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Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012
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Homecoming Week Events Begin
Vol. 107, No. 43
!"#$%&'()$ *!$+,-&.) ASG WILL BE PROVIDING BUSES FOR STUDENTS TO VOTE EARLY
Parking Officials Prepare for Growth
Miranda Campbell Staff Writer
Parking officials have plans to add a parking lot near campus. Full Story, Page 3
Stand Out This Homecoming Weekend in Winter Styles
With Homecoming and winter weather hitting campus soon, brush up on the latest fashions. Full Story, Page 5 Emily Rhodes Photo Editor Morgan McGinnis hands out homecoming queen flyers outside the Union, Monday, Oct. 29, for homecoming candidate Sophie Leblanc.
Razorbacks Excited for Homecoming Game
John L. Smith spoke with press Monday about injuries and Brandon Mitchell’s “up in the air” status. Full Story, Page 7
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Arts Jobs Take Center Stage in Fayetteville
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UA Theory Leads to Nobel Prize Hunter Hawk Staff Writer
Karen Stigar Staff Writer The arts are generating more than creativity in northwest Arkansas. The arts have had an increased impact on the local economy throughout the years, according to reports. “The arts have a pretty big impact on the economy in northwest Arkansas. Americans for the Arts calculated that Theatresquared had an estimated impact of $1.3 million last year,” said Martin Miller, managing director of Theatresquared. The 25 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations that participated in a recent study in the northwest Arkansas area reported that they received contributions with an estimated value of $528,019 during fiscal year 2010. These contributions were received from a variety of sources including corporations, individuals, local and state arts agencies and government. “The new performing arts center that was recently donated to the UA will increase the influence the arts has in this community. Having such a high quality venue is most certainly a win,” Miller said. The arts industry nationally generated $135.2 billion of economic activity, according to a June 8, 2012, arts and economic prosperity report. Revenue from admission, parking, eating out and lodging are also factors in generated revenue from the arts.
Safe ride will be transporting students from the Union to the county courthouse to vote between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The service was funded by Associated Student Government for $810 through the student activity fee after the Motor Voter bill was passed by senate. “Buses will pick up at Union Station and take students to the county courthouse in enough time so that a student on a break in between classes or a staff member on lunch break could quickly cast their ballot,” said Matt Seubert, president of the Young Democrats and author of the bill. The event is sponsored by both the Young Democrats and College Republicans. “By working with ASG, we could make the event bipartisan and trusted. A student knows that the buses will be reliable, timely and he or she will get to and from the polling station without confusion or hassle,” Seubert said.
“The event also fits well into ASG’s core mission, and the university’s as well, to create lifelong citizens ready to use their educations in public life. Exercising the right to vote is at the very core of this mission.” College Republicans president Grant Hodges hopes the service will increase student turnout, he said. “I expect the UA will buck some trends and have a strong showing by students,” Hodges said. “ASG, College Republicans, Young Democrats and many other groups have been successful in registering students. Now we just have to get them to the polls, which is where the ‘Motor Voter’ comes in. If just one student is able to vote who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to, I think it is worth the effort.” This is not the first time the UA has sponsored a program like this,Seubert said . “This program isn’t a new idea. ASG and the university have sponsored similar ideas for previous presidential elections,” Seubert said. “This time through we are
Gea-Banacloche
A UA researcher’s work inspired a Nobel Prize winner to experiment and discover a quantum physics observation. In the early 1990s, Julio Gea-Banacloche, a physicist and professor in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, calculated that a single atom placed into an existing electromagnetic field would “split” the field, allowing it to exist in two states at once,
said Melissa Blouin, director of science and research communication. “He showed a new way to realize one of the fundamental problems in quantum physics, observing a particle in multiple states, leading one of the current Nobel Prize winners in physics to successfully do so in his experiments,” Blouin said. In 1935, Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger was the first to experiment with this puzzling piece of quantum physics labeling his experiment, “Schrödinger’s cat.” This thought experiment was ex-
plained by Gea-Banacloche in a research paper as he made his own assertions on the experiment. “Imagine you have a cat in a cardboard box. Without direct observation, the cat could be thought of as existing in two states at the same time — both alive and dead — until the minute someone observes it, when it must be either alive or dead,” Gea-Banacloche explained. “In the same way, quantum particles can have multiple states at once, but when
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Selling Sweets and Treats
Emily Rhodes Photo Editor Students in the Art Educators Association host a bake sale at the Union Mall, Monday, Oct. 29.