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Holiday Spirit on the SquareFamilies, couples and college students are drawn to downtown Fayetteville to view the 400,000 Christmas lights that adorn the square.Full Story, Page 2

Long Concludes Eight-Month Search For nearly eight months, UA athletic director Je! Long searched for a new head coach at Arkansas. He found his man in Bret Bielema.

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!e light is at the end of the tunnel. Classes for the fall 2012 semester will be over today, with only "nal exams separating students from a well-deserved winter break. Whether this is the "rst semester down or the penultimate se-mester before graduation, Dead Day Eve is the traditional "nal night of fun before the big tests. It’s like Mardi Gras before Lent — a night of de-pravity before a long, sobering period of sacri-"ce. !ere are drink specials, music and plays. Cut loose before you buckle down.

Dickson StreetRegular !ursday night drink specials and

happy hours on Dickson Street apply for Dead Day Eve, and chances are most people are al-ready a little too familiar with them. King"sh has $1 cans and $5 shots of Jack Daniel’s Ameri-can Honey, as is the case every day. Buster Bel-ly’s has $2.50 well drinks and $2.50 domestic beers. Dickson Street Pub has $3 dra#s. Smoke and Barrel has half-price wells, martinis and specialty drinks.

Grub’s Bar and Grille has a special Dead Day Eve promotion that pays to show up early. Wells and domestic dra#s are $1 from 10-11 a.m., $2 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., and $3 from 12-2 p.m. In addition, Mickey Finn’s Irish Pub has $2.50 wells and domestic dra#s. For a more com-plete list of drink specials, the Fayetteville Flyer maintains a Deals & Specials tab on its website, fayetteville$yer.com. !ey even send deals di-rect to Twitter under the handle @fvilledeals.

For something to listen to while sipping on the cheap drinks, there is no shortage of op-tions. Legacy Blues has blues guitarist Cadillac Jackson on Dead Day Eve with no cover. Damn

Arkansan and Hot Shot Karate will be at Smoke and Barrel, and the cover is a mere $3. On Satur-day night, the bar hosts metal band Eyes of Iron with Sound of the Mountain. Again for a $3 cover, catch Rhythm Dragons on Sunday night. Rogue has Je% Kearney on Friday and a John Lennon tribute show “Shine On” on Saturday.

Fayetteville’s own self-described “rocker, poet, bohemian and musician” Benjamin Del Shreve is releasing his new acoustic album, “!e Diamond,” and on Friday night, George’s will be having a CD release party. Del Shreve has long been a local favorite, and his show won’t disap-point. To get a preview of his acoustic e%orts, check out “Girl From Spain” on his 2007 album “Brilliant & Charming” or “Guardian Angel” on

2010’s “Sleeping Sweetly.” Based on those two songs alone, an entire acoustic album is going to be worth listening to. All of Del Shreve’s work is catchy and emblematic of the talent the city of Fayetteville nurtures. Tickets are $7 at the door, or $9 online.

!e weirdest event for the weekend is Sat-

urday night’s Dime-bag Darrel Tribute

Show at George’s. For only $8 in

advance or $10 at the

door, you can catch acts covering Pantera en homage to the late guitarist. If you’re willing to commit, this might be the most promising peo-ple-watching event since Wakarusa. Far From Driven, a Pantera cover band, will be playing a set alongside other metal bands 90 lb. Wrench, Hellbeast and Eye For A Lie.

PlaysPerhaps an intellectual stimulant is in or-

der a#er a weekend full of swilling depressants. If that is the case, the Walton Arts Center has “Billy Elliott: !e Musical,” and !eatreSquared has Tennessee William’s “Period of Adjust-ment.” “Billy Elliott,” the movie, tells the story of a kid who wants to dance ballet instead of box, and the stage adaptation won 10 Tony awards in 2009, according to the Walton Arts Center. Tickets aren’t cheap at $59, but the big Broad-way shows in Fayetteville are usually pricey. !ere are 8 p.m. shows !ursday-Sunday, and matinees at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

“Period of Adjustment,” according to !e-atreSquared, is William’s only comedy. !e play tells the story of a newlywed couple’s "rst Christmas together, and is rarely performed. “Period of Adjustment” runs !ursday-Satur-day at 7:30, with two performances on Sunday at 2:00 and 7:00. General admission tickets start at $15. !eatreSquared o%ers a program called 30 under 30, with 30 tickets reserved for people under the age of 30 for only $10 apiece. It’s just $10, and perfect for a date, or if you just want to feel cultured. Ticketing information for both plays can be found at waltonartscenter.org.

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Bret Bielema’s seven-year tenure as the Wisconsin football team’s head coach came to a sudden, unexpected end Tuesday when he was hired by the Arkansas Razorbacks, throwing the UW program into a state of tur-moil four weeks before the Badgers face Stanford in the Rose Bowl.

At a team meeting Tuesday eve-ning at Camp Randall Stadium, Bielema told players directly he would not be coaching the team in Pasadena, Calif. Jan. 1, according to a source with knowledge of the meet-ing.

Yahoo! News "rst reported the hiring early Tuesday a#ernoon.

“He just expressed that it was the best opportunity for him,” redshirt junior center and team captain Tra-vis Frederick told reporters outside the stadium a#er the team meeting. “I think everybody faces choices in life and you have to do what’s best for you. I think he’s done tremendous things for the program and I think

he’s le# us in a good spot.”!e meeting lasted around ten

minutes. At 6:13 p.m., UW o%ensive coordinator Matt Canada le# the complex. He declined to comment.

Over the next 45 minutes, players "ltered out, mostly in groups. Some

declined to comment, though Fred-erick and injured redshirt freshman quarterback Joel Stave each brie$y addressed reporters.

“It was emotional,” Stave said of

Badgers Moving on After Bielema Bolts for ArkansasParker GabrielFrom the Daily Cardinal

Ryan Miller Sta! PhotographerBret Bielema and his wife Jen call the hogs along with media and supporters Tuesday night after being introduced as the University of Arkansas’ new head football coach.

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Arkansas athletic director Je% Long introduced the new head foot-ball coach to trustees and media at a press conference Wednesday a#er-noon.

It streamed online and on loca l television stations for fans to watch as well.

Bret Bielema ended his seven-year term with the Wisconsin Bad-gers Tuesday, yet he did not break stride when addressing questions about his former team and his dedi-cation to the Razorbacks.

“What today brings is an oppor-tunity for me to stand in front of you and chase a dream,” Bielema said.

Bielema did not specify what the dream was, but expressed more than once that he wanted to be at a place where he could do something that had never been done before.

Living in a state with no profes-sional sports teams and no other di-vision one college programs makes Razorback fans a passionate group, and that is something that has Bielema excited to be here, he said.

“From this day forward we will do nothing but as players and coaches

to try to give you every win you de-serve,” Bielema said.

A large part of the battle in col-lege football is recruiting quality athletes, and there was some con-cern from fans about Bielema’s abil-ity to recruit in the South.

However, Bielema’s teams have featured multiple players out of south Florida and Texas. One of the things Bielema said he will empha-size in recruiting is putting a focus not on the player, but on the person.

“We’ll recruit uncommon men here,” Bielema said.

Since the hire was made, there has been speculation about what members of the current sta% will be retained what new faces will be brought in.

Bielema said he will talk with each member of the current sta% before making any kind of decision about who will be on the sta% going forward. He did say that the admin-istration at Arkansas will make it possible to hire a top notch sta%.

“!e sta% that I’m going to assem-ble is going to be second to none,” Bielema said.

Bielema said he le# a great place, but the opportunity to coach in the Southeastern Conference, especially at Arkansas could not be passed up.

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During the holiday season, families, couples and college students are drawn to down-town Fayetteville to view the 400,000 Christmas lights that adorn the square until Dec. 31.

Lights of the Ozarks started in 1994 as a way to increase the human resources tax during the winter months, said Byron Humphrey, parks and mainte-nance superintendent for the parks and recreation division of the city of Fayetteville. It was also a way to attract visitors to Fayetteville and to provide citi-zens with a light display.

A committee of three people was formed to start planning a city-wide lighting project. !e committee recruited businesses from the airport to the mall and sold lights door-to-door en-couraging people to participate in the lighting of northwest Ar-kansas.

On the Saturday before !anksgiving, a "re truck be-gan at the airport, and business-es along the way turned on their lights as the "re truck passed, Humphrey said. A holiday pa-rade, choir performances and a VW show accompanied the "rst lighting of the square.

A sound system was added to the square so music could be

played, and the display became centered on the square through-out the years, Humphrey said.

“!e community loves it,” he said. “We get many compli-ments each year.”

An estimated 300,000 peo-ple attend the event every year, and around $100,000 is spent, Humphrey said. !e city pays for all costs associated with the lighting display. !e Advertis-ing and Promotion Commis-sion paid $15,000 for the pur-chase of the lights and, in recent years, replaced old lights with brighter, more e#cient LED lights, he said.

“It’s crazy to think how all that gets put together,” said Micah Hampton, international relations major in Russian stud-ies. “It seems like back-breaking labor.”

Visitors to the square can purchase hot chocolate or take pony, camel or carriage rides for an additional charge. Car-olers and holiday vendors are also present, making the square a prime date night or group outing spot for students, Hum-phrey said.

!e Lights of the Ozarks parade was organized by the UA hospitality and events class to kick o$ the lighting of the square.

Kodi Wilson, freshman ki-nesiology major, saw the lights for the "rst time with a group

of friends during the opening parade. She said it brought back the magic of Christmas that she felt as a child. Watching the joy on the children’s faces as the square lit up was her favorite part, Wilson said.

“All the kids that partici-pated—their faces—it was so sweet,” Wilson said. “I would have loved to have done some-thing like that when I was a kid.”

For Hampton, the lighting of

the square symbolizes a time to be with family and friends. She remembers her mom and her sister going to the lighting of the square every year.

“I associate the lights with the joy of being with people that I love and enjoying each other’s company,” she said. “I think they’re pretty adorable. It’s interwoven into my Christ-mas time, and it’s something I always look forward to.”

Holiday Spirit on the Square

Aneeka Majid Sta" PhotographerLana Sheikha (left) and Saba Kouchehbagh (right) enjoy the lights at the Downtown Fayetteville Square, Sunday, December 2. !e Lights of the Ozarks is a holiday event held every year.

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Students may soon be able to receive doctor’s notes from Pat Walker Health Center a%er a proposal was passed by As-sociated Student Government Tuesday night.

Senators also proposed to add vending machines in Mullins Library, add café fur-niture to the terrace above the new Hillside Auditorium and designate speci"ed quiet and group study areas in Mullins Library, among other legisla-tion.

It is medical protocol to provide a doctor’s note for pa-tients that may require time o$ from work or school, and the UA’s Pat Walker Health Center does not permit their doctors to write doctor’s notes, accord-ing to the bill.

“Such a restriction poses

potential academic hardship on a student who is too ill to attend class,” according to the bill, which was authored by Sen. Alex Parish. “We, as stu-dents, pay and expect our doc-tors to follow protocol that is consistent with other schools and medical clinics…ASG Senate requests that the Pat Walker Health Center allow and encourage employed doc-tors to write absence notes for students who require time o$ from school due to medical reasons.”

Mullins Library might undergo changes a%er ASG suggested to add vending ma-chines and designate quiet study areas and group study areas.

Sen. Kathryn Hudson proposed to designate silent, quiet and group study areas in Mullins Library a%er receiv-ing multiple complaints from peers, she said.

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these areas will be well identi-"ed with signs and guidelines, such as no phone use in the silent areas,” according to the bill.

Sen. Rachel Freeman pro-posed the addition of café furniture on the terrace of the new Hillside Auditorium a%er the UA decided to not furnish the terrace in order to cut costs.

“!e terrace will be an ex-cellent place to view the scen-ery of our campus and the Chi Omega Greek !eater, but due to budget constraints with fa-cilities management, they have had to remove all of the out-door café furniture from the terrace project,” according to the bill. “Further developing the terrace with furniture will complement the already exist-ing green space, namely the green, grass roofs of the audi-torium, the terrace shade trees and the lawn surrounding the Greek !eater.”

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The Third Annual Fay-etteville Half Marathon will take place Dec. 9 in some of the town’s most exclusive spots throughout the span of the weekend, an official said.

A class at the UA is help-ing put together the race, as part of their own curricu-lum, in which students will

receive a grade for the mar-athon, said Taylor Johnson, an organizer for the event.

All runners participating in the marathon are volun-teers and the money raised will go to charities.

The race will begin at 8 a.m., Sunday at the John McDonnell Outdoor Track Complex. The runners will prepare for the half mara-thon, a community-fund-raising 5K and a mile fun run/walk. The most exciting part meets the finish line

back at the track, followed by the awarding ceremony, according to the website.

Activities and race reg-istration will take place at the vendor retail expo on the square, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Also, there will be a post-race celebration for runners at 9 a.m. at the stadium, with food provided by Hog Haus and Common Grounds. Pre-race festivities begin at 6:30 a.m., according to the website.

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Brie#y Speaking

the meeting. “It’s some-thing that’s new for me, I haven’t really experienced this, but it’s something we’re just going to work through, I guess.”

Each said the team was in-formed today and that there was no prior warning. Wis-consin athletic director Barry Alvarez said in a statement he was caught o$ guard as well.

“I was very surprised when Bret told me he was taking the o$er from Arkan-sas,” the statement said. “He did a great job for us during his seven years as head coach, both on the "eld and o$. I want to thank him for his work and wish him the best at Arkansas.”

With Bielema gone, it

remained unclear Tues-day night who would as-sume head coaching duties as the Badgers prepare for the Rose Bowl. UW players were scheduled to have this week o$ of practice, with bowl practices beginning Saturday. !e coaching deci-sion will come from Alvarez. !ere has been speculation the former head coach, who compiled a 118-73-4 record in 16 seasons as the Wiscon-sin head coach between 1990 and 2005, could be a possibil-ity himself.

“I have no idea what Coach Alvarez is going to do, I think he’s done tremendous in the past,” Frederick said.

When asked directly about the possibility of Al-

varez coaching, Frederick re-sponded: “Like I said, I don’t know exactly what’s going to go on, and that’s up to him.”

"Along with "nding a new coach, my other main objec-tive is to make sure that our student-athletes, speci"cally our seniors playing in their "nal game as Badgers, have a tremendous experience in the Rose Bowl,” Alvarez said in the statement. “We will do everything within our power to make that happen."

Bielema compiled a 67-24 record as the UW head coach. He spent the "nal two years of Alvarez’ coaching tenure as the team’s defensive coor-dinator. As the AD, Alvarez then hand-picked Bielema to run the program.

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‘Tis the season, my friends. We are on the down-swing of the semester, and the only things separating us from late-night caroling, making lopsided gingerbread houses with our siblings and unbearably-awkward dinners with our not-so-perfect fami-lies are those few lingering !nals.

I’ve never been a die hard fan of holidays — there’s something about awkward dinner conversations and reuniting with high school friends who still live at home and work at the same fast-food joint they did four years ago — that I just don’t enjoy. Maybe what turns me o" from the holidays is the re-curring thud I heard every year as my parents’ heads hit the dinner table when I tell our family and friends that I’m studying journalism.

Who knows.Don’t get me wrong, I love

the idea of holidays — the Christmas lights, the sweet smell of goodies in the kitch-en, the spiced drinks and see-ing long-lost family members — but that’s all that I enjoy. #e idea.

#ere are plenty of you out there who are counting down the days until your last !nal is !nished. You’ll pack your clothes, burn your semester’s notes in an act of liberation and peace out for the next month as you spend your time on your mother’s couch, moving only for food, water and to let nature take its course.

But what about those of us who will remain in Fay-etteville, savoring every last moment of our sweet, sweet freedom, as long as pos-sible? What about the few, the proud, the loners? What about those of us who have broken families to go home to?

My parents separated and divorced during my sopho-more year of college, and since then holidays haven’t been the same. It’s not my parents’ faults the holidays are uncomfortable; they do their best. Yet, there’s something about having two #anks-givings and Christmases that takes away from the spirit of the season.

Surviving the holidays with a broken family can be

hard, but isn’t impossible. #ose of us with broken fam-ilies are not alone, especially among our generation. About half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, according to Cen-sus data, and about 50 percent of children born today will witness the divorce of their parents before they turn 18.

When you’re a college stu-dent returning to a broken family for the holidays, you have to accept a di"erent kind of a reality than you’re used to, especially if you’re parents divorced while you were in college, like mine did.

We all have our own way of dealing with uncomfort-able situations, especially when it comes to our fami-lies. #rough trial and error, however, I’ve stumbled upon a few way to cope with the holidays.

1. Lean on your friends when you need to. Your friends are your steady rock when your family can’t be. Two years ago I spent #anksgiving with my best friend and her family, and al-though it made me miss my family (broken pieces and all), it was a good way for me to reevaluate my family and what the holidays should be.

2. Don’t be afraid to carry on family traditions. It might seem weird, but carrying on small family traditions, like opening a gi$ on Christmas Eve or decorating the tree af-ter #anksgiving dinner, will

reinforce some stability with-in your family. Plus, most people carry on traditions with the idea that they will one day pass those traditions along to their own children.

3. Focus on others to take some of the stress and at-tention o" yourself. Spend Christmas Eve with your family, then spend Christmas Day volunteering at a local soup kitchen. At the end of the day, you’ll feel like you accomplished something worthwhile, rather than hav-ing spent your day exchang-ing polite small talk with extended family you hardly know.

Keeping in mind the spirit of the season, don’t forget about those who aren’t look-ing forward to the holidays. Every family has its quirks — the drunk uncle, the trou-bled cousin, the exuberant, too-happy aunt — but some are harder to deal with than others.

#is year, whether you’re sitting down to your !rst of two holiday dinners with half of your family, volunteering at a local shelter or enjoying a traditional holiday celebra-tion at home, remember the day for what it is: a time for good food, rich drinks and candid memories.

Brittany Nims is the man-aging editor of !e Traveler. She is a senior journalism major.

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Well, I’m leaving. After a year and a half of study-ing here, it’s time to trans-fer to a campus that you don’t have to hike up a hill to get to. Mizzou or bust. Depending on who you are, you may be disappointed I’m making the move. You “could’ve seen it coming” or you’re thinking: “good riddance.” No matter your thoughts, my thoughts to-ward you probably reflect accordingly.

I tried to like it here, I really did. But when it came down to it, I was just lying to myself. I finally had to bite the bullet and trans-fer. The decision was hard, and as I’m writing this, it’s the last night of produc-tion that I’ll be a part of. I just took my headphones out because I want to laugh

with my friends one more time before I leave. Work-ing for The Traveler has really been the highlight of my time here. This de-partment, the Traveler staff and Professor Gerald Jor-dan have given me many opportunities that I am thankful for.

If you were fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to cross paths with me during my time at this school, you might’ve been on the other side of the table as I riddled off questions indicting you for something I found unjust (though journal-ists aren’t allowed to have opinions, for legal pur-poses.) You and I might’ve become good friends while I was here—but let’s face it—probably not. I’m re-ally not good at going up to people and talking to them and making friends. I’d like to, but it just doesn’t work

that way for me. That’s why I’ve become good friends with so many people at this newspaper. I mean these people are forced to inter-act with my snarky, sarcas-tic attitude on a daily basis, and after while maybe they just got used to it.

Anyway, here’s a list of things that since I won’t be here any more I can sound off on: I really hated when Kimpel Hall was vibrat-ing for six-weeks straight; parking was crazy, but you all knew that; there’s no connectivity on this cam-pus—it feels like every-one just goes about their day without paying mind to anyone. The lengths people go to not to make eye contact with someone as they’re walking to class (I’m guilty) are crazy.

This region and school have taught me a lot about the South. As a journalist,

it’s my job to learn as much as I can about the task at hand and translate it in a way that anyone can un-derstand. Before the elec-tion, I ventured across the state and talked with voters about their values, aspira-tions and heritage, writing about the state’s shift to-ward Republicanism. It was humbling. The people of this state are independent, welcoming and charming. I hope I’ve told their stories and the day-to-day story of this university effectively and fully, though, as a stu-dent, there’s always room for improvement.

Jack Suntrup is the as-sistant news editor of The Traveler. He is a sophomore journalism and internation-al relations major.

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I associate the lights with the joy of being with people that I love and enjoying each other’s company.Micah Hampton, international relations major“Holiday Spirit on the Square,” Page 2

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It’s that time of year for us seniors when we are all wait-ing around anxiously, hoping for those acceptance letters, or dreading those rejection letters, whether its for gradu-ate school, medical school, law school, internships or jobs.

I’d put this off long enough. College provided me with a clear path and with security—I knew where I was going and how to achieve my goals. For as long as I know, I’ve always had my path planned out and I’ve always known what was next.

But now, as my gradua-tion nears, I’m getting ner-vous, and I’m sure many se-niors reflect my worries. I’m learning the hard way that it’s a tough world out there and that there aren’t many jobs.

I used to think that after graduation, I’d get a sum-mer internship, then get a job, work for a couple years as a journalist, eventually go back to graduate school for Middle Eastern Studies and from there, continue on my path to become a foreign cor-respondent.

I got my first rejection let-ter this week, and to be hon-est, it was a hard blow to deal with. I had considered my-self completely qualified and everybody I talked to would say, “Of course you’ll get it!” or “You don’t have to think twice about it, they’ll take you.”

I got worried; I started thinking, what if I don’t get any of the internships I ap-

plied for? That had never oc-curred to be before, but now reality is settling in.

An SPJ reports that the job market has improved slightly from 2011 for journalists, but that it is still weak, especially compared to pre-recession numbers. Total newsroom employment at daily newspa-pers declined by 2.4 percent in 2011, according to the ar-ticle.

For college graduates in general, an article from April 2012 reported that 53 per-cent of recent college gradu-ates are jobless or underem-ployed.

Of course, we all wish to be that 47 percent that do re-ceive job offers, but in a job market like journalism, that seems to be difficult.

Perhaps I do have the qualifications, but so do the hundreds of others who may have applied to the intern-ships.

These past few days, after the rejection, I sort of gave up on my dreams. I thought that if I couldn’t get this first step achieved, there was no way I could move on to the others. People kept telling me that one closed door means there is another better opportunity elsewhere.

Keep your head up, they say. And I may have ignored that for a couple days, but now I’m telling all you se-niors who are in the same po-sition the same thing: Keep your head up and hold on to your dreams.

Giving up is the ultimate failure. You won’t achieve anything that way. I’ve re-alized that perhaps I won’t achieve my goals the way I planned, but there are other avenues, and perhaps this is an opportunity for me to ex-plore those.

There is something out there for everybody. It’s just a matter of determination, of patience and believing in yourself.

Saba Naseem is the opin-ion editor. She is a senior jour-nalism, Middle Eastern Stud-ies and French major.

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It’s easy enough to put on the average Christmas con-cert. All of the melodies are already written and freely available in the public domain for any tone-deaf, bath-room-mirror Christmas rockstar to print o!. A perfor-mance that features movements from classical operas, however, is something much rarer, and a group of UA students are orchestrating just that.

On Sunday, Dec. 9, Jonathan Chavez and Allison Dean will be performing at an operatic Christmas music recital. Admission is free, but the organizers will be ac-cepting donations to support the mobilization of glob-al workers to South Asia, Albania and India as part of Lightbearers Ministries Inc. "e recital will happen at 3 p.m. in the University Baptist Church sanctuary and will feature Rebekah Martin on piano and Hannah McCol-lum on harp.

"e concert is called “Christmas Around the World,” and it will be roughly one hour long, including songs sung in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

“It’s mostly Christmas music, but we are opera stu-dents,” said Chavez, a recent graduate from the UA music program. “So it will have that classical feel in a way.”

Alongside traditional Christmas carols and hymns, Dean and Chavez will be performing operatic arias from Bolcom’s 1999 adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play “A View From the Bridge,” and from Puccini’s Italian op-era “La Boheme,” which takes place on Christmas Eve. “La Boheme” was the inspiration for the popular musi-cal “RENT,” which adapted Puccini’s bohemian world to portray the culture of impoverished artists and musicians in New York’s Lower East Side.

“I’m just super excited, mostly because I’ve been wanting to do a recital for the past two years,” Chavez said. “I feel like a have to give in my singing, and I feel like I’ve been keeping it to myself. I feel like I’ve been wasting the gi# that God gave me.”

Chavez graduated from the UA with a bachelor’s in music and voice performance. He has been accepted and o!ered scholarships to graduate programs at the Man-hattan School of Music and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, which is widely considered the best opera school in the country.

“"is is my $rst recital thing I have planned on my own,” Chavez said, “and this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to sing and make money for mis-sion work and for charitable causes.”

Compared to the university’s instrumental music programs, the voice department at the UA is relatively small, “because there are just so many instruments they can choose from,” Dean said. Dean, who is also a mu-sic major with an emphasis in voice performance, cred-its the brilliant and encouraging work of her professors, especially Janice Yoes, who retired last year but decided to stay on sta! as an adjunct professor until her students graduated.

“She’s a fantastic teacher with a great record for turn-ing out great singers,” Dean said. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her and my other great professors.”

For the recital, Dean’s performance will include a few traditional Christmas songs, but also a couple of “art songs” — one in French and one in German — which di!er from operatic arias in that they are generally less theatrical and better designed to stand up as isolated pieces.

“Who doesn’t like to sing Christmas songs?” Dean asked. “It’s a really fun opportunity because as a music student you have to sing so many certain requirements for your repertoire, and with this we get to sing some fun Christmas songs. So when Jon asked me I thought, ‘You know, why not?’”

Holiday Opera ‘Christmas Around the World’ to Perform in Fayetteville

Christmas is just around the corner, and on the o! chance that NSYNC’s emblematic “Home for Christmas” album just isn’t do-ing it for you anymore (a long shot, I know), a handful of artists are releasing some notable Christmas music for the holiday season. On November 13, chamber pop poster boy Su%an Stevens released “Silver & Gold,” six years af-ter releasing “Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5” in 2006. With “Silver & Gold,” Stevens brings $ve more volumes of very quirky, very indie, acoustic, symphonic, and electronic Christ-mas music. "e album is almost three hours long, featuring re-imagined versions of classic Christmas hymns, like ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Hark! "e Herald Angels Sing.’ Stevens’s version of ‘Joy to the World’ breaks into a disco beat and auto-tuned vocals halfway through – and does so without becoming cheesy. "e album also includes several original works, with titles like “Lumberjack Christmas / No-one Can Save You From Christmases Past.”

"e closer is a 12-minute original called “Christmas Unicorn,” a sarcastic and play-ful rhapsody for the contemporary status of Christmas: “Oh I’m a Christian holiday, I’m a symbol of original sin / I’ve a pagan tree and a magical wreath, and a bow-tie on my chin,” and then later, he sings, “Oh I’m hysterically American, I’ve a credit card on my wrist / And I have no home or a $eld to roam, I will curse you with my kiss.” Also on the album, in the middle of the third disk, immediately a#er

an auto-tuned version of “Good King Wenceslas” comes a ba&ing cover of “Alphabet St.” by Prince. "e entire album promises to be a fun and rewarding listen, but as NPR sug-gests, it’s probably best “doled out over the course of several days.”

Also releasing his Christmas album is "e Voice coach, singer, and former Gnarls Barkley mem-ber Cee-Lo Green. His album is titled “Magic Moment,” and boasts a glamorously absurd cover photo of white horses drawing his red convertible through a glowing purple sky. "e album features contributions from Rod Stewart, his NBC co-star Christina Aguilera, and a#er they got on so well in at the Grammys in 2011, "e Muppets also join Cee–Lo for a song called “All I Need Is Love,” which is basically “Mahna Mahna” meets Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5.”

Green himself called the album “a soulful take on a host of Christmas classics.” Katie Hasty, writing for hit$x.com wrote that “about a third of his 14-track Christmas album is solid,” while Jessica Hopper for Pitchfork con-cedes that the album is “a pleasure to listen to, especially if you are fond of Christmas stan-dards and loud singing.”

On a di!erent note, “Grease” co-stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John just released a holiday collection called “"is Christmas,” which also features contributions from Barbra

S t r e i s a n d , James Taylor, and Kenny G. A p p a r e n t l y Travolta got the idea a#er Newton-John sent him a text about how their 1978 duet ‘You’re the One I Want’ had just become the best-selling duet in pop history; the album marks the $rst time the “Grease” co-stars have recorded together in over three decades. Art-ist proceeds will be donated to the Jett Travolta Foundation, which combats child disabilities, and to Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Well-

ness Center. “We all felt a wonderful, joyful energy while

recording this album,” Newton-John said. “We want to make a lot of people smile and happy. It’s a project that we’re hoping turns into a pe-rennial, one that can continue to raise money for these causes year a#er year.”

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

Adrian Peterson, a run-ning back for the Minnesota Vikings, had a standout per-formance against the Green

Bay Packers Sunday and yet the Packers still won.

Sounds a bit familiar, doesn’t it?

Peterson managed to makes Sunday’s game the sixth straight game in which he ran for over 100 yards and scored the longest touchdown in his career.

He also ran for his third game of over 200 yards, pushed his career yards to over 8,000 — the sixth fastest man to do so — and this is all a!er a knee surgery before the season began.

It’s almost impossible to believe that the Razorback football team pulled out

things like this as well — mul-tiple records and career bests — and still lost.

"e Razorbacks may not be the premier sports pro-gram in the nation, but the Hogs have quite a few records up their sleeves.

Most well-known are the records of Tyler Wilson and Cobi Hamilton set at the end of the football season. Wilson passed for the most all-time career yards at Arkansas with 7,765. Hamilton broke the re-cord for receptions with 175, surpassing former Hog Jarius Wright’s record of 168.

"e swimming and div-ing team also saw UA records

broken at the Houston Cou-gar Invitational, all in relays. Shana Lim, Nikki Daniels, Su-sanna White and Nina Drolc broke the 400 medley relay previously set in 2010, and the same team broke the record in the 200-yard medley the next day.

Drolc, Maddie Monroe, Anna May#eld and White earned a UA record in the #-nal event, the 400 freestyle relay.

Daniels broke the 100 breaststroke record for Ar-kansas in individual competi-tion in the same invitational.

As Razorback fans, we have a lot going for us, especially in

places we don’t expect. How many swim meets have you made it to this year? With the amount of records broken on the swim team in just one in-vitational, this season might be the season to try it.

I remember last year when I went to the Razorback gym-nastic team’s meet against LSU. Not only did the team break the UA record team score, but the attendance at the event was a record-break-er.

"e team also hoisted itself to No. 1 for the #rst time in program history that season.

Getting to witness, and even be a part of, perfor-

mances that break records, is one of the most unique expe-riences you can get while in college. Where else can you go to a sporting event for free almost every week, sometimes in which future professional-level athletes give the college a new reason to be proud?

Be sure to check out as many di$erent sports as you can while attending Arkan-sas, and get the opportunity to witness one or more records shatter before your eyes.

Cameron McCauley a sta! writer for the Arkansas Trav-eler. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

Records Break at the UA, and Not Just in Football

Tamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

"e #nal BCS standings are in and the bowl games are set. Most of the games feature expected matchups, but there is a surprise this season.

"e BCS National Cham-pionship game will be played Jan. 7 in Miami with a match-up of Notre Dame and Ala-bama. Led by Nick Saban and Brian Kelly, the Tide and the Irish, respectively, are two very well-coached teams. Alabama will have an advan-tage in experience, as they are playing for their second straight title. Notre Dame lacks experience in the na-tional title, since the last time they played in one was 1988.

Notre Dame, the only undefeated team in football, is led by Heisman hopeful, linebacker Manti Te’o. Ala-bama su$ered one loss on the season to Texas A&M. Notre Dame ranks #rst in points al-lowed, only allowing 10.3 on

the season, while Alabama ranks second only allowing 10.7. "is game will come down to o$ense and which team can execute.

"e Rose Bowl will be played by Wisconsin and Stanford. Both teams made a BCS bowl game by winning their conference. Wisconsin will be playing in their third straight Rose Bowl game. Wisconsin destroyed Nebras-ka to win the Big Ten. Stan-ford beat UCLA two weeks in a row to take home the Pac-12. "ese two teams may not be the most talented, but the game should be very enter-taining.

"e Fiesta Bowl will fea-ture Kansas State and Ore-gon. Both of these teams were hoping to be national title contenders until both teams su$ered a loss, on the same day, that ruined their hopes. "is will be a very o$ense fo-cused game. Both teams aver-age over 40 points. Which-ever team’s defense can cause the most stops will win this

game. It should be a high-scoring game.

Florida and Louisville will be competing for the Sugar Bowl. Florida earned the BCS bowl game by being the sec-ond highest ranked SEC team and taking the #nal BCS bowl game bid for the Southeast-ern Conference. Louisville won the Big East and earned a bid to the Sugar Bowl. "e game could possibly be de-termined by Louisville head coach Charlie Strong’s deci-sion to stay at Louisville or move on. "is game should be an interesting BCS bowl matchup.

"e Orange Bowl will be played by Florida State and Northern Illinois. Both teams received BCS bowl bids by simply winning their confer-ence. Northern Illinois bust-ed the BCS by winning the Mid-American Conference. Florida State won the ACC and received a bid. "is will be a very interesting matchup between two non-top 10 BCS teams.

Irish, Tide to Play for Title; NIU Crashes Party

For nearly eight months, UA athletic director Je$ Long searched for a new head coach at Arkansas.

He found his man in Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema. Although rumors of everything from ESPN’s Jon Gruden, to Boise State’s Chris Petersen, to LSU’s Les Miles were swirling, Long kept his search quiet.

Long credits Chancellor David Gearhart, President Donald Bobbitt and the mem-bers of the Board of Trustees for allowing him to do so.

“"e thing that meant the most to me was that they en-trusted me to carry out this process, and that trust meant everything to me,” Long said. “I kept them informed, but they allowed me to do my job. "at’s all an athletic director can ask of those above him.”

Senior Associate Athletic Director Jon Fagg, CFO Clay-ton Hamilton and Associate Athletic Director for Aca-demics Eric Wood were also “critical” to the search, Long said.

While looking for a new coach to lead the Razorbacks, he wanted whoever it was to have certain characteristics.

"e new coach needed to have a “passion for success and be able to embrace the passion of (the Arkansas) fan base,” Long said.

Long also wanted a coach with “honesty, integrity and

class.”“"ere is no question that

our new head football coach embodies all of these char-acteristics,” Long said. “He also brings a commitment to impacting the lives of the stu-dent-athletes he works with.”

For Bielema, the ball start-ed rolling last Sunday, the day following him leading Wis-consin to a 70-31 victory over No. 14 Nebraska in the Big Ten Championship Game.

A!er not getting back to his hotel room until 1:30 in the morning, he had a con-versation with Fagg Sunday morning. Bielema agreed to meet with Fagg and Long in New York City while he was there for the College Football Hall of Fame induction cer-emony.

“Late Sunday night I went back to the hotel, thought about it, processed it, and met with Je$ (Long) again on Monday morning,” Bielema said. “I saw (Wisconsin ath-letic director) coach Barry Alvarez about 11:30, then at 2:30 I was in the air %ying to Madison. It happened very quickly.”

Rumors of other coaching prospects were still circulat-ing until late Tuesday a!er-noon, when news of Bielema being hired leaked out.

Both Long and Bielema are happy with the way every-thing turned out.

“"is (search) was pretty interesting because it’s lasted almost eight months,” Long said. “We’ve had quite a pro-cess.”

Long Concludes Eight-Month Search

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press BCS busters Norhern Illinois earned a chance to play against Florida State in the Orange Bowl after winning the Mid-American Conference.

Ryan Miller Sta" PhotographerArkansas athletic director Je" Long introduced Bret Bielema to the trustees and media Wednesday afternoon.

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Jessie McMullenSta! Writer

FOOTBALL

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Andrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

"e Razorback women’s basketball team will be fac-ing their toughest test in Bud Walton Arena "ursday when the No. 17 Kansas Jay-hawks come to town.

Arkansas has had a steady start to the season. "eir most recent 64-39 win over Pepperdine was Head Coach Tom Collen’s 100th win at Arkansas and improved the team’s record to 7-1.

"e Razorback defense sti%ed the Pepperdine Waves all night as they were held to 27 percent shooting. "e Hogs also forced 23 turn-overs in the game.

O$ensively, the Hogs were not as e&cient as they had been earlier this season, go-ing 1-12 from 3-point range, but they were led inside by Sarah Watkins, who had 18 points.

Senior Erin Gatling also put up a career-high 11 points, while Dominique Wilson had eight points in her #rst career start.

"e Hogs have had a good opening run to the season, with wins away from Fayette-ville over Hawaii and Oregon.

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During winter break, stu-dents will have certain free-doms they did not have during the semester. Instead of wor-rying about studying for tests or doing homework, they can relax and enjoy a full month of free time.

How they choose to spend their time will vary from stu-dent to student, but there will be many great sporting events over the next month that will de#nitely keep the sports-lov-ing students busy.

Here’s a look at just some of the great games coming up.

1. Dec. 8, 2012 – Army vs. Navy

Start #nals week by watch-ing one of the most storied college football rivalries. Back in the day, this game had Na-tional championship impli-cations, but today it is just a matchup between a 2-9 team, Army, and a 7-4 team, Navy. Navy has already clinched a spot in the Kra! Fight Hunger Bowl, while Army’s season will be over a!er this Saturday. If you like passes thrown all over the #eld, this game isn’t for you. Army and Navy are last and fourth-to-last in passing yards per game in the country, respectively. However, they are dominant in the running game, ranking #rst and sixth in the country, respectively. "e two military academies square o$ at 2 p.m. on CBS.

2. Dec. 9-30, 2012 – Late Season NFL Games

"irteen NFL weeks are in the books, but several playo$ spots are still up for grabs. "e last four weeks of the regular season will help determine which teams make the play-o$s, as well as where they will be seeded. "e Texans and Pa-triots face each other on Dec. 10 for ESPN’s Monday Night Football. "e Texans have the best record in the AFC, but Tom Brady and the Patriots have played very well this sea-son. "is could be a preview of the AFC Championship game. "e Packers at Bears game on Dec. 16 (noon, FOX) and Cowboys at Redskins game on Dec. 30 (noon, FOX) will also be key games in divisional races.

3. Dec. 8-29, 2012 – Top Ranked Nonconference Showdowns

"e #rst part of the college basketball season provides fans with many great noncon-ference games that they other-wise wouldn’t see until March. "ese include non-traditional ranked teams playing teams from bigger conferences, such as No. 24 Wichita State at Ten-nessee (Dec. 13, 6 p.m.) and No. 18 New Mexico at No. 11 Cincinnati (Dec. 27, 8 p.m., ESPN2). It also gives us games between traditional basketball powers, such as No. 9 Kansas at No. 7 Ohio St. (Dec. 22, 3 p.m., CBS), No. 13 Illinois at No 12 Missouri (Dec. 22, 5 p.m., ESPN2), and Kentucky at No. 5 Louisville (Dec. 29, 3 p.m., CBS).

4. Dec. 15, 2012-Jan. 6, 2013 – Non-BCS Bowl Games

"e 35-game college foot-ball bowl season kicks o$ with the New Mexico Bowl between Nevada and Arizona at noon on Dec. 15. Just be-cause 30 of them are not BCS games, doesn’t mean they don’t have great matchups. If you like scoring, the Holiday Bowl between Baylor and No. 17 UCLA (Dec. 27, 8:45 p.m., ESPN) appears to be a good choice. For a more local %avor, tune in to the GoDaddy.com Bowl between No. 25 Kent St. and Arkansas St. (Jan. 6, 8 p.m., ESPN).

5. Dec. 25, 2012 – Christ-mas Day NBA Games

Every year, the NBA comes out with a great slate of games for Christmas Day. "ere are #ve games this year, with two on ABC and three on ESPN. ESPN starts things o$ at 11 a.m. with the Celtics at the Nets, and then ABC’s double-header begins at 2 p.m. with the Knicks at the Lakers and continues at 4:30 p.m., before it switches back to ESPN with the Rockets at the Bulls at 7 p.m. and concludes with the Nuggets at the Clippers.

6. Jan. 1-7, 2013 – BCS Bowl Games

"e Rose Bowl features the 8-5 Big Ten champions, Wisconsin, and No. 6 Stan-ford (Jan. 1, 4 p.m.). No. 15 Northern Illinois crashed the BCS by #nishing in the Top 16 and winning the MAC and will face No. 12 Florida St. in the Orange Bowl (Jan. 1, 7:30 p.m.). "e Southeastern Con-ference will be represented by No. 3 Florida in the Sugar

Bowl, facing No. 21 Louisville (Jan. 2, 7:30 p.m.). "e Fiesta Bowl features two one-loss teams, with No. 4 Oregon and No. 5 Kansas St. (Jan. 3, 7:30 p.m.). Finally, the SEC will go for its seventh consecutive Na-tional Championship on Jan. 7 at 7:30 p.m. when No. 2 Ala-bama squares o$ with unde-feated No. 1 Notre Dame. All #ve games will air on ESPN.

7. Jan. 5-6, 2013 – NFL Wild-card Games

"e NFL playo$s begin with two games on Saturday, Jan. 5 and two games on Sun-day, Jan. 6. "ese games will be played between the wildcard teams from each conference, as well as the third and fourth seeds from each conference, while the top two seeds receive byes. "e last two seasons, the eventual Super Bowl cham-pion played on this opening round weekend.

8. Jan. 7-13, 2013 – Top Ranked Conference Bas-ketball Games

At the beginning of Janu-ary, college basketball teams across the country begin con-ference play. "e most inter-esting early games right now appear to be No. 22 Notre Dame at No. 11 Cincinnati in the Big East (Jan. 7, 6 p.m., ESPN2), a potential bracket-buster game in No. 21 UNLV at No. 18 New Mexico in the Mountain West (Jan. 9, 9 p.m., CBS Sports Network), and No. 3 Michigan at No. 7 Ohio St. in the Big Ten (Jan. 13, TBA, CBS).

9. Jan. 11, 2013 – ESPN NBA Doubleheader

ESPN’s NBA doubleheader features four teams that could make deep playo$ runs this season. It starts at 7 p.m., with the Bulls at the Knicks, and continues at 9:30p.m., with the "under at the Lakers.

10. Jan. 12-13, 2013 – NFL Divisional Round Games

"e NFL playo$s continue this weekend, as the top two seeds in each conference will face the winners of the pre-vious weekend’s wild-card games. Again, two games will be played on Saturday, Jan. 12, and two will be played on Sunday, Jan. 13. A!er these four games, both of the con-ference championship games will be set.

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COMMENTARY

Saturday night in India-napolis, Bret Bielema hoist-ed the Stagg Championship Trophy, his Badgers having just throttled Nebraska 70-31 to win their third-consec-utive Big Ten title and claim their third-straight Rose Bowl appearance.

Less than 72 hours later, word broke that Wisconsin’s head coach had agreed to take the same position at Ar-kansas. It’s uncertain when Bielema actually accepted the position—some reports say Bielema informed ath-letic director Barry Alvarez a couple weeks ago that he would bolt from Madison at season’s end—but it certainly came as a complete shocker to everyone but the Badgers’ last two head coaches.

To be blunt, I can’t be-lieve he le!. Granted, I’m a huge Wisconsin fan, but I don’t understand why Bielema would leave a Bad-ger program that’s on its way to elite status, to take over an Arkansas team that will #ght to be the third-most relevant program in the Southeastern Conference’s West Division.

While the Razorbacks just capped a 4-8 season, Wis-consin’s football program was headed in the opposite direction. No Big Ten team had reached three straight Rose Bowls since 1979. "e athletic department has un-dergone construction for its state-of-the-art Athletic Vil-lage student-athlete train-ing facility, and part of the near-$80-million project in-cludes renovations to Camp

Randall. All three of those are phenomenal recruiting pitches, which leads me to believe the sky was the limit for Bielema in Madison.

On the %ip side, I certain-ly understand the SEC is the cream-of-the-crop confer-ence in college football—for the guys in Bielema’s #eld, it has to be damn intriguing to be a head coach in that con-ference. However, Arkansas simply isn’t one of the con-ference’s premiere teams.

An SEC team has won the Bowl Championship Se-ries national championship game each of the past six seasons, but the Razorbacks have played in just one BCS bowl over that time span. No, they didn’t play in a na-tional title game. And no, they didn’t win their lone appearance.

Beyond the perplexity of taking a job at a middle-of-the-pack program, it’s well documented Bielema hates the SEC. When one of Wisconsin’s verbally com-mitted prospects %ipped his allegiance to Ohio State—who had recently hired for-mer Florida coach Urban Meyer—Bielema criticized Meyer’s recruiting tactics, knocking the SEC in the process. As recently as this summer, Bielema said the Big Ten didn’t want to be anything like the SEC, “in any way, shape or form.”

Some reports said Ten-nessee also reached out to Bielema about #lling its coaching vacancy. If he truly wanted to coach in the SEC, I’d argue the gig in Knox-ville, Tenn., would be more appealing than the one in Fayetteville, Ark., despite

the fact Tennessee might not shell out quite as much money as Arkansas athletic director Je$ Long.

Bielema reportedly signed a six-year contract with the Razorbacks that will pay him $3.2 million annually. Given he was mak-ing $2.5 million per sea-son in Madison, I’d have a hard time believing Alvarez would refuse to negotiate a new contract if Bielema used Arkansas’ o$er as leverage.

If Bielema doesn’t like the SEC, yet agreed to man the sidelines at Arkansas despite an underwhelming contrac-tual di$erence, my way-too-early conclusion is that Fay-etteville is simply a stepping stone.

While I don’t think Ar-kansas is any more promi-nent of a program than Wisconsin, perhaps Bielema thinks he needs to prove himself in SEC country. Per-haps he thinks a successful tenure with the Razorbacks would land him an o$er from a more prestigious col-lege football team. Maybe the guy has NFL aspirations. Whatever Bielema’s reason-ing is for bolting, I highly doubt Arkansas is his dream job.

As perplexed as I am by the move, however, I do understand Bielema’s deci-sion to leave before the Rose Bowl. I hate that he’s bail-ing on the seniors just four weeks before their chance to #nally #nish things the right way in Pasadena, but Arkan-sas’ 2013 campaign has al-ready started. Bielema needs to #ll out his coaching sta$ and hit the recruiting trail yesterday.

Bielema Makes Perplexing Decision to Leave for ArkansasVince Huth"e Daily Cardinal

on the season was an over-time thriller to No. 13 Okla-homa.

Kansas is coming o$ an impressive win over Min-nesota 63-53 that improved their record to 7-0.

Kansas has had a slightly weaker schedule than the Hogs, but their undefeated record still features impres-sive wins over previously mentioned Minnesota, Wake Forest and a road win over Creighton.

"e game between the Razorbacks and the Jay-hawks looks to be a battle of strengths, as the powerful o$ense of Arkansas will go against a very dominating Kansas defense.

"e 64 points Arkansas scored against Pepperdine

was tied for a season low. "ey average 76 points per game and are led by Kiera Peak’s 16 points per game.

"e Hogs also do an ex-cellent job of taking care of the ball. So far this season Arkansas has averaged only 12 turnovers a game while forcing over 20.

Kansas’ strength this sea-son is their defense. "ey al-low only 51 points per game and have not let an oppo-nent get above 60 points this season.

"ey held two teams, Washburn and Idaho State, to just 35 and 36 points, re-spectively.

Much like the Hogs, Kansas has very balanced scoring and they are led by senior Carolyn Davis who

averages 16.6 points per game.

To go along with a strong defense, Kansas is also very strong on the boards, av-eraging 44.4 rebounds per game compared to Arkan-sas’ 39.1.

Junior Tania Jackson leads Kansas with 7.1 re-bounds while the Hogs are led by Peak’s 6.6 per game.

Arkansas has a distinct advantage from behind the 3-point line, as the Hogs have made 51 shots from be-yond the arc at a 30 percent rate, while Kansas has only made 19 at a much lower rate of 23 percent.

A!er this game, the Hogs are back on the road in Fur-man, S.C., to take on the Furman Paladins.

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