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Speaking Out: Life as an Undocumented UA Student

Zessna García and Carlos Guzman are not American cit-izens. !ey have no social se-curity card, no driver’s license. !ey are two of a handful of un-documented UA students.

García has dreams: dreams of becoming a broadcast re-porter, dreams of speaking up for those who have no voice, dreams of virtue and tolerance. She believes in equality for all and justice for those underrep-resented.

Guzman dreams of traveling the world: studying architecture in Rome, building communi-ties in impoverished areas. He

dreams of seeing his sister who he hasn’t seen for 12 years; she has a 2-year-old nephew that he has never met. He dreams of seeing his niece with a driver’s license, like the rest of her high school friends. He has a strong faith that reminds him that he has a purpose in life and a chal-lenge to overcome.

But to the U.S. government, García and Guzman do not ex-ist. !e UA doesn’t even keep o"cial records on the number of undocumented students.

Undocumented students are the children of undocumented immigrants. As minors, they were illegally brought into the U.S. by their parents.

!ere are about 11 million

undocumented immigrants in the U.S. today, according to a Reuters report. Every year, 65,000 undocumented stu-dents graduate from U.S. high schools.

In order to obtain a higher education, these students face tremendous challenges.

Undocumented students are prohibited from receiving in-state tuition at public higher-education institutions. A stip-ulation of the 1996 federal law allows undocumented students to receive special “bene#t[s]” as long as “a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a bene#t.”

Several states have passed laws granting in-state tuition to

undocumented students who attended high school in the state for three or more years, in-cluding Texas, California, New York, Oklahoma and Kansas, among others, according to #-naid.org.

Arkansas is not one of them. Out-of-state tuition at the

UA is almost three times more than in-state tuition, according to the UA treasurer’s o"ce web-site. At an exorbitant $544.02 per credit hour, one three-cred-it-hour class is almost $1,700.

Most student aid, including federal student aid, requires the recipient to be a U.S. citizen, or an eligible non-citizen, accord-ing to #naid.org. Many of those given the opportunity to attend a U.S. college or university can-not a$ord the tuition because they lack #nancial aid.

But even if they do attain degrees, they are not legally able to work a%er graduation.

García was brought to the U.S. by her family at the age of three. She was born in Gómez Palacio, Mexico, but she grew up in Bentonville.

Guzman came to the U.S. from San Pedro Sula, Hondu-ras with his mother at age 10. He grew up in Little Rock and attended Little Rock Central High School.

Undocumented immigrants like García and Guzman will continue to live in secrecy un-less a controversial federal bill is passed.

If passed, the Development, Relief and Education of Alien

Minors Act, better known as the DREAM Act would give qualifying undocumented stu-dents a route to citizenship by either enlisting in the military or going to college.

!e DREAM Act was #rst introduced in 2001 by Senators Orrin Hatch, R-UT, and Rich-ard Durbin, D-IL, and by Rep-resentatives Howard Berman, D-CA, and Chris Cannon, R-UT, according to the Ameri-can Immigration Council.

!e federal legislation has been brought to vote several times but has failed to gain the support of Republicans. Oppo-nents argue that it is an “amnes-ty” to undocumented citizens that “could cost taxpayers and encourage continued illegal immigration,” according to an ABC News report.

In December 2010, the DREAM Act failed in the Sen-ate by #ve votes.

“It is disappointing that common sense did not prevail today,” President Obama said in a statement following the 2010 Senate vote. “But my adminis-tration will not give up on the DREAM Act.”

In May 2011, Senate Demo-crats reintroduced the bill.

Advocates for the DREAM Act argue that undocumented students shouldn’t be punished for the actions of their parents.

“!ey were brought here at a very young age by their parents, so they lack blame. !ey, by law, or by Supreme Court ruling, Plyler v. Doe, have to be given

a K through 12 education,” said Bill Schwab, a UA sociology professor who is working on a book about the DREAM Act.

“We’ve socialized them as Americans,” Schwab said.

Plyler v. Doe was a 1982 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas statute that would have denied educa-tion funding to children of un-documented immigrants. !e ruling, however, only applied to kindergarten through high school.

“We’ve invested in these children’s education, K through 12, and it makes absolutely no sense to squander that invest-ment by denying them high-er education and citizenship,” Schwab said. “It’s just common sense.”

!ere is a notable di$erence between adults that come to the U.S. and the children they bring, he said.

“!ey’re here because the federal and state governments looked the other way while we employed their parents,” he said. “And now we have a prob-lem we need to take care of.”

For students like García and Guzman, the DREAM Act of-fers hope for the future.

“We all come here for a dream, right? And, it sounds cliché at times, but dreams do come true and I think he [my father] had that vision of bet-tering our family, of having better conditions, as any man

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BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITORCarlos Guzman and Zessna García are undocumented UA students. They were illegally brought to the U.S. as children by their parents; they do not exist to the U.S. government. The DREAM Act, if passed, would give qualifying undocumented students a path to citizen -ship and the opportunity to live a life out of the shadows.

BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITORCarlos Guzman is a student in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. As an undocumented student, Guzman could not complete a study abroad requirement within the department. The department worked with him to complete an in-state project instead. “I did not get this far for them to tell me I cannot continue my program, that I cannot make it,” he said.

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would being in a condition of poverty,” Guzman said. “I think that’s what pushed him forward for us, so our family would have a better standard of living.”

Guzman, who lived in pov-erty during most of his child-hood in Honduras, has drawn strength from the people he has met along the way, including his fraternity brothers in Phi Iota Alpha, the nation’s oldest Lati-no fraternity.

“Once I joined the fraternity, it gave me a strength. I started to realize I’m not the only one. $ ere are other people around in my network that are su% ering from this thing. It was just this burning passion of anger and frustration because I have to do something,” Guzman said.

Guzman has been involved in DREAM summits, protests and various campus organiza-

tions to shed light on the is-sue of immigration and the DREAM Act. He hopes to make a change.

“My niece, she is also un-documented, she came here when she was two. And I don’t want her going through the same things that I went through because it limits a lot of things that you do,” he said. “I don’t want her to feel like she’s not worth anything.”

$ e UA Fay Jones School of Architecture requires a se-mester of international study for students like Guzman who study in " ve-year professional degree programs. Because he is undocumented, Guzman could not complete the requirement.

“I was freaking out because if I go I won’t be able to come back,” he said. “I’ve been work-ing so hard for this to be here. I totally broke down.

“I did not get this far for them to tell me I cannot con-

tinue my program, that I can-not make it.”

Undocumented students routinely face situations like Guzman’s. Fortunately for him, the UA architecture department was willing to compromise. He will be able to meet the study-abroad requirement by working on an urban design project in Little Rock.

Yet as November approach-es, human-rights advocates and DREAM Act supporters are preparing for the presiden-tial election, in hopes that the DREAM Act will gain the sup-port it needs to be brought to a vote once again.

“I hope and I pray that the DREAM Act comes up again. I know it will be a really tough subject,” García said. “It’s had 10 years to really grow on people but there’s still strong misun-derstanding for it.”

García founded Students and Educators for the DREAM,

a UA Registered Student Orga-nization created to raise aware-ness about the DREAM Act and the importance of higher edu-cation for all. $ e organization brings together students, pro-fessors, sta% and anyone inter-ested in the DREAM Act.

$ e act’s failure would un-dermine “the values that made this nation great,” said Luis Re-strepo, UA assistant vice pro-vost for Diversity. Restrepo gave García the support she needed to begin the RSO.

“We need to look at wheth-er laws are unjust or not and whether they need to be re-placed. Slavery was the law here in this country but it was unjust and it was changed,” Restrepo said.

Many supporters of the DREAM Act view it as a step in the right direction.

“Education is a human right and that’s something that shouldn’t be taken away,” García said. “People aren’t illegal -- ac-tions are illegal.”

For García and Guzman, the DREAM Act means much more than a path to citizenship.

“I’ve been the kid with no shoes on. I’ve been there,” Guz-man said. “I lived in poverty and my family has been there, and I just think it’s an honor to be here just because of where I’ve come from.

“I’ve come to terms to ac-cept the challenge. It’s going to be really hard because I’m just like everybody else. I’m just try-ing to survive,” he said. “I don’t come from this rich family or this cookie-cutter community, but I know that I do my best with what I have.

“It’s that faith that keeps me there.”

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CHAD ARNOLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshmen Hope Layton and Lindsay Hale conduct a natural selection experiment outside across from the Greek Theater on Tuesday for their Biology lab. This examination lets students interactively learn that natural selection is one of the basic mechanisms of evolution, along with mutation, on a micro-level.

BEN FLOWERS PHOTO EDITOR“People aren’t illegal--actions are illegal,” said Zessna García. She founded Students and Educators for the DREAM, a UA Reg-istered Student Organization created to raise awareness about the DREAM Act and the importance of higher education for all. “Education is a human right and that’s something that shouldn’t be taken away,” she said.

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POLITICSSpecial Traveler Beat

UA Law Student Preps Justice of Peace Campaign

UA law student Bryan Gibson is running for Wash-ington County Justice of the Peace.

Democrat John Firmin currently represents the seat, whose jurisdiction includes the university. ! e position is not judicial, but is simi-lar to a county council. ! e body is o" en called the Quo-rum Court.

“My love for this area pushed me into serving whichever way I could,” said Gibson, a Republican. “With the Justice of the Peace race being open and the Republi-cans not having a candidate, I put my name in there.”

Gibson is no foreigner to politics. He served as vice chair to the College Republi-cans and is currently a mem-ber of the Law Republicans.

“! e Republican Party aligns with my core beliefs in terms of # scal responsi-bility,” he said. “! at’s my party and that’s who I asso-ciate with.”

Tyler Clark, chair of the Washington County Demo-cratic Committee, said Gib-son doesn’t have the neces-sary experience.

“! e GOP was trying to run anyone with a pulse for o$ ce, where we were actu-ally vetting candidates,” he said. “I have nothing against this kid, I’m sure he’s won-derful, but he’s not in our party.”

Gibson said being a col-

lege student gives him the appropriate perspective rep-resenting the university area.

“When [voters] look at me, a 23-year old law stu-dent who understands how to handle a very limited budget, living on a small budget every month, I have to make tough decisions on what to do and what not to do,” Gibson said.

While Clark derided the GOP, Gibson praised the current Quorum Court makeup.

“! e current Quorum Court serves the coun-ty well,” he said. “I think you can look at every dol-lar spent and # nd some that are spent well and some are spent better. ! ere’s always room for improvement any-where in government.”

Firmin, his opponent, will be challenged for the # rst time for the seat.

“It’s a pretty strongly Democratic position,” he said, however, “! e Quorum Court isn’t really political. ! eir main job is to serve and pass a budget.”

Firmin’s service to the court is an asset when deal-ing with an $85 million bud-get, he said.

“Experience is important to know what is and isn’t im-portant,” he said. “It takes a lot of time and commitment. It’s an important position at the county level.”

Firmin will launch his campaign on the premise of his Democratic voting record.

“I’m going to remind constituents of how impor-tant of a job it is,” he said. “I feel like I’m an asset to peo-ple in my district and repre-sent their views.”

Gibson is focusing on lo-gistics the make up ground in the liberal district.

“I can go and fund-raise in this area asking for small donations, enough to have a campaign because geo-graphically it’s a very walk-able area,” he said. “If I go out and take the time to meet [voters] personally, I think that they’ll get to know you and get to trust you and regardless of what letter’s be-side your name.”

Gibson said he will focus on the proposed Ozark Re-gional Transit tax increase if he wins o$ ce.

“! ere’s still a lot of infor-mation on how that money would be spent and how well it would service them and if it’s worth the money,” Gib-son said.

Gibson will soon begin his campaign with door-to-door visits. Registering vot-ers on campus with the help of the College Republicans will stir excitement for his candidacy, he said.

“A lot of students don’t register to vote in Fayette-ville. ! ey stay back home and vote in the areas they grow up. Getting people to register to vote here is im-portant,” Gibson said. “I can get that college vote.”

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Supporters Protest in D.C.

COURTESY PHOTOBoth supporters and adversaries of the Affordable Care Act protested in D.C., Tuesday as Supreme Court justices questioned the bill’s “core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance,” according to The Associated Press.

COURTESY PHOTOPresident Obama’s historic health-care reform, the Affordable Care Act that passed two years ago, underwent intense ques-tions from Supreme Court’s conservative justices Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.

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O" ce of A" rmative Action Made Known With New Name

The Office of Affirmative action - an office that many students will never visit in their time at the UA, yet one that remains one of the most important on campus.

For students, it is the office that makes sure that issues regarding discrimination and harassment on campus are handled and resolved correctly, and with a new name and more apparent presence on campus, students and faculty can feel they have a place to voice their issues.

Now renamed the Office of Equal Opportunity and Com-pliance, students should take the opportunity to research and learn about what their rights are when it comes to dis-crimination both in and out of the classroom. It’s important to know that there is a safe place on campus where students can remain anonymous and voice their complaints and is-sues pertaining to problems such as gender, age or race dis-crimination or sexual harassment. And although the office has not changed any of its policies or procedures, it’s a great time for students to pay attention to the services that are on our campus.

Though it can be an uncomfortable situation when dis-crimination or harassment arises in the classroom, dorm room or in other areas of campus life, students should take the opportunity to report these issues and resolve them. If we don’t, we will suffer in silence and become victims of situations that we could take care of. It takes simply visiting the website, finding out who to contact, and making a call to report an issue and ensure that it is resolved.

As students who pay to attend the UA, we are guaran-teed a discrimination-free place to study and live. Just like we wouldn’t accept harassment issues in the workplace, we should uphold the same standards on our campus. If we take the time to report issues, we are helping our campus and study body remain a safe and friendly place to study, live and enjoy our college years.

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Construction Progress More Apparent On Campus

It’s been months since the construction on campus began, and though the complaints have been loud for the volume of renovations and construction takeover, the Hillside Auditorium has started looking more promising every day. With a fall 2012 hopeful completion date, we can start looking forward to spending next semester studying and spending time in the newly finished building.

Those of us who remember taking a history or science class in the science engineering auditorium will likely remember the old architecture, run down learning space and need for an uplift. Now, we can look ahead to having a brand new auditorium that boasts more than just a classroom. Giving students more space to relax and with a great location near the Greek Theater and the center of campus, it is just a matter of months before we can grab an iced coffee and take our homework to Hillside for a productive afternoon in the Arkansas fall weather.

The foundations are being built and we can start to see the structure of our next big construction project being finished within the year. And with many more projects such as the Pi Phi Gate by Old Main and Vol Walker Hall renovation coming to completion in the next year, students coming to the UA have a great campus coming in the near future, bringing more students to our campus and giving us a school that we can enjoy and be a part of.

“We’ve invested in these children’s [undocu-mented students] education, K through 12, and it makes absolutely no sense to squander that in-vestment by denying them higher education and

citizenship...It’s just common sense.”- Bill Schwab, a UA sociology professor who is currently working on a

book about the DREAM Act, “Speaking Out: Life as an Undocumented UA Student,” page 1. If you pull up the uni-

versity’s parking and transit map online, you will see the campus riddled with color coded blotches indicating the types of parking offered. There is the red for resident reserved, the blue for facul-ty and staff and then there is the green for students.

And if you look at where the student lots are, you will notice that they seem to be the farthest from the main part of campus, while the blue, resident reserved red and others are nestled in the heart of campus grounds.

Students with green per-mits are forced to park all the way down in the infa-mous lot 56 parking lot, forcing them to either walk or take the bus back to the main part of campus where classes are held.

What I have come to be-

lieve is that many students feel that this is a waste of time and resources for the school and the student body.

This issue has been ag-gravated with the influx of new students and construc-tion on campus. More stu-dents means more cars, yet the campus is actually los-ing parking spaces. Accord-ing the Parking and Transit website, the new construc-tion for another football fa-cility behind the HPER will result in a permanent loss of 260 spaces.

There are ideas out there though - the newly elected ASG President, Tori Pohlner, proposes in her platform ideas such as painting lines on parallel parking streets to fit the maximum number of vehicles, turning lot 54 into paid HPER parking, and cre-ating options for freshman remote parking.

According to Pohlner, there are freshman already on campus close to their classes. They can be shuttled to and from their cars when needed, but we also have Ra-zorback Transit, many res-taurants on campus, as well as a Walmart on campus. Moving freshmen vehicles off campus would free up spaces for upperclassmen and off campus students to be able to access their classes

more easily.According to Pohlner,

one of the biggest improve-ments we can make to park-ing on campus would be pro-viding off campus parking for freshmen.

Many universities and colleges don’t allow fresh-men to bring their cars to campus, so wouldn’t allow-ing off campus parking be one way to solve our parking crisis?

With a such a self-sus-tainable campus, freshmen would easily be able to ac-cess needed items at our on-campus Walmart, as well as having access to the many dining options such as caf-eterias and restaurants.

And with freshmen ve-hicles off campus, we would have room to open up park-ing to off-campus students. A shuttle could provide a way to transport freshmen to their cars when needed.

Just some ideas that could create a resolution to our parking problems, these are simple solutions that could make student life much eas-ier..

We are quickly becoming a commuter campus, so it is important that classes re-main accessible to off-cam-pus students. The only way to ensure this happens in the most efficient and affordable

way is to institute freshman remote parking.

Pohlner also stated that Lot 54 could be made into HPER parking, which would open up the parking lots by Pomfret to more student parking options.

The other issue lies with the campus transit system. How much would our stu-dent bill go up if only stu-dents were allowed to ride the bus, an idea that could be enforced by the use of ID scanners? This way, transit could actually get statistics on the students who use the bus and adjust accordingly. The bus routes could be ex-panded, even if that meant the route times were slight-ly increased. North College is full of businesses and just one of the main streets in Fayetteville that would ben-efit from the traffic.

These are just some of the ideas that students on cam-pus are talking about, yet support is needed to make change. And until some ma-jor changes are made, stu-dents will simply have to deal with the overcrowding, and work to dodge construc-tion related traffic problems and parking tickets.

Juan Holmes is an English major, and a contributing columnist.

Student Parking: An Endangered Animal

by JUAN HOLMESContributing Columnist

Sunday, as I was driving past the Garland/Cleveland intersection, I saw a young woman standing at the corner wearing a sign that read, “I am Trayvon Martin.”

Interesting, I thought to myself. I admit, while I was aware of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I had not followed the news closely until I saw this woman on the sidewalk.

! e next day, my sister texted me saying the woman was still there.

I went to get a photo. She stood, head down, an iced tea bottle in one hand and a pack-et of skittles in the other. ! e lime green sign hung around her neck. Her name is Juana Washington, a senior hospi-tality and restaurant manage-

ment major. Washington was adamant about making her statement and said she would protest every day until George Zimmerman is arrested.

For those who don’t know, here is a little background on what happened. On Feb. 26, Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old high school student was shot and killed in Sanford, Fla. by a man named George Zimmer-man, a self-appointed neigh-borhood watch captain.

Zimmerman told police he killed Martin in self-defense. He had called the police and told them Martin looked sus-picious because Martin was wearing a hoodie. According to the Orlando Sentinal, Zim-merman said Martin punched him in the nose, jumped on top of him and began banging his head on a sidewalk.

! e police did not arrest Zimmerman. According to ABC news, on March 13, San-ford Police Chief Billy Lee said there was no evidence to dis-pute Zimmerman’s assertion that he shot Martin out of self-defense.

Because of the lack of evi-dence against Zimmerman, he has not been charged for any-thing related to the shooting.

However, the circumstanc-es in the shooting are swim-

ming in murky water. Martin was on the phone with a friend who says he was being fol-lowed. ! e friend heard strug-gling before the phone cut out.

Another Sanford police of-" cer said Zimmerman may have made a racist remark minutes before the shooting, according the ABC time line. Also, on the phone call, San-ford o# cers told Zimmerman not to follow Martin, but he continued.

! is sparked rage across the country as people de-manded answers to whether this was a hate crime against an innocent, unarmed, 17-year-old high school stu-dent.

On March 23, around 50 schools in Florida staged walkouts to protest the killing.

On March 27, more than 200 protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Justice De-partment demanding them to charge Zimmerman with a federal hate crime. ABC con-" rmed the night Martin was shot, the lead homicide detec-tive on the case said he “disbe-lieved” Zimmerman’s testimo-ny and recommended in an a# davit that Zimmerman be arrested for manslaughter.

Today, more than 2.2 mil-lion people have added their

signatures to an online peti-tion demanding an arrest in the case on Change.org.

So now, the questions be-ing asked are, was this a hate crime? Was the boy innocent? Should Zimmerman be arrest-ed? Was Martin shot because of the color of his skin?

I can’t answer these ques-tions. Apparently, the people running the investigations are having a hard enough time an-swering these questions.

What I do believe, howev-er, is that Zimmerman should not have pursued Martin af-ter police had told him not to. ! at was not his job as neigh-borhood watch captain, it was the police’s job. If he had stayed within his line of duty, Martin may still be alive, con-tinuing his education with family and friends, as any 17-year-old should.

! is issue is important to people all over the country. ! ere is only one UA student standing out there now, but in the days to come, who knows how many will come protest with her. Trayvon Martin’s case has touched hearts, from Florida to Washington D.C.

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! is weekend marks the kicko" of Circus Oz at the Walton Arts Cen-ter. Beginning March 29, the “irrev-erently irresistible” Australian acro-bats in steampunk out# ts making up the Circus Oz troupe will boldly take to the Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker Hall in a two-hour contem-porary circus featuring astounding acrobatics, comedy and live music.

! is Australian contemporary and industrial take on the circus is re-nowned for its athleticism, stark style and quintessential Aussie cheekiness. Performances in Fayetteville will run from March 29 through April 1 and again on April 3. Times are shown and tickets are available at walton-artscenter.org.

! e circus, since it was founded in 1978 in Melbourne, Australia, has traveled to more than 26 countries on # ve continents, according to the cir-cus’s website.

Many students may be familiar with another world-famous circus, Cirque du Soleil, but though Circus Oz matches Cirque du Soleil in the skill and acrobatics of its troupe, one thing sets it apart: Circus Oz is scrap-py. ! ink tattoos, asymmetrical hair-

cuts and scraggly, almost cabaret-like out# ts.

Much of the production’s inspira-tion comes from Australia’s past.

“A century ago the industrial steam-powered world was fuelled by coal, and the irony does not escape us that although we’re all iConnected and eBooked, Australia today is still powered by some of the dirtiest coal-# red power stations in the world,” said Mike Finch, Circus Oz’s artistic director, of Circus Oz’s steampunk inspiration.

A major tenet of the group’s per-formances is the drive for social jus-tice. Much of the circus’s proceeds over the past three decades have gone to foundations supporting ev-erything from homeless shelters to children’s hospitals to those su" ering from AIDS to victims of domestic vi-olence.

Students can get a 50 percent dis-count for the ! ursday and Sunday evening performances anywhere in the theater except for the main $ oor prime by using the promotional code ‘STUDENTDEALS’ when buy-ing tickets online. Students who buy tickets using the student discount will need to show a student ID when picking up their tickets.

“Getting ready” is what girls do best. It’s an hour to two-hour regi-men that puts most boyfriends in an anxiety-fueled frenzy and allows ev-ery group of girls the best bonding time.

Shower, make-up, hair and pick-ing out the perfect out# t and ac-cessories are usually what takes the most time. But an extra 20 minutes can easily be spent on # xing a fa-vorite shirt strap that just won’t stay up or getting a sexy strapless top to stay up and over your bust because it seems to slip down to the belly area a% er only a few trips to the bath-room and back. And don’t forget continuously touching up your T-Zone to prevent that annoying gross shine and make-up rubbing o" .

Fortunately, there are products and tips I’ve found through the pro-cess of pageant preparations to be lifesavers in preventing these inevi-table and irritating tendencies.

Slipping and sliding tops? Have no fear! Firm Grip is here! Cram-er’s Firm Grip, originally used to help baseball players keep mitts on their hands, comes in a small white can and is every pageant girl’s best friend. It’s o% en used during the swimsuit phase of competition as a handy adhesive to prevent wedg-ies and bikini bottom wrinkles. In a moment of desperation I had the ingenious idea that if it worked on my swimsuits, it would work to hold my strapless tops up and droop-ing necklines in place. And, it did. ! e best part is that it doesn’t ruin clothes and leaves no visible residue. So do away with your safety pins and double-stick tape and grab a can of Firm Grip at any local sports store.

Every girl hates having to reapply make-up throughout the night when out and about. Especially when 10 minutes was spent doing the “Kim K” smokey eyes, and there just isn’t enough room in your glitter clutch to # t your mini make-up bag. By the time the night ends, you look like you’ve been punched in the eye or have been crying for hours. Need-less to say, not a good look. Literally.

! e solution: hairspray. Prior to applying foundation and powder, take a can of extra-hold hairspray and give a gentle mist to your face.

! en, give an extra mist before ap-plying blush and eyeshadow. ! e stickiness will feel peculiar at # rst, but it prevents make-up from run-ning, smudging and wearing o" . It’s much easier than making a trip to Sephora to pay $20 for a face primer.

No face is complete without hav-ing the appropriate # nal touches. Lips and brows are always notice-able and therefore need good at-tention. ! e most irritating thing is when your favorite brow # ller is gone and lip liner just won’t give you one more “click” of hope. What

I’ve found is that eyeliner works as a great interim # ller and lip liner. Be sure to clean the tips of the pencil/applicator to prevent spread of bac-teria. If you have a liner that is a neu-tral color such as brown or black, use the smudger on the opposite end, or a Q-Tip, to blend your brows and lip line. It’s a simple, yet applicable tip that comes in handy when time and resources are limited.

Whether you’re wearing a crown or out on the town, beauty is impor-tant for every girl. And every girl loves to feel like a queen.

“Swimming is just a friendly re-minder that everything is ending, so enjoy your sandwich,” says the Face-book page of local band Swimming, one of the more cohesive, focused and talented bands in the greater Fayetteville area. Playing through their one EP, the line reads like a beach picnic at the end of the sum-mer. ! ink saltwater drying on your skin a% er a long morning of sur# ng and a slow creeping realization that soon you’ll be going back to work, or back to school, where suddenly the pressure is on again.

! e songs on this EP (appropri-ately titled ‘EP’) make much of re-verberation in guitar, in drums and in vocals. For fans of early ‘90s rock, the musical style of Swimming will be immediately attractive.

When the EP was recorded back in April 2011, the four members of the band were Brian Kupillas (gui-tar and vox), Max Glenn (bass and vox), Jared Hennessy (guitar and vox) and Neil Lord (drums). Some of the vocals sound vaguely remi-niscent of Noah Lennox from Pan-da Bear, and at least on the song “Swan Dive,” some of the high notes subtly $ esh out Michael Stipe over a sunny guitar tide and steady drum-beat. Since then, Joel Paul and Joe Alexander have replaced both Lord and Glenn; the band remains a four-

piece ensemble. “But Swimming started o" as just

two guitars and a drummer,” Kupil-las said. “! e last band I was in had eight people in it. Swimming is dif-ferent because Jared and I don’t really try to write the same kind of grandi-ose guitar ri" s that were such a big part of the last project.”

As far as in$ uences go, Kupillas, the band’s lead vocalist, cites a few late ‘80s and early ‘90s rock groups, and a lot of the mellower pop music. “At the moment I’m really into ! e

Jesus and Mary Chain and New Or-der. And then there’s always Galaxie 500 as well.”

“We didn’t really decide on our musical style per se, we just sort of happened upon it,” said Joel Paul, the band’s current bassist. “I started playing with Brian last summer. We started meeting up around July to jam and things just started clicking; the songs just came naturally.”

! e band in its current lineup has around 19 songs in the works, which they hope to soon “whittle down to

a CD,” and perhaps an additional EP as well. ! e new music is very simi-lar to the original EP, but the band agrees that the material is “organized better, and a little bit more mature-sounding.”

“And there’s de# nitely more of a party vibe,” Kupillas said, laughing. “! at’s probably the lamest possible way to describe our new sound, but still, put that in the article.”

! e band played a few shows ear-lier this month, but they’ll be taking some time o" for a while to focus on

committing these 19 songs to tape. ! e band is scheduled to start play-ing shows again around mid-April, starting with the Clarksville Spring Greening Festival on April 14. Lat-er on in April, Swimming will play a Heifer bene# t show in Conway, a show at Nightbird Books, and a show at George’s Majestic Lounge.

“! e Avalanches previewed their new album with the promo line ‘It’s so party you’re all gonna die,’ and we hope our new music will turn out like that,” Kupillas said, and the whole band laughed.

! e band plans to play much of their new material at these upcom-ing late-April shows, whether the songs have been recorded or not. Keep an eye out for their shows on Dickson later on in April. So much of Fayetteville is locally owned and locally oriented, and talented groups like Swimming are pumping just as much life into the local music scene.

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LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERIn order to stay looking fresh all day in the spring heat, sophomore Kaity Dye applies her make-up and then sets it with hairspray.

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Q: What did the candle say when he was down on his luck?

A: “I’m at my wick’s end!”

Q: Who is Scooby-Doo’s evil twin?

A: Scooby Don’t.

I was reading a book about adhesive the other day. I just couldn’t put it down.

Q: What does a wicked chicken lay?

A: Deviled eggs.

A man worked at an orange juice factory, but he was canned because he couldn’t concentrate.

As the most iconic voice in college basketball for the last 30 years has been say-ing since the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket was released, all the “goliaths of college basketball would meet in New Orleans for the Final Four.”

Dick Vitale was absolute-ly correct.

Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio State and Kansas have combined for 52 appearanc-es in the Final Four and 13 NCAA Championships be-tween them.

Each team has its own de-fined identity as well.

Louisville who is defined by their coach, Rick Pitino.

The mob-boss look, white-suit wearing Piti-no has made his rounds through college ––!six Final Fours with Providence, Ken-tucky and Louisville com-bined –– as well as stops in the NBA as the head coach of the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics.

The Cardinals have come on hot at season’s end, win-ning the Big East conference tournament by following the lead of point guard Peyton Siva and the defensive mind of Pitino.

Kentucky is the new-age team that everyone loves to hop on the bandwagon for. Yes, I am a victim of that be-cause John Calipari has the

best swag among coaches in the collegiate ranks and his players back it up.

From the five first-round NBA draft picks he had on his roster in 2009 with Ken-tucky, to coaching the best point guard in the NBA now in Derrick Rose while he was at Memphis, Calipari knows how to recruit.

His latest wave of fresh-man All-American cen-ter Anthony Davis and Mr. Versatile himself, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, combined with 2010 McDonalds All-Americans Doron Lamb and Terrance Jones, Calipari has Big Blue Nation witnessing their second consecutive Fi-nal Four.

For Ohio State it is all about the big man.

Thad Matta has been the best at recruiting the na-tion’s top big man and they have backed him up on the court. Greg Oden, Byron Mullens, Kosta Koufos and now the Jared Sullinger-led Buckeyes are once again making noise.

Matta and Ohio State came close in the 2007 NCAA Championship with Oden and point guard Mike Conley Jr., but this year’s squad is more well-rounded.

Last but not least, Kansas and national player of the year candidate Thomas Rob-inson, the only unanimous All-American in nation, bring toughness and a lay-it-all-on-the-line attitude to the court.

Robinson, a double-dou-ble machine, has an amaz-ing story stemming from the loss of his mother and his raising his sister while in college and brings sentimen-tal value to those looking for the best story.

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D e a n B a c k A t I tRYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Arkansas freshman tight end Demetrius Dean was part of the Razorbacks’ 2011 recruiting class, but had to take care of academic issues and didn’t enroll at the UA until the spring 2012 semester. Dean has impressed with his pass-catching ability as he competes for playing time at a crowded tight end position in spring practice.

Demetrius Dean is " nally a member of the Arkansas foot-ball team and is turning heads so far in spring practice. # e freshman tight end took the year o$ from football during the 2011 season as he tried to qualify academically to play for the Razorbacks, the team he committed to originally as part of the 2011 recruiting class.

A% er taking a few classes at Northwest Arkansas Commu-nity College and getting his ac-ademics " nalized with nearby

Fayetteville High School, Dean enrolled in the spring semes-ter at Arkansas and is going through spring practice.

“I am liking it so far,” Dean said. “I have been getting some reps and haven’t been com-plaining about it because I have been having fun out there.”

# e 6-foot-3 Dean was an All-State selection as a senior in 2011 with Fayetteville High’s 7A state championship team, catching 29 passes for 444 yards and 11 touchdowns.

He wasn’t able to play for his hometown college because of academic issues with the

NCAA Clearinghouse, though.“Having that year o$ , I

didn’t do much,” Dean said. “So now I have been work-ing hard trying to catch up. It has actually been fun trying to catch up too. I missed playing for that year though.”

Dean’s presence hasn’t gone unnoticed on the " eld through three practices this spring. # e 250-pounder has caught the eye of o$ ensive coordinator Paul Petrino.

“Dean has been someone that can get open and has real so% hands,” Petrino said. “He has been a real bright spot and

has done good things.”While away from football

for a year, Dean said he took to another sport to help keep him in shape.

“I went up to the Boys & Girls club and played basket-ball,” Dean said. “I like to play a lot of basketball.”

Even with time away from football, Petrino said the Ra-zorbacks freshman tight end hasn’t seemed to lose much of his skill.

“His hands look like they

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UA MEDIA RELATIONSArkansas sophomore Sebastian Cappelen and the Razorbacks have won six tournament titles in the 2011-2012 season and are preparing for the April SEC Championship.

H o g s ’ G o l f o n a R o l lArkansas’ men’s golf

picked up their sixth victory of the season at the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Cham-pionship in Florida over spring break.

The match play tourna-ment was different than the stroke play system the No. 8 Razorbacks are used to com-peting in.

“We played really well and were fortunate enough to make it to the final match on the last day,” Arkansas coach Brad McMakin said. “It’s a good preparation for the NCAA.”

Arkansas won the three-day tournament by beating No. 17 Duke –– the three-time defending NCAA cham-pion –– in extra holes in the championship round March 20. The Razorbacks defeated Washington State, East Caro-lina and Chattanooga in the first two days of the tourna-ment.

The Hogs has a youthful but strong team with fresh-men Kolton Crawford and Thomas Sorensen and soph-omore Sebastian Cappelen, who went undefeated in the tournament.

Arkansas has finished in the top three in all four spring tournaments, including wins at the Callaway event and at the John Hayt Invitational in

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Arkansas senior sprinter Whitney Jones will be with the part of the Razorbacks’ team that be-gins the outdoor season at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, starting Wednesday.

For the start of its outdoor season, Arkansas women’s track team will split over the weekend.

Trying to get the best re-sults for di$ erent athletes, the Razorbacks will split up the team by events to kick o$ the new season.

Arkansas will start the sea-son Wednesday in Austin, Tex-as at the Texas Relays. # e meet will last through Saturday, the same day the Razorbacks will be hosting the Arkansas Spring Invitational.

A% er " nishing " %h in the nation in the NCAA Indoor Championships in Nampa, Idaho, Arkansas look to im-

prove and do even better for the outdoor season.

“We’ve been training dili-gently, getting ready to open up,” Arkansas coach Lance Harter said. “Texas Relays is our opener. It’s that time of season again, all in prepara-tion for another great season and we’re really excited. Some good things are carrying that momentum from indoor to outdoor. I don’t know if peo-ple realize right now, but our program on the women’s side is number four in the nation as far as combined programs.

“We’ll move up to two when the season is done. For cross country and indoor so far we’re

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Louisville vs. KentuckyKentucky is absolutely

flooded with talent. Enough said.

Besides a buzzer-beating shot by Indiana’s Christain Watford and a foul trouble-laden SEC Championship game against Vanderbilt the Wildcats would be unde-feated.

They are better off for not being undefeated though and the Wildcats won the early season meet-ing between these two teams in Lexington, Ky.

Louisville has been the most impressive team in my opinion since the first week of March. Calipari’s swag will outdo Pitino’s outfit just

as Anthony Davis and crew will rely on their crazy tal-ent to take down Peyton’s Si-va’s defensive army.

Kentucky 79, Louisville 66

Ohio State vs. KansasAs much as I want to see

the Jayhawks continue to rally around Thomas Rob-inson, the best player in the nation this season, I just don’t see them taking down the Buckeyes.

Sullinger vs. Robinson is any NBA draftniks dream to watch in a Final Four set-ting, but add in Deshaun Thomas and the insane in-tangibles of point guard Aaron Craft and you have a ticket to the championship game.

Robinson will put up great numbers, but the Jay-

hawks will shoot poorly. Re-member, just a prediction though.

Ohio State 85, Kansas 78BONUS: Ohio State vs.

Kentucky (NCAA Champi-onship Game)

Not really a bonus be-cause I said it at the begin-ning of the year. John Cali-pari will be cutting down the nets with his NBA tal-ent laden roster for the first time in his career.

He has the most balanced roster he has ever had and they will not fail him.

Kentucky 90, Ohio State 77

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have picked right back up,” Petrino said. “! ere have been times whereas practice goes on he gets a little tired and worn down because he is not used to taking as many reps especially with the year o" . He doesn’t look rusty getting in-and-out of his breaks and his hands, just maybe his top end speed is all.”

Dean is one of the many young targets that senior quar-terback Tyler Wilson is becom-ing acclimated to in the spring

a# er working with receivers Jarius Wright, Joe Adams and Greg Childs last season.

“Javontee Herndon has done a great job, Marquel Wade and Demetrius Dean,” Wilson said. “(Dean) is a guy standing in there at tight end that has really stepped in quite well and has made a great adjustment. I expect all those three to have a good impact on us.”

Dean amassed stellar num-bers in his high school career as a Bulldog, racking up 149 catches for 2,134 yards and a total of 33 touchdowns. Cur-rent Arkansas redshirt fresh-

man quarterback and former Fayetteville High School stand-out Brandon Allen was the guy throwing to Dean during his stat-stu$ ng career.

! is spring, Allen has had another opportunity to throw to one of his favorite high school targets.

“He has been doing great,” Allen said. “With the routes he has been running and the plays he has been a part of, he has made huge strides so far. I have always wanted him to be back up here as soon as possible be-cause I knew what he was ca-pable of.”

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman Shekara Boakye and the rest of her Razorback teammates will begin their outdoor track season this weekend in Fayetteville and Austin, Texas. Boakye competes in the 100-meter dash, 200 and 4x100-meter relay.

Florida in late February.“It was really impressive

the way they handled them-selves,” McMakin said. “We will go a long way if we can get in the position where they can handle the pressure the way they did at such a young age.”

The Woodlands All-American Intercollegiate

Tournament will be the Ra-zorbacks’ next tournament on April 9.

“It’s a great golf course and we’ve got some good compe-tition and the course will be a good preparation for the SEC,” McMakin said.

Senior Ethan Tracy leads the Hogs with six top-10 fin-ishes in nine tournaments and has a team-best average score of 71.92.

Junior Austin Cook holds

the Hogs best 18-hole score with a 67. Averaging 73.25 strokes per round, he has been a large contribution to the team.

Cappelen has posted the Hogs best 54-hole score with a 205. Averaging 72.54 strokes per 18-hole round, he has the second-best scoring average on the team.

“Sebastian played great,” McMakin said. “He dominat-ed everybody he played with.”

moving forward quite well.”Starting the outdoor season

ranked No. 5, Arkansas will host 11 teams in Fayetteville, including two ranked teams, No. 10 Kansas and No. 20 Ne-braska.

! e middle distance and distance crew will be staying at home to compete. ! e major-ity of the sprint and jumping crew will be traveling on the road to Texas.

“In the Texas relays we’re gonna highlight the four by one,” Harter said. “We have a real four by one this year. And also obviously our four by four, both will try to get national qualifying marks. In outdoors we go to our regional format, which also happens to be in Texas.

“Our vaulters lead the way, but we’ll have some long jump, triple jump and high jump as well.”

Harter expects great suc-cess this season, he said.

“We don’t want to ever take for granted good health,” Harter said. “We were able to keep everybody relative-ly healthy. Just keep that momentum going, obvi-ously Tina (Sutej) and Tara (Diebold) and the vault, we never want to take them for granted, two all Americans and a national record holder and champion. Also the mid-dle distance crew and Regina George, we’ve got a lot of peo-ple to lead us. We’re always looking for some of those young ones to follow what they did indoors.”

New season for men’s trackArkansas’ men’s track team

is o" to a fresh start as the out-door track has started for Ar-kansas, and the No. 5 Razor-backs will try to take care of un% nished business.

Arkansas % nished second nationally in the indoor sea-son, the runner-up to national champion Florida by just % ve points. ! e Hogs have gotten a few weeks o" a# er the indoor season.

“Coming o" of a busy in-door season we gave our kids a few weeks break,” Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam said. “We even got them away from the coaches for about a week and a half so that we could de-toxify a little bit from the in-door season and get ready for outdoors. We’ve been back at practice this week and we will open up this weekend with a decent sized meet.

“We think we’ve got about nine or ten teams coming.”

! e outdoor season will start in Fayetteville for the Hogs. Arkansas was scheduled to start the season at the Texas Relays, but Bucknam decided to make a schedule change af-ter the indoor season.

“We’re coming o" a good indoor campaign,” Bucknam said. “We felt like we didn’t need a big heavy meet, we need to ease into this outdoor sea-son, and like everything else we just hope for the most part that everybody survives with-out injury and we can start to build towards what we shoot for, and that’s the end of April and the % rst of May, into the championship.”

Changing the schedule was something Bucknam said he

wanted to do for his team to try to start the season o" fast.

“I think it’s very important (to be at home),” Bucknam said. “No. 1 academically be-cause we’re not traveling this weekend. We traveled a lot for nationals and for conference. So that’s a primary concern. We’ve got the weather, we’ve got the facility, why not have a meet. It keeps everybody and home and everybody in a rou-tine. We do have travel coming up. It’s nice to start o" at home and to be able to control every-thing. Very advantageous.”

Arkansas will host teams from all over the nation this weekend, including Iowa and No. 15 Nebraska. No other SEC teams will be in the meet.

Instead of splitting the team up, Arkansas’ entire team will be present and will even have some new additions to the out-door team, athletes and events that weren’t in the indoor sea-son.

“(In outdoor track) you’ve got a few new events,” Bucknam said. “You’ve got a 4x100, you’ve got a javelin, a discuss, all of that. We’re in the process of putting that schedule together.”

Other than the new events, Arkansas will also have more athletes competing. Fi# h-year senior Luke Laird will be re-turning to throws a# er miss-ing time.

Laird had Tommy John surgery a year ago and hasn’t competed since. A former SEC champion, Laird is just one of the athletes Arkansas will be bringing into the outdoor sea-son.

! e Arkansas Spring Invi-tational will start Friday with a few throwing events.

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Razorback  Q&A

Kody Walker

Kody Walker ran for 68 yards and scored a team high-tying ! ve touchdowns in just three games last season be-fore su" ering a stress fracture injury in his shin that re-quired surgery. He never returned and received a medical hardship. # is spring he’s competing for playing time in a crowded Arkansas back! eld.

What was it like to wear pads and have full contact for the ! rst time this spring on Tuesday?

It was pretty good. It was my % rst contact in a while. It felt pretty good to get out there and % nally hit.

&How are you feeling a" er having surgery last fall?I feel pretty good. I’m not back to 100 percent just

yet. I’m working hard to get back there. I’ll be good this season.

Are you fully recovered now?I don’t’ feel 100 just yet. I’m getting there. I’m close,

I’d say about 90-something percent. I’m still working in the training room doing maintenance work on my legs

to keep them fresh every day.

How hard was it to get o# to such a fast start then get hurt?

It was rough. You want to be out there practicing, but you can’t. ! at rehab process is pretty tough too, going in there every day trying to get back on the % eld.

&&It seems like all the running backs are healthy af-ter having injury issues last year. How nice is that?

We feel pretty good. With everybody back, practice is easier. Not everybody is banged up and more people are taking these reps. It feels pretty good to have every-body in the group good.

&What did you do on spring break? I went back home and worked out every day. I Have

a coach back home I work with. We hit it pretty hard over the break. ! at’s a little bit too much time to not do anything. I had to go in, do some stu" to stay on my grind.