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Battle of the Boot Moves to the Hill against the Tigers were played at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.

“Due to our November schedule this year, it is to our advantage to play LSU on campus,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said in a statement.

Moving the “Battle for the Golden Boot” to Fayetteville will allow Arkansas to play in front of a bigger crowd in 72,000-

by JIMMY CARTER Sports Editor

There won’t be a big game in Little Rock the day after Thanksgiving in 2012.

Arkansas released its 2012 football schedule Friday, revealing that the Razorbacks’ Nov. 24 regular-season finale against LSU will be played in Fayetteville for the first time since 1992. The Hogs’ last nine home meetings

seat Reynolds Razorback Stadium than in 53,955seat War Memorial.

“Playing the LSU game at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium directly benefits our program in a number of ways including most importantly providing an additional 20,000 Razorback fans an opportunity to cheer on our team and in this great rivalry game,” Vice Chancellor

and Director of Athletics Jeff Long said in a statement. “By re-arranging the rotation and playing the regular season finale in Fayetteville, it will also prevent our team from a competitive disadvantage of traveling three straight weekends in the most crucial part of the season.”

The announcement came less than two weeks after War Memorial sta-

dium manager Charlie Staggs told the Associated Press he and the War Memorial Stadium Commission were exploring expansion possibilities for the 63-yearold stadium, a stadium where the Hogs went 5-4 against LSU since joining the Southeastern Conference. see BIG GAME on page 3

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Students Praise LSU Move to Fayetteville

LSU Move Revives StateTensions

by KRISTEN COPPOLA Staff Writer

Razorback fans have experienced this before.

The relocation of the conference football game against LSU for the 2012 season to Donald W. Reynolds Stadium raises some difficulties for alumni, officials said.

This will mark the first time that the Razorback football team has hosted LSU in Fayetteville since 1992. The rivalry was moved back to War Me-

morial Stadium in Little Rock because of discontent among alumni and supporters of the football program.

“The issue with having games in Fayetteville is that you don’t get the same statewide participation,” said Jon Mormon, Alumni Association board member.

War Memorial Stadium holds more than 54, 000 seats while Donald W. Reynolds Stadium holds 72,000, according to their websites.

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“But Little Rock is not going to carry the crowd,” Mormon said.

In the past, War Memorial Stadium was the location of four games a year, but after the renovation of Donald W. Reynolds Stadium, Fayetteville began hosting more games, said Mike Macechko, executive director of the Alumni Association.

“Families from the Delta could go to Little Rock for

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Hosting the LSU football game in Fayetteville could impact Fayetteville’s economy.

New technology could prevent electrical power outages.

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Many UA students said they prefer the football games played in Fayetteville to those played in Little Rock.

“I prefer Fayetteville, definitely, because it’s bigger and closer and there is more tailgating,” said Grace Colly, freshman apparel studies major.

“I think bringing the LSU game to Fayetteville next year will get more students involved,” said Ryan Thur-

man, graduate biochemistry student. “No one wants to miss it.”

“If it’s in Fayetteville, I would actually be able to go,” said Brittany Alsup, junior industrial engineering major.

Former students also preferred Fayetteville games to the ones in Little Rock.

A 1999 Traveler poll showed that 76 percent of students polled preferred the games played in Fayetteville because of convenience, home field advan-

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tage, increased school spirit and lower cost of traveling.

But the Little Rock games are an important factor in the unity of the state, some said.

“I like playing the two games in Little Rock. I think it creates more memories and keeps the state together,” Alsup said. “We’re all Razorbacks.”

“I’d think the fans are more comfortable in Reynolds Stadium,” said Nikki

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No. 14 Florida routed Arkansas 98-68, handing the Razorbacks their first loss in 18 home games this season.

A different approach to the upcoming ASG elections, where students from all colleges would be reflected.

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LSU Match-Up in Fayetteville Could Bolster City Economy

by Jack Suntrup Staff Writer

For the first time in two decades, Fayetteville will host the Arkansas-LSU football game at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Local business owners expect an increase in business as a result.

With visions of thousands of Razorback fans who travel miles for home games, the local hospitality industry welcomed the announcement.

“There were rumors the game might move to Fayetteville,” said Tim Reddin, general manager of Candlewood Suites on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

“This looks good for bringing people into town.”

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Baynes, freshman childhood education major. “But Little Rock isn’t that far away and it’s nice to get out of town.

I know the Little Rock fans are pretty hardcore.”

For freshman Kate Ross, a Spanish major from Little Rock, games in the War Memorial Stadium are actually more convenient for her.

“It gave me an excuse to go home,” Ross said.

The hotel has already booked a number of rooms for Thanksgiving weekend, when the game will be played.

Coupled with the Alabama home game, this match-up will be a huge positive for the industry, Reddin said.

“It’s a rivalry game, plus we have two teams that played for the national championship,” he said. “It looks good for all of the hospitality industry.”

“Bikes, Blues and BBQ and football games are the main difference makers as far as bringing people to town,” Reddin said.

Bars in Fayetteville also anticipate the new game.

“Game days are awesome

for us,” said Reid Brewer, assistant manager of Foghorn’s on North College Avenue. “Arkansas football is huge. We get more fans.

It shows we’re getting more important, getting more respect.”

Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium seats 19,000 more spectators than War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock which means more visitors can be expected for the LSU match-up.

A university press release indicated the potential benefits of playing the last three regular season games at home.

But not all Little Rock residents were happy with the move.

“We’re pissed as hell,” JR Williams said, worker at Sim’s BBQ in Little Rock.

“Why are they bringing it all the way up there? They’re losing fans from this. Little Rock is number one in tailgating, number one in pretty ladies, good food, good games, all of the above.”

War Memorial Stadium will instead host the Ole Miss game this year.

“That ain’t nothing,” Williams said.

There has been discussion of moving all Little Rock games to Fayetteville considering the economic impact of seating more fans, but the university is contractually obligated to hold two games there until 2016.

Few students support splitting the games evenly between the two cities.

“I think splitting the games evenly between Fayetteville and Little Rock would be too much,” Baynes said. “I think there should definitely be more games here, because the students live here, so it’s easier.”

Some former students agreed that Little Rock games were preferable. Onefifth of students said they

liked Little Rock games more than the Fayetteville games because the atmosphere was more exciting and they give students a chance to get away from campus.

Students expect attendance to increase for the LSU game in Fayetteville and said Little Rock fans will probably still attend.

Because Reynolds Stadium can accommodate more people than the War Memorial Stadium and because the

Razorbacks are one of the best football teams in the country, fans won’t want to miss this game, Thurman said.

“I think there will be a lot more students,” he said.

“Knowing the Hog fans, everyone will still be there,” Ross said.

“I can’t wait to see how crazy Fayetteville gets during the LSU game,” Baynes said.

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RESEARCH ‘Smart Grid’ a Viable Alternative Electricity Model, Officials Say

by CHVEN MITCHELL Staff Writer

Though Fayetteville has thus far enjoyed an unusually warm winter, many still remember the 2009 ice storm that ravaged the UA campus and left much of the town without electricity or heating.

But a new technology could prevent such outages in the future, officials said.

“Smart grid” generally refers to a class of technology that people are using to delivery electricity through greater advanced systems, according to the Department of Energy website.

“Say you have an entire substation and neighborhood you serve,” said UA Professor Alan Mantooth, whose research involves smart grids. “How do you control power usage to 120 homes? And how do you dynamically reroute power when there is an outage?”

Mantooth’s research involves how high power electronics that act as smart power routers.

“These power electronics are digitally controlled, and the beauty of them is that they can be operated

from a computer terminal, and then the power plants don’t have to send out repairmen every time something goes wrong,” Mantooth said.

This type of system could adapt to disaster situations, he said.

“In reality, a smart grid is a grid that can be selfaware such that it knows if power goes down, then it reroutes power because the grid has smart, control software monitoring the situation,” Mantooth said.

The current method of generating electricity is inefficient and environmentally destructive, he said.

“A smart grid allows us to have a more distributed generation. There is still some coal fire power but there will be other types of generation, for example, from sun or wind, and that energy will then be used when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing instead of coal fire,” Mantooth said.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association, the trade association of choice for the electrical manufacturing industry, views smart grid as an improved electricity system,

Mantooth said.

Some fear the reliability of the current electrical power system will decline if measures are not taken to upgrade the system.

“The world’s population is growing, and energy demands of this world are increasing,” Mantooth said.

“If we do not get ahead of the game and start using our resources wisely, we will be having the same conversation about coal as we’re having about oil.”

NEMA supports smart grid systems because “it is what is needed, a new approach that significantly increases the efficiency of the entire electrical delivery system,” Mantooth said.

“There are certainly some environmental aspects tied to smart grid that are motivations, the other motivation is efficiency in how we use power,” he said.

There are many routes more efficient power usage.

“Options like energy storage [or] grid level storage can be used when demand is really high,” Mantooth said, “but when demand is low and we have

sparing resources, we can use the extra power to charge those batteries.”

Smart grid is a form of efficient energy management, that will provide power to customers when needed and reduce that power supply when not in use.

Even as one of the first nations to implement an electrical coal fire power system, America will now be at risk to be the first to antiquate.

“There is an imminent need to upgrade and its going to be costly,” Mantooth said. “However, if we phase into smart grid, the cost can slowly be accepted by the customers.”

“Smart grid is an investment,” he said. “We built the interstate for the good of the nation. It was not a political venture. We built the electrical power grid for the good of the nation.

Modernizing this machinery is for the good of the people in this country. As a result, it’s the right thing to do.”

“This kind of research is environmentally and socially relevant,” he said.

COURTESY PHOTO Moving the “Battle for the Golden Boot” to Fayetteville will allow Arkansas to play in front of a bigger crowd in 72,000-seat Reynolds Razorback Stadium than in 53,955-seat War Memorial.

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“We are looking at something to see if we can entice them to stay here,” Staggs said.

The UA announced potential plans for renovations to Razorback Stadium when it unveiled its athletic facilities master plan in October. The renovations could add up to 5,000 new seats.

When Arkansas last hosted the Tigers in Fayetteville in 1992 – a 30-6 Razorbacks win – a crowd of just 32,721 attended the matchup in the then51,000-seat stadium.

The Hogs were ending a 3-7-1 year, while LSU

would finish just 2-9.

The matchups the last two years have featured both teams ranked in the top 12, including No. 12 Arkansas’ win in Little Rock against the No. 5 Tigers to clinch a Sugar Bowl berth in 2010.

“Playing on campus will also allow our football program the recruiting advantage of hosting prospects for a game that has traditionally carried conference and national implications,” Long said.

In addition to revealing the LSU game would be played in Fayetteville, Rutgers was announced as the Razorbacks’ final nonconference opponent in a game that will be played Sept. 22 in Razorback Stadium.

The Scarlet Knights went 9-4 last year, but coach Greg Schiano left to take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers job in the NFL in late January.

“We are pleased to add a quality non-conference opponent like Rutgers to our 2012 football schedule,” Long said. “The additions of Texas A&M and Missouri and the delay in the release of the conference schedule posed some specific scheduling challenges for the 2012 season.

The Hogs’ schedule also doesn’t have a set location for the Texas A&M game on Sept. 29, though Aggies athletic director Bill Byrne said Saturday night the game would be played in College Station, Tex-

as. Arkansas and A&M were scheduled to play the fourth game in as many years at Cowboys Stadium in a series running through 2018.

“Texas A&M kind of put it out that ’12 and ’13 would be on campuses,” Long said in an interview on Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly. “I tend not to release those kinds of things until we sign agreements, but it looks as though it’s headed there. I am still hopeful for us to go back and play at Cowboys stadium after those two oncampus games to play for an extended period of time.

“We have made it clear to the Cowboys we intend to honor that contract.”

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the games, but the roads [to Fayetteville] weren’t good,” Macechko said.

The announcement this year received a warm response from some compared to the 1992 season.

“It will be different with the way you celebrate Thanksgiving and Black Friday, but I’m actually excited in a way,” said Cynthia Neuhofel, member of the Alumni Association.

“I’m ready for LSU to see what it’s like in Fayetteville.”

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FROM THE BOARD International Student Growth Makes Cultural Campus Fayetteville - to most of us it’s the home of the Razorbacks, where we live and the place go to school. But our small college town also has another thing going for it - a growing international student population that we can all enjoy. As a university that boasts an extensive study abroad program as well as a large international student population, we as students can benefit from one another, learning about hundreds of different cultures without leaving Fayetteville.

Whether it’s China, India, Ireland or Germany, our international students are an integral part of our campus, and a part that all students should be involved in. Whether you’re a Fayetteville native or from another part of the world, we should all take the opportunity to get involved in the multicultural aspect of our school.

On a campus where there are endless ways to get involved with our international classmates, whether it’s simply getting to know one another through our classes or becoming a full-blown part of a student cultural organization, friendship family or conversation club, it’s easy to find opportunities to meet people from all over the world.

Meeting others from different cultures gives us a way to advance our learning outside of the classroom, teaching ourselves about different cultures through the people we associate ourselves with. It’s an important part of life – not only knowing our books, but becoming cultured members of society who are understanding of one another. Who knows, the person you meet in visiting just one multicultural meeting might become a close friend, mentor or vacation buddy on your student travels.

Becoming involved in our international student affairs makes us a much more rounded student body - one that cares about every student, makes everyone feel welcome and takes advantage of having the chance to meet people from around the world and learn from the many cultures found on this campus. As we grow in our international student population and study abroad opportunities, we should take advantage of the fact that there are hundreds of different cultures and thousands of people on our campus that we can experience and learn from.

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Kimpel Crosswalk: A Transportation Crisis

Tax Time Brings Student Gain While many of us cringe at the idea of trekking down to the tax man to file another year of information, as students we have an opportunity to gain quite a big chunk of money back, simply for getting an education. And while some of us worry that this may be the last year that student credits are available, we should take the opportunity to get them while we can.

For those of us independent students who file separately from our parents, the time is now to head down to our local tax preparer and see how much we qualify for. For the rest who still file with our parents, make sure to let them know just how much they can get back for having a college student in the family.

Both the Lifetime Learning Credit and the American Opportunity Credit are available this year, with students able to get up to $2,500 total when filing, which is definitely not something to complain about. As students in the midst of finishing the semester and preparing for summer plans, bills and work, an extra thousand dollars or two can greatly help out our pocketbooks.

Remembering to apply for these credits when going to file taxes is key in gaining as much back as possible for being a student right now.

The time before we start paying extravagent amounts of tax instead of getting money back is right now, and since we may be the last college students to have the opportunity to apply for these, we all need to act.

While you may use the money you get back to put towards your next semester bills, save your parents a few dollars, or simply put it back for a rainy day, remember this tax season to rake in the refunds for being a student.

Traveler Quote of the Day “Playing the LSU game at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium directly benefits our program in a number of ways including most importantly providing an additional 20,000 Razorback fans an opportunity to cheer on our team and in this great rivalry game,”

Jeff Long, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, “Battle of the Boot Moves to the Hill” page 1.

EDITORIAL EDITOR Saba Naseem MANAGING EDITOR Mattie Quinn OPINION EDITOR Emily Rhodes The Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student classification and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for verification.

Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

by EMILY RHODES Opinion Editor

In my four years at the UA, I’ve taken almost every route imaginable to get to classes in and around the Kimpel wing of campus. Whether it’s a history in J.B. Hunt, world literature in Kimpel or foreign language in the business building, I would rather park on Dickson Street and walk the mile up the hill to class than deal with “the Kimpel crosswalk.”

The lone part of campus that houses an disagreeable mix of unhappy drivers trying to make it to the stop sign in front of Gregson Hall without using their entire gas tank, and the headstrong pedestrians who don’t see the need to once and a while let any form of automobile through the fourway stop, because, after all,

it’s a state law – pedestrians have right of way (I think as students, we may have milked this statement a few too many times).

We’re all guilty of it and we’re all victims of it. Make the mistake of trying cross over the four-way stop sign between Kimpel and Chi Omega during the ten minute block between classes, and you might find yourself 30 minutes late for the class you were trying to get to.

I know I’ve sat at the crosswalk in my car for a good 15 minutes before, waiting for a kindhearted group of students to let me across before my car gives up and rolls back into the other 20 waiting impatiently behind me. Additionally, I’ve also been one of the hardheaded students who walks across the street with no thought of how long the line of cars has been waiting – because, of course, I have the right of way.

I’m thankful to say, however, that I have refrained from stopping in the middle of the crosswalk to chat with friends, while a line of infuriated drivers slap their hands on their heads in dismay. I’ve seen this a fair few times on the dreaded Kimpel crosswalk, and feel that something - anything -

needs to be done.

It’s almost a quirky part of our campus culture here at this point – we joke about it, cry about it, but ultimately, do nothing about it. This is where one of two things needs to happen. We either need a better form of traffic control, or have to change our entire thinking about what our real right of way is. Seeing how our traffic control could be so much better after a high school event came through the crosswalk and had police-directed traffic made me consider just how bad the problem is. For a second that day, I thought my prayers had been answered and we would finally would see some transportation peace, but when I found it was only for a few hours, my heart sank a little at the idea of going back to the messiness of driver-pedestrian turmoil.

Obviously, the stop-sign honor system isn’t working.

This is where I challenge our university to put more into our campus current needs, such as our campus traffic and safety, rather than focusing on bettering our campus through new infrastructure. Before we can add more, we have to better what we have. Now, I’m

not saying that we should have a crossing guard, elementary school style, but I think we can all agree that something needs to be done. A traffic light, perhaps? Or even a crosswalk light – they seem to work out on Maple Street, so the same concept could be applied in a smaller fashion to our Dickson street fiasco.

I urge you all to make it known our needs for campus.

With ASG elections coming up in the next few weeks, make student issues known, whether it’s harmony among our drivers and walkers, campus safety or other areas that would make our school a better place. Voice your opinions, rally support and get involved. This is just one of the issues we have on campus, but it won’t get fixed unless we speak up. Either that, or we can sit and hope day after day that our drivers and walkers will both come together and reach an agreement about our traffic fiasco, which doesn’t really seem likely to happen.

Emily Rhodes is a journalism major, and the opinion editor.

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by MIKE NORTON

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On Saturday the Associated Student Government and Residents’ Interhall Congress met for the ASG-RIC MidYear Retreat, a day for both organizations to meet with administrators and share ideas.

One theme that continued to arise was for the groups to strive to reflect the student body at large. When asked what ASG’s most important job was, Chancellor Gearhart said, “do everything you can to represent the students.”

Soon after, Athletic Director Long repeated a similar line with, “our diversity [within the organizations] is changing, and that is good.”

Increasing student involvement has been a concern within ASG for some time now. Yet, the problem is quite complex, dealing with voting rates and college sizes. To win the ASG exec elections, a candidate must gain a majority of votes. To accomplish that, candidates only need to campaign to the Fulbright and Walton Colleges.

This is because of some relatively simply multiplication.

Voting rates are really low, to the point that all it would have

taken last year to win is 2,281 votes of the 4,561 votes cast.

Within Fulbright, 28 percent of the 6,032 students voted, and in Walton 37 percent of the 2,989 students voted. Together, that’s 2,795 votes.

Voting rates by college change yearly of course, but at most a candidate would only need to gain support within Walton, Fulbright and the College of Education and Health Professions to win. We could believe in the better good and assume candidates will campaign to all colleges, but, they are politicians after all, and politicians are looking for one thing—votes.

This brings up the question: is a Fulbright student different than one in Engineering? More specifically, are the needs, issues and wants of fine arts majors the same as chemical engineering majors? Not likely.

This is the reason the ASG Senate is divided by college, which gives each college a voice.

Our campus of over 23,000 is exploding with diversity, and our student body elections should reflect that.

The current popular vote system is not working. It creates non-issues-based campaigns, platforms that do not take into account the needs of every

college, and combines the student body into one large bloc when the issues important to students cover a wide spectrum.

Here comes the solution.

Fellow Senator Will Hansen and I have proposed an amendment to the ASG constitution that would change the ASG executive election into a modified Electoral Collegetype election.

Each college would be allocated their fair share of electoral votes, and no actual elector exists to strike a deal in a smoke-filled room to change the will of a college’s voters. Like most U.S. states in the Electoral College, winning a majority of a college’s voters would yield the entire amount of the college’s electoral votes, freeing up campaigns’ resources so they touch every college. In addition, to reflect as many students as possible, the candidates would have to win a majority of the colleges.

One may think that a stipulation requiring candidates to win a majority of electoral votes and colleges could trigger a run-off more often. But, this brings forward the question— does a system that fails to create platforms that reflect all of campus without run-offs even compare to a system that

produces issue-based platforms relevant to every student with a chance of a run-off?

I think not. And point blank, if a candidate wants to win under an Electoral College system, they will have to include a diverse array of students from all colleges and backgrounds on their campaign, and include issues relevant to all students in their platform. Large organizations will still find success if they reflect many students. This is a unity bill, uniting campus behind the winner. It legitimizes ASG as the true voice of students.

Being a constitutional amendment, it must be sent to a referendum of the student body and receive a majority vote. However, to even do that it must pass two-thirds of the ASG Senate tomorrow night, so we need your support. Contact your college’s Senators, and tell them you want them to vote for the B.E.T.T.E.R. Bill. More information on the bill and Senators’ emails can be found at asg.uark.edu. You have a voice, and it’s time to use it.

Mike Norton is an agricultural economics and poultry science major, and a Traveler columnist.

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by MIKE MAHARDY Staff Writer

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Matt Seubert, a junior double majoring in political science and economics, likes to keep busy. On top of heading the Young Democrats, planning a permanent veteran memorial on Old Main Lawn, serving within ASG and working as an RA, Matt also carries a full class load.

For the vast majority of college students, time can be in short supply. Seeing as how there is never enough time to sit down to a long prepared meal, frozen food can come in handy for people with a multitude of different views on nutrition.

Surprisingly, according to Men’s Health, frozen foods can often be healthier than fresh meals. A study at Arizona State University claims that many vegetables and fruit lose upwards of 75 percent of their nutritional value from being stored in a fridge for a week. So for those with health concerns to those who just want something to satisfy their palate, here are some of the best options for quick and easy meals.

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by EMILY DELONG Staff Writer

Making a difference is always a work in progress. Anyone hoping to accomplish such a difficult feat must, at first, take a small step, and must always maintain grander ambitions for the future.

From day one, Matt Seubert, a junior at the UA, has worked hard at making a difference, both on campus and in the community.

Though he applied to 13 colleges as a high school senior, Seubert ultimately chose the UA and has since been happy with his decision.

“I decided to come to the UA in the process of interviewing for the fellowship program,” he said. “Experiencing the commitment to students at the UA as well as seeing the opportunities for me was really unique.”

Seubert is majoring in economics and political science. He was given a fellowship, which covers all of his expenses for four years at the UA. Besides maintaining a healthy GPA and working on his honors thesis, Seubert has committed much of his time to campus and community projects.

One of these projects is Young Democrats.

“I’ve been involved in that RSO more or less since my freshman year,” Seubert said. “Last year, I served as the treasurer, and coming into this year I was positioned to be president.”

Seubert enjoys leading the organization and takes his responsibility seriously, seeing it as a way for students to develop their political leanings and become life-

long Democrats.

“Whether it be internship opportunities for campaigns, to doing various volunteer opportunities, [Young Democrats] puts people in a place where they can develop into engaged citizens,” he said.

Meetings for Young Democrats generally involve bringing in local political candidates to give speeches.

“At the end of the semester we are going to do a meet-and-greet with candidates once they have filed,” Seubert said.

Seubert was also behind Razorbacks Remember, a 9/11 memorial event.

“It began after the news came over that Osama bin Laden had been killed and there were people running around, effectively celebrating, but when you start looking over the last ten years it needs to be a much bigger feeling than that,” Seubert said. “The events started off as a smaller project, but as more groups like RIC, ASG, Greek organizations, MPPOC, ROTC, VAC, and RSOs became involved it really just grew.”

Seubert thinks of Razorbacks Remember as an “effort to bring about a positive, constructive reflection on the last ten years,” with an emphasis on recognizing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Razorbacks Remember was a combination of events that took place last fall. Some of these included placing thousands of flags on the central Quad in front of the Union and the coordinating of the Red, White, and Blue-out at the New Mexico football game.

Another part of the program, which is still in the works, is the replacement of the flagpole outside of

Old Main.

Seubert described the new flagpole as “a way of adding to our University’s history and celebrating our commitment to [military] service.”

The new flagpole, for which fundraising is still ongoing, will have a granite base engraved with the branches of the military as well as a dedication to those who lost their lives.

Seubert does not plan to let his achievements stop there: he is looking into attending graduate school after completing his undergraduate degree in the spring of 2013.

“I’ve been looking at dual masters programs that combine a Masters of Urban Planning and an MBA.” With this, Seubert hopes to enter the field of urban planning and positively shape communities through economic development.

Seubert hopes to better the lives of individuals in communities by instituting organizations which help develop economically depressed and underdeveloped regions of the country.

“These organizations can make a tremendous impact on the quality of life,” he said. “I would really love to work in that sort of environment.”

For now, however, Seubert still has a year left at the UA and a lot left to give. Regardless of where his life takes him, Seubert’s desire to improve the world around him will allow him to make a positive impact on many people’s lives.

“I’ve been very blessed and fortunate to be involved in as many things as I am, and to have as many opportunities as I’ve had,” Seubert said.

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Kashi Black Bean Mango Women’s Health lists this as their favorite frozen meal. With whole grains, roasted vegetables and natural seasoning, this meal is a surefire way to stay on the diet and indulge at the same time.

This meal is a great option for vegans also. The black beans combined with roasted red mango sauce provide protein and antioxidants, so plug in the microwave and enjoy dinner.

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DiGiorno Pizza Okay, pizza is definitely not the healthiest meal. And DiGiorno is not the healthiest pizza. But for those who care less about nutrition and more about taste, frozen pizzas are readily available at any campus grocery store and they also taste amazing. DiGiorno may not have the delivery pizza taste that they claim to provide in their commercials, but in terms of frozen food they can’t be beat. The fact that they can be prepared in small portions in the microwave means that this quick pizza is a safe bet for someone who just wants a filling meal before class. Toppings can include all of the favorites: pepperoni, sausage, vegetable and three cheese are some of the variations sure to please fans of the food everyone seems to love so much.

LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

For Kristen Hoover, sophomore, balancing finances, work and nutrition is a must. Hoover stocks her freezer with Lean Cuisine frozen dinners for quick, cheap, healthy meals.

Stepping for Community Service

by CAITLIN MURAD Staff Writer

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Members of Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha perform a step show in front of the Union on Thursday. The dance was a kickoff and promotion for their weekend community service project.

The Odyssey made its debut on campus on Thursday, Jan. 26— although the title is the only reference to Homer, the publication does feature all things pertaining to Greek life, and comes to the UA campus to unite the diverse Greek community.

UA sophomore Laura Brosious is the publisher and started the paper after the recruiting director for the Olympia Media Group contacted her chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha asking if anyone was interesting in starting a Greek paper on campus.

“I’m a journalism advertising/public relations major,” Brosious said. “So I thought this would be something really fun to get involved with and see if I’m on the right track for my future career.

So far, this experience has taught me so much about the world of print media and the world of advertising.”

The Odyssey was first started at Indiana University in 2009. Since then it has expanded across the country to 45 campuses. The articles from all the campus newspapers are featured online at www. theodysseyonline.com.

“There’s a bunch of SEC schools that have [The Odyssey] like Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss and LSU,” Brosious said.

“Now, I have started The Odyssey on our campus to unite and strengthen our Greek community” The newspaper features 20 staff writers from a variety of Greek houses on the UA campus. The paper welcomes guest

writers from the Greek community to report on for special events within their Greek organization. They also offer positions on the creative team for photographers and contributing editors.

“Our goal is to showcase the positive things every Greek organization is doing at Arkansas, so diversity among the writers is key,” Brosious said.

In addition to writers, The Odyssey also offers paid internships to the sales team for the paper. Sales interns receive commission for their advertising sales, and Brosious said that all of the positions are encouraged to be taken for internship credit.

The Odyssey is primarily a lifestyle paper, the breadth of which gives the writers more freedom to write on a variety of topics. The paper includes articles on philanthropy, fashion, spring break spots, and local entertainment, among other things.

The newspaper is published on a weekly basis and delivered every Thursday to all of the Greek houses on campus, as well as a few of the apartment complexes off campus such as Hill Place, Crowne Apartments and the Links.

For anyone interested in getting involved in The Odyssey, contact Laura Brosious at laurab@odyssey-south.com for more information on available positions.

If you want daily updates about The Odyssey or Greek life in general, like The Odyssey on Facebook at The Odyssey: University of Arkansas or follow them on twitter @ArkansasOdyssey.

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35 Old Chevy 37 Romance novelist Roberts 38 Bagel order, maybe 39 Blusters 41 Phone bk. listings 42 Christmas tree adornment 43 White House middle name 44 Addie’s husband in “As I Lay Dying” 46 Generous offer 47 Vehicle delivering the weekly checks?

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54 “I wouldn’t lie!”

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

BASKETBALL

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas coach Mike Anderson argues with a referee in the Razorbacks’ 98-68 loss to No. 14 Florida. The Razorback’s 30-point loss to the Gators was the worst loss in the history of Bud Walton Arena and the teams worst loss of the season. Arkansas allowed Florida’s starting back court of Erving Walker, Kenny Boynton and Bradley Beal to combine for 77 points.

Gator Chomped

by JIMMY CARTER Sports Editor

Arkansas’ 17 wins in Bud Walton Arena are a school record. This season’s Razorbacks now own the worst home loss in program history, too.

No. 14 Florida controlled the game throughout, knocking down 13 3-pointers to beat Arkansas 98-68, handing the Razorbacks their first home loss of the season and their worse loss in Bud Walton Arena.

The Gators’ outside

shooting and a big early run grabbed early momentum and took the crowd of 18,913 out of the game.

“I just thought it was like Murphy’s Law, whatever could go wrong did go wrong,” Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. “That’s our home rim and we normally get the bounces, but tonight the bounces didn’t go our way … Whether it’s by one or 30, it’s a loss.”

The 30-point margin of defeat bested the previous worst set in a 73-51 loss against Auburn in 2009 as the largest in arena history.

Florida’s 98 points tied a Bud Walton opponent record set by Ole Miss in 2009 and Alabama in 1996.

Arkansas (17-10, 5-7 Southeastern Conference) couldn’t keep pace.

Freshman guard BJ Young scored a career-high 31 points, but his teammates combined to shoot just 29 percent from the field as the Gators (21-6, 9-3) piled on the points on the other end.

“It was kind of a shock,” Young said. “The way they played, they almost had a perfect game.”

Florida led 53-27 at halftime and hit 9 of 14 3-pointers in the half. Four Gators scored in double figures in the half.

Florida hit five 3-pointers in its 25-6 run that turned a one-point lead into a 33-13 lead.

“Obviously it was a perfect storm in a lot of ways,” Florida coach Billy Donovan said. Because we got to the free-throw line and we shot the ball very, very well.”

It was the second

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Young’s Career Night Overshadowed

by ZACH TURNER

Asst. Sports Editor

Arkansas’ leading scorer BJ Young had a career-high 31 points on a night when Arkansas suffered its worst loss in school history at Bud Walton Arena.

Young’s performance came in the Hogs worst loss of the season, a 30-point shellacking by No. 12 Florida. The loss was Arkansas’ first loss at Bud Walton Arena this season.

“I thought he was in attack mode and did a good job against their zone,” coach Mike Anderson said of Young’s performance. “I thought BJ was, no question about it, the best player on the court for our basketball team. He has been playing well all year long so it didn’t surprise me.

He lives for games like this right here, but he just needs some help.”

The 6-foot-3 freshman shot 52.6 percent from the

field against the Gators, the team former high school rival and friend Bradley Beal is a member of. Beal, a McDonald’s All-American out of Chaminade High School in St. Louis, netted 21 points in the win over the Hogs. As high school seniors last season, it was Young’s McCluer North squad that got the best of Beal’s Chaminade team in the Missouri State Championship game, 57-56.

“I was just telling him to slow down shooting all the threes,” Young said of the inner game talk between him and Beal. “Told him he was having a pretty good season and wishing him the best of luck. That is one of my best friends, we grew up together, so we are really close and I didn’t want him to win this one, but he did. Hopefully I see him again.”

Beal bested Young outside of the scoring, however, pulling down nine re-

BASEBALL

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior right fielder Sam Bates had two homeruns and drove in nine of the Razorback’s 41 runs during the three-game sweep of Villanova in the season-opening weekend series.

Hogs Sweep ‘Nova JIMMY CARTER Sports Editor

No. 4 Arkansas capped a season-opening three-game sweep against Villanova in a 17-1 win Sunday.

Senior right fielder Sam Bates hit a 2-run home run, his second homer in as many games. The Razorbacks’ 41 runs scored in the three games was their most in an opening series since 2004.

“We haven’t been behind,” coach Dave Van Horn said. “We haven’t been in any stressful situations. So those are coming. We know it. So this was kind of nice to just go play somebody else. I’m real pleased with the weekend. It probably couldn’t have gone much better.”

Sophomore right-hander

Senior Salute Arkansas gets big win on senior day Staff Writer

bounds, dishing out three assists and blocking two shots. Young committed just two turnovers while Beal turned the ball over a game-high six times.

Young accounted for 23 of the Razorbacks 41 second half points and drained 8 of 12 free

throws on the night, an area Arkansas struggled as a team, shooting just 62.1 percent.

“I felt like my team just needed me in a little more attack mode,” Young said about his second half

see YOUNG on page 8

see BASEBALL on page 8

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

by MONICA CHAPMAN

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman guard BJ Young scored a career-high 31 points, but the Razorbacks suffered their first home loss of the season to No. 12 Florida 98-68.

Barrett Astin (1-0) threw five nohit innings to earn the win Saturday –– ARKANSAS 13, VILLANOVA 1 Arkansas’ bats were ringing for a second consecutive game as the Razorbacks racked up 13 hits in the blowout win.

Bates led the offensive surge with three hits and five RBIs, including a 3-run home run, his first of the season.

“We played solid again,” Van Horn said. “Offensively we did a good job. Got some big hits. Hit some balls hard … It’s good to see Bates come out. I think that was his first career home run, although he probably leads our team in practice. It was really

After LSU ended Arkansas’ win streak at eight games on Thursday, the women’s basketball team got back on track Sunday downing Mississippi State 67-53.

The loss dropped the Razorbacks into a four-way tie for fourth place in the Southeastern Conference standings, but the win put them back into a tie for third place.

“It feels good to win on senior day,” senior C’eira Ricketts said. “Not just for us but for the team after coming off the loss to LSU. I think today’s game was an important game, so we had to buckle down and focus and keep playing no matter what the score was.”

Arkansas (19-6, 8-5 SEC) had three of its seniors in double figures with guards C’eira Ricketts and Lyndsay Harris along with forward Ashley Daniels combined for 45 points.

“I think that’s the thing I’m most

happy with is that we were able to send these seniors out with a good victory and a nice crowd,” coach Tom Collen said. “And we didn’t disappoint them.”

Arkansas came out strong on offense and went on a 9-0 run to begin the first half.

Mississippi State (14-12, 4-9 SEC) didn’t stay down for long and went on an 8-2 run to make the score 11-8.

“It was a somewhat slow pace game I thought,” Collen said. “I felt like we played awfully relaxed especially on the offensive end of the floor.

They assured me at halftime that they had it under control, but I felt like I wanted just a little bit more of a sense of urgency from them. True to their nature, they did what they had to do.”

Senior Lyndsay Harris shot well behind the 3-point line, getting nine of her 11 first half points from behind the arc and finishing the game with 17 points.

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Reflecting on the Pelphrey Era Going for it on 4th

HARRISON STANFILL hstanfill@uark.edu It is no secret among Arkansas basketball fans that the time under John Pelphrey was not exactly the smoothest relationship between a coach

and a fan base.

Coming off of the Stan Heath reign (turns out the fans couldn’t stand the Heath) the fans were hungry for another coach that not only wanted to be there, but acted like they wanted to be there.

Pelphrey fit the bill.

He was an energetic coach who ran a similar system of basketball that the fans were used to and promised to bring the energy back to a oncegreat program. Thus “40 Minutes of Pel” was born.

The fans were happy for a moment.

There was promise at first, rumors of a great recruiting

class soon fizzled out as Pelphrey struggled to get that great talent on the court.

Pretty soon the team looked, played like and acted like an extension of the Stan Heath era.

There was no progress on the court.

There were big home wins against highly-ranked teams like Texas and Oklahoma, but, after four seasons at the helm, the Razorbacks weren’t in a better situation than when Pelphrey took the job. The fans were upset with the lack of progress and the lack of control he seemed to have on the team.

There were off-court issues that grabbed headlines and there was a certain player in dreadlocks that seemed to disregard any notion of running an offense. Not exactly great conditions for trying to prove that you belong coaching a big-time Division 1 school.

There is a misconception among people that Razorbacks fans hated Pelphrey and that is simply just not true.

What the fans saw was a man who was just not up to the task of being the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He did not have control over his team and was not

ready to meet the expectations that were in front of him.

To disregard the time that Pelphrey has spent here and group him in with the likes of the aforementioned Heath is foolish, though. The effects of Pelphrey are still being felt.

Those big four recruits of Young, Mickelson, Madden and Abron were courted by Pelphrey. Big wins over highly-ranked opponents like Texas and Kentucky created some excitement about the team.

Pelphrey had some good moments here in Arkansas, but the fact remained that he was not the guy who was going to take the program to the

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next level.

Saturday night the Razorbacks welcomed Pelphrey back to Bud Walton Arena as a Florida assistant.

The question that loomed was how the fans were going to react to the homecoming?

The fans responded the only way that was appropriate. They gave him a standing ovation.

Sure Pelphrey wasn’t the best coach that the Razorbacks have ever seen but, hey, at least he’s not Dana Altman.

Harrison Stanfill is a staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.

SPORTS from GATOR CHOMPED on page 7 consecutive game the Hogs allowed stellar 3-point shooting in the first half. The Gators and Tennessee hit a combined 16 of 24 from 3-point range, using the shooting to put both games out of reach by halftime.

Florida had hit just 23 of 77 3-pointers its last three games before exploding Saturday.

“As a coach, you’ve got ot give your shooters confidence,” Donovan said. “The biggest thing I just tried to explain to these guys playing on the road is that we’ve got to take 3s.”

Senior guard Erving Walker led four Florida players in double figures with a careerhigh 31 points. The performance topped his previous career-high of 27 points, set in 2010 the last time he played in Bud Walton.

from SENIORS on page 7 The Lady Bulldogs made another run to tie the score up at 19 each, but only scored four more points before the half and the teams went into the break with a score of 28-23.

“I don’t think we panicked,” senior Ashley Daniels said. “Actually I don’t think we even realized how close the score actually was. I don’t think we’re a team that looks at the score board. We just kind of keep pushing the tempo and keep trying to stay ahead of the net.”

Harris and Ricketts knocked down back-to-back 3-point

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

“Our backcourt was really good offensively,” Donovan said.

Walker and the other starting members of the Gators backcourt – junior Kenny Boynton and freshman Bradley Beal – combined for 77 points.

“It didn’t matter what defense we were in, whether it be man to man or zone,” Anderson said. “They did a good job of making the extra pass and that’s what good teams do.

They’re a good passing team and good shooting team. The by-product of that is good shooting, and when you’ve got guys that can knock them down.”

The Gators stretched the lead to as many as 32 points in the second half. Young scored 19 of Arkansas’ first 25 points in the half, but Florida shut the rest of the Razorbacks down.

“He’s been playing well all year long, so it didn’t surprise me,” Anderson said. “I think he lives for games like this here.

He just needed some help.”

The loss dropped the Hogs to 17-1 in Bud Walton. Arkansas has now lost four of its last five games.

“I told our guys coming into this game, ‘This is going to be the best team you’re going to play and I’m talking about here at home,’” Anderson said. “We’ve done a good job in terms of taking care of home, so it’s going to be important for us to bounce back. We enjoyed 17 of them here, and at midnight we’ve got to … this one here has got to hurt. Then we’ve got to get prepared for a Thursday day.

“It’s a big game for us. Every game’s a big game for this basketball team.”

shots in the beginning minutes of the second half to put Arkansas up 35-25.

“I thought we played very relaxed,” Collen said. “On the offensive end, I felt like Lyndsay played like she knew she could hit a three again anytime she wanted. I think C’eira Ricketts felt like she could get to the rim anytime she wanted and they played that way. It was good to see them pay with that level of confidence.”

The Razorbacks led by as much as 16 in the half and Mississippi State could never make a run long enough to catch up.

Ricketts led the team in scoring with 18 points while dishing out seven assists and

only turned the ball over once.

“And when you’re point guard can have seven assist and one turnover as well as have the points that she had, have above 50% from the floor, shoot five free throws and six rebounds,” Mississippi State coach Sharon Fanning-Otis said of Ricketts.

“That’s the mark of an experienced season.”

Daniels and junior Sarah Watkins, who both struggled in the LSU game, each had a better game Sunday.

Daniels finished with a double-double scoring 10 points and grabbing a career-high16 rebounds after getting just two points in the last game. Watkins finished with 12 points for the game.

The Razorbacks have two more road games before they conclude the regular season starting at Tennessee on Thursday.

“I really don’t want my team to feel the pressure that they have to win the next game and they have to win the next game,” Collen said. “I think we’re a lot better off going on the road now.”

from YOUNG on page 7 mentality. “I was just kind of moving the ball around in the first half and I just wanted to give my team a chance in the second half to try and do something” Florida’s 98 points ties the most scored by an opponent in Bud Walton Arena, a record that equals Ole Miss’ in 2009 and Alabama in 1996, both of which also had 98.

Outside of Young, Arkansas shot just 28.2 percent while the Gators starting backcourt of Beal, senior Erving Walker and junior Kenny Boynton combined for 77 points. Florida was hot from the 3-point line in the win, shooting 56.5 percent from behind the arc.

“When you have three guys that can shoot the ball as well as they can, it is hard to defend,” Young said. “We just tried our best, but we are just going to try and put this behind us and go back to practice to get the next one.”

Arkansas freshman Devonta Abron was the only Razorback in double digits, scoring 11 points and grabbing a team-high seven rebounds.

Pelphrey Makes Return to Bud Walton Arena Former Arkansas head coach John Pelphrey made his return to Bud Walton Arena Saturday night on the

from BASEBALL on page 7 good to see him swing the bat the way he did.”

Sophomore right-hander Ryne Stanek (1-0) allowed just one run on two hits in four innings, while four Hogs relievers combined to pitch five shutout innings.

Friday –– ARKANSAS 11, VILLANOVA 5 Arkansas didn’t take long to show why it was ranked so

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Florida sideline.

Pelphrey was the Hogs head coach from 2007-2011 compiling an overall record of 69-59. The former Kentucky standout as a player, Pelphrey led the Razorbacks to just one NCAA tournament appearance in his four seasons and was fired on March 13, 2011.

“John has an incredible and affectionate affinity for this place,” Florida coach Billy Donavan said. “When things end it is always difficult. I really hope the people here at Arkansas treat him as one of their own. Although on the court it may not have gone the way people would have liked or even the way John would have liked, he is a great guy.

Pelphrey managed just a 25-39 record in Southeastern Conference play and had two losing seasons in four years at the helm for the Hogs.

“One thing I have always admired about Arkansas is, you go to some of these places on the road and obviously it gets crazy and out of control in terms of people yelling and screaming at you off the bench, these are by far, in my opinion, some of the classiest fans,” Donovan said. “They have a very good basketball knowledge, they cheer well for their team and they love the Hogs.”

“I respect their fan base and their support and think

that if most of their fan base and support really knew John, they would be really proud that guy was at the helm and leadership here.”

Blowout Game Muddied

By Fouls In a game where the outcome was a 30-point differential in Florida’s favor, the two teams combined for 50 fouls.

Although the 50 combined fouls were the most in an Arkansas game this season, Hog guard Julysses Nobles was the only player to foul out of the game for either team and had five of the Razorbacks 28 fouls.

“The physicality took place and we weren’t the recipient of calls; I do have a problem with that,” Anderson said. “I think the game should be called both ways and I just had a problem with that in some cases today.”

Anderson received his first technical of the season minutes after forward Devonta Abron and Florida senior Erving Walker were both called for a technical stemming from a minor altercation between the two.

“I thought it was the most disrupt game I have ever been associated with,” Anderson said. “The reason I say that is they stopped the play for almost 10 minutes just to say it was a double-technical foul. It was a choppy game. A lot of free throws.”

high in the preseason.

The Razorbacks scored six first-inning runs and junior pitcher DJ Baxendale threw five scoreless innings to lead the Hogs to an 11-5 season-opening win in front of 6,317 fans at Baum Stadium.

Arkansas (1-0) racked up 13 hits and controlled the game after its early offensive outburst. Baxendale (10) earned the win and improved his streak of scoreless

innings to 14, dating back to last season.

“The bats really showed up and scored some runs early and gave me a chance to relax,” Baxendale said.

“Overall, it was a great first game as a team.”

Razorbacks sophomore center fielder Jacob Morris went 2 for 3 at the plate and had three RBIs. His 2-run triple was part of the big first inning and he led off the fourth with a solo home run.