University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906!ursday, Feb. 28, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 89

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Hogs Head to Arizona for 4 Games!e Diamond Hogs next travel to Surprise, Ariz., for four games at the Coca-Cola Classic against Arizona State, Gonzaga and Paci"c.

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Student Charged With On-Campus Firearm Felony A student will be changed with a felony for bringing a !rearm on school property, an o"cial said.

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Dig In Food & Farming Festival#e local food culture is strong in north-

west Arkansas, and the Dig In! Festival cel-ebrates all of the farmers and foodies that make possible the farmers market and lo-cally sourced food at area restaurants. #e event runs Friday and Saturday at the UA Global Campus building on the square. Fri-day is geared toward organic farmers, but on Saturday, the festival will o$er classes in organic cooking, cooking with in-season produce and backyard gardening.

All classes or !lms have a suggested do-nation of $5, or the festival sells weekend passes for $30. #e festival will show !lms including “Truck Farm,” “King Corn,” and special Arkansas premiers of “Eating Ala-bama” and “To Make A Farm” on Friday night, according to diginfestival.com. #e keynote speaker for the weekend is Brad Lancaster, a rainwater and desert cultiva-tion expert. More information, including event schedules, can be found at diginfes-tival.com.

Yonder Mountain String BandWherever Yonder Mountain String Band

brings their bluegrass/jam band sound, a good time is sure to follow. Yonder will be playing Sunday night at George’s Majestic Lounge, and tickets are $22.50 in person. Yonder, based out of Colorado, has fre-quented Fayetteville for years, and even sponsors Harvest Fest, a bluegrass festival in October at Mulberry Mountain north of Ozark, Ark. Something about their music resonates with the area, and it is clearly a mutual attraction. Yonder shows tend to sell out at George’s, so act quickly.

Highway 71 Classic It’s almost springtime, with longer and

warmer days. Kick o$ the outdoor season with the Highway 71 Classic bike race, sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks. Participants can choose from a shorter, %atter 32-mile route, a gravel road 50-mile route, and the namesake 72-mile course down old Highway 71. #e race starts at 9 a.m. Sunday from the Green-house Grille parking lot on School Avenue. Students receive a $5 discount on the entry fee, ranging from $20 without a T-shirt to $45 with a T-shirt. All entrants receive a Bi-cycle Coalition of the Ozarks membership with the entry fee. For further information, visit bconwa.com.

!under on the Mountain !rowdown

Similar to the Waka Winter Classic, the #under on the Mountain #rowdown is a contest for area country acts to win a spot on stage for June’s #under on the Moun-tain country music festival at Mulberry Mountain. Starting at 9 p.m. on Saturday night at George’s, !ve bands will take the stage to win over the audience. For a $5 cover, you can see all !ve bands and vote for your favorite. #e bands slated to play are Backroad Anthem, Strange Derangers, #e Dave Bright Band, Kelly Road and Luke Williams.

More Live Music For a little spice, Teatro Scarpino has salsa

night with Latin band Calle Soul on Friday

night. Also on Friday, folk singer Chuck Brodsky will be performing at the 324 Ballroom on Dickson as part of a new folk series, according to the Fayetteville Flyer. Smoke and Barrel is bringing the funk this weekend with popular local band 1 Oz. Jig on Saturday night. Sunday night, central Arkansas’ funk rockers Don’t Stop Please will play a bene!t concert for the band’s broken-down tour van. #e cover is $5 for both nights.

Comedy Comedy is now a weekend on Dickson

Street. UARK Bowl has local comedians on Friday night, and Teatro Scarpino has im-prov comedy group #e Portable Zoo per-forming #ursday at 8 p.m. #e Portable Zoo’s last show at Scarpino sold out, so the group obviously has something going for them. Local comedians Kevin Byram and

Roger Haak will perform short stand-up sets prior to the improv performance. Tick-ets are $10 or $8 with a student ID. For more information, search #e Portable Zoo on Facebook.

!eater#e UA’s drama department will contin-

ue its performance of Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” throughout the weekend. Students can get in free on #urs-day night, or for $3 the rest of the weekend. Performances start at 8 p.m. #ursday, Fri-day and Saturday night, and there is a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday.

#is is also the last weekend to see #e-atreSquared’s performance of “Sons of the Prophet” at Nadine Baum Studios on West Avenue. Students under the age of 30 can purchase tickets for only $10. Showtimes and ticket information can be found at wal-tonartscenter.org.

W ith Yonder Mountain String Band coming to George’s, a festival dedicated to local food and organic farming, and a bike race on Sunday, this might be the most Fayetteville

weekend Fayetteville has ever seen. #ere’s also salsa, funk, cheap theater tickets and local comedy. Choices abound this weekend, so take full advantage.

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Kris Johnson Sta" PhotographerVisiting artist, Amos Kennedy, inks a letterpress at a printing demonstration, Wednesday Feb. 27. Along with the demon-stration Kennedy gave a lecture about his work.

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!e Dig In! Food and Farming Festival will take place at the Arkansas Global Campus on the Fayetteville Square Feb. 28 to March 2 for the third year.

Dig In! celebrates local food and farmers and is in-tended to inspire and educate people about the bene"ts of local food.

!is year, the festival will include classes on garden-ing, homesteading, backyard chickens, cooking, herbs, bee-keeping and more. !ere will also be documentary "lms, two of which are Arkansas premieres, that explore the connection people make be-tween the food choices they make and the impact on local economies and communities.

“When you eat locally, you are more aware of the impact,” said Leigh Wilkerson, found-er of Dig In!. “At the festival, we feature tastings from res-taurants who use local foods,

as well as an information and vendor fair, community seed swaps, and more.”

!is year, for the "rst time, the festival will feature a key-note speaker at 1-4 p.m. Fri-day, March 1 Brad Lancaster of Arizona specializes in landscapes that harvest their own water. Wilkerson said that is useful information af-ter a drought year like 2012.

“We want to bring togeth-er people who are interested in gardening, food and farms and share knowledge and support. We want to bring together people who want to buy the freshest, tastiest local foods with the farmers who are growing it,” Wilkerson said. “It’s about making con-nections in our community and supporting and building a thriving and resilient food system here in northwest Ar-kansas.”

Admission is by donation. !e UA Global Campus is located at 2 E. Center St. on the northwest corner of the Fayetteville Square. More information can be found at diginfestival.com.

Food and Farming Festival Celebrates 3rd AnniversaryStephanie PullinSta! Writer

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Ashley Swindell Sta" PhotographerStudent, Hollis Nix, puts up #iers for Eating Disorder Awareness Week, Tuesday, Feb. 26. Students came together throughout the week to create #yers and write messages in sidewalk chalk to create awareness across campus.

Informing Students About Eating Disorders

Gnarkansas is a DIY local skateboard company designed and run by local skateboard-ers throughout the state.

Brandon Herbert founded Gnarkansas which was origi-nally developed to create a fundamental way for skaters to build a signi"cant cama-raderie around the idea of a foundation, “by the skaters, for the skaters,” in Arkansas.

“Compared to a few years back, I’ve seen a lot more kids out there skating all around town since we’ve started Gnarkansas,” Herbert said.

!e Gnarkansas crew said they are looking forward to new projects coming this year, including massive art-

work and park lights at the Walker skate park, as well as adding multi-use functions to the bike trail in south Fay-etteville.

Gnarkansas has been spread by word of mouth, stimulating a considerable growth in skateboarding.

!e given name “Gnarkan-sas” represents skateboarders of Arkansas and is developed to focus on the happenings, fun and updated news that all skaters can look forward to.

!e Gnarkansas crew said they are looking forward to new projects coming this year, including massive art-work and park lights at the Walker skate park, as well as adding multi-use functions to the bike trail in south Fay-etteville.

“Naturally Gnar” is the company’s creates a meaning-

ful slogan representing what it’s all about.

“!e name is us, and we are the name,” Herbert said.

Gnarkansas has funda-mentally grown in pro"t, contributors and a massive entourage. Herbert said Gnar-kansas has made an impact on young skaters that look up to locals promoted in their vid-eos and photographs as an inspiration. !e company has recently been premiered on a national skateboard website based in L.A. called !e Ber-rics, in which Gnarkansas is described as showing that there is, in fact, skating actu-ally something culture hap-pening here in the Midwest.

!e company also creates merchandise such as exclusive skateboard decks, T-shirts and stickers galore. Aside from the videos and pictures,

the website includes articles on recent news and sessions, information about skate parks all throughout Arkansas, and as well as information on skate shops that promote Gnarkansas.

Gnarkansas merchandise is dispersed and promoted throughout three skate shops in Arkansas: !e pAth Out-"tters in Fayetteville, Hero’s Clothing and Skateboards in Cabot and Boardertown in Fort Smith. Gnarkansas skateboarder and Boarder-town General Manager Nich-olas Gibson is widely involved with the company as well.

“Gnarkansas has made a huge impact on our shop with the help of the site’s videos and photo posts that hype up skaters to want to come skate and buy merchandise,” Gib-son said.

Local Company, Gnarkansas Notices an Increase of SkatersAmanda MaziliSta! Writer

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A student will be changed with a felony for bringing a "rearm on school property, an o#cial said.

Matthew Williamson, 37, accidentally shot himself in the hand at the KUAF build-ing with a Taurus Judge pis-tol, which shoots .45 long colt bullet and shotgun round, said Lt. Matt Mills in a previous interview. KUAF is considered UA property since it is owned by the UA, said Matt Durrett, Washing-ton County prosecutor.

Williamson will be charged with a Class D fel-ony, meaning he could face up to six years in the depart-ment of corrections and/or up to $10,000 in "nes, Dur-rett said.

A felony warrant for his arrest has been issued. A$er he is arrested and booked,

he will received a court day, which will be about a month later, Durrett said.

Williamson was booked to the Washington County Jail at 11:19 a.m. Wednes-day but was release at noon, according to Washington County website. He has a bail of $2,500 and his hear-ing with be on March 1, ac-cording the website.

Williamson could not be reached to comment.

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Caroline Potts Sta" PhotographerSkateboard designer Brandon Herbert shows o" one of his designs at the Fayetteville Square, Monday, Feb. 25th. Gnarkansas has many skateboard designs and also does $lming and photography of local skaters.

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Traveler Quote of the Day“When you eat locally,

you are more aware of the impact.”

Leigh Wilkerson, Founder of Dig In!“Food and Farming Festival Celebrates 3rd Anniversary”

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Student Status is Second, !ird, Fourth

!ese last few weeks have been busy for everyone as tests from all classes hit us at the same time. We tend to let the stress of these "rst tests, papers and midterms overwhelm us, and we for-get how important it is to do things for ourselves dur-ing this time. One thing we overlook, because it would seem to get in the way of our busy schedules, is taking small vacations or going on adventures.

Taking a little time to go on a road trip for a weekend or to see your favorite band play in the next state over is actually very important, ac-cording to research done by young adult writer Elizabeth Scott. !ere are several key

things these mini adven-tures can help or improve, which is especially impor-tant during these busy weeks of school.

First, adventures can en-hance our creativity. It gives us a break from the stress of our daily schedule, allow-ing time to reconnect with ourselves. It also allows time for self-discovery and helps us to get back to feeling like our best selves. It is at this period we are at our most creative and able to come up with more ideas.

Second, these vacations can help to keep us from burning out. If we give our-selves regular time to relax, we are less likely to experi-ence burnout, which makes us more productive than if we try to force ourselves to keep working.

!ird, this can keep us healthy and enhance our overall well-being. !e break from our schedule gives us an opportunity to “recharge our batteries.” Also, our quality of sleep and mood improves without the constant battering of our daily stress.

Next, if we take these adventures with friends, it gives us special memories

with these speci"c people. !is can strengthen bonds, allowing us to enjoy the good times together more and help us get through the stress of hard times later.

!ese experiences also can help with our overall performance on school-work. !e psychological bene"ts of these fun breaks lead to an increased quality of life, which then promotes the quality of our work.

Finally, a good vacation can relieve stress for a last-ing amount of time. Relax-ation over the course of a few days can create fewer stressful days weeks later. It is the gi# you keep on giving yourself.

Although it may seem like a weekend away from your schoolwork would only make stress worse, it is not the case. I can actually speak from experience on this top-ic. !is past week was when I had my "rst test in most of my classes, and I had other things going on in my life that created a thoroughly overwhelming week.

However, my friend turned 21 this past weekend, so we road-tripped to Austin for the weekend to celebrate with her. We were able to re-

connect with an old friend, meet new ones and explore the city of Austin, which is an extremely cool place.

I had tests this week as well, and online assignments due that weekend, but I was able to still take time to get those done during our stay and the overall trip allowed me to just focus on having fun with my friends.

!is reduced my stress by a huge amount, and I know I would have regretted it if I had not gone. !is is the time to take advantage of trips like this. We do have the responsibilities of school and perhaps jobs as well, but some of us are not pay-ing our own bills and are not dealing with the “real world” just yet.

!is is the perfect time in our lives to drop every-thing for a weekend and drive to Memphis, Austin or Saint Louis with our friends, see the city, go to a concert and just enjoy ourselves, so I suggest we all take advan-tage.

Katherine Kortebein is a junior English, creative writ-ing major and a sta! writer for the Arkansas Traveler.

Adventures Break the Busy Weeks of Class

I have made a decision about college senioritis. In high school, I experienced it in maximum quantities. In college, I have made the star-tling realization senioritis is not increased laziness and wearing sweatpants to work, but an intensive reshu$ing of priorities.

In this past week, I felt I was losing my sense of re-sponsibility. I wasn’t sure where it was vanishing to, but it was de"nitely leaving. Perhaps, I thought, it is be-cause I’m an arrogant senior, maybe I am getting a big head and am starting to feel I have accomplished college merely halfway through my "nal semester or possibly it is because I wouldn’t mind tak-ing a few forget-me-nots so I never have to worry about my honors thesis again; however, I did know that I was neglect-ing my overall student duties in order to succeed in my job responsibilities, my new top priority.

In my mind, I have three jobs. I have my work four days a week at the Traveler. I meet my deadlines, write and edit stories and I ensure my page gets printed on time with ap-propriate content. I have my role in my advanced televi-sion class, currently producer. I meet those class deadlines, ensure my reporters are doing their best work and make sure the "nal product of the On the Hill show airs online and on UATV. Finally, I have my job getting a job upon gradu-ation. My dad reminds me the economy is not headhunting student journalists on a pretty regular basis. Applications and networking is more time consuming than I realized.

In years past, before I be-gan this big-headed senior, I was able to manage similar jobs at UATV and as an RA

with maintaining a high GPA, maintaining good standing with the honors college, kept decent progress on my the-sis and followed a decently healthy lifestyle playing with the club ultimate frisbee team.

Where have those extra re-sponsibilities gone? Where is my GPA going this semester? Will I "nish my thesis in time for my April defense? !ese are the unanswerable ques-tions taking a backseat to my major job priorities and the ultimate necessity of me get-ting a job a#er I get my di-ploma.

As a student, I am respon-sible for grades and assign-ments. As a graduating senior, I am in charge of ensuring I will succeed upon gradua-tion, and that means building my résumé with the practical, hands-on experience I get in the Traveler and in my portfo-lio building advanced, senior classes.

Senioritis is hitting me hard, and it is not from a lack of work. It is because school is becoming less pertinent and the “real world” becomes more important.

“!e second semester of the last year... is a kind of wait-ing room for the next stage of life,” wrote Rebecca Winters Keegan in Time Magazine.

Rather than a waiting room, I see this second se-mester playing roulette in Las Vegas.

I’ve put a few bets on my lucky numbers. I pay so# at-tention to the others, not from laziness but because I am so incredibly focused on the numbers I hope will pay out. I’m hoping my current jobs and responsibilities that I’m going all in on will get me the needed experience, recom-mendations and interviews for my graduation.

Like anything in Vegas, it’s a risk. I may regret it tomor-row morning if it doesn’t pay out. Some students will lose job o%ers or graduate school opportunities if they let the GPA drop too far in this last semester. I realize now, I am experiencing senioritis but I am not becoming lazy. I am prioritizing for my future ca-reer three months from now.

Joe DelNero is a senior broadcast major and the opin-ion editor of the Traveler.

Job Applications Prefer Steak to Potatoes

When you meet someone new on campus, you cycle through a generic set of ques-tions. Topping the list are name, hometown, classi"ca-tion, organizations, jobs and Greek a&liation. If you keep talking, your major will prob-ably come up, eventually. Even though education is the reason we’re all on campus, the status of students tends to get over-looked.

It seems the educational aspect of college is diminish-ing. In the back of our minds, we all know we’re students; however, that fact tends to get buried under all the other titles we hold.

We are UATV anchors, RSO presidents, co-captains of the soccer team, lab assistants, RIC senators, student ambas-sadors, RAs, Bible study lead-ers, Greek treasurers — you name it, there’s a student on campus involved.

With all the things we can

be involved in, studies get pushed to the side.

Many students forget why we are at college. College is not a social club. It’s not a job. It’s also not an extracurricular or community service exhibition. You are paying money to re-ceive an education.

It seems like less emphasis is put on academic interest. If you have a con'ict between school and another organiza-tion, which do you focus on "rst?

Naturally, when studying is marginalized, grades are too. Consequently, your GPA can really take a hit.

!en, we’re le# with the task of reassuring ourselves a failed class isn’t that big of a deal. !is is easily done because students are stocked with an arsenal of excuses, saying it’s okay if you screw up academically.

If you are busy working and can’t study for a test and do poorly on it, no worries. If you continue to do poorly in the class … well … it’s just one class. It probably doesn’t mat-ter much anyway. !e profes-sor was terrible, it’s nothing that you’re going to use a#er college, the list just goes on.

What’s the takeaway les-son? As long as you pass, the speci"cs of your grade aren’t important. You still passed.

Society doesn’t condemn this attitude, either. When you head into the workforce, your GPA alone probably won’t net you a job. Your extracurricu-

lar activities, leadership ex-perience and simply who you know can have you signing a contract with hardly a glance at your GPA.

Sixty-two percent of em-ployers don’t have a minimum GPA for hiring college gradu-ates, according to statistics in a Careerbuilder.com article. Of those who do, the most com-mon cuto% was a 3.0, with 31 percent of employers using that as a baseline.

Scholarship applications also weight leadership and extracurricular participation along with your overall and major GPAs.

Even the most elite and se-lective careers industries still prefer applicants with campus involvement and internships, said Jody Queen-Hubert, Pace University executive director of cooperative education and career services.

If someone has a less-than-impressive GPA, a stellar list of campus involvement can o%set it.

Knowing that, it’s tough to convince someone that study-ing simply for the sake of knowledge is important.

!is makes us put the role of being a student on the back-burner. It’s not that students don’t care about how they do in school. Obviously, the ulti-mate goal is to pass. However, excelling is optional. !at little voice singing “D’s get degrees” plays much too frequently.

Many clubs and organiza-

tions tout the “student "rst” philosophy, meaning that schoolwork is the most impor-tant. In actuality, the working de"nition is something a bit di%erent. Students’ schoolwork is "rst only a#er they "nish their jobs within the organiza-tion.

Rarely will you be encour-aged to skip an event because you need to study for a test. Most jobs won’t allow you to ignore your work because you have a video project due the next day. Get your work done "rst, then you’re fully encour-aged study.

Nobody can deny leader-ship and other activities are ex-tremely bene"cial to students.

However, why should that elevate their importance over that of actual schoolwork it-self? Education shouldn’t be something to skimp and wig-gle your way through, learning the least amount possible.

Make your education a pri-ority. Some of the things that you learn in the classroom are the things that you’ll be doing throughout your life. When it comes to your future, it pays to understand the material, as opposed to squeaking by with a barely passing grade. Keep in mind that somewhere between all your other titles, you are a student. Be one.

Shawnya Wethington is a sophomore journalism, English major and a sta! columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

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Hogs Head to Arizona for 4 Games!e Diamond Hogs next travel to Surprise, Ariz., for four games at the Coca-Cola Classic against Arizona State, Gonzaga and Paci"c.

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Student Charged With On-Campus Firearm Felony A student will be changed with a felony for bringing a !rearm on school property, an o"cial said.

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Dig In Food & Farming Festival#e local food culture is strong in north-

west Arkansas, and the Dig In! Festival cel-ebrates all of the farmers and foodies that make possible the farmers market and lo-cally sourced food at area restaurants. #e event runs Friday and Saturday at the UA Global Campus building on the square. Fri-day is geared toward organic farmers, but on Saturday, the festival will o$er classes in organic cooking, cooking with in-season produce and backyard gardening.

All classes or !lms have a suggested do-nation of $5, or the festival sells weekend passes for $30. #e festival will show !lms including “Truck Farm,” “King Corn,” and special Arkansas premiers of “Eating Ala-bama” and “To Make A Farm” on Friday night, according to diginfestival.com. #e keynote speaker for the weekend is Brad Lancaster, a rainwater and desert cultiva-tion expert. More information, including event schedules, can be found at diginfes-tival.com.

Yonder Mountain String BandWherever Yonder Mountain String Band

brings their bluegrass/jam band sound, a good time is sure to follow. Yonder will be playing Sunday night at George’s Majestic Lounge, and tickets are $22.50 in person. Yonder, based out of Colorado, has fre-quented Fayetteville for years, and even sponsors Harvest Fest, a bluegrass festival in October at Mulberry Mountain north of Ozark, Ark. Something about their music resonates with the area, and it is clearly a mutual attraction. Yonder shows tend to sell out at George’s, so act quickly.

Highway 71 Classic It’s almost springtime, with longer and

warmer days. Kick o$ the outdoor season with the Highway 71 Classic bike race, sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks. Participants can choose from a shorter, %atter 32-mile route, a gravel road 50-mile route, and the namesake 72-mile course down old Highway 71. #e race starts at 9 a.m. Sunday from the Green-house Grille parking lot on School Avenue. Students receive a $5 discount on the entry fee, ranging from $20 without a T-shirt to $45 with a T-shirt. All entrants receive a Bi-cycle Coalition of the Ozarks membership with the entry fee. For further information, visit bconwa.com.

!under on the Mountain !rowdown

Similar to the Waka Winter Classic, the #under on the Mountain #rowdown is a contest for area country acts to win a spot on stage for June’s #under on the Moun-tain country music festival at Mulberry Mountain. Starting at 9 p.m. on Saturday night at George’s, !ve bands will take the stage to win over the audience. For a $5 cover, you can see all !ve bands and vote for your favorite. #e bands slated to play are Backroad Anthem, Strange Derangers, #e Dave Bright Band, Kelly Road and Luke Williams.

More Live Music For a little spice, Teatro Scarpino has salsa

night with Latin band Calle Soul on Friday

night. Also on Friday, folk singer Chuck Brodsky will be performing at the 324 Ballroom on Dickson as part of a new folk series, according to the Fayetteville Flyer. Smoke and Barrel is bringing the funk this weekend with popular local band 1 Oz. Jig on Saturday night. Sunday night, central Arkansas’ funk rockers Don’t Stop Please will play a bene!t concert for the band’s broken-down tour van. #e cover is $5 for both nights.

Comedy Comedy is now a weekend on Dickson

Street. UARK Bowl has local comedians on Friday night, and Teatro Scarpino has im-prov comedy group #e Portable Zoo per-forming #ursday at 8 p.m. #e Portable Zoo’s last show at Scarpino sold out, so the group obviously has something going for them. Local comedians Kevin Byram and

Roger Haak will perform short stand-up sets prior to the improv performance. Tick-ets are $10 or $8 with a student ID. For more information, search #e Portable Zoo on Facebook.

!eater#e UA’s drama department will contin-

ue its performance of Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” throughout the weekend. Students can get in free on #urs-day night, or for $3 the rest of the weekend. Performances start at 8 p.m. #ursday, Fri-day and Saturday night, and there is a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday.

#is is also the last weekend to see #e-atreSquared’s performance of “Sons of the Prophet” at Nadine Baum Studios on West Avenue. Students under the age of 30 can purchase tickets for only $10. Showtimes and ticket information can be found at wal-tonartscenter.org.

W ith Yonder Mountain String Band coming to George’s, a festival dedicated to local food and organic farming, and a bike race on Sunday, this might be the most Fayetteville

weekend Fayetteville has ever seen. #ere’s also salsa, funk, cheap theater tickets and local comedy. Choices abound this weekend, so take full advantage.

Alex MarchSta! Writer

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Top summoners from colleges all over Ar-kansas and Oklahoma will gather on March 2 to test their mettle in the arena.

League of Legends is an online multi-player battle arena game, according to the game website. In the game, two teams of even numbers go head to head in various fields of justice, or arenas. The arena is divided into lanes, and occasionally, waves of minions, or AI opponents, run down the lanes to be killed by players or opposing AI. The lanes are lined with turrets that will engage any opposing force, AI or otherwise, according to the game website. In addition to turrets, lanes also fea-ture buildings called inhibitors that prevent opposing teams from training a bolstered AI minion.

The aim of the game is to destroy the op-posing team's nexus, or base. Nexuses are located at either end of the arena, and to reach the other end players must either sneak through bushes and remain unseen by en-emies, or carve a swath through opposition, according to the game website. After one team reaches the end of a lane and succeeds in de-stroying the opposing team's nexus, the battle is concluded, and currency called influence points is given in quantities based on winning or losing the game.

After featuring over 100 registered sum-moners and 16 teams from the UA alone in their first League of Legends tournament in November 2012, the Razorback Gaming RSO is bringing the showdown back.

The Razorback Gaming RSO will be open-ing the competition up to 32 collegiate teams from both Arkansas and Oklahoma. Teams will be pitted against each other online on Feb. 23 to see who is most worthy to take part in the finals, scheduled for March 2 at the com-puter store in the Garland Shopping Center.

After the dust settles on Feb. 23, only eight teams will be eligible to compete in the LAN-style tournament at the computer store. The finals will be conducted on March 2, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Quarterfinals will begin at 11 a.m., semi-finals will begin at 2 p.m. and the

final battle will begin at 5 p.m.The top two teams of summoners will split

$150 in riot points, which is the currency used in League of Legends to purchase differ-ent champions and master different ways to play. The Razorback Gaming RSO encourages anyone to come down to watch the fireworks of the UARK Summoner Showdown II on March 2. There will be a watch party taking place alongside the tournament with ample seating for spectators, said Kurt Deininger, president of the Razorback Gaming RSO.

The watch party will have match commen-

tators, or “shoutcasters,” who will be broad-casting the tournament over a projector, Deininger said. The RSO also hopes to have food for attendees, he said.

For those unable to attend the tourna-

ment and view it in person, the RSO will be live streaming the event over the Internet at twitch.tv/razorbackgamingtv, Deininger said.

Summoners wage war on March 2, so don't miss out on the mayhem.

My Bloody Valentinembv

Perhaps the biggest release of

this month, this year or, for some, even this decade, My Bloody Valen-tine's sophomore release has been a long time coming. When it was un-expectedly released on the band's website Saturday, Feb. 2, the site was so overridden with visitors that any-one wishing to buy the album was greeted with an error message. "mbv" is distinctively My Bloody Valentine, but it does not attempt to recreate "Loveless"; instead, it updates their fuzzy-yet-ethereal sound into the 21st century. Shoegaze, a genre char-acterized by hazy noise and a lack of movement onstage, a genre that My Bloody Valentine arguably invented,

isn't dead; rather, it has evolved, just as the band has, into something simi-lar and equally good.

Unknown Mortal OrchestraII

My personal favorite album of the

month, "II" is a much more mature version of Unknown Mortal Orches-tra's 2011 self-titled debut. Darker, deeper and ultimately more reward-ing, "II" shows frontman Ruban Nelson's ability to balance complex, psychedelic-in%uenced pop melodies with his wicked guitar skills. Rather than getting caught up in how many key changes occur in some of the songs (answer: a lot), the album's main takeaway are songs that stay stuck in your head for days — just lis-

ten to "So Good at Being in Trouble" and you'll see what I mean.

Beach FossilsClash the Truth

Of all the bands riding the re-

verbed-out, Captured Tracks-esque trend of surfy indie pop a few years ago, Beach Fossils may have been the best with their 2010 self-titled debut. Many bands have moved away from that trend recently, but Beach Fossils continues on with "Clash the Truth," a similar a$air but with higher pro-duction value. What they sacri!ce for slickness, however, is the inti-macy present on their !rst album; Beach Fossils are grown up and pro-fessional now, and while still breezy, reverby and introspective, are a little less fun.

IceageYou're Nothing

Iceage's music is not for every-

body: Steeped in a tradition of hard, brash punk !rst popularized by bands in the '70s and '80s, the Danish band's songs are both immediate and ag-gressive. While they've toned it down a bit on their second album, "You're Nothing," their music still maintains

its status as hardcore punk, but does it with a level of introspection and gravitas uncommon in punk music. "You're Nothing" is still !erce and urgent, but repeated listens reveal nu-anced song structures and lyrics, cre-ating an overall record that is more complex than it !rst appears.

BilalA Love Surreal

Bilal's third full-length release de-

serves the title Smoothest Album of the Year. Infusing his jazz roots with funk and soul, Bilal is more comfort-able than ever in his own skin, and his music speaks volumes of it. Bilal's !rst asset has always been his voice — he's classically trained in opera — but everything else on "A Love Surreal" — the composition, the instrumen-tation, the production done mostly himself — is equally as strong. Bilal is at the top of his game on this album; here's to hoping it's only upward from here.

Other releases worth checking out:

Previously reviewed electronic album "Amok" by supergroup At-oms of Peace; Nick Cave & the Bad

Seeds' surprisingly un-grungy "Push the Sky Away"; Chapel Hill-area country-folk duo Mount Moriah's sophomore release, "Miracle Tem-ple"; Electronic wizard Jamie Lidell's bouncy high-! self-titled album; Jim James of My Morning Jacket's soulful and introspective "Regions of Light and Sound of God"; #ao & the Get Down Stay Down's fun, upbeat, folk-pop record "We the Common"; Foals' slicked-back and tightened-up major-label debut "Holy Fire"; Veronica Falls' part-twee, part-goth indie pop sopho-more album "Waiting for Something to Happen"; "Honeys," the aggres-sive, high-energy release from hard-core punk-rockers Pissed Jeans; "No Elephants," the so& and melodic album by longtime femme singer-songwriter Lisa Germano; Jacco Gardner's "Cabinet of Curiosities," a fantastical, whimsical recreation of '60s baroque pop; Shout Out Louds' polished, Cure-esque indie pop release, "Optica"; electro-rock band STRFKR's retro-inspired, su-per danceable third album "Miracle Mile"; Eat Skull's lo-!, fuzzed-out yet melodic release, "III"; Doldrums' disjoint, glitchy and mesmeriz-ing indie electronic album, "Lesser Evil"; and Autre Ne Veut's highly polished '80s-in%uenced hipster R&B triumph, "Anxiety."

February is traditionally not a big month for music releases, as many acts wait to release their records during the annual late-spring/early-summer onslaught (Phoenix, #e Knife and James Blake all have big

ones coming then, along with many more to be announced). #is February, however, caught many of us by surprise with an album 20 years in the making, a new album by an almost-celebrity supergroup and a number of solid sophomore releases, among others. Here's what is worth listening to from a surprisingly proli!c February:

Emily DeLongCopy Editor

My Bloody Valentine - mbv Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth Iceage - You’re Nothing Bilal - A Love Surreal

MUSIC

Summoner Showdown:League of Legends Tournament Planned for March

Courtesy Photo!e Razorback Gaming RSO will be opening the competition up to 32 collegiate teams from both Arkansas and Oklahoma March 2 at the computer store in the Garland Shopping Center.

John MullinsSta! Writer

Top summoners from colleges all over Arkansas and Oklahoma will gather on March 2 to test their mettle in the arena.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

!e National Collegiate Athletic Association does not have the best reputation in the national media. Within the last month, the hairy situation and botched enforcement job at the University of Miami has caused

a "restorm of criticism to be thrown at the NCAA — espe-cially its head honcho, Mark Emmert.

!e NCAA’s role as a gov-erning body over most colle-giate sports in this country is largely ignored. It’s a logo you see in the corner of the screen during March Madness, but they actually do serve a pur-pose.

What?! !ey do things?! I would venture to argue that they do a lot, and that they do a lot of good. !ey fail from time to time as all human institu-tions do, but people in the na-tional sports media seem very quick to throw stones at an or-ganization whose purpose they do not fully grasp.

!e situation at Miami is bad. You cannot have your en-forcement sta# go down there and start paying lawyers for depositions and expect to get away with it. NCAA rules are not United States law.

!e thing is, the NCAA rec-ognized the wrong done in a big way. !ey "red their VP of Enforcement over the debacle and President Emmert had this to say: (amongst other things) “!is is something that’s an embarrassment to our associa-tion and our sta# — this is not a good situation at all.”

And now people are saying "ring the VP of Enforcement was like "ring your defensive coordinator and expecting to suddenly have a good defense.

!ere are surely still those call-ing for President Emmert’s head on a stake.

!e good news about the NCAA is that it is just that, an association. It is an association of 1,281 institutions from across the United States and Canada. Associations are governed by their members. If member in-stitutions want change at the executive level, change will happen.

So o$en this is misunder-stood and the NCAA is seen as “them” and your personal member institution is seen as “us” and they are pitted against each other.

Call me naïve, but the idea that the NCAA does everything in its power to carry out its mis-

sion of protecting student ath-letes is not an unbelievable one to me. Sure it has its problems both externally and internally, but at the end of the day, the ha-tred for an institution that tries to get everyone to play by the rules is insane.

Please don’t think I am just blindly defending an institution that admittedly leaves much to be desired in certain areas. I do feel that a deeper grasp of how governance works at the NCAA is necessary for everyone from casual football fan to university chancellor. No one understands it, not even long-time sta# members of the NCAA.

!e big, bad NCAA is faced with more openly brutal scru-tiny than I can remember in my

lifetime. And yet it is the insti-tution that makes the college sports world go round and for that we are eternally grateful.

If they do what they say they’re doing and continue to make sure they play by the rules as they enforce the rules back on their members, there is no reason not to entertain the idea of trusting them again.

A$er all, the NCAA is a nonpro"t association of institu-tions of higher education. !at really doesn’t sound so scary, does it?

Liz Beadle is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every other week. Fol-low the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

A Few Good Reasons Why the NCAA Isn’t So Bad

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

COMMENTARY

GOLFBASEBALL

!e "nal round of the John Hayt Invitational, held at the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., was rained out Tuesday, leav-ing the No. 14 Arkansas men’s golf team in fourth place a$er only 36 holes of play.

!e Razorbacks only made it to the third and fourth hole before play was suspended due to the inclem-ent weather. !e Razorbacks had made their move on day two, getting their score to 11-over par for their tie at fourth place. !e tournament host, No. 25 North Florida, se-cured the win.

Day one of the invita-tional, the Hogs were led by junior William Meason, who carded a one-under par 71. He led the Razorbacks to a team total of "ve-over par that tied for ninth place a$er the "rst day.

Junior Sebastian Cappelen started day one with two bo-geys, but got back to even-par and wound up "nishing his round the same. Senior Austin Cook and sophomore !omas Sorensen "nished with rounds of three-over par to put down the "nal two scores for the Razorbacks.

Competing as an indi-

Razorbacks Finish 4th in FloridaZack WheelerSta! Writer

!e Arkansas baseball team has continued its hot start to the season, sweeping Evans-ville at Baum Stadium over the weekend.

!e Diamond Hogs next travel to Surprise, Ariz., for four games at the Coca-Cola Classic against Arizona State, Gonzaga and Paci"c. !is will be the Hogs’ "rst power confer-ence level of competition, with Arizona State ranked No. 24 in the country by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America.

“I think its a great test. !e quality of competition is really good,” head coach Dave Van Horn said.

Senior le$-handed pitcher Randall Fant will get his "rst start of the season Sunday against Paci"c. Fant has missed the "rst two weeks of the sea-son with a hamstring injury, but Van Horn expects to get 40-45 pitches and three or so innings out of him before working in some other pitch-ers.

“He’s about ready to go, we’re going to let him go through the whole starter rou-tine,” Van Horn said.

In other injury news, in-"elder Dominic Ficociello will also make his "rst appearance of the season a$er su#ering a strained oblique. !e switch-hitting Ficociello has been "ne from the right side of the plate and taking ground balls in practice, and will start against le$ handed pitchers in Arizona

if everything goes according to plan.

Ryne Stanek, Barrett Astin and Trey Killian will start the !ursday, Friday and Saturday games at the Coca-Cola classic, respectively.

Stanek has had some minor issues with control in his "rst two starts of the season, throw-ing 76 pitches in three innings in his last appearance against Evansville. In his "rst two starts, Stanek threw 25 pitches in the "rst inning of each game.

“Hopefully this weekend

he’ll get o# to a good start,” Van Horn said.

!e right-handed Astin is in for a pitchers duel Friday against Gonzaga le$-hander Marco Gonzales, who was awarded numerous All-Amer-ican selections a season ago.

Killian, a freshman right-hander, is o# to a fantastic start to the season with a 0.00 ERA in 7.2 innings pitched to start the season. He’ll see his "rst sti# competition against Ari-zona State Saturday, but Van Horn made it clear that plenty

of pitchers on the roster will be throwing this weekend.

Arkansas has started the season hot at the plate, hitting .312 as a team while averag-ing nearly eight runs per game. Catcher Jake Wise and out-"elders Tyler Spoon and Joe Serrano had big weekends at the plate against Evansville.

Wise hit .545 with a home run and six RBIs against the Aces, while Spoon had seven RBIs, four of those coming o# a grand slam in game two of the three games in the series.

Serrano has been getting the most out of his plate ap-pearances, having a knack for getting on base and scoring four runs over the weekend against Evansville.

“He’s been a really tough out. He will either DH or play le$ "eld, and we need his bat in the lineup,” Van Horn said about Serrano.

!e Coca-Cola classic will close Sunday against Paci"c, a$er which the Hogs return to Fayetteville for a four-game series against San Diego State.

Hogs Head to Arizona for 4 Games

Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerTrey Killian delivers a pitch during a game against Evansville Sunday. Killian will start Saturday against No. 24 Arizona State.

see FLORIDA page 8

Cameron McCauleySta! Writer

BASKETBALL

!e Razorback women’s basketball team closes out its regular season this week with games against Florida and Ole Miss.

!e Hogs are 17-10 and 5-9 in the Southeastern Conference this season. !ey take on Flori-da in Gainesville !ursday then close out the regular season at home Sunday against Ole Miss.

Sunday’s game will also be the venue for senior day for the four seniors on this team. Kelsey Hatcher, Sarah Watkins, Quistelle Williams and Erin Gatling will all play their last game as a Razorback in Bud Walton on Sunday.

“For me it has kind of sunk in. I realize that college basket-ball is ending; it’s making me very sentimental,” Watkins said. “It’s real motivation for these

Seniors to Play Final Hog Games

see SENIORS page 8

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

SWIMMING

!e Arkansas swimming and diving squad is looking ahead to a strong showing at the NCAA National meet a$er a record breaking per-formance at the Southeastern Conference Championship last weekend.

!e Razorbacks capped one of the top seasons in school history with a sixth-place "nish at the SEC Cham-pionships, a performance that included eight new school re-cords.

“!ere were a lot of great swims and personal bests,” head coach Sean Schimmel said.

Leading the Razorbacks was sophomore Nikki Dan-iels, who played a part in two school records.

Her "rst record came in

the 100-meter breaststroke. With a time of 59.26 seconds Daniels shattered her old school record.

Daniels received an ‘A’ cut for the swim. It is the "rst individual ‘A’ cut for the Ra-zorbacks since Yi-Ting Siow earned one in 2010 in the 400 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke.

Her second school record came as a part of the 400 med-ley relay.

Shana Lim, Daniels, Su-sanna White and Nina Drolc teamed up for a time of 3:36.63 to record a NCAA ‘B’ cut time and a sixth-place "n-ish in the "nals.

!e other ‘A’ cut time came in the 200 medley relay.

!e relay team of Shana Lim, Daniels, White and Drolc recorded the "rst NCAA ‘A’ cut time on a relay in school history as they went on to swim a school record 1:37.79.

8 Records Fall to RazorbacksEric HarrisSta! Writer

see RECORDS page 8Addison Morgan Sta" Photographer

Swimming and diving coach head coach Sean Schimmel discussed his team’s record breaking performances and the upcoming NCAA championship meet.

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last few games.”Head coach Tom Collen

was sure to point out that he tries to avoid putting pres-sure on the team and does not want them to feel like their college careers are end-ing on a low note.

“!ey have to prove they can step up yet again,” Col-len said of the Razorbacks who have lost their last two games in a row at Georgia and against Tennessee. “Not laying down and quitting or feeling their season is over with — that’s an important lesson for them.”

In order for Arkansas to pull o# an NCAA tourna-ment bid, it is all but impera-tive that they win their last two regular season games and make a run in the SEC Tournament.

“I want to start the run in Florida,” Williams said of the Hogs’ matchup with the Ga-tors !ursday.

Arkansas is tied with Florida for the No. 8/9 seed in the SEC Tournament. Last year, the Hogs defeated the Gators 73-72 in double over-time in Fayetteville.

“It’s kind of scary how similar to us they are,” Col-len said. “I bet they’re glad we’re coming to their place this time.”

Although Collen said he is trying to keep the pres-sure o#, there is obviously a lot of pressure on his team as the regular season comes to

a close.“I "nally expressed to

them that I feel like our backs are against the wall. We have to go down there and get a big road win,” Collen said.

“We know that these games are must-wins essen-tially, but we need to just go into those games relaxed and be con"dent,” Gatling said. “!e pressure is tough but we know we’re an NCAA team, whether everybody else knows it or not yet.”

Collen added that it is mature of Gatling to know her team well enough to know that they play so much better when they’re loose and relaxed. “Women are much more resilient that way,” he said. “!ey put value on things other than winning and losing sometimes.”

!e two games this week could very well be some of the last basketball games these seniors ever play.

“It’s bittersweet,” Gatling said of the end of her senior year. “Well, right now it’s just bitter but hopefully the sweet part will come.”

“!ey’ve all been di#er-ence makers for us,” Collen said of his seniors. “We owe them a lot. It always gets sad when you start thinking about the fact that you’re re-ally going to miss them as people. I like this team a lot.”

Arkansas continues play !ursday at 6 p.m. in Gains-ville, Fla.

SENIORS continued from page 7

vidual, freshman Nicholas Echavarria had a strong out-ing when he shot two-under par to tie for 10th individu-ally. Freshman Taylor Moore struggled on day one, card-ing a "ve-over par with 8 bogeys.

Day two was more of a struggle for golfers all across the course. Cook led the Razorbacks with a score of two-under par.

Cappelen carded his sec-ond straight round of even-par with three birdies and three bogeys. Cappelen ma-neuvered his way to one of the better rounds of the day

by any player and moved from 25th into a tie for 12th individually.

Cook’s two-under par score, the fourth-best in-dividual round of the day, allowed the Razorbacks to move from sixth into a tie for fourth at the tournament which featured six top 25 teams.

North Florida posted a second consecutive round of under par as a team to hold a 12-stroke lead that wound up winning the event.

Arkansas had to count two scores of over par on day two, as Moore, Sorensen

and Meason all struggled to reach par on the day. No. 11 Duke "nished in second at "ve-under par and was followed by Central Florida (+9) and Arkansas, North Texas and No. 7 Florida who all tied with totals of 11-over par.

Arkansas will return to the course when they re-sume play March 11-12 at the General Hackler Invi-tational being held at TPC of Myrtle Beach at Murrells Inlet, S.C. !e competition "eld includes teams such as Florida State, Kansas State, Virginia and Virginia Tech.

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Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsSenior Austin Cook drives his ball down the fairway at the John Hayt Invitation-al Monday. Cook recorded the best individual round of the tournament Monday.

!e 400 freestyle relay was another record-breaking per-formance for Arkansas.

Drolc, Anna May"eld, Mon-roe, and White swam for a time of 3:18.47, seventh in the "nals and a NCAA ‘B’ cut swim.

!e emergence of the relays has been something Schimmel has been focused on all season.

“We have been working on relays all year. It’s been a major priority for us,” Schimmel said.

In the 100 freestyle, the Ra-zorbacks recorded the top two times in school history. White and Drolc posted times of 49.51 and 49.55 to set the new records.

!e Razorbacks closed out the meet with eight school re-cords. !ey re-broke six records and added two more, which puts the total count of new school records in Schimmel’s season at 10.

!e Hogs have been prepar-ing for the upcoming NCAA national meet, where Schimmel is excited to possibly have the largest group of swimmers there in his time as the Hogs’ head coach.

“It’s something I’m very pas-sionate about,” Schimmel said. “ I am excited about the opportu-nity.”

However, before the NCAA meet, is the last chance meet for swimmers in Athens, Ga.

!e Hogs must wait and see the results in other conference championships before knowing what swimmers will compete for a chance at the National Championships in Indianapolis.

RECORDS continued from page 7

“We’ve been working on relays all year. It’s been a major priority for us.”

Sean SchimmelHead Swimming Coach