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Today On The Hill Feds’ Crackdown is a Bummer for Oakland Marijuana University

If You Don’t Snooze, You Lose

Music Festivals to Light Up Summer

Players React About Petrino

Education Trumps Tuition IncreasesCheck out various events

happening around campus today.

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Enrollment has plummeted at the Oakland university.

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Pulling all-nighters can be harmful to productivity and creativity.

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Many UA students will go to festivals such as Bonnaroo and Wakarusa.

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Players and coaches react to Bobby Petrino’s Sunday injury and Tuesday return to practice.

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!ough tuition increases are in the future for UA students, education proves greater than the rising costs.

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UA Narrows List of New Fraternity

CandidatesIn addition to adding two

new sororities to campus for the fall 2012 recruitment process, Greek Life o"cials are looking for two new fra-ternities to UA this spring, o"cials said.

Interfraternity Coun-cil, made up of 12 chapters, want to have the new fra-ternities on campus for the 2012 recruitment process. !e council selected four chapters to make on-cam-pus presentations.

!e chapters chosen in-clude Alpha Tau Omega,

Pi Kappa Phi, Kappa Alpha Order and Beta !eta Pi. Presentations will take place at 6 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditori-um on March 27, March 28, March 29 and April 3.

Interfraternity Coun-cil, like Panhellenic Coun-cil, has seen a vast increase in numbers in the past few years with the increase in overall UA enrollment. Many credit this to the Ar-kansas Academic Challenge lottery scholarship.

Mark Machen, Interfra-ternity council president,

!e faculty senate is con-sidering expanding the break between classes from 10 to 15 minutes, o"cials, a senate o"-cial said.

Just like students, faculty and sta# also have a governing body to discuss how to make

life at the UA better, said David Gay, senate chair.

Faculty senate was created in 1996 to deal with academic matters, said Gay, who was the $rst senate chair and is now serving his second term, teach-es economics in the Walton College of Business.

!e senate deals with is-sues such as course approvals,

changes to academic programs and the academic calendar, he said.

“Four-hundred to 600 course changes go through fac-ulty senate,” Gay said.

!e members of the senate are faculty from each college

June 30: save the date.!e theme will be tradition-

al, classic and elegant. Calla lil-ies will decorate the sanctuary, and the bride will carry them in her hands.

!e colors will be rich, navy blue and playful, canary yellow. Her dress will be white, his tux-edo black. !ey will both say, “I do”.

Chris Pemberton and Kory White are getting married.

!ey are two of the many UA students who have promised ‘I do’ to one another. She is a graduate student in the Masters of Arts in Teaching program; he is $nishing his undergradu-ate degree in business. !ey are both 22.

Arkansas has one of the highest marriage rates in the U.S., as well as one of the high-est divorce rates, according to 2009 Census Bureau data. !at same report states that men and women in the U.S. are waiting longer to get married.

In 1970, the median age of a couple during their $rst mar-riage was 22.5 for men and 20.6

by MANDY MCCLENDONStaff Writer

by SARAH DEROUENStaff Writer

Class Breaks Could Increase to 15 Minutes

Arkansans Marry Younger Than National Average

by BRITTANY NIMSAsst. News Editor

COURTESY PHOTOArkansas has one of the highest marriage rates in the U.S., as well as one of the high-est divorce rates, according to 2009 Census Bureau data. That same report states that men and women in the U.S. are waiting longer to get married. Chris Pemberton and Kory White are two UA students who will be getting married this summer.

see MARRIAGEon page 2

Petrino Feels “Very Lucky”

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArkansas head coach Bobby Petrino speaks at a news conference Tuesday after being released from the hospital. See page 7 for the full story.

!e e#ort to get medical marijuana on the ballot in Ar-kansas is approaching a criti-cal phase.

!e advocacy group Ar-kansans for Compassionate Care has yet to reach the half-way mark in their pursuit of 62,500 signatures with a July deadline, leader Ryan Den-ham said.

“We’ve been going at it about 10 or 11 months,” he said. “It’s a lot harder than people realize, how much work is involved to go out and get signatures.”

Because of the lack of sig-natures, Denham has sought to attract volunteers at the

university level.“One of the projects we’ve

done to boost numbers up is to get 400 students to get 250 signatures apiece in the next 90 days,” he said. “!at’s an extra 100,000 signatures.”

!e UA group Students for Sensible Drug Policy had

facilitated “educational” fo-rums and signature gathering to help.

“We are going to try to put together some events like a weekend in a di#erent part of

Advocacy Group Ramps Up Medical Marijuana Campaign

by JACK SUNTRUPStaff Writer

see MARIJUANAon page 3

see BREAKSon page 3

see FRATERNITYon page 3

Feds’ Crackdown is a Bummer for Oakland Marijuana UniversityPage 3

Music Festivals Light Up SummerPage 5

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for women. In 2009, the median ages had risen to 28.4 for men and 26.5 for women.

! at is not necessarily the case in Arkansas, however, where the median age of a man at his " rst marriage is 26, and 24 for a woman.

“Typically, like everything else, it’s a lagging factor,” said William Bailey, associate pro-fessor in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College. “We lag behind most of the country.”

Education is another area where Arkansas falls short of the U.S. average. In Arkansas, 19.1 percent of the 25 or older population have a bachelor’s de-gree or higher compared to 27.9 percent nationwide, according to Census data.

“! at would suggest that we forgo college education and marry young, many right out of high school,” Bailey said.

Pemberton and White are an exception.

! ey met in 2007 as fresh-men in the UA Razorback Marching Band. ! ey both played saxophone: he, alto, and she, tenor.

“I did not know he exist-ed, nor did he know I existed,” White said. “We wound up marching beside each other and met on the 20-yard line and it just kind of went from there,” she said. “! at’s where he pro-

posed to me.“! e 20-yard line, that’s

where it all happened.”! ey will have been together

for more than four-and-a-half years when they get married this summer in DeKalb, Texas, White’s hometown.

“I think education is a big deal because it changes a lot of stu# ,” Pemberton said. He will walk during graduation in May, but will " nish his classes in the " rst session of June.

“When my dad and mom were married, they didn’t have a degree, so my mom was able to stay home. Now with us, we’ll both have degrees, we’ll both be able to have jobs, so it’s going to be di# erent for us,” he said.

Arkansas is not the only state where people marry younger than the U.S. average. ! e " ve states with lowest median age at " rst marriage include: Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Utah and Kansas.

! e " ve states with the high-est median age at " rst marriage include: Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and, highest in the U.S., the Dis-trict of Columbia, with the me-dian ages of 32 for men and 30 for women at " rst marriage.

Religion plays a signi" cant role in the reasons many people marry young in Arkansas, Bai-ley said.

“I think one of the reasons people marry early in the state is the pressure from the com-munity, which is driven partly

by religion,” Bailey said, “Essen-tially, people still feel guilty over premarital sex, and to appear that that is appropriate, they get married.”

Couples that marry young tend to have children early in life, have less income and tend to live on the edge of poverty because “they don’t have the motivation to put up with going to school,” he said.

In contrast, couples that are older when they get married tend to live in urban areas, have college degrees, decent salaries and are “looking for opportune relationships” because “they don’t depend on anyone else,” he said.

Additionally, many young adults make the decision to never get married because of past relationships or because of the relationships they saw growing up, he said.

“! ere’s commitment pho-bia for both genders now. ! ey’re coming from families that have been previously di-vorced. ! ey’ve lived in those families, they know those strug-gles and the stress of watching their parents’ problems, and [are] saying, ‘Do I want to have that in my life?’”

Both Pemberton’s and White’s parents married young, they said, hers in their early 20s, his right a$ er high school. Both are still married.

“In my opinion, I think so-ciety has changed marriage and the way it is now,” White said.

White’s beliefs are similar to those of “traditional marriage”, she said, but with a “modern twist”.

“I don’t necessarily believe women should be at home and watch the kids,” she said. “I mean, I have a degree, I’m go-ing to use it.

“I’m not going to let society and society’s views manipulate my way of thinking.”

Despite having few “models of young people having good, strong, committed relation-ships” in today’s society, hope remains in those individuals who make the thoughtful deci-sion to get married, Bailey said.

“! e hope for me is the fact that the people who do decide to get married in the future, be-cause from my point of view that will become fewer and fewer, which means they are unique individuals who will put more e# ort into staying in that relationship,” he said.

During their time togeth-er, Pemberton and White have learned to work through con-% icts, step by step.

“In " ve years [together] there’s been con% icts and you can’t prevent these con% icts; they’re going to happen,” White said. “Con% icts happen between friends, between coworkers and it shouldn’t be any di# erent be-tween a married couple and you have to work through that.”

“You’re marrying your best friend,” Pemberton said. “You’ve got to learn how to argue.”

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MARRIAGEfrom page 1

Facing Fears

LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJunior Emily Edwards uses a liquid chalk provided by the OCC when using the bouldering wall. Liquid chalk, unlike the traditional chalk balls, reduces the risk of inhaling dust and doesn’t create a mess.

NEWS

OAKLAND, Calif. — For the school renowned as the Princeton of Pot and the Har-vard of Hemp, the high times have wa! ed into a downer.

Enrollment has plummeted at Oaksterdam University, the Oakland college that since 2007 has attracted 15,000 students to study cannabis cultivation and related careers, while boosting commerce in one of America’s most pot-friendly cities.

" e pilgrimage for pot scholarship in Oakland is wan-ing as California’s four U.S. at-torneys wage a crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries. And yet, at Oaksterdam and elsewhere in the city, neither fewer students nor heightened federal scrutiny of the canna-bis business seems to be killing Oakland’s vibe for promoting the possibilities of pot.

Despite the closing of hun-dreds of dispensaries else-where in California, Oakland is doubling down. It is seeking to license four new marijuana stores and attract new local pot tax revenue on top of the $1.7 million it gets from its four cur-rent dispensaries.

And Oaksterdam University — with its leafy green “CAN-NA-BIS crest mimicking Har-vard’s crimson VE-RI-TAS seal —was drawing students recent-ly from California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Florida, Wash-ington, Puerto Rico and even Japan.

" e mere prize of an Oak-sterdam diploma was enough for Aats Otoina, 33, a rice and spinach farmer from Chiba, Ja-pan. His country imposes strict penalties for pot possession. Yet Otoina wants to use his status as an Oaksterdam grad to lec-ture on Japan’s cannabis tradi-tions under the ancient Shinto religion.

“You can’t talk about the Japanese spirit without talking about marijuana,” he said.

Puerto Rican-born Jose Al-berto Irizarry enrolled in Oak-sterdam’s $300 weekend semi-nar in cannabis law, cooking and horticulture, convinced that marijuana jobs will survive despite federal property sei-zures of California pot outlets.

Irizarry moved to Oakland a few weeks ago from Florida. He got a California physician’s rec-ommendation for cannabis for anxiety and sleeplessness, and applied on Craigslist for a job delivering marijuana to medi-cal users.

“I’m tenacious,” he said. “Where I come from, it is total-ly illegal. I wouldn’t be able to get an education like this and a job on a regular basis.”

Skittish about exposure, many students who enrolled in the recent Oaksterdam semi-nars would not divulge their full names.

Maya, a Bay Area property manager, said she went to Oak-sterdam to plot a career produc-ing gourmet cannabis products. She listened raptly as professor Sandy Moriarity, acclaimed for “Aunt Sandy’s Medical Mari-juana Cookbook,” taught how to prepare savory chicken and breaded sole with cannabis

# our or butter with just a pinch of hash.

While federal actions target California, Maya said jobs may arise in other states that have legalized medical marijuana. “I’m willing to take a calculated risk,” she said.

Oaksterdam’s enrollment began falling as some Califor-nia cities seemed oversaturated with cannabis businesses. " e number of students dropped sharply last fall when U.S. at-torneys began sending seizure notices to dispensary landlords and threatening cultivators. " e prosecutors claimed Califor-nia’s marijuana industry — sup-posedly nonpro$ t — had been “hijacked by pro$ teers” oper-ating in violation of both state and federal law.

Oaksterdam once ran seven classes, each with 70 students paying $700 to $800 a semes-ter. Now, it has one class of 50. Introductory two-day weekend programs and advanced semi-nars in how to run dispensaries draw about half the peak atten-dance of 120 students.

Some students who do sign up want to hear whether they can even contemplate cannabis careers in the current climate.

“Hell yes, it freaks me out,” said Michael Lewis, 53, refer-ring to the federal crackdown. " e former U.S. Marine and $ re$ ghter at the Alameda Naval Air Station, who said he su% ers from post-traumatic stress and rheumatoid arthritis, helped start a dispensary in Placerville in 2005.

Lewis wants to open a Bay Area medical marijuana deliv-ery service. But he wasn’t get-ting the assurances he wanted, even as faculty members touted the medicinal bene$ ts of can-nabis, advocated for its legal-ization and taught how to grow

plants glistening with potent psychoactive crystals.

James Silva, an Oakland tri-al lawyer specializing in medi-cal marijuana cases, started his Saturday seminar telling his students not to talk freely about what they do. “Please don’t raise your hands and say I’m grow-ing 500 plants in Mendocino,” he said.

Lewis winced as Silva said California’s 1996 medical mar-ijuana law can provide a le-gal defense to prosecution but won’t necessarily keep someone from being arrested or convict-ed for selling pot. Silva added: “" ere is no medical marijua-na defense under federal law. Is that clear to everyone?”

“" is is very, very stressful,” Lewis said.

Richard Lee, who founded Oaksterdam and bankrolled the unsuccessful 2010 ballot measure to legalize pot for adult recreational use in California, characterized down times for his school and livelihood as a mere passage in history.

" e landlord for Lee’s Cof-feeshop Blue Sky dispensary got a letter from San Francis-co-based U.S. Attorney Melin-da Haag, threatening to seize the building unless its mari-juana sales ceased within 1,000 feet of a charter school that had opened years later.

Lee closed his famous down-town Bulldog Co% ee Shop, a popular haven for marijuana smokers under liberal Oak-land laws making pot the low-est priority for police. " e place had stopped operating as a dis-pensary in 2004, but Lee shut it down anyway when a U.S. for-feiture notice scared the build-ing owner.

He moved his one dispen-sary — now called Oaksterdam Blue Sky — to a former college

site that now houses a canna-bis museum. It features hemp product exhibits and a display of turn-of-the century cannabis medicine bottles called “Mari-juana Before the Drug War.”

“I think this thing is just go-ing to be a blip in the overall drug war,” Lee said of the cur-rent battle. “" e big thing now is legalization is almost here.”

His attitude re# ects a city where Mayor Jean Quan hailed Oakland for being in “the fore-

front of the compassionate-use movement” for seeking to li-cense four new dispensaries, even a! er federal threats forced it to junk earlier plans for mas-sive marijuana cultivation cen-ters.

But, notably, Oaksterdam’s lowest-attended seminars on this weekend were on running marijuana dispensaries.

In his “Patients Relations” class, Dave McCullick of the Sonoma Patient Group dispen-

sary in Santa Rosa told students to learn enough about marijua-na varieties to satisfy the “bud snobs.” He urged them to com-fort $ rst-time customers and guide them to less potent pot. He also said this isn’t the time to give up on dispensary ca-reers.

“I would encourage people to go ahead and open them,” McCullick said. “We have to keep taking the $ ght. Revolu-tions do not go backwards.”

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POLITICSSpecial Traveler Beat

and depend on the number of faculty in the college, Gay said. " is year, there are about 45 senators. " e senators have two-year terms and the executives are elected like in Associated Student Government.

“I’m proud to have col-leagues so willing to give up themselves to make this a better place,” Gay said.

" e faculty senate also col-laborates with the university administration, sta% senate and ASG.

“We are part of shared cam-pus governance,” he said.

Last year, the faculty sen-ate made some changes to the academic integrity policy and the student code of conduct and made an overhaul of course evaluations, he said.

" e senate has some plans for changes to be done at the end of the year, Gay said.

" e faculty senate meets about once a month. At the next meeting, the senate will vote about legislation to adjust the break between classes from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.

BREAKSfrom page 1

said he’s happy to see new chapters coming to UA.

“Our numbers contin-ue to grow each year, and we believe it is time for us to expand to provide ad-ditional opportunities for students to be a part of our Greek community. We are excited about expansion,” Machen said.

UA Greek Life informed the public of its wishes to

expand in December and received seven applications from national organiza-tions. " e Interfraternity Expansion Council chose four, which were then in-vited to make formal pre-sentations on campus.

“Several national orga-nizations will be on cam-pus to share what their or-ganizations have to o% er. " e university community is encouraged to attend the presentation and provide feedback during this selec-

tion process,” said Parice Bower, director of Greek Life.

Housing options for the fraternities and how their recruitment processes will begin will be decided a! er the fraternities are chosen.

Daniel Bingham, a se-nior member of Lambda Chi Alpha, said adding new fraternities is good for UA Greek Life.

“Clearly, Greek Life is growing here, and it’s a compliment that so many

new chapters are needed to accommodate the numbers we have coming through recruitment. It also opens up a lot of opportunities for students who may not have been able to pledge otherwise,” Bingham said.

Greek Life o& cials and the Interfraternity Extension Committee will consider all four formal presentations and announce its selection later in the semester.

FRATERNITYfrom page 1

Feds’ Crackdown is a Bummer for Oakland Marijuana University

" e e% ort to get medical marijuana on the ballot in Ar-kansas is approaching a criti-cal phase.

" e advocacy group Ar-kansans for Compassionate Care has yet to reach the half-way mark in their pursuit of 62,500 signatures with a July deadline, leader Ryan Den-ham said.

“We’ve been going at it about 10 or 11 months,” he said. “It’s a lot harder than people realize, how much work is involved to go out and get signatures.”

Because of the lack of sig-natures, Denham has sought to attract volunteers at the university level.

“One of the projects we’ve done to boost numbers up is to get 400 students to get 250 signatures apiece in the next 90 days,” he said. “" at’s an extra 100,000 signatures.”

" e UA group Students for Sensible Drug Policy has facilitated “educational” fo-rums and signature gathering to help.

“We are going to try to put together some events like a weekend in a di% erent part of

the state to go over there and collect signatures,” said group leader Stephen Duke.

While attendance at events has been good—Duke said 450 people showed up to one speech—Denham said stu-dents not switching their reg-istration to Arkansas could be a pitfall in the e% ort.

“A lot of students, who say they’re going to switch over or say they’re going to register don’t ever do it,” Denham said.

“I would like students to be a bigger part of this cam-paign and the vote, however, I don’t really think the students are going to be a very decisive part of that,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean they can’t be.”

" is is not the $ rst time Denham has meddled in drug policy. In 2008, he and other UA students successfully got a city-wide resolution passed stating that misdemeanor amounts of marijuana pos-sessed by adults should be the least of Fayetteville’s worries.

“What we did was sym-bolic, but it still sent a strong message to o& cials,” Denham said. “We called that group Sensible Fayetteville and stu-dents were involved in that on campus.”

Like Sensible Fayetteville,

the resolution is sort of an anomaly in the South, where no states have implemented medical marijuana legislation. Still, Denham is con$ dent that an accurate portrayal of the resolution will lead to its passage.

“I think it’s going to be fairly close, but it will pass,” he said. “It all comes down to how you phrase this thing and how you frame it.”

Framing the ballot mea-sure as a medical issue and not a path to legalization is key, he said.

“We can talk about the full drug war later, but for right now, patients need to be pro-tected,” he said. “Patients need to be taken o% the drug war battle$ eld and if someone has MS, cancer or AIDS, then we need to take care of them right now and make sure they get the medicine and care they need.”

Duke said Arkansas has a chance to be a regional leader on the issue.

“If it were to pass and we were to have medical mari-juana in Arkansas, I think it would be an important $ rst step in removing the stigma associated with medical mari-juana,” Duke said.

MADDIE LOGAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCentury Butterfly, a glass shop, is currently taking signatures for a petition to make medical marijuana legal in Arkansas.

MARIJUANAfrom page 1

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OPINIONPAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012

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Petrino to Make Full Recovery Amid Student Panic

A! er news released that Bobby Petrino, UA head football coach, was involved in a motorcycle accident Sunday, students across our campus panicked for the future of the Razorback foot-ball program. However, as Monday news expanded, reports stated that Petrino is in stable condition and expected to make a full re-covery, according to statements released by his family.

It’s important to note that while most football-loving Razor-back students idolize Petrino and our football team, this time of recovery is crucial to bringing Petrino back well to our campus. Petrino’s family has requested privacy during this time, and stu-dents should be aware of respect this. Students had the opportu-nity to see Coach Petrino in a press conference Tuesday, and can access the video on the Arkansas Razorback website, www.arkan-sasrazorbacks.com. Any additional news will be directed through our athletic director, Je" Long, and will no doubt be passed on to news sources that students can access.

# ough we won’t be seeing Petrino on the $ eld for the next few practices, we can keep him and his family in our thoughts and wish them well. From all of us at the Traveler, we wish Petrino a speedy recovery and look forward to seeing him on the $ eld very soon.

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# e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student classi$ cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri$ cation. Letters should be sent to [email protected].

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Saba NaseemMattie QuinnEmily Rhodes

I like to think that I am a pretty passionate person. In the Traveler office, my fellow editors know not to get me started on a topic because I will give a speech for the whole office on why something is good or bad.

Among the things that I care about is affordable college education. In an age where it is nearly impossible to rise within the ranks without a bachelor’s degree, I believe that anyone who wants higher education should be able to receive it.

Given this information, you may think that I find

the recent tuition increase deplorable. In fact, I find the opposite to be true.

If you don’t know what I am referring to (or if you didn’t pick up Monday’s issue of the Traveler,) let me give you some context.

The System Board of Trustees recently approved a measure that will raise tuition $370 for undergraduates. The reasoning behind this is simply that the cost of running the UA has increased, according to John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for University Relations.

While this may seem like an extremely vague reasoning for pushing up tuition at first glance, I couldn’t agree more.

You would have to be extremely dim not to realize that this university is expanding in ways that many of us cannot even fathom at this current moment.

Construction is everywhere, and while annoying, promises of state-of-the-art, efficient,

‘green’ buildings are waiting for us at the finish line.

Of course I believe that the UA has always been a great school full of tradition and affordable, quality education. However, in more recent years I truly believe that UA has really skyrocketed as a nationally competitive institution others should take note of. And let’s face it, when there are certain non-SEC schools in the Natural State that are fighting tooth-and-nail to get on our level (I’m looking at you, UCA,) it is just necessary to step up our game a little bit.

When discussing the issue of tuition increases, it is important to look it from a national perspective. California universities jumped their tuition 21 percent in the past year. Not far behind California are the University of Arizona and Washington, who raised tuition 17 and 16 percent, respectively. When you look at numbers such as that, a $370 increase doesn’t seem so bad.

The sad truth is that college will probably always be a pricy investment that most of us will be paying off for several years after we get that degree. So of course it is discouraging to hear that students are going to have pay more yet again next year.

However, when it is all said and done, we can say that we went to a nationally competitive research institution that has every opportunity that another (more expensive) state university has. We can only hope that if tuition continues to increase, financial aid opportunities will as well.

Other schools in the state may be less expensive, but other schools are also not the home of the Razorbacks.

Mattie Quinn is a journalism major, and the managing editor.

Her column appears every other Wednesday.

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# ough the opinion page is many times controversial among students, it is important as editors and writers to maintain fair and respectful content to readers. When content becomes o" ensive to students, newspaper sta" must look at whether articles and cartoons should be placed and published.

In current news, o" ensive content through college newspaper editorial cartoons became an issue at several universities last week. # e Daily Texan, the student newspaper at University of Texas-Austin, and the Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina student newspaper, both were scrutinized for their editorial cartoons regarding the Trayvon Martin case. Both schools received backlash from students and alumni upset over the cartoon content, voiced through social media sites, comment sections and letters to the editor.

It’s important, as students and readers, to voice our opinions about articles and cartoons that are controversial, and express what we believe about issues that are written about. As a campus publication, the Traveler not just a place for writers to express their feelings; it’s a place for students to respond and voice their thoughts on what is published. Whether it’s through writing a letter to the editor, commenting on the Traveler website or commenting or liking social media posts through Facebook and Twitter, our newspaper can become a better publication when hearing student suggestions and responses.

Take the time when reading to express your thoughts and opinions about issues that are written in your campus newspaper.

“I think one of the reasons people marry early in the state is the pressure from the

community, which is driven partly by religion. Essentially, people still feel guilty

over premarital sex, and to appear that that is appropriate, they get married.”

- William Bailey, associate professor in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College, “Arkansans Marry

Younger Than National Average,” Page 1

by MATTIE QUINNManaging Editor

From the Managing Editor

Students attending the UA are very blessed. While there has been some talk about tuition rising next year, let us not forget that the Chancellor was able to keep tuition from rising for two years.

When ASG hosted the SEC Exchange, I had the opportunity to talk to student leaders from every school in the SEC. These schools consistently complained that their state legislators were significantly defunding their school and tuition was rising dramatically.

All the while, the fees they were using for student activitites were being taken by the administration to cover other costs. This conversation caused us to take a minute and be thankful for all of the great opportunities the You of A has to offer.

The Distinguished Lectures Committee has brought Rudy Giuliani, President H.W. Bush and His Holiness the Dalai Lama

among others. Headliners Concerts Committee has brought acts such as T.I., Blake Shelton, OAR and is bringing Kid Cudi this semester.

While these big profile events seem to garner the most attention, let us not forget the other events that occur thanks to our student fees, such as printing, Friday Night Live, UP Concerts, all that free food at your RSO meeting and much more.

Many of our student fees are the reason for many of my favorite college memories. My concern for many students is that they pay their student fees and then do not take advantage of all the opportunities the fee money provides.

Whether you think we need more fees to fund new initiatives on campus or you think we have too many already, the fact is you have already paid them so take advantage of it.

For example, if you take 30 hours over the course of this school year, you will have paid nearly $21 for the media fee. This pays for

those “free” copies of the Traveler and the Yearbook.

So go ahead and pick up that paper, take your yearbook photo and get the yearbook when it comes out-you paid for it. When you see the word free on campus, know what free means. For HCC alone, a student enrolled in 15 hours a semester will spend almost $8 a semester.

When you think of it, with all those free events you missed, how much of your spent money did you fail to utilize? So take some time to read through your student fees. You can find a detailed list of these fees in the Catalogue of Studies.

If you have thoughts about how your student fee money is being spent, take advantage of the public access to weekly ASG meetings. Note these meetings occur every Tuesday at 6 p.m.

Next week, the Program Allocations Board will decide how to spend several million dollars of student fee money on next year’s student programs and RSO’s.

Also, many applications to be on the committees that decide individual student fee areas, which are student run, are currently available.

If a particular fee area interests you come up to the ASG office in the 6th floor of the Union and find out how you can get involved with these committees. I hope we have a huge increase in applications for these committees.

The more people who are involved in making these decisions, the better chance we have in effectively using the student fee money. So please take some time to research how much you pay in student fees and get involved with how that money is spent.

Like I said, if you have an opinion on it come to ASG Senate and let your voice be heard. Attend every event you can and get the most out of your student fee money.

Bailey Moll is the ASG secretary for the 2011-2012 year.

Student Fees: Get What You Pay Forby BAILEY MOLLASG Secretary


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It’s ten o’clock on Sunday night, and when the stress of preparing for a midterm the next day is burdening the mind the only thing le! to do is to pull an “all-nighter”. Procrastina-tion is the biggest epidemic in the college student population, and stay-ing up all night to study or " nish an essay has become the normal way to deal with looming deadlines and tests.

However common and seemingly smart it is to stay up all hours to be more prepared for what the follow-ing day of academics bring, stud-ies show that not getting adequate amounts of sleep can actually nega-tively a# ect students’ GPAs.

In 2011 $ e Bullet surveyed 1,125 college students and found that 20 percent of them had pulled at least one “all-nighter” in the last month. Another study performed at St. Law-rence University found that two-thirds of the students surveyed had pulled an “all-nighter” once a semes-ter as found on $ e Bullet website. $ is study also revealed that those students — two-thirds of the popu-lation surveyed — had lower GPAs. Research done by the University of Minnesota found that students who slept less had a grade point average 0.3 points lower than students who did not pull all nighters.

Students who become occasion-al night owls agree that lack of sleep takes a toll on mental concentration in lecture the following day.

“Lack of sleep from the previous night causes me to be not able to fo-cus in class which makes it harder to make good grades in the class,” said

Brian Stallard, freshman civil engi-neering major. “Staying up all night also makes me tired the whole next day making my likelihood to skip class increase.”

College students sleep on aver-age of six to 6.9 hours per night, ac-cording to the New York Times. $ is averaged decreased from measure-ments taken in a 1980s study which found the average sleep amount to be seven to 7.5 hours. $ e typical im-perative amount of sleep required for young adults is eight to 9.25 hours each night.

However, staying up all night is sometimes necessary to " nish school work adequately and on time.

“I’ve only pulled three all-night-ers in my whole college experience, and one of them was due to a group member not " nishing their part of the project in a group of four,” said Michelle Walton, senior computer engineering major. “$ e other group members had to pick up the slack and pull two all-nighters in order to have a chance at " nishing the project within the deadline and to the high standard we wanted.”

Lack of sleep causes irritabili-ty, impatience, and even depression among students while undermining creativity and e% ciency, according to Princeton researchers.

Going to bed and waking up at routine times everyday can also help students manage stress, according to the sta# of the Pat Walker Health Center.

“When I’m tired from the night before I’m very irritable and people should de" nitely not mess with me,” Stallard said.

While the majority of students

will stay up all hours of the night sometime in their college career, the belief that they are essential to the college experience is not held by all.

“Lack of sleep in college is not necessary because if you budget your time properly and start assign-ments at least two days before they are due, you can more than likely get them done and still get a full night’s sleep,” Walton said. “On average I get around nine hours of sleep every night because if not it’s hard to pay attention in class as well, which af-fects my study habits and ultimately test grades.”

But even if good habits are al-ready in place, the likelihood of not getting enough sleep increases the night before a paper due date or as an upcoming test nears.

“I consider myself to be a night owl, but I’m trying to force myself into being more of a morning person so I can do better in school,” Stallard said. “I usually sleep 6 to 7 hours on a normal night, but much less the night before assignments are due.”

So the choice to delay starting homework or studying can deter-mine the amount of sleep a student gets, but regardless of if procrastina-tion is practiced, any college student can attest that 24 hours in a day is just not enough to accomplish daily missions.

“Staying up late is not necessary if you manage your time and devote all of your time toward school, but that’s not all college is about,” Stallard said. “$ e social aspect is part of the col-lege experience, and in order to bal-ance both it may sometimes be nec-essary to stay up late when you don’t need too.”

For the UA horse herd of Arabians, $ oroughbreds, Foxtrotters and Appaloosas, the upcoming Dash 4 Cash 5k fundraiser will provide a liveli-hood.

$ e Razorback Roundup Auction in November will be the fruit of the D.E. Equine Pro-gram’s hard work. Community members can donate and pur-chase healthy horses to bene" t the program a! er students and sta# of the Dale Bumpers Col-lege care for the horses.

$ e 5k event will be held at the University of Arkansas AGRI Park Pavilion and Whita-ker Arena on April 7, along with the one-mile dog walk. Proceeds will go to the care of the UA Horse Herd and to the Humane Society of the Ozarks.

All ages are welcome, and there is an equal opportunity for everyone to receive prizes over the course of both events.

$ e sta# at the Dale Bum-pers Animal Science Program hopes to aid the already sterling reputation of the Equine Pro-gram, and assist with the care of animals in the area in any way they can.

Kathi Jogan, the barn man-ager for the event, is optimistic about the fundraiser. “Basically, we just want people to enter,” she said. “Any support that can be given will be helpful, and the proceeds will take care of the herd and the animals at the Hu-mane Society.”

$ e UA Horse Herd con-sists of many di# erent kinds of horses, including Palominos, Quarter Horses and Paints. $ e horses have all been donated by members of the community, and require ample amounts of food, grooming and care. $ e fundraisers aim to supply all of that.

“We need to give the hors-es food, shots and vaccinations throughout the year,” Jogan said. “$ e Horse Festival on

April 13 is a great way to bring the community together even more, and the auction shows o# the horses in November.”

Partnering with the Hu-mane Society is a way for the program to further their com-munity-oriented agenda.

“We want to help the hors-es, but there are a lot of ani-mals in need, and most of the programs that take the time to care for them are self-funded,” Jogan said. “$ at’s why it’s so helpful to give donations or get involved in any way.”

Optimism and involvement in the programs by communi-ty members is a sure" re way to make a di# erence.

“You really don’t have to do all that much,” Jogan said. “Honestly, any help that people can provide is helpful, even if it doesn’t seem like a life-altering decision, it is.”

Entrance forms can be found on the events website, for $25, and the awards ceremony will take place a! er both of the events. As long as the dogs are friendly with each other and have proof of rabies vaccina-tion, they are more than wel-come to come.

Licious, the miniature horse who doubles as the mascot for the Equine Program, will at-tend the 5k and one-mile dog walk, and pictures can be taken with the horse at the end of the events.

Dash 4 Cash fundraisers have been held from the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the Universi-ty of Minnesota Duluth for all kinds of di# erent causes, and the D.E. Equine Program hopes the turnout for theirs will rival those across the country.

“People are already coming out of the woodwork to help out the program and its horses, and the animals at the Humane Society,” Jogan said. “We’re al-ready on course to raise a lot of money, and hopefully the com-munity will prove once again how strong it is.”

It is that time of year again when music is in the air, and plenty of it. RVs from all over the United States will be streaming into music festivals for tunes, camaraderie and partying.

For die-hard music fans with above average endurance and a healthy passion for the arts, music festivals are the quintessential live show expe-rience. Some, like the grass-roots festival Wakarusa, are just around the corner. Others require a little more traveling.

Wakarusa boasts an amaz-ing 2012 lineup and beautiful scenery, with artists like Pret-ty Lights, the Avett Brothers, and Matisyahu combining to light up the outdoors at Mul-berry Mountain in Ozark, Ark. Dance music, rock and coun-try all coalesce to provide ex-citement for fans of any genre.

$ is Midwest classic moved from its origins near Law-rence, Kan., for a more breath-taking vista. Camping and par-tying have never been more re-laxing, and every fan that has attended Wakarusa can testify to that.

“I can’t stress enough how

awesome ‘Rusa is,” said Mike Bay, a junior majoring in Eng-lish. “$ ere’s a bunch of great bands for four days, and every-one is friendly to their camp-ing neighbors.”

$ e amalgam put on dis-play on May 31 will inevitably be one of the highlights of the year for music, with travelers converging from all over the country, especially from the South and Midwest.

“You meet a lot of peo-ple during the weekend,” Bay said. “As with any music festi-val, there’s people from all over the country, so it’s a really eye-opening experience.”

$ e four-day, three-night festival known as Bonaroo has become a legend in the music festival world. Lineups consis-tently rivaling that of a mod-ern-day Woodstock and fresh Tennessee air provide one of the most epic experiences for live show fans.

Joey Wilson, a freshman from Hamilton, N.Y., is one of the distant travelers who has attended Bonaroo.

“Oh man, it’s absolutely amazing,” Wilson said. “$ ree nights of dancing, and you still want more when it’s over.”

Stamina plays a large part in surviving music festivals,

and Wilson has advice for the rookie.

“Bring plenty of water, try to get at least four hours of sleep each night, and save your best dance moves for your fa-vorite bands,” Wilson said.

$ e lineup this year is headlined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish and Radiohead, while talent like the Beach Boys, Fun and the Shins will be lighting up the stages also.

Wilson loves the Bonaroo lineup every year. “Dave Mat-

thews and the Kings of Leon were de" nitely the best last year," he said. “I can’t wait for the Chili Peppers this year, it’s going to be epic, guaranteed.”

Bonaroo begins on $ urs-day, June 7 and continues un-til Sunday, June 12. Although tickets can be pricey, the pleth-ora of talented bands attending will be well worth the money.

Some fans like music festi-vals. Others love them. For the latter group of hardcore trav-elers, Coachella is the apex of

music festival magic. $ e west coast sensation attracts head-liners who electrify the Cali-fornia atmosphere every year.

Indio, Calif., has casinos, the outdoors and a multitude of stages for the impressive 2012 lineup. $ e Black Keys, Radiohead, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the Shins have all agreed to make the trip on April 13 for the two-weekend show.

While the distance is a lit-tle more intimidating, peren-

nials at Coachella like Travis Barker, the drummer for Blink 182 and Angels and Airwaves, always have something unique to make every year unforget-table.

$ ose who love music in any shape or form and don’t mind making a trip to see it live cannot a# ord to miss the music festivals the country has to o# er this summer. Wheth-er right around the corner or 1,000 miles away, there’s a show for every fan.

If You Don’t Snooze, You Lose—The Dangers of All-Nighters

by STEPHANIE EHRLERStaff Writer

Aiding the Animals throughRunning and Dog Walking

by MIKE MAHARDYStaff Writer

Music Festivals to Light Up Summerby MIKE MAHARDY

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudies show that the human body needs a daily minimum of six to eight hours of sleep in order to function properly, getting less can deteriorate a persons health in the long term.

BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITORBassnectar performs at Wakarusa last year. Wakarusa is a four-day music festival located near Ozark, Ark. Previous headliners include The Flaming Lips, Wilco and The Black Keys.

“Three nights of dancing, and you still want more when it’s over.”

- Joey Wilson

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Q: When should you charge a battery?

A: When you can’t pay cash.

Kentucky coach John Calipari finally got one.

The way things look, it could be the first of many championships for the out-spoken recruiting guru of college basketball.

For Calipari, his unorth-odox method is where its starts.

Recruiting the new-age “one-and-done” college bas-ketball player is his exper-tise.

Anthony Davis and Mi-chael Kidd-Gilchrist are just the latest players in the Calipari sweepstakes. If the Wildcats tandem declares for the 2012 NBA Draft, Da-vis will go No. 1 and MKG No. 2, ESPN.com’s Chad Ford writes.

While college basketball fans point to other reasons why the Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 67-59, look no further than Kentucky hav-ing the two best amateur players in the entire nation.

Add in a pin-point shoot-er in sophomore Doron Lamb along with a mani-mal, as I call him, in soph-omore Terrance Jones and the Wildcats earned Calipa-ri his first NCAA Champi-onship after never reaching the goal with talented teams in the past.

Calipari doesn’t have to worry about scandals at pre-vious coaching stops any-more.

Players the caliber of Marcus Camby at UMass and Derrick Rose at Mem-

phis want to come to the basketball mecca Universi-ty of Kentucky. They don’t have to be ineligible or il-legally recruited to end up playing in front of Big Blue Nation.

Calipari has mastered the art of recruiting and his suc-cess will only continue.

The Wildcats will prob-ably lose four or five players from their starting lineup, but are ready to reload next season.

Kentucky already has commits from blue-chip prospects Archie Goodwin and Alex Poythress, as well as four-star 7-foot center Willie Cauley, according to Rivals.com.

Not to mention, Cali-pari and the Wildcats are still in contention for the unanimous No. 1 prospect in the nation, Shabazz Mu-hammed.

If college basketball’s OG –– original gangster ––! Calipari can find a way to persuade Muhammed to don the blue and white in the commonwealth, the Wildcats will be among the handful of favorites to cut down the nets again in 2013.

Goodwin, already draw-ing comparisons to NBA Finals MVP and All-NBA guard Dwayne Wade, is a game-changer that will slide right into one of the starting spots left vacant by MKG or Doron Lamb if both or either declare for the NBA Draft.

Goodwin has slasher, shooter and go-to playmak-er skills all wrapped into one. Poythress is a solid of-fensive and defensive threat at power forward, which is bound to be available with Davis and Jones likely early entrants into the NBA Draft.

Cauley is still a bit raw, but his talent and size will be an undeniable advantage

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Track Freshmen Make ImpactTRACK

Arkansas’ men’s track team has already gotten big results from one of the last year’s highest-rated recruit-ing classes.

Freshman pole vaulter Andrew Irwin was the in-door national champion and has set indoor and outdoor records. He is the headliner of the class, but he isn’t the only one making an impact for the Razorbacks.

Freshman Gunnar Nix-on had a huge debut for the Hogs, breaking the 6,000 point mark in the heptath-lon and setting a junior world indoor heptathlon record in his first meet be-fore placing in the top 10 at the NCAA Indoor Champi-onship.

Another freshman, Pat-rick Rono, was a part of the distance medley relay team that went to nationals and won the 800-meter relay in the outdoor opener for the Hogs.

“We’ve got a pretty good freshman class,” Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam said. “Our freshman class has really done an outstand-ing job. You look at Patrick Rono, you look at Andrew Irwin, you look at Gunnar Nixon, across the board. That freshman class is do-

ing a good job and compet-ing hard and showing a lot of promise.”

Arkansas’ current re-cruiting class has been ranked in the top five of the early publications.

Sutej Stays Strong

Senior pole vaulter Tina Sutej has been consistently great for Arkansas’ women’s track team.

She has set NCAA re-cords, won two national championships and earned points for the Razorbacks when they needed it most. Coming off of her second indoor national champi-onship, Sutej won the pole vault at the Texas Relays for the second year in a row while setting a meet record.

“Tina is the consum-mate competitor,” Arkansas coach Lance Harter said. “She keeps everything in fo-cus. It doesn’t matter what the conditions are, what the competition is what situ-ation might arise, she just figures out a way to mas-ter it and move forward ac-cordingly. To be undefeated in any event in track and field is a very difficult situ-ation.”

Sutej isn’t the only

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore shortstop Clarissa Navarro leads the team in batting average, doubles and stolen bases but the Razorbacks have lost 14 of their last 16 games and have a 2-12 record in Southeastern Conference play.

S o f t b a l l S k i dArkansas’ softball

team left Louisiana af-ter last weekend after be-ing swept in a tough three-game series against LSU.

The Razorbacks (18-14, 2-10 Southeastern Con-ference) have lost sev-en consecutive conference games, eight overall, in their current skid. Arkan-sas one-run games on Fri-day and Sunday, sandwich-ing a 9-1 loss on Saturday.

“On Friday and Sunday I thought we competed very well and we knew going in that runs were going to be hard to come by,” Arkansas coach Mike Larabee said.

The Tigers scoring at the bottom of the seventh in-ning for the only run Friday.

“That’s just a clas-sic fast pitch softball game,” Larabee said.

Junior pitcher Chel-sea Cohen lost, but had a strong outing with sol-id defense behind her.

“Chelsea has come so far since last year,” Larabee said. “She stayed here for summer school this past summer and worked hard at her pitching and I think that is a big part of her success this season.”

At the end of last sea-son, Cohen struck up a 6.75 ERA. This season,

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino speaks at a news conference Tuesday, April 3, 2012 after being released from a hospital following his Sunday motorcycle accident.

Coach in neck brace, badly bruised after wreck

Petrino Feels “Very Lucky”

Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino watched prac-tice in the Reynolds Razorback Stadium press box on Tuesday a" ernoon, less than 48 hours a" er he was hospitalized fol-lowing a Sunday night motor-cycle accident.

It will take Petrino a while to recover from the injuries sustained in the crash, though, including four broken ribs in his upper chest, a cracked or broken C2 vertebrae and nu-merous cuts and bruises.

Petrino was wearing a neck brace and still had a badly bruised face when he spoke at a Tuesday a" ernoon press con-ference before football practice. Despite his injuries, he was able to walk without assistance and didn’t show signs of pain.

“I am very fortunate and feel very lucky to be here and be in good health,” he said.

Petrino will likely be in the neck brace “one to two” weeks, he said. He didn’t rule out rid-ing a motorcycle again, though.

“I can’t say that I’m not go-ing to ride a motorcycle again,” Petrino said. “Because I might do that.”

He was released from a Phy-sicians Specialty Hospital in Fayetteville around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, met with senior asso-ciate athletic director John Fagg around 2:20 p.m. in the Broyles Center and then went to the team’s meeting rooms, he said.

“I love our sta# ,” Petrino said. “I think they’ve done an excellent job. I have complete con$ dence that any time I step out of the room that they’re running it just like it should be ran.”

Petrino said he will “be up early” Wednesday to work, but athletic director Je# Long said he wants the coach to take time to make a full recovery.

“I want him to make sure he takes the time to heal prop-erly,” Long said. “We’ll be ad-vising him along the way. Now, whether he takes that advice or not that remains to be seen.”

With Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino con$ ned to the press box at practice Tuesday, young-er brother and o# ensive coordi-nator Paul Petrino led practice on the $ eld.

Having his older brother in the stadium less than $ ve hours a" er being released from the hospital following a Sunday motorcycle accident wasn’t sur-prising to Paul Petrino, though.

“He is a Petrino,” Paul said. “He is tough and I never had any doubt that he was going to be here. Most people would have been, but there was no doubt he was going to be here.”

Petrino had a walkie-talk-ie in the press box to commu-nicate with the coaches on the $ eld.

“Anytime there was some-thing he didn’t like that was go-ing on he would communicate it to us and we would get it $ xed right away,” Paul Petrino said.

Returning to practice with cracked vertebrae, four broken ribs and a sprained neck isn’t

the toughest thing Paul Petrion has seen his brother do before.

“I have seen him do some other tougher things,” Paul Petrino said. “I have seen him play a game with a blown out knee in college. I have seen him do a lot of tough things, but there was no question he would be here.”

% e single-vehicle motor-cycle wreck occurred Sunday evening near the town Crosses, about 23 miles southeast of Fay-etteville.

Players like junior running back Knile Davis found out the news about his coach via social networking.

“I found out through Twit-ter,” Davis said. “I saw a lot of trending topics and he was a trending topic. I text him and was like ‘I am praying for you. How are you doing, are you okay?.’ % en he texted me back and was like ‘I am doing $ ne.’”

Hearing the news was hard for senior quarterback Tyler Wilson.

Players, Coaches React to Petrino Injury

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas pole vaulter Andrew Irwin has set both the outdoor and indoor pole vault school records for the Hogs during his freshman season, but isn’t the only freshman contributing heavily for the Razorbacks in 2012.

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by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

by ZACH TURNERAsst. Sports Editor

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for the Wildcats, especially in the Southeastern Confer-ence.

With Arizona having all but locked up the nation’s No. 1 overall recruiting class by signing three of the top 10 players in the nation, ac-cording to Scout.com, Ken-tucky could pull down the nation’s No. 2 class.

This season, Calipari was able to put together all the pieces necessary to be the best college team in the na-tion from start to finish.

Attribute that to senior leadership of Darius Miller

and experienced McDonalds All-Americans like Jones and Lamb returning for their sophomore seasons.

The recipe for success was perfect.

I am confident Calipari will get Lamb and poten-tially freshman point guard Marquis Teague to return, returnees who would give the Wildcats a similar roster to this season.

Sharpshooting 3-point specialist Kyle Wiltjer will return with more muscle and skill than he had during his freshman year to com-plement the overload of tal-ent on the Kentucky roster next season.

Calipari just laid the sol-id foundation to building an empire in college basketball and did it with the best col-lege basketball recruiting strategy in the nation.

In three seasons at Ken-tucky, Calipari and the Wildcats have gone from an Elite 8 to a Final Four to a national title.

Next stop ––!best believe Calipari has already made reservations for Atlanta, the site of the 2013 Final Four.

Zach Turner is the assis-tant sports editor for The Ar-kansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday. Follow him on Twitter @zw-turner.

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standout pole vaulter for Arkansas, though.

Senior Tara Diebold has had plenty of success, too, despite being overshad-owed by Sutej. Diebold has finished near the top of the rankings in the vault just as consistently as Sutej.

Together, the duo is the most successful pole vault-ing team in the nation. Sutej is a first-team All-American and Diebold is a second-teamer.

Pole vault coach Bryan Compton won the Colle-giate Pole Vault Coach of the year award during the indoor season thanks in large part to the work of Sutej and Diebold.

Long Road to Califor-nia

After the weekend open-er for the outdoor season Arkansas will travel to Cal-ifornia.

Both men’s and women’s Razorbacks teams will be competing against some of the toughest competition they will face all season. Neither program will be taking the full team.

Arkansas men’s track will be focusing on their middle distance and dis-tance crew, entering the 800-meter, 1,500-meter, 5,000-meter and the 3,000 meter steeplechase.

“We’re used to going out to Palo Alto,” Bucknam said. “So we don’t think it’s

going to have a great effect. We’re taking our middle distance and distance run-ners out there. We did run some of them this weekend in some odd events. We will continue to run them every weekend.”

The women will be tak-ing and the 400-meter relay team.

“I think there’s no doubt when you look at national polls and things like that, they’re reflective of the summation of all the in-dividual events,” Harter said. “We haven’t even run a third of our athletes. This is the weekend when some of our younger kids make their debut. Obviously we’ll pop right up in the nation-al rankings and help the whole team score.”

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she has lowered it to 2.95.Sophomore Clarisa

Navarro has been sol-id at the plate and de-fensively this year.

“As far as defensively, a lot of her errors are on rou-tine stuff,” Larabee said. “But I do not think there is a more athletic short-stop in the country. She has a very bright future, she keeps working hard, but she does need to get more con-sistent with routine plays.”

Navarro is hitting .355 batting this season.

“Sunday’s game was an-

other great game with a couple of controversial calls in the bottom of the sixth inning which may have cost us the game,” Lara-bee said. “I felt very well about their performance and our team competed well.”

This weekend, the Ra-zorbacks will take on Mis-sissippi State with a dou-bleheader on Friday and one game on Saturday.

“We need to get our pitch-ers to throw well enough to give us a chance to win the game,” Larabee said.

Routine plays on de-fense and timely hitting is the key to winning this weekend, Larabee said.

“We have got to do a bet-ter job executing the short game when we get the oppor-tunities,” Lara bee said. “It’s a big series this weekend.”

The Razorbacks have just two SEC wins, but Missis-sippi State has just three.

“We need to put ourselves in the position to get into the SEC tournament, and winning this weekend will be a big help,” Larabee said.

The SEC Tournament only allows the top eight teams to participate. Arkansas is last.

“We do not have any mid-week games this week, so we are going to be able to have three days of sol-id practice,” Larabee said.

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Monday night, Petrino went over grades from the Razor-backs’ Friday scrimmage with brother and o" ensive coordi-nator Paul Petrino.

“I was able to go through everything,” Petrino said. “Last night, helped with the practice schedule with him in … the hospital.”

Petrino revealed he wasn’t wearing a helmet during the wreck on Highway 16, just outside the town Crosses and about 20 miles southeast of Fayetteville.

“# e ironic thing is we were sitting there in the kitchen, (wife) Becky and I,” Petrino said. “I had two helmets out and I said ‘# is one’s going to be really heavy and hot. # is one makes me look like a cone head. I think I’ll just go with the hat.’ Obviously a bad call. We wouldn’t have converted the third down.”

Petrino joked several times about the wreck and his condi-tion.

“I don’t think I have any brain damage, but that’s yet to be seen,” he said. “If I start not punting at all in the games or something, then we’ve got a problem.”

# ere is nothing in Petri-no’s contract about riding mo-torcycles or wearing motorcy-cle helmets. Arkansas doesn’t have a state law requiring mo-torcyclists to wear helmets.

“He has the right to enter-tain himself,” Long said. “Cer-tainly would wish he’d wear a helmet, but that’s his decision. I think you heard today that in the future he will.”

Petrino had blood tests done following the crash.

“I absolutely had nothing to drink,” Petrino said. “I spent the day at the lake with my wife working. She works me hard when I’m up there, but I abso-lutely had no alcohol in my sys-tem.”

As of Tuesday night, the po-lice report for the wreck hadn’t been released. Arkansas State Police policy allows two to three working days for troop-ers to submit reports.

Petrino wrecked on his way back from a short ride Sunday night as the sun was setting, he said.

“I didn’t feel like I was speeding,” Petrino said. “I felt like I was going the same speed that I did when I maneuvered through those turns going that way. # e last thing I remember was looking up at the sun and saying, ‘Oh, I’m going to have the sun in my eyes the whole way back.’ # en there was a gust of wind that came up. Whether that did it, I don’t know.”

A$ er wrecking, a “lady was there that had % agged down a car”, Petrino said.

“# e guy that was in the passenger seat said, ‘Get in, we’ll just take you right to the hospital instead of waiting,’” Petrino said. “So I got in the car

and they headed towards Fay-etteville.”

Once in the car, Petrino got a call from state trooper Lance King, who works as a team se-curity guard, to arrange a meet-ing point, Petrino said. A$ er meeting, King drove Petrino took the hospital.

Team doctor Chris Arnold was in Fort Smith when the ac-cident occurred, but “made all the arrangements” at the hospi-tal, Petrino said. Multiple sur-geons aided Petrino when he arrived.

“# ey were ready to go right when I hit the hospital,” Petri-no said. “We had the surgeon that did surgery on my neck last spring there, we had a plas-tic surgeon who stitched me up, Doctor Arnold checking other areas. So it was quite an amazing medical sta" that they put together in such a short pe-riod of time.”

Long was in New Orleans for the Final Four and didn’t find out about the accident until 1 a.m. Monday.

“In those immediate hours, you’re concerned and you don’t know what the status is and my being not in town made it amplified for me,” Long said.

He visited Petrino in the hospital Monday afternoon and said Petrino looked “much better” Tuesday than he did Monday.

“I would not question his toughness and I’m sure his players don’t either,” Long said.

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“It is tough when you hear someone you are close to and work with every day got in an accident,” Wilson said. “# at is never good, but I am glad he is OK.”

Davis, Wilson and the rest of the team were addressed by their head coach prior to the start of practice.

“I didn’t know he owned a motorcycle, so I was shocked because it kind of came out of the blue,” Davis said. “Coach preaches about being tough and he had a cracked vertebra and still stood up in front of the team and addressed us. # at shows how tough he is.”

Paul Petrino is entering his third overall season as the Hogs’ o" ensive coordinator, but his

& rst since returning in Decem-ber from a two-year stint at the same position for Illinois.

“I thought Paul Petrino did a good job of stepping in and keeping practice going as usu-al,” Davis said. “We know how to practice, whether he is here or not, and is it our job to have a good practice and we did that today.”

# e Razorbacks practiced for the & rst time this week and the & rst time since the & rst scrimmage of spring practice on Friday.

“You can always tell when there is an absence, especially of the head man,” Wilson said. “I thought practice ran smooth though and that is what you like to see.”

# e timetable for Petrino’s return the & eld is still uncertain.

“I think he is anxious to get

better and in time he will,” Wil-son said. “He is just happy to be in the shape he is.”

Peacock Back A! er Sus-pension

Arkansas senior o" ensive lineman Jason Peacock re-turned to practice Tuesday be-ing suspended following an ar-rest on a felony the$ charge be-fore spring break.

# e 6-foot-4, 305-pound of-fensive tackle was arrested on March 16 a$ er using a stolen credit card to buy gas.

“He was out there practicing today,” Paul Petrino said.

Peacock played in all 13 games last season as a junior a$ er transferring from Citrus Community College in Califor-nia.

Petrino wouldnt comment any further on the status of Pea-cock because of team rules.

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