University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 73

“About You,For You”

Band to Play Final Show at George’s Majes-tic LoungeJam Band Perpetual Groove is a 10-year-standing band from Sa-vannah, Ga., feeding fans a mixed genre of indie, progressive and anthemic rock with tastes of jazz and R&B.Full Story, Page 3

!e Best Laid PlansUA actors put a new spin on the classic play, “Macbeth”. Full Story, Page 5

Hogs Prepare for Tough Travel!e Razorbacks look to clinch their "rst road win !ursday against the Ala-bama Crimson Tide.Full Story, Page 7

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Students can learn about study abroad opportuni-ties during the Spring Study Abroad Fair on Wednesday.

!e fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Arkansas Union Interna-tional Connections Lounge, according to a press release. Programs are available for many di"erent majors.

Information will be avail-able about UA faculty-led summer programs, semester/year exchanges, funding op-portunities, UA summer cam-pus in Rome and the Study Abroad Student Association, according to the release.

Students can study in about 20 countries through UA faculty-led programs, according to the UA study abroad website.

“Employers are interested in seeing international educa-tion experience on resumes and discussing this experi-ence during interviews,” ac-cording to World Learning, a nonpro#t organization work-ing to strengthen institutions through education, exchange and development programs.

!e #ve leading destina-tions for students who are studying abroad include the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France and China, in that re-spective order, according to the Institute of International Education.

One bene#t of studying abroad includes gaining a new perspective on your own county.

“As a tourist you don’t spend enough time just living in the host country to begin to appreciate its cultural quirks and examine your own,” said a UA student who studied in La Rochelle, France on the UA study abroad website.

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Flipoff Pirates will per-form at this year’s Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival after winning the Waka Win-ter Classic at George’s Majes-tic Lounge.

Audience votes had to be submitted by 1:15 a.m., and by 1:30 a.m., Tim Nip-per of Jam Street Solutions announced Flipoff Pirates as the winner. Not only do Flipoff Pirates have a slot at

Wakarusa, but they also have the opportunity to compete with Waka Winter Classic regional winners to perform on the Revival Tent Stage,

the second-largest stage at the festival, Nipper said. The Revival Tent Stage always has a substantial amount of at-tendees, Nipper said.

The band impelled the au-dience with Weeden’s unique mannerisms and slight ele-ments of funk, along with other genres. The band chose

a diverse song selection fea-turing genres of ska and reggae for the competition, Kearney said. Flipoff Pirates band members include Jake

Weeden, bass/vocals; Barry Moore, bass/percussion; Jeff Kearney, guitar/vocals; Mar-

Flipo# Pirates to Perform in Local Music Festival After Battle of the Bands Win

Courtesy Photo !e band Flipo# Pirates won a spot in the Music Festival Wakarusa after winning the Waka Winter Classic.

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Emily Rhodes Photo EditorAngela Ryan of McBride Distribution Co. Inc. presents a check to members of ASG at the Safe Ride Headquarters, Tuesday, Jan. 29. !e donation will allow the Safe Ride program to expand services to UA students with additional transportation.

Company Donates Money to Expand Safe Ride Program

Practicing personal safety in the virtual world now re-quires more than keeping your password private; it requires greater diligence, e"ort and attention than ever before. Af-ter recent news of the story of Manti Te’o and his online rela-tionship, students should pro-tect themselves when reveal-ing information online.

“When students reveal too much personal information, they endanger themselves,” said Lt. Gary Crain, police spokesperson. “Cases of iden-tity the$ are very di%cult to investigate. !e attorney gen-eral has a task force, and there are centers in Benton County, Springdale and Fayetteville funded by the federal govern-ment.”

Online relationships can also lead to cat#shing and fraud. Pat Walker Health Cen-ter o%cials encourage safety

in negotiating online dating. “Twenty-two percent of

men and 20 percent of women admitted to lying about their personal stats,” according to a study by Cornell University, said Susan Rausch, health ed-ucator with Pat Walker Health Center. !e lies included false information about personal appearance, #nancial status and type of job.

“Online communication, if honest, can promote a strong

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“We’ve been playing together for so long, it just meshes.”

Jake WeedenBass/Vocals

Flipo# Pirates

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Caroline Potts Contributing PhotographerUA international students meet at Holcombe Hall to practice conversational English and meet other students at the Conversation Club Kick-O#, Tuesday, Jan. 29.

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If the Internet has given legions of imposters the tools they need to perpetrate a good ruse, it’s also given us the means to catch them. But as we’ve seen with the cultural phenomenon documented by MTV’s “Cat#sh: !e TV Show,” people want to trust that the person on the other end of the computer is the world-traveled beauty queen they claim to be.

One of the most e"ective ways to unmask someone who is pretending to be some-one else is quite simple, akin to a Google image “reverse” search. Funny enough, this is mostly how frauds are dis-covered on Nev Schulman’s “Cat#sh.” !e show manages to stretch the process into an hourlong show, chronicling

people who #nd love online and setting up in-person re-veals for the couple, o$en to the dismay of the one party that was telling the truth.

Now Notre Dame line-backer Manti Te’o, heralded for his on-#eld heroics dur-ing his girlfriend’s tragic illness and death,

wants us to believe he, too, was “cat-#shed.” He wants us to be-lieve that a$er her “death,” he found out his beloved Lennay Kekua never existed. Despite his previous stories of how they locked eyes upon meet-ing, how a$er landing in a coma, her breathing would pick up when she heard his voice, Te’o now wants us to believe that he met someone pretending to be her online

— never in person — and was scammed.

It turns out pictures of the #ctitious Lennay were actually li$ed from an unwit-ting 23-year-old Los Angeles w o m a n , used in a

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handouts to the media. !e crack reporters

at the sports website Deadspin discovered this. Here’s how they (likely) did it, and how you can #nd out the origins of nearly any picture on the web:

Step one is to download Google’s Chrome browser. It includes an enhanced version of Google’s image search. Step

two is to save the image in question to your hard drive. Do a split-screen view, with Google Chrome on one side and the image on the other. Drag and drop the image into Google’s image search. Voila. You should be able to view any other place that the pic-ture, as well as similar-look-ing ones, appears on the Web.

If you want to go a little deeper into identity veri-#cation, I recommend the subscription-based website Spokeo. It’s an online phone book that integrates with so-cial media sites and their user names. It’s got a number of uses, and a few months back, I helped a friend #nd out that his sketchy new love interest was actually married. !ese days, there are few good rea-sons to fall for a scam — even if the perpetrator is a con-tender for the Heisman Tro-phy with a feel-good story that we wanted to believe.

Easy Way to Find Fake Dating PicsJessica Van SackBoston Herald

DATING continued from page 1relationship,” Rausch said. “With the distractions of face-to-face interactions removed, the communication can make the relationship seem more soulful, like meeting a soul mate.

“Look for consistency. Ask to see several photos from the person’s history, pay attention to detail, don’t get caught up in a deception.”

A healthy self-esteem is a great protection and the #rst defense in building a healthy relationship.

IT o%cials have speci#c

tips that students should use when working online.

Keeping your browsers current, as well as using an-tivirus and antispyware tools, is a #rst line of defense, along with using strong, unique passwords. Other precautions include never accessing your

bank or #nancial institution from a public computer, ac-cording to the UA IT depart-ment’s article “Real World Safety in the Virtual World.”

Some Internet scams in-volve phishing, or using fake email messages to capture personal information.

“Pay attention to the email address in the From #eld,” ac-cording to the IT department. “All legitimate email coming from the University of Ar-kansas will be sent from an @uark.edu address.”

!e UA also uses high-end so$ware to protect students from online fraud.

“A$er students log out of a university computer, we have a program that wipes out all their personal information,” said Roy Hatcher, IT special-ist. !e so$ware is an indus-try standard product.

“Don’t get caught up in a deception.”Susan Rausch

Health Educator with Patwalker Health Center

!e O%ce of Interna-tional Students and Schol-ars provides the Friend-ship Family Program every semester for international students who want to expe-rience American culture.

Groups of citizens vol-unteer for the program so that foreign students can have an opportunity to get along with Americans, visit their homes and learn about American culture, according to the O%ce of International Students and Scholars. !ese citizens are not paid for their services or expenses; however, they are rewarded with the op-portunity to learn about other countries’ cultures.

“!e program is called iFriend,” said Karen Beitle, iFriend coordinator. “iF-riend matches internation-al students with individu-als and families of all types for a social relationship through our Friendship Family Program.”

!e iFriend program understands both students’ and volunteers’ schedules, so it is &exible and can meet the mutual needs of the stu-

dents and host families.“I was worried that I

won’t have time to meet my friendship family,” said Bo Ryung Geum, an interna-tional student from South Korea, “but I can adjust the time and everything with them easily.”

!e program is good for students who want to learn about more than school-work while on campus.

“I have been studying English since I was little, but still cannot really speak good English,” Geum said. “I think studying at only the classroom and library will never help me learn my English skill. I think this program is a great idea for foreign students. It not only good for improving English skills, but also having an opportunity to experience a real American culture.”

!e O%ce of Interna-tional Students and Schol-ars recommends that the

families and students make constant contact by phone or other means.

!e commitment level for the iFriend Program is for the families or individu-als to meet with their stu-dents at least, but not lim-ited to, one time per month, according to the ISS o%ce.

“I had fun with my friendship family,” Geum said. “We went to picnics of-

ten, and they invited me to their dinner. I made Korean traditional food, kimbap. !ey liked it a lot.”

To participate in the pro-gram, students must submit a student application and attend an orientation ses-sion.

“Once you have submit-ted your application, we will let you know when our next orientation session is sched-uled,” Beitle said. “!ere should be another orienta-tion scheduled in the end of January.”

Friendship Program Strengthens Bonds

Jam Band Perpetual Groove is a 10-year-standing band from Savannah, Ga., feeding fans a mixed genre of indie, progressive and anthe-mic rock with tastes of jazz and R&B. !e band performs many covers ranging from Jay-Z to Fatboy Slim to Rage Against the Machine.

!e band has been known to dismiss the use fancy-shmancy decor and promo-tional gimmicks, preferring to play from the heart and bring smiles to the faces of the lis-teners, whether at a sold-out weeknight concert or to 150 people on a Saturday.

Unfortunately, Perpetual Groove has announced that they will break up at the end of their #nal tour. Lead vocal-ist Brock Butler has informed everyone with a statement on the band’s website explaining

the retirement from Perpetual Groove.

In his statement, “From Brock, to You,” he explains that health is the most impor-tant thing in life, and that stay-ing on tour with the band is keeping him from #nding the

key balance and ultimate hap-piness that he needs. However, the band will work to create a side project, and Brock plans to stable his mind with his own music.

“!ere has never been a

thought of mine of not do-ing music,” the lead singer stated, “and regrettably, the time needed is not really af-forded to us.” Brock explains that a$er overcoming a dire sickness, he realized more and more that health and cleans-ing was the most important thing in his life at the moment. Every person he has spoken to had stories of success and of cleansing in which most evolved from having time and making time; the feeling of which he yearns for.

“PGroove is always endless touring,and I’m trying to live healthier and make good deci-sions, but it’s hard to stay on track going from club to club, show to show,” Brock had said during a phone interview.

Despite the breakup, the remainder of Perpetual Groove plans to create a side project by the name of Ghost Owl. “I hope they get the satis-faction artistically, #nancially, everything,” Brock wishes for the band.

Band to Play Final Show at George’s Majestic Lounge

lon Davis, drums; and Matt Smith, lead guitar.

Kearney said Wakarusa attendees can expect new ma-terial at their upcoming per-formance.

“Something is going to get spewed on the crowd,” Kear-ney said.

Flipoff Pirates’ genre can be classified as progressive rock with a songwriter point of view, Kearney said. The band’s songwriting is a col-laborative effort; however, Weeden is the main inspira-tion behind the vocals, Kear-ney said.

The Newton County band

began playing together dur-ing high school in 1996, Ke-arney said. So, when the time came for the competition, the band did not require a lot of practice.

“We’ve been playing to-gether for so long, it just meshes,” Weeden said.

From 2000-2003, the band traveled a lot, performing shows nationally, Weeden said. The band members, now in their 30s, practice when it’s convenient for everyone be-cause of family and work ob-ligations, Kearney said. The band is used to playing unpaid gigs and saw the competition

as a good opportunity to gain exposure, Weeden said.

In 2004, the band came to a standstill after Rich, their drummer, died, Weeden said. The band began playing to-gether again for fun but re-alized music helped them cope with the loss, Weeden said. Weeden’s desire for fame changed after Rich died, he said. He was more concerned with the feeling that playing music provided for him.

Weeden, along with his bandmates, writes with the goal of relieving daily trials and tribulations of their lis-teners, he said.

Courtesy PhotoPerpetual Groove , a band that is breaking up, is performing one of their "nal show in Fayette-ville Saturday, Feb. 2.

Amanda MaziliSta! Writer

“It’s hard to stay on track going from club to club, show to show.”

Brock ButlerLead Vocalist

Perpetual Groove

Nuri HeoSta! Writer

“I was worried that I won’t have time to meet my friendship family.”

Bo Ryung GeumInternational student from South Korea

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Associated Student Gov-ernment received a check from McBride Distribution Co. Inc. yesterday in support of the Safe Ride program, ac-cording to a press release.

McBride Distribution Co. Inc. donated a check worth $7,500 to the Safe Ride Pro-gram, said ASG President Tori Pohlner.

University o%cials knew of the donation in early De-cember, Pohlner said.

Safe Ride Program is a

safe way to transport stu-dents when they need rides. It consists of two services: Night Owl Service, from 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Mondays and Tuesdays on campus only, and Safe Ride Service, 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., Wednesdays through Satur-days inside Fayetteville city limits.

“Safe Ride is one of the most meaningful programs or initiatives of ASG,” Pohl-ner said. “I am con#dent that providing this service keeps students out of countless uncomfortable situations,

and undoubtedly saves lives each and every week. !is donation from McBride not only helps our students, but helps give peace of mind to our families. I can’t thank McBride enough for their generous support of our pro-gram.”

McBride Distributing Co. distributes Anheuser-Busch products in northwest Ar-kansas. !e donation from McBride is part of their Al-cohol Responsibility Initia-tive. !is is the second year McBride has supported Safe Ride.

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Traveler Quote of the Day

Something is going to get spewed on the crowd. Je! Kearney, Band Member of Flipo! Pirates “Flipo" Pirates to Perform in Local Music Festival After Battle of the Bands Win” Page 1

Marcus Ferreira Sta" Cartoonist

Elders Hold Crystal Wisdom: Listen

Wal-Mart hosted its Na-tional Retail Federation Big Show Jan. 15 and made a forward-thinking announce-ment to invest $50 billion in the United States over 10 years. As a Wal-Mart shopper and believer in the greater good of the U.S. gross domes-tic product, this is great news.

!e move was initiated by president and CEO, Bill Sim-mons, to hit the one major issue in our country: jobless-ness.

“We are meeting with our suppliers on domestic manu-facturing and are making a strong commitment to move this forward,” Simmons said in a press release on news.walmart.com.

Wal-Mart also had anoth-er big announcement: !ey are opening thousands of jobs for veterans to have a greater opportunity to "nd work. Veterans basically have to

walk in a store and say, “I’m a veteran” to receive, at mini-mum, a part-time job. !is is an amazing opportunity for those who have been strug-gling for work. Wal-Mart is looking to bene"t the ones who aided our country.

Wal-Mart has historically been ostracized by people around the world. It has been painted as a company out to rule the world by closing one mom-and-pop shop at a time. My feelings for Wal-Mart have varied over the years. I have seen a dramatic improvement and desire for the company not to be solely invested in itself.

One particular case that touched me with Wal-Mart was in 2011 when the com-pany donated $20,000 to a race I co-founded. !e money helped build an orphanage in India. I know the heart of the company is forward-thinking and progressing the nation as a unit.

Wal-Mart will be increas-ing onshore production of

sporting goods, apparel ba-sics, storage products, games and paper products. !ey will also help industries like textiles, furniture and high-end appliances, according to the Wal-Mart Manufacturing Commitment fact sheet on Walmart.com.

Truly, the only negative as-pect of this move is a decrease in overall initial income for Wal-Mart. With this move, industries across the nation will #ourish with multi-million dollar contracts and thousands of jobs outside of Wal-Mart opening. !e plan is to have a team within Wal-Mart — again, more jobs add-ed within Wal-Mart — get-ting contracts with suppliers providing assurance this is a long-term investment in U.S. products.

!ere is nothing more American than an American company bringing American jobs to the American people for the American govern-ment. It really is impressive to see this large-scale change

in how Wal-Mart will con-duct business. !is hopefully is a leading example for other large companies to invest within ourselves to see an improved America for our fu-ture generations.

Wal-Mart has done an ex-cellent job in the veteran job market, giving a veteran a job immediately within a year of being honorably discharged.

“My challenge is simple: for every business in America to follow Wal-Mart’s lead by "nding innovative solutions that both make sense for their workplaces and make a di$erence for our veter-ans and their families,” First Lady Michelle Obama said on news.walmart.com. When the White House backs your business plan, you can bet it is based on a solid foundation.

Chad Harcourt is a po-litical correspondent on UATV’s Campus Cross!re, live Wednesday at 7. Follow cam-pus, state and national politics on Twitter @UACross!re.

Business Move Shows Nationalism

!e Residents’ Interhall Congress discussed Monday night, among other legislation, a conceal and carry bill that would allow weapons onto the UA campus. !e crowded room in the graduate education building was silent as arguments for and against weapons on campus were presented by hall representa-tives.

Two concealed carry bills were presented in RIC’s Monday night meeting, one allowing concealed carry for UA students with proper registration, while the other would allow UA fac-ulty and sta$ with permits to carry concealed weapons in uni-versity buildings.

RIC denied passage of the "rst bill. !e committee kept the vote anonymous because of the contentious nature of the bill. !e second amendment, however, passed in a 16-14 roll-call vote.

!e decision to conceal the votes of senators on the "rst is-sue was a mistake.

We agree, this is a contentious issue which is exactly why each student, especially those living on-campus, should have the knowledge of what their senator voted for.

On the RIC website, the expectations of an RIC senator are given. One of these stuck out more than the others.

“Talk to your constituents. Give a weekly report at your Hall Senate meeting and get feedback. How can you represent your fellow students if you never talk to them?”

How do residents know if an RIC representative is perform-ing that duty, re#ecting their opinion, if votes are hidden from them?

UA students deserve the know how they are being repre-sented in their student governments, whether they are directly involved or not. Why keep votes — involving the people RIC represents — secret? In that case, why were results of the fac-ulty and sta$ concealed carry bill made public?

Further, we on !e Traveler editorial board do not support the passage of the second bill, allowing faculty and sta$ to car-ry concealed weapons into university buildings; however, our opinion does not re#ect the opinion of the entire Traveler sta$.

!e UA campus is a place for learning. !e introduction of weapons — of any kind — is the introduction of potential cha-os in our educational system. A professor’s job is not to carry a weapon. Weapons do not, and never should, belong on our college campus.

We believe weapons should be le% in the hands of individu-als properly trained to act in tense, violent situations. Most col-lege professors are not trained or experienced enough to know how to properly act in a life or death situation.

Despite the passage of this bill, UA administration has the "nal say in legislation of this kind. RIC’s bill essentially re#ects UA students’ opinions, so students deserve access to bills and legislation discussed during RIC meetings.

RIC does not keep record of minutes taken during meetings on its website, nor does it keep an updated list of proposed bills, amendments and resolutions available online for students and faculty to read.

We do know that ASG will conduct voting in a di$erent way.!ree “gun-related resolutions” will be discussed at next

week’s ASG senate meeting, according to an e-mail to senators by Chair of Senate Mike Norton.

ASG votes will be made public and posted online the fol-lowing day, Norton said.

RIC needs to increase transparency by providing more im-mediate information online about its meetings and the leg-islation in discussion. Student government cannot properly represent its students when students don’t have access to the information they need to make informed decisions.

From the Board

Chad HarcourtCampus Cross"re

I watched Jack roam the village. He was short and a muscled sort of skinny that had come from decades of physical work. He saw me and smiled — his teeth were yel-lowed and crooked, and some were missing. !ey stood in sharp contrast to his spotted, dark skin. Cataracts coated his eyes and squeezed from them a constant stream of tears. Ob-jectively speaking, he wasn’t a very appealing "gure, but af-fection made me smile back, with a slight duck of my head — he was the region’s chief and deserved my deference.

While on a medical mis-sion trip in Vanuatu, an island nestled near Australia in the South Paci"c, the way I saw people treat Chief Jack and other chiefs was very di$er-ent from the way a man of his

age would be treated in our Western world. !e village lis-tened to him, obeyed him and respected him. His word was "nal. He was the central "gure in the village. Chief Jack’s sons were stronger, more handsome and able to work harder to adapt to the shi%ing society on the island, yet he was still the head.

It strikes me the respect for Chief Jack would be upside-down here in America. We would focus on his stable sons rather than him. We would let those with smoother skin and fuller smiles lead our village. We would relegate Chief Jack to a corner hut, where he could rest — and be useless. !at’s what we expect the elderly to do, is it not?

I don’t think the picture I painted of the village in Vanu-atu is entirely foreign to us. We all know elders are the most respected members of the family in many parts of the world, yet we have no concept of this in our own society. Our respect for those older than us — not just those who are truly capital-O Old, but parents and bosses and teachers as well — has vanished.

!is is no sudden, unex-plainable phenomenon. Over the past few decades, our nation has grown an obses-sion with being, and looking,

young. We have every form of plastic surgery conceivable to remove all traces of aging. !e aisles of Wal-Mart are thick with women dressing like their daughters, while magazines are shouting at shoppers that “20 is the new 60.” In movies and on television — particu-larly shows aimed at preteens and teens — parents are ridi-culed and treated as foolish, the elderly are used as come-dic props and the abnormally attractive young star is por-trayed as the pinnacle of bril-liance. !e West kneels at the feet of youth to worship, and those who are no longer young (or no longer look it) are cast aside.

Why do other cultures honor the aged? It is, of course, for their greater knowledge. !ey have felt life’s smiles and stings far more than we have. !eir insight is, therefore, far better than ours. Philosopher Amadou Hampate Ba wrote, “When an elder person dies in Africa, it is as though a whole library had burned down.” !eir people acknowledge and respect their elders’ wealth of wisdom.

We ought to honor our el-ders for the same reason. Even dismissing tradition, we have scienti"c reasons to do so. Ac-cording to the Cattell-Horn theory of intelligence, there

are two kinds of intelligence, #uid and crystallized. Fluid in-telligence is abstract thinking and problem solving; it is the young man’s innovation. How-ever, crystallized intelligence is knowledge and skills gained purely from experience; it is the old man’s wisdom. !ose of us still in school, half-baked adults that we are, simply can-not have the same understand-ing of life that those with more years under their belts.

We have begun to value beauty over wisdom; we are treading dangerous ground. Consider the future course of our businesses, educational systems and government if all becomes a pageant. We can see clearly neither the present nor the future, but we can see the past in 20/20. Let’s sit at the feet of those who see fur-ther back than us and learn. If we cannot do that, then let us at least try to show our elders that we honor them. !ey will bene"t from the encourage-ment while we bene"t from the humility. Finally, consider this: How will you want to be treated by the next generation?

Clara Spann is a sophomore English and creative writing major and a contributing col-umnist for the Arkansas Trav-eler.

Clara SpannContributing Columnist

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Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

College students are hard-ly known for having well-balanced lives, and this includes their diets. Many people try to make up for the nu-trients that they are missing in their daily diets with vitamins and supplements. Some people believe that vitamins are the key to any health problem or nutrient de-!ciency, while others think that they do more harm than good. Many medical pro-fessionals believe that Americans overdo their vitamin consumption.

Vitamin B is one of the most popular supplements people take. It is supposed to keep the body’s nerve and blood cells healthy and make DNA. Another vitamin many people take is !sh oil. Fish oil is said to have cardiovascular and brain-func-

tioning bene!ts, along with ar-thritis prevention. Melatonin is taken by a lot of people to help

get a good night’s sleep. It can also balance a disrupted sleep cycle. Vita-min D can help the absorption of calcium, fortifying bone health. Calcium is anoth-er supplement that supports bone health.

Multivitamins pack in multiple vita-mins into one pill. "e best way to take a multivitamin is to look for one that is targeted to your gender and age. If you’re 20 years old, you need di#erent vitamins than a 50-year-old.

Even though a great deal of people do not o$en eat the suggested serving of vegetables and fruits each day, vitamin de!-ciencies are not a huge problem in America. Doctors are more concerned about vitamin excess.

Vitamins are better for people expe-riencing some kind of de!ciency as op-posed to those who are trying to make up for the vitamins they do not eat dur-ing the day. Anemic people bene!t greatly from iron supplements, and when people are battling sickness, an extra dose of vita-min C in pill form can help heal the immune system. "ese are not necessary for everyday life, though.

"ere have been many con%icting reports about multivitamins and cancer. A$er a decade of following 15,000 older male doctors, it was found that those taking multi-vitamins experienced 8 per-cent fewer cancers than those taking placebos, according to the New York Times. "is is all quite sub-jective, though, because cancer is never a guarantee.

"e study’s lead author, Dr. Gaziano, published that people should not use mul-tivitamins to make up for their lack of eat-ing well, smoking, not using sunscreen or exercising. "e multivitamin can just help enhance the bene!ts of living a healthy life.

"e American Cancer Society suggests that those taking supplements should be taking a balanced multivitamin that con-tains no more than 100 percent of the daily value of any of the nutrients. "e University of Maryland Medical Center also stresses the daily intake of vegetables and fruits over multivitamins.

When buying vitamins, brand names make a di#erence, according to steady-health.com. "e higher the quality of the vitamin company, the better the ingredients. Buying a higher quality vitamin also ensures that the ingredients have been put through tests, safeguarding the safety and e#ectiveness of the ingredi-ent.

"e best brands of vitamin to buy are the store brands (such as the Target or Wal-Mart brand) or big-name vitamin companies (like One A Day or Centrum), according to Fitness Magazine.

Consult your doctor to !nd what kind of vitamin might help you be your most healthy self. "is way, your physician can identify what vitamins you may be need-ing every day and what dosage will be most e#ective.

Although vitamins may be bene!cial to some, they are not completely neces-sary for every individual. If you maintain a fairly healthy lifestyle, you shouldn’t need vitamins. "ey are called supple-ments, and not replacements, for a rea-son. But, when experiencing some kind of illness or de!ciency, vitamins can be very useful.

When Friday night rolls around, most UA seniors can be found some-where along Dickson Street, drink-ing the week’s stress away. Brian Oller and his business partner Jacob Grigg spend theirs sitting in an o&ce above Center Street, waiting for calls from customers. Last semester, Oller and Grigg started Northwest Arkan-sas Designated Driver, or NWADD.

NWADD allows people to get home safely with their own cars. When a customer calls, Oller and Grigg meet them at the desired loca-tion with a chase car. One of them drives the customer’s car back to their house, and then they both leave in the chase car. Customer and car are back at home, safe and sound.

Oller and Grigg !rst saw the idea on the BBC show “Top Gear,” and similar services are available in other parts of the country.

“"e idea is out there, and we thought the bar scene in Fayetteville could use it,” Oller said.

To use the service, people must !rst sign up on the company’s web-site, myNWADD.com. "ere is a $12 base charge per ride, plus an additional $2.90 per mile. Oller said the service is cheaper than a two-way cab ride and easier than trying to getting back to Dickson Street to !nd a car the next morning. NWADD operates "ursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.

“It rarely gets backed up,” Oller said, “but most people want to go

home between 1:30 and 2.”Operating the business means

Oller and Grigg have to pass on weekend drinking.

“It’s somewhat of a burden, but we knew we would use (the ser-vice),” Oller said.

Last semester, NWADD usu-ally had a handful of calls per night. "ey would see new registrants for the service throughout the day, as people started planning for a night out. Oller said there were one or two calls early, and then more around 1 or 2 a.m. Even though the calls can stack up at times, like on New Year’s Eve, Oller said NWADD always gets everybody home safely.

“We just start doing what we need to do,” Oller said.

Starting a business means sac-

ri!ce, especially for student entre-preneurs. Oller and Grigg !nanced NWADD with their own savings, split 50/50. "e business had low startup costs, and the operating hours !t well with a college sched-ule. Oller said balancing the busi-ness with school has been easier than expected.

“School is during the week, and the business is "ursday through Saturday,” Oller said.

NWADD was on the books as of last August, but operations only be-gan in November. Oller said he knew there would be a market for the ser-vice because it is a unique business. He said he and Grigg rarely felt in over their heads, except when look-ing at legal issues for the business. "ere is inherent risk when people

drive other people’s cars, hence the sign-up process beforehand with terms and conditions.

Oller said the Internet provided plenty of information and advice from people who had started busi-nesses of all kinds. Both partners are students in the Walton College, so they knew good business practices beforehand.

“"e !rst thing everyone wants to think about is pro!t and revenue, but we knew the importance of ac-counting and other little things,” Oller said.

"ere were di&cult decisions to be made for NWADD, Oller said. For a student business, he said, every choice is important.

“When you’re a small business, every single decision is a big deci-sion,” Oller said. “You’ve got to re-ally, really, truly meditate on high-expense decisions.”

"e business has begun to adapt to the market and has seen a few sur-prising results. Oller said NWADD has taken home more young profes-sionals than !rst anticipated. He said they o$en have more to lose by driv-ing drunk and usually live farther away from Dickson Street. "ey use Facebook to reach the student audi-ence, but Oller said they needed to !nd a way to reach older people.

"e primary motive for any busi-ness is to make money, but NWADD is more than a job for Oller and Grigg. Oller said the business is an example of how a market system solves problems for society. "ey sometimes see the business as a ser-vice to Fayetteville.

!e Truth About Vitamins and Supplements

Alex MarchSta! Writer

UA Startup Gets Designated Driver Service

Georgia CarterSta! Writer

Ashley Swindell Sta" PhotographerUA student Brian Oller works at his Fayetteville o#ce, Tuesday, Jan. 29. Oller owns the small business NWADD, a designated driver service that o"ers Fayetteville residents a safe ride home throughout the week.

Lady Macbeth guides her husband across the room. Pausing near a lone black box, she removes a dagger from a sheath on his belt. It’s a grisly omen of things to come.

Macbeth, inches away, listens in rapt attention as his wife recites her monologue. His eyes, fo-cused on her, re%ect the reds and blues of the stage lights shining from the !xtures overhead. His white V-neck shirt rests on a pair of jeans, which rests on a pair of Converse All-Stars.

"is is rehearsal. Whitney Masters and Travis Deal are ironing out the intimate scenes between the star-crossed couple, weeks before the room will be !lled with strangers. It’s a decidedly mini-malist stage, consisting of a black box — which acts as a chair in the current scene under scrutiny — a black platform, black curtains and the afore-mentioned colored lights. In show business, it’s ap-propriately called a “black box.”

Surrounding this stage are three black, raised platforms, complete with several rows of chairs that can be moved on a whim, should the show re-quire it. On the center platform, in the sixth chair of the second row, like an architect poring over his blueprints, is Director Kris Stoker.

He’s examining every second of the scene play-ing out between Masters and Deal. "ey have

four hours tonight with which to perfect every subtle nuance of the couple’s doomed relation-ship.

Rehearsals began in November, which gave the cast — 21 members — all of winter break to

memorize their lines. Stoker is more concerned with minutiae at this point.

“Macbeth” is full of “funny lines, dirty jokes and elegant poetry,” Stoker said. “"ese two have a few intimate, more vulnerable scenes, though. Tonight is all about them.

“I want to see them together, without the rest of the cast. "eir relationship is a central piece in the play … I want them to feel vulnerable, to show it, too.”

"e duo continues, seemingly unaware of the surroundings in Kimpel 404, or the few people present to watch the proceedings. Right now, they’re not Travis or Whitney; they’re in character.

“(Lady Macbeth) doesn’t even have a name,” Masters, a UA theater major, said before the re-hearsal unfolded. “I had to come up with a whole person underneath.” She’s been working on that subtle characterization, molding Lady Macbeth to suit her own personality and, in turn, shaping her own.

“"ere’s a lot of room to interpret,” she said. “A lot of it is up to me to portray.”

Assuming the role of Lady Macbeth means be-ing persuasive, controlling, even cunning. At this point, Masters is examining the !ne print, crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s as show time approaches.

She isn’t alone in this, though. Deal, the Scot-tish general facing her, is moving from scene to scene, more focused on how things work as a whole, rather than the individual parts he’s been studying for months now.

“Memorizing a Shakespeare script isn’t all that di#erent from memorizing any other script,” Deal, also a theater major, said. “In fact, it’s a little easier. "ere’s an inherent rhythm to the poetry.”

"e stage is set, the lines are memorized and, like Stoker, Deal is examining how things can co-alesce more seamlessly.

“"e scene work is laid,” Deal said. “Now we’re just working on patching it together.”

“Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘Hold! Hold!’” Masters !nishes her soliloquy. Sitting on the black box at the center of the stage, her zip-up purple hoodie falling over the dark wooden sides of her makeshi$ chair, she commands the attention of the onlookers in the room.

Stoker, still leaning forward, head resting in his hand, watches as Deal enters stage right. His eyes don’t so much zero in on the scene as they do pull back, absorbing everything as the titular general crosses the scu#ed black %oor. He only interrupts when absolutely necessary.

“We want to give these two the attention to-night,” Stoker said. “"ey can focus on the poetry and acting … I can help, but I also want to make sure that things go smoothly on a broader scale.”

Tonight, Deal and Masters are sporting fashion of 2013, rehearsing with stomachs full of Quiznos and enchiladas. In a few weeks, they’ll don tradi-tional wardrobes — Macbeth, a full black out!t; Lady Macbeth, a long, red dress. Nineteen other cast members will make their way in and out of the limelight, supporting the roles of the couple as they make their way toward the tragic, bloody ending of “Macbeth.”

Stoker presides over the process now. He’s drawn up the plans and made changes where they need to be made. Come Feb. 6, though, at 8 p.m. in Kimpel 404, the story is in the hands of Lady Macbeth and her puppet of a husband.

Gareth Patterson Sta" PhotographerTravis Deal and Connor Weeks rehearse for the University Production of Macbeth, Tuesday, Jan. 29. !e undergraduate student performed show will take place in Kimpel 404 on Feb. 6.

!e Best Laid PlansMike MahardySta! Writer

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

Well, readers, a crazy thing happened to me last week. I became an aunt. I know this sounds as if it has nothing to do with sports, but I promise, I will !nd a way to relate it to

the right topic. I got to see my niece eight

hours a"er she was born pre-maturely. My brother took me back to the room where she stayed. As I took picture a"er picture of his tiny daughter, my brother started singing to her.

He sang the Razorback Fight Song, the same song he’s been singing to his wife’s belly while she was pregnant.

I think that moment really exempli!ed Razorback pride.

Razorback pride isn’t just something you have during a winning football season. If it is, then you may not have had lots of Razorback pride pour-ing out of your soul this year.

It’s something you’ve got to have all the time, a feeling that you get every time you watch a game, read about the teams or listen to a press conference.

You know those moments when the Razorbacks let you down in a game – for instance, think of the ULM football game – and someone who isn’t a Hog fan tells you how bad your team is? And right a"er they do, you think about kicking them but instead you simply say, “Don’t talk to me,” or variations thereupon? #at’s a little snippet of Razorback pride.

Another prime example of Razorback pride came last year when my brother and I

brought my dad to his !rst-ever basketball game over Christmas break. #e Hogs won the game, and as we walked around the arena to leave, I looked back and no-ticed my dad was not with us anymore.

He had wandered o$ to the top of the stairs at one of the sections gates and was look-ing in as event sta$ cleaned o$ the court and the bleachers. He didn’t particularly want to leave, and that was because my dad has an immense sense of Razorback pride. So much that the building alone can instill that within him.

Remember last year when athletic director Je$ Long got

up in front of the state – via the television – to tell every-one that he !red Bobby Petri-no? #at decision took a lot of pride to make. Long had enough pride in his program that he knew he had to get rid of someone that could drain the state of their pride in the Razorbacks.

Of course, the most obvi-ous way to feel this pride is to just be at a game, match or meet where the Razorbacks earn a win a"er working hard. Getting to sing “It’s Hard to Be Humble” with the rest of the student section and the team gets that feeling knocked into your heart real fast.

#is whole topic could

sound really cheesy if you don’t understand the feeling I’m describing. If you don’t, go to a game, pay attention – yes, I mean stay o$ your phone – and get into the sport.

I don’t understand every-thing I watch, but I sure can !gure out a way to be proud of the team, and so can you.

Don’t be a fair-weather fan. Don’t berate the Hogs during play. Get into the game, and !nd your Razorback pride.

Tamzen Tumlison is a writer for the Arkansas Trav-eler. Her column appears every other Wednesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

True Razorback Fans Show Pride in Any Situation

Tamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

COMMENTARY

BASEBALLBASKETBALL

TENNIS

#e men’s basketball team is winless outside the state of Arkansas, but head coach Mike Anderson said he thinks his team can get their !rst road win tomor-row night in his home state.

Anderson, a graduate of Jackson Olin High in Ala-bama, will lead Arkansas against the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa for a rare #urs-day night game.

#e Crimson Tide have the same overall record as the Razorbacks, 12-7, but are one game ahead in SEC play, with a 4-2 record.

“Alabama is a team that’s playing pretty good basket-ball right now,” Anderson said. “It’s going to be a big challenge for our basketball team.”

#ey are led by a pair of guards, junior Trevor Rel-eford and sophomore Trevor Lacey. Releford is averag-ing 16.1 points per game and Lacey is averaging 12.1 points per game.

“(Releford) is a real key to their basketball team, as well as a guy like Lacey, who has really hit some incredible shots for them,” Anderson said.

In order to have success against them, Arkansas must keep Releford out of the lane, Anderson said.

“He’s a real clever bas-

ketball player and he’s like a little coach out on the %oor,” Anderson said. “It seems like when he’s playing well, they play well.”

Despite early struggles, Alabama has started to “!nd their niche” o$ensively, An-derson said. In SEC play, they are shooting 40.2 per-cent from three-point range.

Last season, senior guard Andrew Steele accumulated

26 points, 12 rebounds, and nine assists in two games against Arkansas, proving to be an “x-factor,” Anderson said.

For the Razorbacks, ju-nior forward Marshawn Powell is averaging 16.7 points per game and 6.3 re-bounds per game, but An-derson said the rest of the team needs to step up.

“Powell has been a one-

man wrecking force for us,” Anderson said. “He’s had career highs in scoring and in rebounds, so he’s show-ing that leadership we talk about. Now it’s important for other guys to help him. He can’t do it by himself.”

Junior Coty Clarke and freshman Jacorey Williams will also be returning to their

Hogs Prepare for Tough Travel

#e men’s tennis team has a busy week ahead of them a"er their 1-1 weekend at the ITA Kicko$, beginning with the No. 75 UAB Blazers Wednesday to open the Ra-zorbacks’ home season.

“UAB is going to be very similar to Georgia State,” head coach Robert Cox said. “#ere’s a lot of good teams out here.”

#e Razorbacks tri-umphed over No. 62 Georgia State in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, before falling against No. 1 Virginia Sunday, which boosted Arkansas one spot in the rankings to No. 55 and moved their record to 3-1.

“From the weekend, we took away a lot of lessons that we’ll learn from. It was really good. We’re coming out of there a better team,” Cox said.

UAB has had ample time to rest and prepare for their visit to Arkansas, as their last

match was Jan. 20.UAB has achieved a re-

cord of 2-1 so far in their season, their only loss being a blowout against Florida State 7-0.

Florida A&M and Florida

Gulf Coast University lost to UAB 4-2 and 5-2, respec-tively.

#e Blazers’ win over FGCU featured the duos of Lucas Dirube/Chris Helliar and Rafael Rondino/Luiz

Felipe Pinto to earn the dou-bles point.

However, FGCU defeated Dirube and Helliar in sin-gles, with Helliar’s match go-

Razorbacks Host UAB Blazers

Andrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

Tamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

Gareth Patterson Sta" PhotographerMen’s tennis head coach Robert Cox speaks about the upcoming match against UAB at the Olympic Press Conference in Barnhill Arena, Tuesday, Jan. 29.

Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerMen’s basketball head coach Mike Anderson met with the media Tuesday to dis-cuss !ursday’s matchup with the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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ing into three sets.#e Blazers are a solid

team that will be a challenge to defeat, Cox said.

#e Hogs have yet to face a blowout in the season, in large part thanks to junior Mike Nott, who is undefeat-ed in singles matches in the season. His three-match win against Virginia was the Ra-zorbacks only win against the Cavaliers.

“We’re not going to over-look anybody, nor are we a team that’s going to blow any-body away, so I expect a very tough, di&cult match,” Cox said.

#e match against UAB will be the Hogs !rst time to play at home for the spring season and is the !rst of four total matches for the week at home.

“We’ve got to get o$ to a good start playing at home,”

Cox said. “We’re excited to play in front of our home crowd, and it should be good tennis.”

#e Hogs are not taking the rest of the week lightly either. Both Army and Min-nesota are well-coached, and since Minnesota is also a re-gional team, the Hogs had the chance to see some play from the team, Cox said.

Cox isn’t letting the team get ahead of themselves, though, and is keeping the Hogs focused on UAB.

#e Blazers and Razor-backs begin play at 3 p.m. in the Dills Indoor Tennis Facil-ity.

#e Razorbacks continue their week with a double-header against Army Friday at 11 a.m and 4:30 p.m., fol-lowed by their match against No. 34 Minnesota at 12 p.m. Sunday.

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home state. Both forwards played high school basketball in Birmingham.

“#ey’re going to be excit-ed,” Anderson said. “#e key is to make sure we funnel that energy in the right way.”

Anderson said he thinks Williams will play a lot more during this six-day stretch in which the Razorbacks travel to Alabama and play at home against Tennessee and No. 4 Florida.

“I think he’s a tough

matchup,” Anderson said. “His versatility can cause problems for people.”

Arkansas must be pre-pared to face Alabama’s “mid-tempo” style of play, as well as their pressure defense, An-derson said.

“We have to make plays and make shots,” Anderson said. “If we do that and play for 40 minutes, we’ll be in a good position.”

#e game is set to tip-o$ at 8 p.m. and will air on ESPN2.

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#e Razorback women’s basketball team will go on the road for their next two games at Ole Miss and Mississippi State on #ursday and Sun-day, respectively. #e Hogs lost their !"h conference game of the season Sunday to South Carolina.

“Being 2-5 and going out on the road for back to back games is a tough situation,” head coach Tom Collen said. “Winning road games in a major conference is pretty

tough.”#e players are looking

forward to the bonding time that will come from spending six days away from Fayette-ville, as they will not return between the two games in Mississippi.

“It’s kind of nice; it feels like a day o$,” senior Sarah Watkins said. “We will have a whole lot of time to spend with the team.”

A"er the trip to Mississip-pi, the Hogs face No. 8 Ken-tucky in Fayetteville on Feb. 7.

“You have to go one game at a time,” Collen said. “If we go down there and beat

Ole Miss, that could propel us into a win against Missis-sippi State and then if you win both of those games, we come home and get another shot at a top 25 team.”

#ree of the Razorbacks’ losses have been by a com-bined total of ten points, los-ing by three to Auburn, by four to Georgia, and by three to South Carolina.

“We all know that we’re a good team,” Watkins said. “But every night is a battle, and we’ve fallen short a couple times, but we know we have the potential to get wins.”

“I keep reminding them

that we’re one or two baskets away in three games from being 5-2 and ranked in the top 20,” Collen said. “We’ve proven we can play with top 25 teams.”

Both Mississippi schools are 1-6 in SEC play and rank at the very bottom of the SEC standings.

“We have a couple of so" games coming up,” Collen said. “#at is, if there is any such thing as a so" game in the SEC; but unfortunately for us, those games are on the road.”

Arkansas is 6-3 away from Bud Walton this season, in-cluding two SEC road losses.

“We’ve had some success on the road before and you have to get some of those wins if you want to give yourself a chance in March,” Collen said. “I think our team even plays better on the road, be-cause they’re away from the classroom and all that pres-sure.”

#e Razorbacks have av-eraged only 52 total points in their last four games, in-cluding putting up just 40 on South Carolina on Sunday.

“We have to learn how to score, but right now I’m try-ing not to panic since we’ve played against some of the best defenses in the country,” Collen said. “I’m trying to re-main calm and not feel like we need to ditch what we’ve been doing altogether.”

#e Razorbacks will have the chance to improve the season by traveling down to Mississippi this weekend to hopefully regain some con!-dence before facing Kentucky at home.

“I like my team; they’re pretty resilient,” Collen said. “I don’t think they’re ready to lay down and quit just yet.”

Hogs to Play Two in MississippiBASKETBALL

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

Photo Courtesy Athletic Media RelationsSenior Sarah Watkins dribbles to the basket in the loss to South Carolina Sunday. !e Razorbacks have dropped #ve of their conference games this season.