin said they have created a sort of underground network of house shows where bands now regularly tour. “Being in a band myself, I’ve found it difficult to find shows in Arkansas,” Martin said, “so we definitely try and make it easier for touring bands in the South.” Johnson and Martin are in contact with house shows in other states and cities surrounding Arkansas. Their next big house show is this Halloween, where punk band Ganji will be headlining. To get in contact with the Pleasure Chest, send an email to locuspocusbooking@gmail.com. For more information on upcoming shows and events, like them on Facebook. There aren’t many DIY shows here in Fayetteville, but the Pleasure Chest is run by professionals. “We want to make Fayetteville a hot spot for touring bands, so we are in this for the long haul,” Johnson said.
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Emily Rhodes Staff Photographer Patton Hughes relaxes in his living room and prepares to listen to a recod, Thuesday, Sept 18. Hughes is an avid record collector and UA student. Basie and Duke Ellington.” Even smaller artists continue to produce physical media. Sound Warehouse carries a selection of CDs and LPs by local artists. The local section has albums by acts like Tyrannosaurus Chicken and Sean James. “The Great Scots are actually gearing up for a huge vinyl release,” White said. “They’re vinyl collectors, so even though it’s a little expensive to record, they want it on a record.” The popularity of vinyl is almost paradoxical in an age of Spotify and iTunes. White has seen plenty of changes in the music industry. In high school, his download of the Guns and Roses song “November Rain” took an hour. During his freshman year of college, he downloaded every single Guns and Roses album in 30 seconds. White doesn’t blame people for downloading music. He still
downloads a vast majority of what he listens to now. The advantage of a vinyl record isn’t in the price or the convenience; it’s in the experience. For young listeners today, White believes the ritual and link to the artist drive them to vinyl. “It’s an old medium, but it’s a novelty for kids today,” White said. “Kids now have been eating musical ‘snacks’ their entire lives — bits and pieces of songs and albums,” White said. “A vinyl record is like a full meal.” Senior Patton Hughes purchased his first vinyl records at a garage sale when he was 15. “I think it all started at a rummage sale at one of the churches in my hometown,” Hughes said. “Surprisingly, there were a lot of classic albums like The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ and Hendrix’s ‘Band of Gypsys.’ They were only
a few bucks each, so I racked up on all I could get.” Hughes, a guitarist and singer for local band The Delta Bends, feels a connection to artists when he puts on their records. He almost exclusively buys vinyl, both new releases and used records. “It’s something physical, something real,” Hughes said. “Buying digital downloads doesn’t hold much significance. You just press a button. There’s nothing that connects you to that piece of art.” Hughes’ collection ranges from older artists like Bruce Springsteen and Townes Van Zandt to Tallest Man on Earth and Japandroids. “I’d say the coolest album, vinyl at least, that I have come across is Bob Dylan and The Band’s ‘Before the Flood,’” Hughes said. “I never knew it existed and just found it one day, and I had to get it. It’s amazing.” Aside from the music, Hughes said the album covers could never compare to an iTunes download. “It’s all art, and it’s all a part of the experience,” Hughes said. The ritual and relationship to the artist and music are the core of Hughes’ passion for records. It’s chance to own something tactile, something tangible, by an artist he respects. You just can’t touch an mp3. “You take it out of the packaging, put it on the player, carefully put the needle on the outer dark ring and let it take you away,” Hughes said.
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Sudoku
Pearls Before Swine
Stephan Pastis
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The Retro Return of Vinyl: Purchases on the Rise Customers come in and out of Fayetteville’s Sound Warehouse, flipping through boxes and racks of vinyl LPs. Ninetynine-cent boxes sit on the floor, filled with albums by artists that haven’t stood the test of time. Classics like Frank Zappa and Louis Armstrong stand proudly in the premium section. “It’s everybody — from junior high kids to old guys who never stopped buying vinyl,” said manager Michael White. No matter the artist or genre, sales of vinyl have picked up. Sound Warehouse, which opened in 1983, has seen an increase in vinyl sales in the last six years, White said. People buy a healthy mix of music, spanning different artists and times, as well as both new and old albums. “Flipping through records is almost therapeutic,” White said. “High school kids come in, having never been to a record store, and just start thumbing through them like the old guys.” Sound Warehouse orders its new records from record companies but relies on people bringing in their old vinyl for resale, as well as garage sales and Craigslist, White said. “Every now and then, you get something totally awesome,” White said. “We’ve had some Nine Inch Nails, and we got a Son House record in. We just got 600 jazz records, stuff like Count
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Mason Sams Staff Writer
College is not without its nightlife. There is another side of undergraduate academia where teachers don’t teach, students don’t learn in a classroom and the lessons of the week are placed aside for weekend celebration. But not every party is the same. In fact, there has been a resurgence of “do-it-yourself” (DIY) parties within the last few years. Hayden Johnson, 22, and Bryce Martin, 22, have been friends since third grade, where they met attending a countryside school in the middle of the Delta. They grew up going to house shows where touring bands stopped by to provide a moment of escape for Delta concert-goers. It was a chance to leave the house, hang out with close friends, meet new people, forget about the outside world and experience live music. When the two moved to Conway for college, they lived in separate houses. Johnson lived next to UCA in a house known as the “White House.” “The White House had a tradition of having shows all the time,” Johnson said. “I wanted to keep that tradition because Conway needed it.” As more bands flew through, the White House became an attraction of sorts to students. Eventually, better and better bands played shows, and they began to tell their friends back at home about the White House. “We loved having shows (at the White House),” Martin said. “It became an addiction.” They had shows from bands across the nation, including Hollows, a nearly all-girl band hailing from Chicago, and Linear Downfall, a band from Alabama. Just recently, Linear Downfall had a chance to play with the Flaming Lips. “There’s always a chance you will see a name at one of our shows a few years down the line,” Martin said. Once they graduated, the two friends had to make an important decision — what to do next? Johnson said they chose to move to Fayetteville for the music.
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Artists Collaborate to Make Eccentric Album Evan Barber Staff Writer
10 out of 10 Every once in a while in the music industry, something so wonderful happens that music fans could never have imagined it on their own. “Love This Giant,” the new collaborative album between St. Vincent’s Annie Clark and Talking Heads’ David Byrne, is one of those wonders. In 2009, Byrne and Clark chanced to meet each other twice at the afterparties for HIV/AIDS benefit concerts put on by Red Hot and Housing Works. After the high acclaim of these concert collaborations (particularly the “Mount Wittenberg Orca” material composed between Bjork and Dirty Projectors), Byrne and Clark were encouraged to flesh out a collaboration of their own. Three years later, “Love This Giant” has emerged, blending New York art-pop, St. Vincent’s sharp and witty allure, the glorious eccentricity of David Byrne and possibly the funkiest brass section on record this year. The horn section is featured extensively on this album, and so much so that it comes to majorly define the color of the album’s palette. The music is always upbeat and always fun; in some part of practically every song, the brass section will lock into a groove and go for several measures, keeping the listening experience playful, driving and funky. On other songs, the horns will sometimes burst in so fervently that suddenly the stereo will fill up with chaos, but all in taste and fanfare. This is a very classy album, but it also does much to invert the idea of civility. Many of the lyrics in the first few songs center around that supposed height of civilized interaction known as the dinner party. In “Dinner for Two,” Byrne conceives a strange sort of affair, one for which the guests all arrive in the dark and then slowly start turning strange and violent: “Harry’s gone to get some appetizers / Now he’s keeping out of range of small arms fire / Nina has a phone, she says he’s working / Now she’s crawling on the floor across the kitchen.” These images of table civility are seen to unravel in various ways just before the fifth song, when Byrne comes in with all the panache and creeping suspense of a 50s detective flick, suddenly declaring, “I am an ape, I stand and wait / A masterpiece, a hairy beast.” Later, on what is probably the album’s best song, “I Should Watch TV,” he sings, “I took a walk down to the
park today / I wrote a song called ‘Just Like You and Me.’” The supposed sophistication of modern society is juxtaposed unapologetically with the common ground of humans and animals. But beyond this one couplet, “I Should Watch TV” offers Byrne at his most wily. David Byrne and Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips are arguably the only two singers today who can really pull off the scientist-neutrallyobserving-humanity angle in their song lyrics. The opening lines to this song are classic Byrne: “I used to think that I should watch TV / I used to think that it was good for me / Wanted to know what folks were thinkin’, to understand the land I live in / And I would lose myself, and it would set me free.” His characteristic musing on mundane activity, which brought him so much fame and love with the Talking Heads, is as quirky here as it was in the 80s. In their well-dressed portrait on the cover of the album, the duo’s faces have been slightly contorted; Clark looks like she’s trying to swallow a wishbone. In the same sense, the album’s lyrical tone starts with civility and gradually pulls back to showcase the strangeness of the table affair before the album moves into broader lyrical territory. One of St. Vincent’s best sections comes in the song “Weekend in the Dust,” where she explores the nature of sexuality: “Once so mysterious, now decoded and used / Now, according to you,” and then later, “Where’s the fun in holding out? / Everyone gets up when you sit down / I don’t get it, just don’t get it.” Another of her best moments comes in the song “Optimist,” which serves up Panglossian optimism in a possibly (quite possibly) ironic, but very sweet chorus nonetheless: “I’m the neon in your daylight / I’m the optimist on 30th street / How it is how it ought to be.” And then “Lazarus” is such a brilliant track; no sort of indie-centric bored-again Christian could have prayed for such a vibrant musical rendering of Biblical images. A simple and playful horn chord progression guides a portrayal of a man named Lazarus who is worked to exhaustion, while Clark sings “cool water” almost hauntingly over the top. The song is perfect and is absolutely one of the best moments on the CD. Simply put, there is so much packed into this CD that to fully uncover it all would require another 700 words. The album is witty, clever, catchy, boasts an incredible array of talent and does so artfully; the album gets a 10 out of 10.
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Garry Trudeau
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ACROSS 1 Former Astros, A’s and Mets manager Art 5 Arabian Peninsula title 9 Nonpaying rail rider 13 “Skip me this time, thanks” 15 Princess once allied with Hercules 16 Each 17 Mattress brand 18 Finished 19 Laugh-a-minute type 20 GM compact that replaced the Cobalt 23 Soft spreads 24 Asserted 25 Teams of fliers 28 Loss by #1, say 29 Opposite of 1-Down 30 B.C. Lions’ org. 33 School-to-be? 34 Does some impromptu singing 36 Mineral in a wall, perhaps 37 Super Bowl highlights, for many 38 Dortmund’s region 39 It’s a wrap
41 “Vanilla Sky” actress 44 Prepare for a bath 47 Hobbyist’s cutting brand 48 Ocean holiday 51 Student aid 52 Beatles meter maid 53 Stirs up 55 DOD branch 56 D’back, for one 57 Diplomat 58 Eyelid concern 59 Part of CBS: Abbr. 60 Email button DOWN 1 Opposite of 29-Across 2 The UAE has been a member of it since 1967 3 Cavalry carriers 4 George’s mom on “Seinfeld” 5 Make public 6 Dessert preceder 7 How backroom deals are conducted 8 Desert dangers 9 Ed of “Apollo 13” 10 __ den 11 Drink in a belt 12 Chose
14 “Don’t throw that away” 21 “Apollo 13” director Howard 22 Sounds near the ears 25 __ of invincibility 26 Song-holding gadget 27 2011 Masters champ Schwartzel 30 Like an etcher’s acid 31 38-Across spouse 32 Emmy winner Kay 34 Aloe targets 35 With a smile on one’s face 38 Speed Wagons, e.g. 39 Stable 40 Lawsuits 41 Frolic 42 Vehicle pulled by bovines 43 72 for 18, often 44 Passing grade that won’t please parents 45 Words of defeat 46 Sordid 49 Seine summers 50 North Carolina school 54 Pink Floyd guitarist Barrett
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TENNIS
Razorbacks Open Season Friday Eric Harris Staff Writer
For the women’s tennis team, last season was filled with peaks and valleys, culminating in a sixth-consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. The team has a whole new look for the upcoming season, which starts tomorrow. The Hogs start the season with the Country Club of Little Rock Invitational this upcoming weekend. The CCLR Invitational will not be the conventional college match. It will be an individually flighted match, meaning that all of the six individuals and three doubles pairings will compete individually in a match each of the three days of the invitational. Four of the six members of the team are freshmen and one of them is a transfer, so this event will be the first meet
as a Razorback for much of the team. “I am excited with it being my first match,” freshman Kimberley-Ann Surin said. Surin is returning from the US Open Juniors tournament in New York where she was one of only three collegiate players in the tournament. Surin lost to Tornado Ali-Black in the first round of play. “Even though I didn’t play my best, it was a good experience,” Surin said.
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The Razorbacks will be led by senior Claudine Paulson, who is the only returning player from last year’s team that made the NCAA Tournament. She will look to be the leader of the team after a strong junior season as one of the top doubles players. The Hogs will also look to sophomore transfer Sarah McLean for a strong performance. McLean was a highly rated prospect coming out of high school and played her freshman year for Florida International. McLean won 12 matches and played primarily in the No. 1 and 2 position for both singles and doubles. The Razorbacks will face a tough group in a pair of Big 12 teams — Oklahoma and Texas Tech — as well as Southeastern Conference rival Ole Miss. Oklahoma is the only team the Hogs will face that did not finish last season in the top 25. They will be led by ju-
nior Whitney Ritchie who is ranked 60th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s rankings. Ritchie and her doubles partner Marie-Pier Huet were named to the All-Big 12 Team last spring as well. The Texas Tech Red Raiders have already competed in their first event this season, with doubles pair Sandra Dynka and Kelli Hine falling in the final of the Midland Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational. Texas Tech finished last season ranked No. 22 in the ITA Team Rankings. Ole Miss, led by 55thranked Caroline Rohde-Moe, returns five of their top seven players from a team that finished last year ranked No. 18 and is coming off a fourthconsecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. Ole Miss is coming off the Duke Fab Four Invitational where they won eight matches over the weekend.
Fall Play Prepares Hogs for SEC Cameron McCauley Staff Writer
The fall schedule is underway, and the men’s tennis team is traveling across the country to prepare for conference play in the spring. Four members of the team participated at the Midland Invitational in Midland, Texas this past weekend. Hall Fess and Victor Hoang competed as one doubles team while Pete Thomason and Jovan Parlic were the other. Both teams won their first match, but dropped their second, giving head coach Robert Cox some ground to build on in the fall practices. The weekend before that, the team sent true freshmen
Austin Robles and Santiago Munoz to the UNC-Wilmington Landfall Tournament. Robles and Munoz both performed well in singles play, winning their last matches of the weekend. With the freshman class already performing well, it is natural to assume that some of the older members of the team are already rubbing off on them. “Day in and day out they are going to be influenced by the way these upperclassmen conduct themselves,” Cox said. “It’s obvious the young guys are going to look up to these older guys. It’s a natural progression.” Next up for the team is the Louisville Fall Invitational in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 21-23. Cox and the rest of the staff may be mum on the details
pertaining to who may be attending, but their plan is to get each player quality experience in specific events without being overworked. The team most likely won’t send more than four players to any event they participate in during the fall, as it mostly serves as quality practice time for Southeastern Conference play in the spring. According to Cox, each member of the team will participate in three tournaments in the fall. “The fall is a good way to judge how you prepare yourself,” senior Gregoire Lehmann said. “It is really important to build the confidence with how you are going to play in the spring.” “In the fall, it is all developmental. It is all individual
VOLLEYBALL
progress, and they will gain experience without the pressure of winning or losing,” Cox said. A good showing in the fall could be crucial for what the team expects to do in the spring. In the ever-competitive SEC, the Razorbacks expect to be in the thick of things when it’s all said and done. “We are practicing really hard in the fall to make the (NCAA) tournament in the spring,” Lehmann said. Some of the other events the Razorbacks will participate in this fall include the Napa Challenge in Napa, Calif., the Wildcat Invitational in Chicago and the UNLV Invitational in Las Vegas. Practice makes perfect, and the men’s tennis team is practicing in style this fall.
Volleyball Team Looks to Put Loss Behind Them Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor
Mary McKay Staff Photographer Volleyball head coach Robert Pulliza said the team is soley focused on Tennessee after Friday’s loss to Florida.
The Razorback volleyball team will look to put a loss in their first Southeastern Conference match of the season behind them with games at Tennessee and Georgia. The team lost to the No. 13 Florida Gators in five sets Friday night. Head coach Robert Pulliza said there are some good aspects of the game that can be built upon, but for now the fo-
cus is on Tennessee. The No. 17 Volunteers fell to Missouri in five sets Friday night and defeated Alabama 3-1 Sunday afternoon. The Vols are the defending SEC champions and were picked to win the conference again this season. The Razorbacks will face Tennessee in Knoxville, which will be a hostile environment, Pulliza said. “We’ve got to prepare ourselves to just go and do our thing and see if it’s good enough on that day,” Pulliza said. After facing Tennessee, the
team will travel to Athens, Ga., to take on the Bulldogs. In their first weekend of SEC play, Georgia lost to South Carolina in three sets Friday and beat Mississippi State 3-1 Sunday. The team is going on the road for only the second time this season, and the team is looking forward to it, Pulliza said. “We’ve been a lot at home,” Pulliza said. “And we’ve got a really fun group so going on the road with this group is a lot of fun, so we’re looking forward to it.”
COMMENTARY
Family Weekend Perfect Time to Support All Hogs Kristen Coppola Sports Editor
The Razorback football team played in front of the sixth largest crowd at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium Saturday afternoon. More than 74,000 fans filed into the stadium to watch a game in which the No. 1 Alabama
Crimson Tide was 22-point favorites to beat the Razorbacks. The night before only 3,015 fans came to watch the Razorback volleyball team in it’s Southeastern Conference opener against No. 13 Florida. That match went to five sets, with the Razorbacks falling short in the final set 15-13. There is a serious discrepancy between attendance to Razorback sporting events. Barnhill Arena, where the volleyball team plays, can hold many more fans than 3,000. The actual fan capacity is around 10,000. In the opening weekend for the football team, the soccer team also played a game – in front of a crowd of 794. The game was Sunday, so some
may argue that Razorback fans had already left Fayetteville to return home for Labor Day. However, that argument doesn’t stand for the volleyball match. Many Razorback fans come to Fayetteville the night before the football game. If you don’t believe me, pay closer attention to the increase in traffic on game weekends. Traffic always takes a turn for the worse on Fridays at 5 p.m. Family weekend is this weekend. Students and their parents will be pouring into Razorback Stadium to watch the match-up against Rutgers. What I ask is that fans remember that there are other sports than football, especially on weekends when fans are
already in Fayetteville for the football game. This weekend there are two soccer games and three baseball scrimmages. The soccer team plays two SEC games — one at 7 p.m. Friday against Kentucky and the other at 1 p.m. Sunday against South Carolina. Baseball has open scrimmages at 3 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday. With parents already in town, students have no good reason not to show off all Razorback sports. Also, going to the games is cheaper than paying for the $45 or $80 family weekend packages through the university. Parents and family members can buy tickets to the soc-
cer games for $4, and students and youth get into the games for free. A student and his mother and father could go see a heated SEC soccer game for $8. That is a bargain if I’ve ever seen one. The women who play for the soccer team take their games very seriously and started this season 3-0. They are working day in and day out to hone their skills and play good soccer for fans. They deserve the support of fans as much as the football team. When fans buy a T-shirt with a Razorback on it, they aren’t supporting only a football team. There are 19 sports that proudly represent the Razorbacks. Football is only one
of those sports, yet it gets more fan attendance than any other sport. This is the perfect weekend to get a feel for multiple Razorback sports. Parents are in town and will buy tickets and maybe a few items from the concession stand. Take advantage of it. Remember, not every Razorback sport involves an oblong pigskin. Some involve stitched balls that pitchers throw at 90 miles per hour; some involve a ball spiked between defenders. Kristen Coppola is the sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every Thursday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.
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Jeanne Vockroth creates art influenced by Hurricane Katrina
On-campus housing presents health hazards as UA students move into their dormitories. Dorms are prone to the spreading of illnesses and bugs and fungi that cause illness due to the close living quarters of students, officials said. Some common problems seen in dormitories are Athlete’s Foot, bed bugs and the spreading of the cold and other more serious bacterial illnesses, according to Health Magazine. Athlete’s Foot is an infection of the skin and feet caused by different types of fungi, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Athlete’s Foot most often affects the skin between the toes of the foot with redness and irritation, causing a scale-like texture. College students are advised to wear flip-flops when showering in communal bathrooms as to prevent coming into contact with fungi lurk-
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Emily Rhodes Photo Editor Rachel Slank, junior, and Debbie Cataldo, sophomore, hand out free hot dogs to students at the Union Mall during ASG’s Welcome Week Cook-Out on Monday, Aug. 20.
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