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Chi Alpha Sponsors Biggest Loser Contest! e Winner of the event will win $500.

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Briefl y SpeakingList of the weeks events.

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Local Music Lovers Call for DIY Venue RevivalDIY venues o" er a di" erent, more intimate music scene than Dickson Street.

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2012 to Bring Box O! ce HitsMovies like ! e Hunger Games and ! e Hobbit to light up theatres this year.

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Hogs Face SEC’s BestArkansas will try to snap an eight-game losing streak at Rupp Arena, dating back to 1994. No. 2 Kentucky is undefeated at home in coach John Calipari’s three seasons.

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Celebration for a King

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCommunity members gathered at the Walton Arts Center Monday morning to participate in the annual MLK Jr. Day March. The march ended at the Verizon Ballroom inside the Union for a vigil.

Refreshed by Winter Break, Students Return to Dorm Life

Many students must readjust to living in UA residence halls this week a! er living at home for winter break.

For freshman appar-el studies major Grace Colly, moving back to campus was bittersweet.

“I’m glad to be inde-pendent again, but I will miss my parents’ food and my pets,” she said.

“" ere are a lot of things I’m going to have to readjust to with living on campus a! er a month,” Colly said. “Like hav-ing to walk everywhere, sharing a bathroom, do-ing my laundry and hav-ing limited food again.”

While some students may # nd it hard or bit-tersweet to be back on campus, others look for-ward to the move back.

“I don’t think it will be too hard to readjust. I kind of missed it,” said Arika Lewis, a fresh-man broadcast journal-ism and Spanish ma-jor living in Yocum Hall.

Some students said life on campus is more ex-citing than life at home.

“I’m glad to be back. It was getting boring at home,” said Logan Moyer, a fresh-man business major who moved back into Futrall Hall the day it reopened.

Most residence halls on the UA campus closed for winter break, although Yocum Hall, Holcombe Hall, Gregson Hall and the Northwest Quad re-mained open with limit-ed services, according to the UA housing website.

Students had to turn o$ their appliances and heat before vacating the residence halls for the break, according to the UA housing website.

“I had to run the heat

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for a while when I got back,” said Mark Cameron, a freshman English major who moved back into his room in Futrall Hall. “Other than that, it wasn’t too bad.”

Most students agree that they are ready to get back to campus and back to their routines.

“Overall, I’m just ready to get back into the groove of campus,” Colly said. “It will be fun to readjust.”

Moyer said he was glad the stasis of winter break was # nally ending.

“I’m actually ready for classes to start and to get back into the motion of things,” Moyer said.

Hotz Hall to Become Honors Quarters in 2013

Freshmen honor students will be able to interact more with honors upperclassmenpage 2

Pi Beta Phi and Lambda Top Greek GPA List

Sororities and fraterni-ties completed the fall 2011 semester with an all-Greek GPA of 3.146. " e overall sorority GPA was a 3.236, and the overall fraternity GPA was a 2.977, according to the Greek Life website.

Pi Beta Phi # nished # rst among UA sororities with a average GPA of 3.408, while Lambda Chi Alpha achieved the highest fra-ternity GPA with a 3.171, according to the website.

Laura Cooper, a sopho-more member of Pi Beta Phi, said she is very proud of her sorority’s grades.

“It really shows how hard we work, and we’re

extremely proud of what our house has achieved,” Cooper said. “It proves that sorori-ties are not merely a social event, but we also do good work for the community and encourage each other to maintain good grades.”

Each Greek chapter has an academic chairper-son or an academic stan-dards committee to moni-tor the grades of individu-al members and the chap-ter as a whole. Members are o! en provided tutors, group study sessions and other academic aids to as-sist in achieving high GPAs.

Many houses o$ er incen-tives for high GPAs. " ose who earn a 4.0 win prizes such as T-shirts, gi! cards or special awards that mem-

bers can add to his or her chapter pin. Greek chapters also set academic standards for members by requiring a minimum GPA. If this min-imum is not maintained, members may be subjected to special tutor sessions or put on academic probation.

Sadie Smith, vice pres-ident of Academic Ex-cellence for her sorority, helps her chapter achieve high grades by monitoring which classes seem to give members the most trouble.

“I ask girls to let me know what they’re struggling with,” Smith said. “If economics is giving a lot of people trou-ble one semester, we bring

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CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSarah Sabatino, Katie Sabatino, Maggie Thompson, Tori Faulkner, Lauren Delph and Caitlin Britt gather in the Pi Beta Phi sorority house to discuss upcoming classes they are taking this semester. Pi Phi ranked first place for academics for the Panhellenic Academic Awards this last semester.

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BRIEFLY SPEAKING:MLK EventsUA Volunteer Action Center members will sponsor the third annual MLK Day of Service from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Connections Lounge of the Arkansas Union. Ten local non-pro! t agencies will hold a community service fair for the campus community.A screening of the PBS documentary Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock will be presented by producer and director Sharon La Cruise in the Donald W. Reynolds Center at 2 p.m. Jan. 19.

January 17Starting a Business in ArkansasStarting A Business in Arkansas prepares participants for the intensive business planning process. Many questions entrepre-neurs have about starting a business are answered in this three hour workshop from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Donald W. Reyn-olds Center room 202. January 18Keep The Challenge" is workshop will inform students about how to get and keep the Academic Challenge (Lottery) Scholarship. " e workshop will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in room 223 of Silas Hunt Hall. January 19Understanding Online Marketing" is presentation will cover how small businesses can use on-line advertising, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, to help their business. " e presentation will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce. January 20Jack Buckley Lecture on Link Between Test Scores, Student Achieve-mentJack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Educa-tion Statistics in Washington, D.C. will speak in room 343 of the Graduate Education Building on the topic “Is " ere a Link Be-tween State Performance Standards and Student Achievement?” International Culture Team Kick-O! UA International Culture Team members are sponsoring their semester kick-o# event from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Walker Hall Auditorium.

Hotz Hall to Become Honors Quarters in 2013

" e UA Honors quar-ters will move to Hotz Hall as soon as renovations are complete in 2013. " e new location would allow hon-ors freshmen to interact with more honors upper-classmen and allow them to eat in the Northwest Quad dining hall, o$ cials said.

Honors College o$ -cials are also planning to have honors program-ming in the Northwest Quad dining hall and oth-er meeting places nearby.

“For several years we have been working with the hous-ing o$ ce either to renovate Pomfret or to ! nd another location for ! rst year honors students,” said Kendall Curlee, director of communica-tions for the Honors College.

UA o$ cials abandoned plans to renovate Pomfret or move the honors quar-ters to Yocum Hall when those measures proved to be too expensive, Curlee said.

" e Honors Col-lege also considered mov-ing ! rst year honors quar-ters to Yocum Hall but that plan failed for budget-ary reasons also, she said.

Hotz Hall is about the same size as the B-Wing of Pomfret, where current ! rst-year honors students live. Honors College o$ cials said they don’t know the exact number of honors students

living on campus or wheth-er that number will grow substantially in the future.

Lizzie Alvarez, freshman pre-nursing student and Pomfret Hall resident, thinks Pomfret should remain in the ! rst year honors quarters.

“" ey just redid a lot of stu# and they have the sum-mer to make it even nicer,” Al-varez said. “I didn’t even know they were thinking about moving the honors dorm.”

" ough the Hotz hon-ors location would be more central and convenient in the eyes of the Honors Col-lege, honors students may miss the Pomfret experience.

“We’ve all bonded from living at the bottom of the hill and having to make the trek up together ev-ery morning,” Alvarez said.

Some honors students don’t appreciate the trek from Pomfret, but agree that it builds a certain companionship.

“It is a disadvantage that we’re all the way at the bottom of the hill,” said Catherine Woodrow, a freshman English and social work major and Pomfret resident. “Although it’s not that big of an issue, we have a really great bus sys-tem and we have a great sense of community in Pomfret.”

Honors students will also lose the cafeteria convenient-ly located inside Pomfret, al-though they will gain clos-er access to the Quads,

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BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITORPomfret Hall, left, has been designated for honors students for the past 9 years. Now, honors housing is planned to move to Hotz Hall, right, after renovations are complete.

in an econ. tutor to help girls study before big tests. If chem-istry is a problem, I may ask older members in the house who are majoring in it to help their sisters in the subject.”

At the beginning of each year, many houses compile a list of each member’s ma-jor and minor so they can be grouped into study groups and tutoring sessions, Smith said.

Cooper thinks chapters will continue to strive for high academic achievement because of what it says about the chapter and its members.

“It just makes you that much more proud to wear your letters. Making good grades is a college student’s highest pri-ority, and we have proven that we work hard and encour-age each other to do just that.”

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My aunt sets the dinner plates before us on the table. She made chicken biryani, a traditional Indian dish of chicken mixed with rice. My stomach responds with an au-dible rumble to the spicy aro-ma that rises from the yellow and orange colored rice. My aunt hands me and my sisters forks for our food. I am about to take it, when, out of the cor-ner of my eye, I see my cousin eating with her hands.

As I was raised in an In-dian household, with parents who always worked to preserve our Indian heritage, the art of eating with the hands was not new to me. However, living in America, it was a practice that I rarely took part in. I could have

taken that fork and eaten like I normally do at home, but I de-cided I wanted to experience India in every way that I could. I needed to let go of my Ameri-can lifestyle and integrate into the Indian society.

A! er my many trips abroad, and my most recent one to In-dia, I found that the real ex-perience comes through un-derstanding the culture and people. It is very easy for West-erners to go to India, stay in " ve-star hotels and live in the luxury that reminds them of home. # at “luxury”, however, only makes up a small percent of India. # e real India is in the people’s everyday life and their stories.

Eating with the hands was, of course, one of the small ad-justments. # e harder was adapting to their lifestyle. # e " rst time I was in a car, I thought I was going to die any minute. We would be driving in the middle of the road and a car or truck would be coming at us head-on. At what seemed to me to be the very last sec-ond, both cars would swerve around each other. Tra$ c in the markets and on the streets was something else. Here, all I have to worry about are cars

and people. # ere, drivers have to worry about motorcycles, cars, trucks, scooters, bicycles, pedestrians, rickshaws, goats, camels and cows— yes, cows. In fact, everybody seems to have the same right-of-way.

As I was on the train to Ra-jisthan, I would stand at the door of the train, watching as we passed by isolated villages. People lived in straw houses, in what seemed to be the mid-dle of nowhere. In Rajisthan, one of the poorest states in In-dia, I’d watch village women working in the " elds or carry-ing heavy wood on their heads, struggling each day to feed the family.

Here in America, we have the concept of lines. People stand behind each other, the last person knowing that he/she will get something. In In-dia, there is no such concept because when it comes to re-sources, there is no guarantee that the last person or even the

middle person will get some-thing. I had never seen pov-erty until I stepped into the markets of New Delhi, where kids, mothers, sick people and old people were begging on the streets, clad in barely a cloth or two.

I was only there for a month, but I learned some very valuable lessons about myself and about the world. It’s that time of year when study abroad deadlines are coming up and I encourage all students to apply. Whether you go to Asia, Afri-ca, South America or Europe, every country has a culture and history of its own and it would bene" t you not to go as a tour-ist, but to immerse yourself in that society.

Leave behind the comforts of your life here and open up your mind to meet the every-day person on the street, strike up a conversation with the taxi driver (they have the most in-teresting tales) and eat cuisine frequented by the locals. # ese are experiences that will stay with you forever.

Saba Naseem is the 2011-2012 Editor. She is a senior majoring journalism, French and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Going there [In-dia], I saw a piece of the constant struggle

in this world that is less visible living here.”

EDITOR: SABA NASEEM MANAGING EDITOR: MATTIE QUINN

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OPINIONPAGE 4 TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2012

FROM THE BOARD

Freedom Forgottenon National HolidayFor many of us, yesterday gave an extra day to recu-

perate after a final weekend of visiting friends, sleeping in and lounging around.

What most forget to take notice of is that it was in-tended to be a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, work and dream. King gave America a chance at hope, peace and equality through his civil rights work, but every year the commemorative day comes and goes without much notice from students. Maybe it’s the lack of interest in history, past filling in our degree plans, but maybe it’s something more serious. As each year passes, there seems to be a strong sensibility that we are moving further away from what King preached and worked for so many years at, into a nonchalant attitude concerning racism in the U.S.

Racial inequality still plagues every corner of the U.S., but seems especially apparent in the south. It’s not uncommon to hear racial insults and comments on campus on a day-to-day basis, but many of us think nothing of it simply because of our upbringing or by the way that society has made it acceptable to use intolerant words and actions in a surprisingly nonchalant sense.

We can try to convince ourselves that racism really is dead, but the cold truth is that it’s still very much alive. Though the segregated buildings and racial vi-olence ended before most of us were born, there are still significant problems concerning equality in the U.S. According to a study by MSNBC in 2008, a quar-ter of black Americans still lived in poverty, the typical black household made only 62 percent of that of a white household and homicide was the leading cause of death of black males. Those numbers have changed in the past three years, but not nearly as well as they could have.

We can read the statistics over and over again and pretend that they don’t concern us, but what we need to be doing is focusing on the very idea that King acted on in a time where the unimaginable happened regard-ing racism. For once, why don’t we make this holiday count?

We must be the ones to break the stereotypes, stop the hate and learn how to treat people as equals. It’s near impossible to imagine a world where racism tru-ly is dead, but we are the next generation to have an opportunity to make change. As the generations that were directly affected by the civil rights movement be-come faint, we have a clean slate to move away from the historically accepted hate and make the change that King so strongly worked for. If we curbed what stereo-types we thought about and acted upon, white and black Americans could experience a much better freedom.

King made it clear that to bring the nation to a place of true equality, we would have to become the lead-ers that we desired to see. Rather than sitting back and speculating on what we feel is not right, we have to be the ones to come together and demand change. We need to not let the idea of civil rights be another page in our history books, but rather become a part of history for breaking the cycle.

This year, rather than merely letting the commemo-rative day pass, we should take the chance to reflect on what we can do to make our nation experience freedom, and then act upon it.

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#Cottonbowl, Hogs, #WPS, Arkansas, Woo Pig Sooie. # ese terms all look familiar to us here in Razorback Country, but some may be asking, “What’s up with those hash tags?”

# ese came from the “Trending Topics” from Twitter during the Razorback’s victory over the Kansas State Wildcats just a few weeks ago. To those of you who frequently Twitter, the website may seem like it is ruled by college students, but less than

20 percent of college students use Twitter as of summer 2011, according to Communication Studies. For those of you who do not “tweet,” Twitter is the self-proclaimed “best way to discover what’s new in your world,” allowing users to share opinions, news, pictures and videos, and spread rumors all from their computer, tablet or cell phone in 140 characters or less.

You could follow Kanye West, though there is a great chance that he will not follow you back, and his random thoughts and feelings would appear on your timeline, where the tweets of the people who you follow appear.

# e real question is not what Twitter is, but rather how do we use it as college students? I didn’t join the site until halfway through my freshman year, though my friends were constantly talking about what they had seen or talked about on Twitter. So as I sat at home with not much to do over the winter break of freshman year, I joined Twitter. Here at

the UA, Twitter is a large, public conversation for people to air out their feelings and comment on what is going on in their life. It has become the tool we use to have those small conversations with friends that we do not mind the public reading. It is where gatherings are planned, gossip is spread, lies are told, pictures from last night are posted, and complaints about campus life and life in general are shared with followers who may or may not want to know them. Every Razorback fan turns into an online sportscaster during a football game and the drama of # e Real Housewives of Atlanta unfolds tweet by tweet when a new episode premieres.

Once upon a time Facebook was the social network to be on, but now it seems that Twitter’s shorter updates are making it the place to be for those wanting to be in the know or those wanting to share what they know. So why does Twitter appeal to those of us in college? From what I have

noticed, Twitter mirrors the real world in the sense that users join can join cliques, or “teams.”

#TeamiPhone, #TeamDroid, #TeamSingle, #TeamUofA, #TeamUCA, #TeamFollowBack are some of the Teams that frequent my timeline. I think this appeals to students because of the inclusion factor; we are able to " nd others with similar lifestyles or interests to us. Another aspect of Twitter that college students enjoy is subliminal tweeting and subtweeting.

Depending on who you follow, who follows you and what the trending topics are, Twitter is a di% erent experience for everyone. Whether you are a user or not, Twitter seems to be what is in right now for staying connected until another social network becomes the #TrendingTopic of our conversations.

DeShaun Artis is a Traveler columnist.

His column appears every other Tuesday.

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Incredible India: Experience the WorldFrom The Editor

by Saba NaseemEditor

““Living with other honors students has helped me stay on track with my schoolwork and the honor students are an interesting and really diverse

bunch.”

-Lizzie Alvarez, freshman pre-nursing student, “Hotz Hall to Become Honors Quarters in 2013,” page 2

visible living here.”

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where the Honors College plans to hold programming.

“! e Pomfreteria isn’t re-ally known for its food, but it’s convenient. Hotz is so close to the Quads that it shouldn’t really be an is-sue, though,” Woodrow said.

Regardless of the loca-tion, students agree that more contact with other honors students strength-ens the Honors College ex-

UA Chi Alpha members are working with chapters in Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas Community Col-lege to sponsor a Biggest Los-er competition, o" cials said.

! e winner, who is judged by the percentage of weight lost rather than pounds, will receive $500. Gi# bas-kets assembled by Chi Al-pha members will be giv-en to anyone who achieves 10 percent weight loss.

Since there will be no weigh-ins between the be-ginning and end of the com-petition, optional groups are in place for participants that would like accountability.

“One group is for guys. ! ey play basket-ball together on ! urs-day nights, and it helps keep each other account-able,” said Courtney Hoover, Chi Alpha sta$ member.

! ese student-led groups o$ er a range of activities. Group membership is option-al, but recommended for those who hope to stay on track.

“All of the major weight loss programs say that you need a weekly support sys-tem. You can’t just let your-self go and then try and do it all at the end. It’s real-ly unhealthy,” Hoover said.

Competition o" cials will provide nutrition-al guides to participants at the weigh-in to underscore the importance of healthy living over weight loss.

“We also have the option to meet with a nutritionist at any time that they would want to schedule it,” Hoover said.

Chi Alpha Has Biggest Loser

Contest! e main mission is to

contribute to the campus. However, all money col-lected through the com-petition goes to ministries that Chi Alpha supports.

“It’s a giving back to the campus, because we’re promoting healthy living,” Hoover said.

“We are raising money for the mission projects that we’re doing,” Hoover said. “We work with an orphanage overseas. Also for local non-pro% t organizational support, for campus outreach, student development, and interna-tional student connections such as Free Food Friday.”

Free Food Friday is a weekly event at 6 p.m. in the Chi Alpha house on Leverett Avenue.

“Area churches cook all of this food and we o$ er the food for free to any stu-dent on campus to come and have a home-cooked meal on Friday nights,” Hoover said.

Registration begins Jan. 17 in the Arkansas Union. ! ose interested may register for $20. A booth will be set up during weekdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Con-nections Lounge, said Mack Clements, graduate student and member of Chi Alpha.

Students and professors are welcome to participate and compete against students who register with the Ben-tonville and NWACC chap-ters, said Courtney Hoover.

! e competition will span six weeks and consist of two meetings – a weigh-in on Feb. 1, and a weigh-out on March 14.

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perience, Alvarez said.“Living with other hon-

ors students has helped me stay on track with my school-work and the honor students are an interesting and really diverse bunch,” Alvarez said.

Contact with the 150 up-per-class students living else-where on campus would be very bene% cial, Curlee said.

“! e change won’t a$ ect that sense of community. Hotz will just be their hon-ors dorm,” Woodrow said.

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The Hunger GamesMarch 23

With success already established with a best-selling book series, ! e Hunger Games will make its " lm debut this March, with predictions already calling for blockbuster sales. Set in a dys-topian future in the once-was North America, there are 13 “districts” instead of our 50 states, and as punishment for a previous rebellion against the wealthy Capitol, the other 12 districts are forced to provide a teenage boy and girl to compete in a televised survival game known as the Hunger Games. ! e story follows 16-year-old hunter Katniss Everdeen as she volunteers herself to go in her younger sister’s stead to rep-resent her district. With its compelling plot, and its relatively young and upcoming actors, ! e Hunger Games just might have what it takes to be the next successful book-to-movie franchise.

The AvengersMay 4

A# er several major Marvel superhero series and many contextual hints of a future collabora-tive project, ! e Avengers will " nally hit theaters May 4. Combing the forces and story lines of Iron Man, ! or, Captain America, ! e Incredible Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow (and the Hol-lywood philosophy “the more, the better”), the group forms up as the Avengers. If done right, this should be a superhero " lm for the ages. With the star-studded cast, the inherited success from the combined Marvel franchises, and the con-sensus of anticipation to be a spectacular action movie, this will be one hell of a ride that will kick o$ a terri" c summer of movies.

James Bond: Skyfallnovember 9

You read that right. November heralds the ar-rival of the next James Bond in the Daniel Craig series. ! is is the 23rd Bond " lm, but there’s just something awesome about the level of swagger the Bond character has, along with the heart pounding action that keeps the " lm series going. ! ere hasn’t been much information released about the movie yet, but if Skyfall is anything at all like its predecessors Casino Royale or Quan-tum of Solace, there is de" nitely much to look forward to in this next installment.

The Hobbitdecember 14

Before the trials the Fellowship of the Ring faced in the Lord of the Rings series, Gandalf the Gray, Bilbo Baggins and their adventuring par-ty traversed the fantasy lands of Middle Earth. Based on the " rst of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epics works, Peter Jackson, who helped bring to life the thrill-ing Lord of the Rings movies, is back in the di-rector chair to bring a prequel to the super suc-cessful trilogy. Yes, December 14 is a very long time from now, but keep this on the back burners

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When it comes to major movie titles coming out in 2012, this year looks to be nothing short of spectacular. With such movies as the Batman trilogy ! nale Dark Knight Rises, the star-studded Avengers, a new James Bond ! lm and J.R.R. Tolkien’s " e Hobbit coming out, it should be a great year.

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The DictatorMay 11

From the mind of Sacha Baron Cohen — the man who brought the world the likes of Borat, Ali G and Bruno— comes the newest charac-ter, General Aladeen, the star of ! e Dictator. Hopefully he hasn’t gotten to be too formulaic, although it seems like this " lm will feature the usual culturally-o$ ensive humor we’ve grown to expect from him. In reality, it will probably be a near-hilarious movie that will be quoted throughout the next summer.

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One of the more unexpectedly cool-looking movies of 2012 is Snow White and the Hunts-man. In keeping with the traditional fairy tale, the story follows Snow White as the Evil Queen seeks to keep her beauty and youth by taking it from the maidens of the world. However, this story seems to be far from the Disney adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story. In this epic remake — without the seven dwarves, it seems— Snow White is a warrior, and the Huntsman is sent af-ter her by order of the Queen to capture the “fair-est of them all.” ! e gritty reboot of this series is welcome and is something to keep an eye on this year.

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True, Spiderman 3 was released just " ve years ago in 2007, but it seems it’s high time for a refresher on the series. Following much more closely to the comics than the previous series did and with a whole new cast and director, ! e Amazing Spiderman will be yet another worthy summer superhero movie. As its tagline suggests, this will be “the untold story” of Peter Parker and his family. It won’t have the same glamour as the 2002 hit Spiderman, but it will remain true to the Spiderman mythology. ! e " rst-person shots in the " lm trailer were seriously cool, so if there’s more where that came from, this should be an awesome summer % ick.

The Dark Knight Risesjuly 20

Oh man. If this isn’t going to be the biggest or even best movie of 2012, then 2012 will be a year of more than one fantastic movie. ! e last of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which have been some of the best Batman or superhero movies to date, will be a sure" re summer block-buster. Super villain Bane will take the helm as Gotham’s menace, and even the morally ambigu-ous Catwoman will be added into the story. It’s perfectly acceptable to be excited like a little kid for this one.

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He peered through a nar-rowly cracked door, BB gun in hand. A soiled Persian rug lay folded just so in the threshold, a MacGyvered attempt to prevent the door from being opened any further.

! e busted carcass of a futon and sunken-in love seat sat mil-dewing on his front porch, sad oases in a land" ll of beer bottle caps, fast food wrappers and cigarette butts.

“Oh, sorry! I couldn’t hear you knocking,” said Nick Shoul-ders, who had been shooting at le# over beer cans inside of his home. “I’m pretty deaf and last night didn’t help.”

In fact, the previous night’s alcohol-fueled, rage-inducing, rock ‘n’ roll house-show held at Shoulders’ home had le# sev-eral of the nearly 150 attendees with temporary hearing prob-lems, chipped teeth, and gnarly bruises.

Beyond the doorway and in what no longer could be re-ferred to as a “living” room, broken glass covered the in-tensely worn hardwood $ oors. A life-size cardboard cut-out of John F. Kennedy was folded in half and discarded among electrical cords, couch cushions and bloodied clothing.

! e carnage, emphatically embraced by Shoulders, was an expected result of that event in late September — an evening showcase of " ve local bands with sounds ranging from surf-rock to thrash metal.

It was the last house-show to be put on in the do-it-yourself (DIY) venue on Rollston Street, endearingly referred to by its occupants and show-goers as “Trashcanistan.” It lasted into the early morning hours, before being shut down by the police – something Shoulders had an-ticipated. In his mind, his bags had already been packed.

A DIY venue can be any structure, be it somebody’s house to a warehouse or stu-dio, where music and art events are held, according to attendees and DIY venue owners. ! ese shows are generally put on without the intention of mak-ing a pro" t and they exist to house more experimental exhi-bitions, not usually welcomed by bars, theaters, or for-pro" t venues.

Fayetteville was once teem-ing with these types of uno% cial sites, accommodating rough-and-tumble performances from artists who can be “challenging, disturbing, or even kind of dan-gerous,” as described by Stuart Feild, former local DIY venue owner who moved from Fay-etteville to Texas this year.

“Fayetteville has had a lot of trouble supporting venues that are willing to take risks,” Feild said. “I think it was a very or-ganic response to the lack of good places to see good, or at least di& erent, music.”

! e fact that house venues host a wide variety of music had

always been a major factor in attracting an audience. Fayette-ville’s DIY venues have seen ev-erything from punk to hip-hop to experimental acts like Sa-tan’s God, a “doom bassist” who Feild said laid on the $ oor and invited guests to step on him as they le# the show at his house-venue “! e Groj.”

But recently, the local DIY music scene has quieted down. With many venue owners mov-ing away, going on a hiatus from the mayhem, or just com-pletely shutting down because of noise complaints and damag-es to their homes, house-shows have largely died out.

Wanbli Gamache, a cultural anthropology major who grad-uated in December, noticed the absence of the DIY ethos in the local music scene.

“Me and [my roommate] Willie were really reminiscing on all of the old places – ! e

Ameroplace, ! e New Deli, ! e Blue House, and the Sang House,” Gamache said, refer-ring to out-of-commission DIY venues that once existed in Fay-etteville, “but we realized they are just not around, so we said ‘Why don’t we just do it our-selves?’”

And so they did and con-tinue to do. Gamache and his two roommates, Willie Benson and Zane Placke, began hosting local musical acts about a year ago in their house on Virginia Street, which has been dubbed “! e Virginia Music Hall” or “! e Manor.” ! e shows have brought in anywhere from 70 to 150 guests, shu' ing in and out of the house throughout one night.

“At our house, everyone is wild about it,” Gamache said. “! ey like to dance and every-one feels open enough to have as much fun as they want. ! at’s

something we’ve really tried to make sure of.”

Gamache also wanted to es-tablish his home as an all-ages venue, a popular principle in the DIY scene.

“When I was going to the New Deli, I was still underage and that was the only place I got to see good music,” Gam-ache said.

“If you’re 20 years old and you can’t get into a bar … and you spend your entire life thinking about music and you can’t see a show, then what’s le# for you?” said Shoulders, who also maintained an all-ag-es venue. “You’re gonna either " nd an outlet like a house-show or just go crazy, honestly.”

Gamache and his two roommates relied on their al-ready established connections

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It’s 2012, which means students face a new semester and a long list of resolutions to accomplish in the realm of academia. While many of us vow to study at least six hours a day, mak-ing a few smaller changes can erase the fear of pulling up your early progress report. Here are just a few new year’s academ-ic resolutions that don’t take much work but can signi" cantly help in the long run.

Change your study area - ! ough hitting the books in your dorm room might seem like the comfortable, easy

option, skimming over your study guide while laying in bed and watching the latest television drama isn’t the best way to go. While you’re trying to cram information for those mid-semester tests, your brain is only retaining a fraction of the information while being distracted by your roommate, enter-tainment or simply the prospect of doing anything but study. Find an area that you can do nothing but study in, whether it’s the library, a quiet co& ee shop or other area on campus. If you’ve gotten used to people-watching in the same spot of the library each night, switch it up by visiting a di& erent part of the building like the reading room, archive room or one of the rented study rooms. By leaving your comfort zone, you can focus solely on the academic task at hand instead of counting down the minutes until it’s all over.

Organize your school supplies – Carrying a di& erent notebook to each class may seem like just another item

to " t in your backpack, but stu% ng homework assignments and syllabi into your bag is a recipe for disaster. By getting organized before the rough part of the semester develops, the tests, assignments and work will seem ten times easier. Make it a point to carry at least a multiple subject notebook to keep your classwork separate, along with adequate writing and study supplies. Keeping your class materials structured makes studying, class time and stress levels an ease rather than a has-sel.

Hit the hay – ! e National Sleep Foundation recom-mends that adults require seven to nine hours of sleep

each night. While going out on a 2 a.m. Taco Bell run or cut-ting relaxation time short to party on a ! ursday night might seem like fun, it can greatly a& ect your academic life. Accord-ing to the NSF, making a nightly routine, creating a regular bedtime and avoiding ca& eine or food for several hours before catching some shuteye means more memory capability and better productivity during the day. Next time your roommate complains about having the late night munchies, excuse your-self from the drive and catch an early night.

Change your snacking habits – Everybody makes the same ‘eat healthier’ resolution each year, but changing

the snacks you crave during a long study session can help your productivity as well as your pant size. Instead of grabbing a bag of fast food before heading to the library, try packing some healthy snacks to fuel your cranium. According to a study by Purdue University, healthy brain foods that are perfect for tak-ing to a study group include nuts, high " ber granola bars, low fat cheese and, of course, fruits and vegetables. Why not try a bag of baby carrots with ranch dip, or granola and milk? As well as packing the right foods, make sure not to continuous-ly snack, but rather take a break every hour to walk around, drink some water and eat.

While returning to school for the spring semester might make changes like these seem unecessary, taking the time to get organized, grab some healthy choices at the store and get an extra hour of sleep each night can greatly help with aca-demic performance and ensuring a successful semester.

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With the holiday season under their belts, UA students patiently anticipate the next incen-tive for celebration, procrastination and exces-sive Facebook status updates: the ! rst ice storm of the year.

In the past three years, students have reveled in the ice, snow and most importantly, the pos-sibility of class cancellation. It’s no secret that we’ve experienced a mild winter thus far, but history serves that Jack Frost won’t let us down in 2012.

All hooplah aside, the inclement weather has done some serious damage to the city in the past. In January 2009, an unprecedented ice storm hit Fayetteville, leaving many homes and business-es severely damaged. Tree branches covered the streets, and schools were forced to close for days at a time. During that year’s horrendous storm, Arkansas was even declared a federal natural di-saster area by President Obama. With the help of some power generators and a good mug of cocoa, UA students braved the biting cold and made the best of a frightening situation.

Ty Murdoch, a UA senior majoring in biol-ogy, remembers the 2009 ice storm with a sense of awe.

“I remember standing on my porch and watching transformers explode,” Murdoch said. " ough that picture may suggest a grandiose scene from a Michael Bay ! lm, the ice storm af-termath certainly lacked the thrill of technology. “We didn’t have power for a week, and practical-ly lived o# the gas ! replace in our house.”

Mike Killingsworth, a senior majoring in an-thropology, recalls a similar experience. When the power went out, he too was alarmed by the electric cataclysm.

“It sounded like gunshots going o# . We heard limbs falling all around us, got scared, and ran to a friend’s house,” Killingsworth said. “We also came across a woman whose house was wrecked by a tree branch, so we stopped to help her.”

Many citizens of Northwest Arkansas had to rely on the kindness of strangers during the storm.

An unexpected glacial deluge isn’t enough to

keep Fayettevillians from having fun, however. Most students cherish their memories of playing in the snow. " roughout the past few winters, students passed the time with sledding, snow-ball ! ghts and quality time with friends.

Killingsworth shared his favorite spot for icy merrymaking.

“On campus, the best place for sledding is the hill on J.B. Hunt,” Killingsworth explained. “We even hiked to Chik-! l-A from Mission Boulevard once. It was insane.”

" e devastating e# ects of past ice storms have undoubtedly brought citizens together. Mayor Lioneld Jordan expressed pride for the people of Fayetteville in their e# orts to relieve those a# ected.

“" e compassion and generosity of the peo-ple in our community is never more evident than when facing our collective di$ culties,” Jor-dan said.

With the harshest winter months ahead of us, the possibility of yet another ice storm re-

mains. If past years are any indicator of the sea-son to come, the UA can expect lots of precipi-tation.

When asked if he hoped for another snowfall this year, Murdoch replied with a smirk.

“I absolutely hope so,” he said. “No mat-ter what hardships the storms bring, the snow unites us all.”

So, Hogsicles, let us sally forth into the win-ter and see what Arkansas has in store.

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to start booking bands in their home.

“Willie and Zane are on top

of it,” Gamache said. “[Willie] knows a lot of people, he talks to a lot of di# erent bands and, usually, he’s the one that han-dles getting most of them,” he said.

Most of the shows have been played by local musi-cians, but Gamache said he wants to start booking travel-ing acts.

“We are actually trying to

start doing a donation sys-tem,” Gamache said.

A donation system or cov-er charge is common practice in the DIY scene when host-ing traveling bands. Contri-butions help cover their gas costs or are o# ered simply as an act of hospitality.

“We want to get some money for the bands. We have no interest in keeping the money for ourselves,” Gam-ache said.

Neil Lord, a veteran Fay-etteville DIY venue owner and show-attendee found a welcoming community of do-it-yourselfers in Austin, Texas while on tour with his own musical groups. Along with several other purveyors of house-shows, in search of a launching pad for his musical career, Lord decided to make Austin his home in August of this year.

Shoulders referred to this % ight of musicians from Fay-etteville to Austin as “the Tex-odus” and said it lent itself to the dying-out of DIY venues in Fayetteville.

But Lord’s experiences as a traveling musician showed him how easy it was to nab touring acts for shows in his now non-functioning house-venue in Fayetteville, “" e Ameroplace.”

“Really, I never had to go too far out of my way,” Lord said, “Word-of-mouth spreads quickly within the DIY venue scene, and a& er a few successful shows, bands were contacting me to play " e Ameroplace.”

“One band would give an-other band my phone number or e-mail and pretty soon, I would have a month’s worth of shows booked two months in advance,” Lord said.

" e Internet also plays an integral role in the booking of house-shows and the guaran-tee of attendance.

DoDIY.org is a website that went up in 2007 and was founded by Neil Campau. It lists the contact information for DIY venues around the country (organized by state), and even internationally.

“Since 2007, this site has operated as a resource for mu-sicians, performers, speak-ers, artists, and activists who would like to organize events and/or travel around the world,” the website claims.

It has seven venues listed

in Arkansas.Feild, who also moved to

Texas from Fayetteville this year, said he made his own website to advertise his also out-of-commission venue, " e Groj, to traveling bands.

“Basically I just put up a website and an e-mail, and that was all it took,” Feild said. “I was getting around ten e-mail requests a day for bands wanting to book at the height of it. Bands actually pre-fer house-shows most of the time,” he said.

" e notion that bands pre-fer house-shows seemed to be supported by venue owners and bands alike, with the two groups overlapping in many cases.

“In a bar, there is a de! -nite separation between au-dience and performer. Dur-ing a house-show, you’re shar-ing the same bottle of whis-key. You’re cooking with each other before or a& er the show. You’re letting the band sleep in your bed while you take the couch,” said Lord, who is a musician himself.

Shoulders, also a per-former, said he enjoys the al-lowance of “rowdiness” at a house-show that would not be welcomed in any other arena.

“" ere is no greater joy in the world than playing a house-show,” Shoulders said, “Everyone in that room is your best friend and it’s just the greatest experience in the world.”

Shoulders quickly stripped the so& ness of this sentiment.

“Especially if it’s heavier music, because when you get enough drunks in one room that are that pumped up – it’s just madness,” he said. “It’s basically like you’re in a ! ght with 40 people, but it’s a very good ! ght.”

" e kind of disorderly be-havior welcomed by Shoul-ders can be daunting for others considering hosting a show in their home or stu-dio, and it has been cause for several venues to close their doors to the public.

While giving access to his home to hundreds of people was ful! lling for Feild, he said there were some negative fac-ets to the scene as the venue’s owner.

“" e cons [to owning a house venue] are having to be constantly vigilant that peo-ple aren’t [messing] stu# up

or doing something stupid and watching out for the po-lice, although they only came twice,” Feild said. “I never got a ticket, but I did ! nd out that it’s illegal to pee in your own backyard.”

Shoulders had not been so lucky with law enforcement. “It’s hard to run a house ven-ue, both from a ! scal and lo-gistical point as well as from the law,” Shoulders said.

“Fayetteville, as far as I can tell, and have experienced, is really, really anti-rowdy un-less it’s within a con! ned, un-derstood sort of context like a frat house or a sorority,” he said.

And this attitude is exact-ly what he expressed to the cops, that fateful evening, at Trashcanistan’s riotous fare-well event.

Shoulders stumbled through the junk yard of his lawn as drunken show-goers rushed around to the back of the house venue – an area where the toilet had been % ushing into the yard.

" e sewage back-up was one of many complaints Shoulders had about his home. It was one of many complaints which he had shared with management. It was one of many complaints that had gone unanswered by what he referred to as his “slumlord.”

Fed up, Shoulders had al-ready decided to move out a few weeks prior. " is house-show was his last hoorah.

“We wanted to have one last night to really [mess] the place up,” he said.

A police o$ cer shined a % ash light into Shoulders’ bleary eyes.

" e cops were familiar with the location, an eyesore in an otherwise quaint neigh-borhood in the downtown area. It was the ! nal noise complaint call these o$ cers would answer to at the dilap-idated, tumbledown venue of Trashcanistan.

“If I was in a frat would I be getting this ticket?” Shoulders said in an act of noncompli-ance. His wily friends watched and cheered him on. " e last unruly band had already played, the house lay in ruin, and Shoulders, faced with a $90 ticket (which he still has not paid), moved out of the venue one week later.

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Arkansas Faces Daunting Test in Rupp

Arkansas heads to Lexing-ton, Ky., today to try and ac-complishment something the program hasn’t done since 1994 — taking down Kentucky at Rupp Arena.

First-year Razorbacks coach Mike Anderson was on the bench the last time the pro-gram beat the Wildcats in Ken-tucky as an assistant under No-lan Richardson. ! e Hogs have lost eight consecutive games at Rupp since beating No. 4 Ken-tucky 90-82 in their national championship season.

Arkansas (13-4, 2-1 South-eastern Conference) will face its third ranked team of the sea-son in No. 2 Kentucky, a team that leads the nation in blocked shots with 9.1 blocks a game.

“We have to turn the game into a track meet,” Anderson said. “We have to make those guys get up and down the " oor. We have to get them on the move and be in attack.”

! e Wildcats rank second in the SEC in scoring, averag-ing 79.3 points, while Arkansas’ 76.9 points per game is third. Kentucky coach John Calipari expects a “hectic, frenetic” style, he said.

“! eir style of play unleash-es guys,” Calipari said. “! ey

put it on the " oor. If you can’t stay in front of them, they’re getting to the rim.”

Arkansas guard BJ Young is one of eight freshmen expected to play major minutes Tuesday night. ! e game features seven of ESPN’s top 55 players from the 2011 recruiting class, with freshmen leading both teams in scoring and rebounding.

“! is game is something I have been looking forward to for a while,” Young said. “I think my teammates have to as well and we are ready to go get this.”

Kentucky is undefeated at home since Calipari took over following the 2008-2009 sea-son. ! e Wildcats are 45-0 dur-ing that span.

“! is is a big game because they have never lost at Rupp (under Calipari),” Young said. “We plan on going in there and getting one, bringing every-thing we got, and we are going to be ready for the game.”

Arkansas will be at a disad-vantage in size and rebounding

against the much bigger Wild-cat lineup. ! e freshman-heavy lineup for Kentucky boasts four starters 6-foot-7 or taller, while the Hogs start a lineup with just two players taller than 6-foot-7.

Kentucky (17-1, 3-0 SEC) leads the conference with a plus-7.7 rebounding margin and has # ve players who aver-age double # gures in scoring, led by sophomore guard Doron Lamb’s 14 points per game.

“! ey’ve got # ve guys in double # gures and probably three of the leading rebounders in the SEC,” Anderson said.

Wildcats freshman guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist averag-es 13.4 points and has followed in the footsteps of Derek Rose, Tyreke Evans, John Wall and Brandon Knight as freshmen that have excelled under Ken-tucky coach John Calipari.

“Gilchrist, I think he’s a big-time player for them,” Ander-son said. “He is playing real well as a freshman.”

Arkansas freshman Devonta Abron leads the Razorbacks in rebounding and grabbed 13 of the Hogs’ 38 rebounds in their 69-60 win Saturday against LSU.

He grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds when Arkansas out-rebounded Connecticut, the biggest team it has faced enter-

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3 -- Arkansas’ ranking in the Nov. 20 poll, its highest rank-ing since October 1978.

4 -- wins against top-25 op-ponents.

5 -- Arkansas’ # nal ranking, its best since 1977.

11 -- wins for just the third time in school history.

12 -- Jarius Wright receiv-ing touchdowns, a school record

21 -- wins the last two sea-sons, Arkansas’ winningest two-year stretch since 1964-65.

Arkansas’ No. 5 # nish was its best since 1977, when the Razorbacks # nished No. 3 following an Orange Bowl win against Oklahoma.

Back then, Jimmy Carter - ha - was president, while Stevie Wonder, the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were among the most popular in music.

Barack might not still be picking his bracket on ESPN as P.O.T.U.S. and hopefully a cure will have been found for Bieber Fever, but I doubt it will take the Razorbacks three more decades to # nish in the top-# ve again.

In fact, I’d put money on it being much sooner if I were a betting man. Bobby Petrino has put the Razor-backs on the map.

! e Hogs recorded just their third 11-win season this year. Don’t expect a fallo$ soon.

Look at the popular early top 25 rankings for next season that are " oating around from big-name ana-lysts. Arkansas is a consensus top six or seven team and I’ve seen the Ra-zorbacks ranked as high as No. 4 by Sports Illustrated columnist Andy Staples.

! at’s not shocking, either. Peo-ple around the nation are noticing the program Petrino has built in just four seasons.

His # nal three Louisville teams combined to go 32-5 and # nish ranked No. 7 or higher twice.

! e Hogs are 21-5 the last two seasons. In the SEC West.

Now the fan base is talking about getting over the hump for an SEC or national championship, ex-pecting that level of team each sea-son. It wasn’t long ago that a bowl

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Hogs Turn the Corner2011 Review

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MVPs

O! ensive MVP: QB Tyler Wilson! e junior two-year

backup to record-breaking Ryan Mallett # nished with similar, in some cases bet-ter, numbers than Mallett had in his # rst year as a

starter.

Defensive MVP: MLB Jerry Franklin

! e senior made a career-high 101 tackles and ended his career with 382, second in school history. Franklin was steady, lead-ing the team in tackles for

the fourth consecutive year.

Special teams MVP:PR Joe Adams

! e senior returned an SEC-record four punts for touchdowns and his 16.9 yards per return ranked

No. 2 in the nation.

Top Moments

Top Moments of 2011: No. 1 — Comeback in Texas

Arkansas was on the ropes and its season was on the verge of falling apart, down 35-17 at hal% ime to No. 14 Texas A&M a week a% er getting blown out

at Alabama.

Top Moments of 2011: No. 2 — Adams against Ten-

nessee

Joe Adams’ 61-yard touch-down return came in a 49-7 blowout win, but was the most impressive of his SEC-record four TD returns this season and was ranked the No. 5 play

of 2011 by ESPN.

Top Moments of 2011: No. 3 — Cotton Bowl win

! e 29-16 win against No. 8 Kansas State was Arkansas’ second win against a top-10 opponent this season and gave the Razorbacks 11 wins for just the third time in school

history and # rst since 1977.

Worst moments

Worst Moments of 2011: No. 1 — Uekman’s death

! e regular-season # nale at No. 1 LSU, a game with nation-al title implications, was over-shadowed by the death of red-shirt freshman Tight End Gar-rett Uekman of an undiagnosed enlarged heart # ve days prior.

Worst Moments of 2011: No. 2 — Big-game struggles

Arkansas won 11 games for the # rst time since 1977, but # nished third in the SEC West a% er struggling in 24-point

losses at Alabama and LSU

Worst Moments of 2011: No. 3 — Davis’ injury

Junior running back Knile Davis was a preseason All-American pick by multiple pub-lications, but missed the season a% er breaking his ankle in Au-

gust.

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game and nine wins was a stand-out year.

Arkansas gets Alabama and LSU at home next season. Beat the Crimson Tide on Sept. 15 and the national title talk will be inescapable.

While Alabama and LSU were being hit with defections to the NFL last week, Razorbacks quarterback Tyler Wilson and running back Knile Davis’ deci-sions to return to school turned heads nationally and put the rest of the country on notice that the No. 5 team in 2011 has the poten-tial to ! nish higher in 2012.

Wilson ! gures to be even bet-ter with a year of experience a" er impressing in his ! rst season as a starter. He posted slightly better numbers than predecessor Ryan Mallett and could have been a ! rst-or second-round selection if he’d chosen to enter the dra" .

He cited returning “to com-pete for championships” as his reason to stay for his senior year. It’s a possibility.

Davis can give Wilson and the Hogs’ o# ense the dependable running game it lacked against the Crimson Tide and Tigers. He’s already proven he can be an All-SEC back a" er breaking an ankle, so, if fully recovered, he can make the o# ense more potent than this season -- even without the trio of graduating re-ceivers.

Arkansas will miss Jarius Wright, Joe Adams and Greg Childs. It’s highly unlikely anyone will replace what Adams brought to special teams, but o# ensive-ly the Razorbacks are stocked at receiver and could even become scary good by early February.

Cobi Hamilton should have a huge season and young receiv-ers Marquel Wade, Julian Horton and Javontee Herndon showed potential this season. Chris Gragg could be one of the best tight ends in the nation.

$ e Hogs have three four-star receivers committed, according to Scout.com. If you haven’t seen ! lm of California JUCO receiver

Courtney Gardner, do yourself a favor and check it out.

What could make the o# ense scary good is if Arkansas lands Spring! eld, Mo., receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, the consensus No. 1 player in the 2012 class.

Green-Beckham is 6-foot-6, was the Missouri state 100-meter champion as a sophomore and is in the mold of Calvin John-son or AJ Green. $ e Razorbacks are one of ! ve ! nalists, the only school he’s slated to visit before the Feb. 4 signing date and have been tabbed as the possible favor-ite by multiple national recruiting gurus.

With a more experienced of-fensive line, the Hogs could have the most potent o# ense in Petri-no’s tenure.

On the other side of the ball, new defensive coordinator Paul Haynes will get an opportuni-ty to install his scheme and do what predecessor Willy Robin-son couldn’t -- ! eld a defense that can su% ciently compliment the o# ense.

Haynes will have to ! nd re-placements for defensive end Jake Bequette, middle linebacker Jerry Franklin, jack linebacker Jerico Nelson and safety Tramain $ omas.

Arkansas has stockpiled youth at end and Ross Rasner played as much as Nelson down the stretch of this season. Iden-tifying a new middle linebacker and safety could be the key to competing for a championship.

$ ere’s no guarantee the Ra-zorbacks will be in the title hunt in late November again in 2012.

Petrino’s past, Arkansas’ pres-ent and the bright future predict-ed by many of college football’s high-pro! le analysts suggests that the Hogs aren’t going any-where soon unless the Mayans got it right.

If that happens, I’m pretty sure Nick Saban has a predeter-mined No. 1-for-eternity deal with the BCS .

Jimmy Carter is the sports edi-tor of $ e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicarter-sports.

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ing the game today, 47-35 in early December.

“We are just going to buck-le down and take care of busi-ness,” Abron said.

Kentucky center Anthony Davis, the consensus top-rat-ed recruit in the 2011 recruit-ing class, leads the nation with 74 blocked shots and anchors a Wildcat defense that ranks sec-ond in the SEC in scoring de-fense, allowing just 58.9 points

per game.“We can’t just let him sit

there and protect the paint be-cause that is an advantage to them,” Anderson said.

Arkansas is 0-4 away from Bud Walton Arena this season, including three road losses.

“I think we have to play good basketball for 40 min-utes,” Anderson said. “It can’t be for 20 or 25 minutes. We have to rebound the basket-ball because that is one of their strengths. ! ey can throw it up there and go get it.”

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Lane Boyer kicked off his senior season in a big way.

The distance runner ran to a first-place finish and five important points in the 3,000-meter run, helping key No. 2 Arkansas’ 89-81 season-opening win against No. 10 Texas.

Though it’s early in the year, Boyer’s 8:15 time is the best mark in the nation this season and gave the Razor-backs a lift late in the meet.

“It’s a big step for me,” Boyer said. “It’s nice to have a national leading time. Nothing really matters un-til later in the season, but its good and it’s a good start.”

Arkansas senior Michael Chinchar actually took the lead in the run, setting the pace for Boyer and keeping a lead for the Razorbacks throughout most of the run.

Boyer took over with a few laps left, passing Chinchar and taking the lead, leaving everyone be-hind him. Chinchar finished five seconds behind Boyer and Texas’ top runner, fresh-man Will Nation, didn’t fin-ish until 8:21, six seconds behind Boyer and his re-cord-setting time.

“It’s big for me and my teammate Michael Chinchar,” Boyer said. “He really helped me out there, setting the pace for the first whole 2K. It’s a good start

and we’re in a really good spot, this was a good meet to set things off.”

Boyer was a 10-time state champion in high school, has earned numerous aca-demic all-region and All-American honors at Arkan-sas and has experience in three indoor SEC Champi-onships, but has high expec-tations for himself and his team in his final collegiate season.

The Razorbacks’ No. 2 ranking is their highest to open a season since being No. 1 in 2009. The Hogs finished second at the SEC Championships, eighth at the NCAA Championships.

Arkansas has the poten-tial to have a better season this year, Boyer said.

“We can win the national championship,” Boyer said. “We’re a really good team, we could be the national champions and that’s our goal.”

Individually, Boyer ex-pects a lot from himself, too. Despite his impressive early-season victory, his time was well short of his career-best 8:00.25, a mark he wants to improve on as he tries to ready himself to compete for a spot to repre-sent his country.

“I’m looking on down the road to this June, to the Olympic trials in Oregon for the U.S. national team,” Boy-er said. “That’s the whole goal for outdoors is to run

under the Olympic quali-fying time and make the team.”

Boyer’s plans are to pur-sue the Olympics, but he still plans on focusing on this year, his final year in track, with a national cham-pionship the goal.

Arkansas is off to a 2-0 start, also winning its oth-er meet, the Arkansas Invi-tational, the week before its dual meet against Texas.

The Razorbacks’ next meet is the Razorback Invi-tational on Jan. 27.

B oye r E xc e l l i n g Ea r l y

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman forward Devonta Abron and the Razorbacks’ post players will face a Kentucky team with a plus-7.7 rebounding margin.

by ZACH LIGIStaff Writer

LOGAN WILSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Lane Boyer recorded the best time in the nation this season while winning the 3,000-meter race in a dual meet against Texas.

Senior has big meet against rival Longhorns

Arkansas-Kentucky: Quick Hitters

Struggles against KentuckyArkansas beat No. 22 Kentucky 77-76 in overtime last season at

Bud Walton Arena, but that is its only win against the Wildcats in the last decade.

! e Razorbacks have lost eight consecutive games at Rupp Arena and haven’t won in Lexington, Ky., since a 90-82 win against the No. 4 Wildcats in 1993-94, the Hogs’ national championship season.

Arkansas has won just four of its last 22 games against Kentucky and is just 8-20 since joining the SEC in 1992.

! e Razorbacks are 3-7 when the Wildcats are ranked in the top " ve, including six consecutive losses.

Impact freshmen aplentyArkansas freshman guard BJ Young’s 15 points per game ranks

No. 5 in the SEC and leads conference freshman.Kentucky boasts two of the freshmen, guard Michael Kidd-Gil-

christ and forward Anthony Davis. Sophomore guard Doron Lamb’s 14 points per game leads the Wildcats, but Kidd-Gilchrist and Davis average 13.4 and 13.1, respectively.

! e teams combined for " ve of the top 19 players in the 2011 re-cruiting class and seven of the top 55, according to ESPN.

For Arkansas, Young was ranked the No. 16 player in the nation, guard Ky Madden was No. 36 and forward Hunter Mickelson was No. 55.

For Kentucky, Davis was No. 1, Kidd-Gilchrist was No. 4, guard Marquis Teague was No. 8 and forward Kyle Wiltjer was No. 19.

! e Wildcats’ class was ranked No. 1 in the nation, while the Ra-zorbacks were No. 9.

Block PartyArkansas freshman forward Hunter Mickelson ranks third in the

Southeastern Conference and No. 19 nationally with 2.8 blocks per game. Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis leads the league with 4.6 blocks per game

His 6.67 blocks per 40 minutes played leads the nation, besting Davis’ 6.12. Mickelson is on pace to shatter the UA freshman blocks record, set when Oliver Miller recorded 60 in 1989.

Super Tuesday! e Wildcats lead the SEC with 9.1 blocks per game, while the Ra-

zorbacks’ 6.1 swats is second.! e game marks the " rst of Arkansas’ two games featured on

ESPN Super Tuesday. ! e Razorbacks host Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Jan. 31 and also host Ole Miss on Tuesday, Feb. 28 in a game televised on ESPNU.

It is the Hogs’ " rst Super Tuesday game since March 4, 2008 at Ole Miss.

! e game is the " rst of four Kentucky Super Tuesday games.

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

MCT CAMPUSKentucky guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist averages 13.7 points and 7.7 rebounds and is arguably the Wildcat’s best perimeter defender.