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PAGE 1 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 Vol. 106, NO. 46 UATRAV.COM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 VOL. 106, NO. 46 8 PAGES UATRAV.COM WEATHER FORECAST TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 64° 61° 65° 61° 64° 63° Follow us on Twitter at uatrav.com e Associated Student Government and Universi- ty Relations ocials want to launch a new interactive cam- pus map and GPS tracking for buses in February 2012, a UA ocial said. “We are trying to gure out what technology is most im- portant for students to have to navigate around campus,” ASG President Michael Dodd said. “We are working with University Relations to make navigating campus easier.” e construction has played a part in this project, he said. University Relations is working on a “total upli of the [campus] map” because the current map is four years old, said Chris Nixon, director of digital design and develop- ment. e system is still in the development stage. Other universities, such as the University of Oklahoma, have interactive maps that al- low a user to click on links such as nancial aid, student union and parking oce. When a user clicks on the link, an information box pops up over the location of the building, allowing the user to access Google Map directions. e map also has a search feature. Texas A&M’s map allows a user to click on specic build- ings, which launches an infor- mation box. e new UA map will im- plement all these features, Nixon said. Along with the new in- teractive campus map, Park- ing and Transit ocials are installing GPS nders in the buses. is will allow students to track the bus routes in real time, he said. UA Officials Plot Campus GPS for Next Semester by MEGAN HUCKABY Staff Writer Stay Fresh Always : Drew Barker’s Journey to the Top is semester marks the rst fall commencement cere- mony at the University of Ar- kansas since 1971. e Dec. 17 ceremony will feature speech- es by prominent Arkansans, ocials said. Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine, and for- mer Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt will both re- ceive honorary degrees from the university. Green will re- ceive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree while Ham- merschmidt will receive a Doctor of Laws degree. Both are expected to address the graduates. e fall ceremony, unlike spring commencement, will include graduates from all six colleges, graduate school, and law school, said Dave Daw- son, registrar. “Six-hundred to 700 stu- dents will walk,” Dawson said. e UA rebooted the fall commencement ceremony in response to student requests and a growing student popu- lation, said Steve Voorhies, university relations represen- tative. “is is something stu- dents have asked for for many years,” he said. “I’ve gotten calls from parents who have seemed very pleased.” Green was the rst Afri- can-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School, a recipient of the Con- gressional Gold Medal and an assistant secretary of Labor under President Jimmy Cart- er. Green was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board of directors, chairman of the African Development Foundation and managing director of Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital until his retirement in 2009, according to a UA press release. Prominent Arkansans to Speak at First Fall Commencement in 40 years by JACK SUNTRUP Staff Writer More than 90 percent of professors surveyed at vari- ous four-year public universi- ties in 2010 said e-book con- tent would soon be an impor- tant instructional resource, according to a report by the Campus Computing Project. e Campus Computing Project began in 1990 and is the largest continuing study of the role or e-learning and information technology in American higher education, according to their website. “I don’t mind if students have laptops in my class — the same goes for iPads,” said Lonnie Beard, a law professor. Most students use them every class meeting, he said. “Just as long as the stu- dents don’t distract their class- mates, I don’t mind too much, though I would like them to stay focused on the class rath- er than surf the web,” he said. He has not experienced many problems concerning laptops and iPads in his class- es, he said. “Electronics are windows to things going on outside of the classroom,” Beard said. Stephanie McCullough, junior music and psychology major, said she oen uses her laptop in class. “It is mainly to work on things for other classes, though I still take notes for the class I am sitting in,” Mc- Cullough said. e only bad thing about bringing her laptop to class is the temptation to get on Face- book, she said. It is obvious that the use of laptops are distracting to the lecture when students giggle behind computers and mo- tion their neighbors to look at things on the screen, Beard said. “Benet outweighs the cost though, I just hope students use them to their advantage,” he said. “I’m not going to punish or ban iPads and laptops in class just because a few students use them in the wrong ways,” he said. Sociology professor Gor- don Morgan said he expects students to use electronic de- vices responsibly. “I tell my students to be careful and pay attention. I shouldn’t hear any noise from their laptops or iPads,” Mor- gan said. “ere is a lot to be gained in listening to lec- tures in class, not just to gain knowledge, but also disci- pline,” he said. Morgan details his rules at the beginning of the course so there are fewer problems with the use of laptops and iPads in his classes. James Walker, professor of Human Anatomy, has an un- compromising stance on elec- tronic devices. “All cell phones must be out of sight in my classes and laptops are only to be used to take notes,” Walker said. Walker’s class sizes can reach up to 300 students, but hardly any laptops or iPads, he said. e university has no o- cial policy against the use of laptops or iPads. “ere is no specic pol- icy against the use of laptops or iPads in classes on the UA campus,” said Steve Voorhies, media manager of university relations. Whether a student can use them in a class is directly up to the individual faculty mem- ber, he said. “It is a general policy that the electronics should be used for notes related to the class,” Voorhies said. Regardless of policy, some UA students think laptops are a distraction. “I hardly ever use my lap- top in my classes,” said Chris Kinnison, sophomore engi- neering major. “I don’t really have a use for it in my class- es right now and it is a bad source of distraction during lectures.” Faculty Sounds Off on Electronic Devices in Class by BAILEY KESTNER Staff Writer In This Issue: Textbooks in for Next Semester Hogs Rout Vols 48-7 Page 7 Bookstore employ- ees prepare for next semesters purchases. Page 3 Briefly Speaking A summary of this week’s events. Page 2 Hogs Win on Senior Day No. 8 Arkansas beat Tennessee 49-7, send- ing 17 seniors out with a win in their nal home game. Page 7 Friendships That Transcend Borders: International Students on Campus U.S. students can easily form relationships with international students through a variety of programs and events. Page 5 A Long Way From the Village Called Dirt: UA Student Seeks Changes Housseine Mheimidi, a Fulbright scholar from Mauritania, seeks to be a voice for his ethnic group. Page 5 Students Should Continue Spirit Into Other Sports Students should carry school spirit beyond the football season. Page 4 News News Features Features Sports Opinion Girls run screaming in the Sat- urday night rain, snaking around puddles and through the tall arch- ing doors of the newly renovated Phi Gamma Delta house. e girls funnel into forever-long hallways draped in black construc- tion paper. e walls are covered in fluores- cent paint and so are the girls, who squeeze past each other under trail- ing black lights. is is Blackout, Phi Gamma Del- ta’s signature party, and Drew Barker is holed away from all the noise in a rst-story bedroom. He’s been wait- ing for this night for three years. “I hope they get the lights turned down in there. ey are way too bright,” he says, adjusting the at red brim of his Denver Nuggets hat. Barker, an up-and-coming rapper from Fort Worth, Texas, is worried about the stage lights. He has longed to perform at Blackout since he pledged FIJI in 2009, and he knows the girls won’t dance if the lights are too bright. e show begins in 30 minutes. “I’m not really scared,” he says. “It’s like game day – you practice a lot, go to studio a lot, and performing is like game day.” When Barker nally enters the main hall, the place is buzzing with the loud, slurred conversation of nearly 200 people. As he approaches the stage, the house music fades. But the bright overhead lights do not. It’s a surreal moment for Barker, who a year ago was recording songs in a closet by himself. He gained a reputation among his FIJI brothers by BRADY TACKETT Staff Writer MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Caleb Credit, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, uses his iPad in class instead of printing off PowerPoints and PDFs. COURTESY PHOTO This is something students have asked for for many years. - Steve Voorhies, university relations representative see BARKER on page 3 see GPS on page 2 see COMMENCEMENT on page 2 Vo H 4 Pa MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Caleb Credit, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, uses his iPad in class instead of printing off PowerPoints and PDFs.

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! e Associated Student Government and Universi-ty Relations o" cials want to launch a new interactive cam-pus map and GPS tracking for buses in February 2012, a UA o" cial said.

“We are trying to # gure out what technology is most im-portant for students to have to navigate around campus,” ASG President Michael Dodd said. “We are working with University Relations to make navigating campus easier.”

! e construction has played a part in this project, he said.

University Relations is working on a “total upli$ of the [campus] map” because the current map is four years old, said Chris Nixon, director of digital design and develop-ment.

! e system is still in the development stage.

Other universities, such as the University of Oklahoma, have interactive maps that al-low a user to click on links such as # nancial aid, student union and parking o" ce. When a user clicks on the link, an information box pops up over the location of the building, allowing the user to access Google Map directions.

! e map also has a search feature.

Texas A&M’s map allows a user to click on speci# c build-ings, which launches an infor-mation box.

! e new UA map will im-plement all these features, Nixon said.

Along with the new in-teractive campus map, Park-ing and Transit o" cials are installing GPS # nders in the buses. ! is will allow students to track the bus routes in real time, he said.

UA Officials Plot CampusGPS for Next Semester

by MEGAN HUCKABYStaff Writer

Stay Fresh Always:Drew Barker’s Journey to the Top

! is semester marks the # rst fall commencement cere-mony at the University of Ar-kansas since 1971. ! e Dec. 17 ceremony will feature speech-es by prominent Arkansans, o" cials said.

Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine, and for-mer Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt will both re-ceive honorary degrees from the university. Green will re-ceive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree while Ham-merschmidt will receive a Doctor of Laws degree. Both are expected to address the graduates.

! e fall ceremony, unlike spring commencement, will include graduates from all six colleges, graduate school, and

law school, said Dave Daw-son, registrar.

“Six-hundred to 700 stu-dents will walk,” Dawson said.

! e UA rebooted the fall commencement ceremony in response to student requests and a growing student popu-lation, said Steve Voorhies, university relations represen-tative.

“! is is something stu-dents have asked for for many years,” he said. “I’ve gotten calls from parents who have seemed very pleased.”

Green was the # rst Afri-can-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High

School, a recipient of the Con-gressional Gold Medal and an assistant secretary of Labor under President Jimmy Cart-er.

Green was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board of directors, chairman of the African Development Foundation and managing director of Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital until his retirement in 2009, according to a UA press release.

Prominent Arkansans to Speak atFirst Fall Commencement in 40 years

by JACK SUNTRUPStaff Writer

More than 90 percent of professors surveyed at vari-ous four-year public universi-ties in 2010 said e-book con-tent would soon be an impor-tant instructional resource, according to a report by the Campus Computing Project.

! e Campus Computing Project began in 1990 and is the largest continuing study of the role or e-learning and information technology in American higher education, according to their website.

“I don’t mind if students have laptops in my class —the same goes for iPads,” said Lonnie Beard, a law professor.

Most students use them every class meeting, he said.

“Just as long as the stu-dents don’t distract their class-mates, I don’t mind too much, though I would like them to stay focused on the class rath-er than surf the web,” he said.

He has not experienced many problems concerning laptops and iPads in his class-es, he said.

“Electronics are windows to things going on outside of the classroom,” Beard said.

Stephanie McCullough, junior music and psychology major, said she o$ en uses her laptop in class.

“It is mainly to work on things for other classes, though I still take notes for the class I am sitting in,” Mc-Cullough said.

! e only bad thing about bringing her laptop to class is the temptation to get on Face-book, she said.

It is obvious that the use of laptops are distracting to the lecture when students giggle behind computers and mo-tion their neighbors to look at things on the screen, Beard said.

“Bene# t outweighs the cost though, I just hope students use them to their advantage,” he said.

“I’m not going to punish or ban iPads and laptops in class just because a few students use them in the wrong ways,”

he said.Sociology professor Gor-

don Morgan said he expects students to use electronic de-vices responsibly.

“I tell my students to be careful and pay attention. I shouldn’t hear any noise from their laptops or iPads,” Mor-gan said. “! ere is a lot to be gained in listening to lec-tures in class, not just to gain knowledge, but also disci-pline,” he said.

Morgan details his rules at the beginning of the course so there are fewer problems with the use of laptops and iPads in his classes.

James Walker, professor of Human Anatomy, has an un-compromising stance on elec-tronic devices.

“All cell phones must be out of sight in my classes and laptops are only to be used to take notes,” Walker said.

Walker’s class sizes can reach up to 300 students, but hardly any laptops or iPads,

he said.! e university has no o" -

cial policy against the use of laptops or iPads.

“! ere is no speci# c pol-icy against the use of laptops or iPads in classes on the UA campus,” said Steve Voorhies, media manager of university relations.

Whether a student can use them in a class is directly up to the individual faculty mem-ber, he said.

“It is a general policy that the electronics should be used for notes related to the class,” Voorhies said.

Regardless of policy, some UA students think laptops are a distraction.

“I hardly ever use my lap-top in my classes,” said Chris Kinnison, sophomore engi-neering major. “I don’t really have a use for it in my class-es right now and it is a bad source of distraction during lectures.”

Faculty Sounds Off onElectronic Devices in Class

by BAILEY KESTNERStaff Writer

In This Issue:

Textbooks in for Next Semester

Hogs Rout Vols48-7Page 7

Bookstore employ-ees prepare for next semesters purchases.

Page 3

Briefl y SpeakingA summary of this week’s events.

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Hogs Win on Senior DayNo. 8 Arkansas beat Tennessee 49-7, send-ing 17 seniors out with a win in their ! nal home game.

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Friendships That Transcend Borders: InternationalStudents on CampusU.S. students can easily form relationships with international students through a variety of programs and events.

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A Long Way From the Village Called Dirt: UA Student Seeks ChangesHousseine Mheimidi, a Fulbright scholar from Mauritania, seeks to be a voice for his ethnic group.Page 5

Students Should Continue Spirit Into Other SportsStudents should carry school spirit beyond the football season.

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Girls run screaming in the Sat-urday night rain, snaking around puddles and through the tall arch-ing doors of the newly renovated Phi Gamma Delta house.

! e girls funnel into forever-long hallways draped in black construc-tion paper. ! e walls are covered in f l u o r e s -cent paint and so are the girls, who squeeze past each other under trail-ing black lights.

! is is Blackout, Phi Gamma Del-ta’s signature party, and Drew Barker is holed away from all the noise in a # rst-story bedroom. He’s been wait-ing for this night for three years.

“I hope they get the lights turned down in there. ! ey are way too bright,” he says, adjusting the % at red brim of his Denver Nuggets hat.

Barker, an up-and-coming rapper

from Fort Worth, Texas, is worried about the stage lights. He has longed to perform at Blackout since he pledged FIJI in 2009, and he knows the girls won’t dance if the lights are too bright. ! e show begins in 30 minutes.

“I’m not really scared,” he says. “It’s like game day – you practice a lot, go to studio a lot, and performing is like game day.”

When Barker # nally enters the

main hall, the place is buzzing with the loud, slurred conversation of nearly 200 people. As he approaches the stage, the house music fades. But the bright overhead lights do not.

It’s a surreal moment for Barker, who a year ago was recording songs in a closet by himself. He gained a reputation among his FIJI brothers

by BRADY TACKETTStaff Writer

MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCaleb Credit, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, uses his iPad in class instead of printing off PowerPoints and PDFs.

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“This is something students have asked for for many years.”

- Steve Voorhies, university relations representative

see BARKERon page 3

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see COMMENCEMENTon page 2

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MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCaleb Credit, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, uses his iPad in class instead of printing off PowerPoints and PDFs.

NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011 PAGE 2

The women and men of the University of Arkansas Police Department, in partnership with the community, are committed to protecting the future of Arkansas by promot-ing a safe and secure environment.

The Transit and Parking office handles parking permits and passes and transit for students, including bus routes and GoLoco Ride Sharing. Students with parking violations can contact the office to appeal their citation.

NEED TICKETS? CALL 1-800-982-4647

NEED A RIDE AT NIGHT? CALL 575 - 7233

NEED EMERGENCY HELP? CALL UAPD 575-2222

HAVE A TICKET? CALL 575-7275 TO RESOLVE IT

Otherwise known as 575-SAFE, the mission of the Safe Ride program is to provide students with a safe means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. Safe Ride brings you home safely.

Don’t forget to call early and reserve your student football tickets for the 2010-2011 season. The ticket office is located on Razorback Road next to Baum Stadium.

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Hammerschmidt served as the ! rst Arkansas republi-can elected to Congress since 1877, worked for veterans bene! ts and was a ranking member on the House Public Works Committee.

Hammerschmidt also " ew 217 combat missions in World War II, sponsored a bill to make the Bu# alo River the nations ! rst national river and was a member of an Ameri-can delegation that witnessed Egypt’s Anwar el-Sadat ad-dress the Israeli parliament in 1977, according to a UA press release.

$ is new system will be a web-based application, so it will be accessible from a desk-top computer and a mobile device. UA technicians are still working to improve the mobile aspect of the system, Nixon said.

$ is new system will be paid for by Parking and Tran-sit, not student fees, he said.

$ e goal is to launch the two technologies at the same time, Nixon said.

Students think the GPS

tracker will be a valuable tool.“I think that would be good

because you would know ex-actly when to go to the bus stop,” said Lauren Lucy, soph-omore biology major.

Lucy rides the Tan bus ev-eryday and thinks that the GPS tracker would make for a smoother commute.

“I would like to know where the bus is instead of go-ing to the bus stop and wait-ing, especially when it is rain-ing,” Lucy said.

UA o% cials want to have a so& release of the products in January.

Monday, Nov.14CBCO Blood DriveDonate blood to support your local hospitals. CBCO will have the bloodmobile on campus in lot 67 of the HPER building on Monday, November 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All donors will receive free t-shirts and pizza. Please remember a photo ID and drink extra " uids prior to donation.ISO International BazaarEach year International Student Organizations hosts a Bazaar at the Union Connections Lounge, showcasing the talents and foods of student organizations. Feel free to drop by and mingle at a truly international market of ideas and culture from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Razorback Band Spectacular: HogWild with Coach Mike AndersonRazorback Band and Spirit Squads present the season’s most popular music and routines. Special guest will be Razorback basketball coach Mike Anderson. Show starts at 7:30 P.M. at Barnhill. Admission is free and all students, families, and friends are welcome.

Tuesday, Nov.15UA Horn Choir ConcertStella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. $ e public is invited to attend and admission is free.

Wednesday, Nov.16The University Theatre Presents The Adding Machine$ e University $ eatre season continues with $ e Adding Ma-chine, Elmer Rice’s landmark of American expressionism. $ e Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright pokes fun at the growing regimentation of man in a message that resonates loudly to-day.Ticket prices are $16 for adults, $14 for faculty, sta# and seniors, and $7 for children. UA students may attend the show free on Wednesday, $ ursday and Sunday, or for $3 on Fri-day and Saturday with their UA ID. $ e box o% ce will open on Monday, November 8. Box o% ce hours are 12 p.m. -3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and two hours prior to each show. UA Fall Jazz Ensemble ConcertArkansas Union $ eater, 7:30 p.m. $ e public is invited to at-tend and admission is free.

Thursday, Nov.17Electrical Engineering SeminarWireless identi! cation and sensing systems already play a para-mount role in everyday life and their signi! cance is expected to increase even more in the future. $ is presentation concen-trates on emerging applications of these systems, such as sen-sor integration to RFID, implantable backscattering-based bio-medical sensors and novel manufacturing methods of RFID tags. $ e seminar will take place in Bell 2269 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Messiah: The Second Coming: A Muslim and Christian PerspectiveA seminar presenting the Christian and Muslim views on the coming of the Messiah will be held at the Arkansas Union $ e-ater on $ ursday, November 17th at 4 p.m. $ e seminar will be followed by an open microphone question and answer session. $ e speakers will be Reverend Omar Al-Rikabi, Chaplain of the Wesley Foundation at the UA and Imam Naseem Mahdi, chief missionary and vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Com-munity. $ e event is put on by Al-Islam Students Association and will be followed by a reception.

Friday, Nov.18Japanese Tea Ceremony -sponsored by Japanese Student AssociationJapanese Tea Ceremony is a traditional form of arts to enjoy the taste of green tea, the setting of the room and communication between the server and the served. JSA is going to reconstruct and present Japanese Tea Ceremony with sweets and tea.$ is is a free event and open to everyone at Holcombe Hall Living Room from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTop: Alice Walton speaks at the opening ceremony of Crystal Bridges in downtown Bentonville on Friday. Bottom: Visitors walk by an Alexander Calder sculpture in the Twentieth century gallery at the newly opened Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Friday.

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for freestyling at house parties.“I did it one time, and a! er

that people just starting asking me three or four times a party, and it would just be like, ‘Oh, he’s freestyling again!’ Barker said.

His impromptu performanc-es ru" ed some veteran FIJI members.

“At that time, there were cer-tain people who were like, ‘Who is this guy who thinks he can just rap and dress how he wants?’” said Richard Carrizales II, Bark-er’s friend and self-appointed promoter.

It was then that something clicked for Barker.

“Everyone would just be go-ing crazy, and that’s when it hit him. To have a crowd really be in-terested in his lyrics and his rap-ping, it kind of opened his eyes,” Carrizales said.

Barker, who wears baggy graphic t-shirts and doesn’t own a pair of Sperry’s, is something of a rare specimen at FIJI. His friends describe him as quiet, thoughtful and withdrawn.

“I’ve never seen Drew chase girls. And I’m sure he could pull nine out of 10 of them if he want-ed,” said Kenny Richardson, one of Barker’s pledge brothers. “He’s always driven on the next move, getting something done.”

# at drive is intoxicating for Barker. His mind is always work-ing overtime to calculate new rhyme schemes, and its easier without distractions.

“Drew’s never been one to want to draw the attention in to himself. Unless he’s on stage, of course,” Richardson said.

Barker worked so hard to earn a performance slot at Black-out, but this was never how he envisioned it. Two songs in and his raspy voice is trickling too faintly from the speakers, and the room is still too bright, so the girls are embarrassed to dance.

“Can’t we turn these lights down?” someone complains to the man at the soundboards.

“Can’t,” the man says, motion-ing to the tiny chandeliers above. “# ey’re motion-sensored.”

Barker is frustrated, but he can’t let his audience know it. He’s

a performer.So he struts the stage in what

seems a dizzy euphoria, his face cracked in a wide grin. His friends hold up camcorders and nod their heads, mouthing the words of the song’s cocky chorus.

“# is is how you kill a beat, this is how you kill a beat.”

Barker released his $ rst mix-tape, Straight to the Top: Vol. 1, in March. # e digital release has been streamed more than 1,000 times from the popular hip-hop mixtape website DatPi% .

# e release of Vol. 1 kick-started a run of well-attended shows, including a recent head-lining performance at George’s Majestic Lounge and an opening gig for the Ying Yang Twins in September, which Barker called his best show thus far.

“I went home and just kind of sat there,” he said. “It was crazy. # e dude working the door said there were 900 to 1,000 people there.”

Barker soon returned to Ses-sionworks Studios in Hurst, Tex-as, to record KillaBeat 1, which he released in June. On Friday, he dropped his third mixtape, Straight to the Top: Vol. 2.

“Two mixtapes in three months, check my diligence,” he brags on a new song called “Mur-der.”

Barker’s songs stand in sharp relief of his quiet disposition. Songs like “Flavored Papers” and “Stay Fresh Always (S.F.A.)” de-tail the sort of clichéd hedonism common to Lil’ Wayne songs and fraternity parties.

“Most of my music is fun mu-sic, upbeat, about getting drunk and partying,” Barker said.

But Straight to the Top: Vol. 2 showcases a more contemplative tone. # e songs are moody and searching, and they give some glimpses into Barker’s troubled childhood.

Barker’s parents lived “in a bad part” of Fort Worth. He was born into a “humongous” fam-ily that now includes $ ve broth-ers, one sister and more than 20 cousins. At school, he was the only white kid among his friends. He learned very early that he was a leader.

“Me and my group of friends would run around the play-ground, just trying to be bosses,

and we had a chain of leader-ship, and I would be delegating everybody, like, ‘OK, you’re sec-ond leader, you’re third. I’m $ rst leader, so you gotta listen to me,’” Barker said.

Barker was two when his par-ents divorced, or when his father le! to pursue a lucrative career in Fort Smith, Ark.

“My dad, he came up, man. He made it from drinking Ha-waiian Punch and cheese crack-ers to an aerospace engineer,” Barker said. “It’s good that I see both sides: I see success and I see what we got.”

# e family was le! with very little, so they moved in with Barker’s grandparents.

“I mean, my dad’s great. We have a great relationship now,” Barker said. “But my grandpa

was always around. He taught me how to be a man.”

His name was Robert John-son, but the family a% ectionate-ly called him Papa Bear. He was the glue that held Barker’s life to-gether.

“He was a strong man. He was a leader. He was what we need-ed,” Barker said.

Barker was in seventh grade when Papa Bear died from pan-creatic cancer on July 28, 2003.

“It shaped me,” Barker said quietly. “I’d be di% erent if things were hunky-dory all the time. I don’t think I’d be as driven to suc-ceed.”

With his father in another state and now Papa Bear gone, too, Barker suddenly became the man of the family. # e thought weighs heavy on him.

“It’s my job to provide. I just always felt like I needed to be the man to change things,” Barker said.

His friends said that if his mu-sic ever starts to turn a pro$ t, the money would unquestionably go to his family. His greatest fear is that he will fail to provide for them, Carrizales said.

“He’s put so much time and e% ort into this,” he said. “He gets mad and he gets scared when he feels like nothing’s coming of it, like it’s all going to waste.”

# e fear of failure is visible on stage at Blackout, when, about 20 minutes into the set, people start to leave. As Barker raps, his eyes follow them up the stairs.

But his close friends in FIJI remain clustered around the stage, and when the show ends

and Barker descends the steps with a reluctant smile, they meet him with encouragement.

Kenny Richardson, who is perhaps Barker’s closest friend in FIJI, gives him a long hug, and they stand there talking for a while.

“We were just talking about his $ rst couple shows, about how as many people haven’t turned out as he would have hoped,” Richardson said. “And just ‘keep driving.’ If I could use one word to describe Drew, it’d be ‘driven.’ He’s got drive and determina-tion like I’ve never seen.”

As the house music fades back in, Barker returns, ex-hausted, to the $ rst-story bed-room.

Bookstore employees are now reserving textbooks for next semester because of ear-ly registration, the director of the campus bookstore said.

# e UA provides a list of required textbooks to all sur-rounding bookstores by No-vember 1 according to en-rollment in certain courses and demand for those books, said Mike Carron, owner of Beat the Bookstore.

“# ere will be larger amount of books being re-served closer to the end of this semester,” he said. “# ere will be a huge rush of return-ing books as well.”

Students who return their books sooner will get half of what they paid for them ac-cording to the demand pre-sented by the university’s list. Once that demand goes down, students will not re-ceive a full 50 percent, Car-ron said.

UA bookstore o& cials also encourage students to bring books back in for “buy back” as soon as possible so

that they can receive the full 50 percent of what the book is worth, Carron said.

“We promote [that] stu-dents bring their books back ASAP because the need is larger,” said Ali Sadeghi, di-rector of the campus book-store.

All the books that were bought at the beginning of this semester will be pur-chased back by bookstores because of the large amount of students.

“We get our inventory from the students bringing back their books and resell-ing them,” Carron said.

Students are the main em-ployees at every bookstore on and around campus.

“We choose to hire college students because they are the best to relating to other stu-dents. # ey understand the whole process and are the only people willing to work only a couple weeks out of the semester,” Carron said.

University bookstore of-$ cials use the same concept and hire many students with many di% erent majors and grade levels, Sadeghi said.

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BRITTANY WULF STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERKeith Todd, History grad student, looks at a book to rent at the UA Bookstore. The bookstore offers students the opportunity to rent books to save money.

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Not that it’s the point of my writing, or the writing of college journalist, but in jour-nalism, school administrators often fall under a negative limelight.

This can’t be prevented. It’s the nature of news, and the duties of journalists to cover the story, and unfortunately it isn’t always good news.

This column, however, does fall into that once-in-a-while category of good news, and a call to commitment.

Saturday was UA’s last home football game in Fay-etteville, and the Hogs deliv-ered a crushing 49-7 defeat to the Tennessee Vols. Yet, I’m not here to focus on the stats of the game, or talk about the excellence in the coach-ing staff or the players, even though they deserve it.

The administration, par-ticularly Student Affairs staff did a great job of providing a safe environment for stu-dents this year at home foot-ball games.

The student section envi-ronment was just as exciting as it seemed when I was grow-ing up watching games from the other side of the stadium. It felt great to be apart of the roaring fan base.

There were times this year, however, where the student section got out of hand, as any student section does from time to time. Yet, Student Af-fairs staffers worked diligent-ly to keep students under con-trol.

Arrests are sometimes nu-merous in the stadium be-cause of rowdy fans, but the numbers remain low in the student section said Daniel Pugh, vice provost for Student Affairs and dean of students.

Not only was the stu-dent section kept under con-trol, UA administration and UAPD officials helped facili-tate a safe, spirited pre-game camping environment.

The success of the first home season of sports of the academic year couldn’t have been achieved without a committed administration to match the overwhelmingly excited student body.

We all need to remember to thank those who helped out in this tiring process.

Football isn’t the only sport that students have a chance to make their presence known, though. Basketball Coach Mike Anderson, who recently led the Hogs to an 83-63 win against USC-Upstate shows a promising season ahead.

Tom Collen, the women’s basketball couch, also shows promise, with a 65-61 win over Florida State yesterday in Daytona Beach.

We can also boast a strong volleyball team, coached by Robert Pulliza, with a recent victory against South Caro-lina.

As we did for the football team, as students, we need to rally behind our Razorbacks no matter the sporting sea-son. There is a growing trend in America of less importance being put on women’s sports, yet as a school we need to re-verse that attitude. We are lucky to claim some of the best sports teams in the na-tion, so we need to support them.

By going to the games, we not only show our teams we care about their success, we show the country the true spirit of the Razorbacks, a spirit that has a trend of disappearing after football

season.To help with the process,

Associated Student Gover-nemnt executives launched an incentive system for stu-dents, RazorRewards, earn-ing points for attendance to certain UA events, sports in-cluded.

So even if you don’t want to attend for the fun of going, or for the spirit of the team, at least go an earn points that lead to prizes after reaching certain levels of accumulated points.

Of course, one can’t always make every game, but show-ing school spirit in any way is what counts. Throwing on a red shirt, a Razorback tattoo or even a tweet in Razorback support helps.

Even though our biggest Razorback sports season is drawing to a close, we turn a new leaf and in doing so have a plethora of opportuni-ties to get involved in making the spirit of the Razorbacks known across the nation.

We do that with a loyal UA administration, and promis-ing sports teams to rally be-hind. Now we, as students, need to get in the game.

Joe Kieklak is a freshman majoring in philosophy and journalism. His column ap-pears weekly, every Monday.

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My thumbs " dgeted as I looked around, trying to " nd a familiar face in the class Me-dia and Society of more than 100 students. I graduated from a high school class of 633, and never had a class with more than 30 students. I felt lost as I sat through the " rst day of class freshman year. As I turned to my right, I saw the girl next to me looking just as lost, if not more. She smiled at me.

She was an international student from South Korea, here for a semester. She was also the " rst Korean I had met. Need-less to say, I was intrigued with her culture and language. I had met international students in

high school, but most of them were exchange students from Germany or France, whose cultures were more similar to the American culture than that of the Eastern world. ! at semester I learned so much about another culture, just by sitting next to her in class and spending time with her outside of class.

! at was just the begin-ning of my exposure to dif-ferent cultures brought to the UA by international students. I later had the pleasure of meet-ing Namiko Bagirimvano, program assistant for the Of-" ce of International Students and Scholars, who introduced me to all the wonders of Hol-combe Hall, where many of the international students live. Al-most every month there was a di# erent event, either a geogra-phy series on Morocco or Haiti or a cooking workshop. Even today, if you stop by Holcombe Hall, the big events calendar on the wall has an event almost every week.

! is fall, the UA is home to more than 1,000 international students and 250 scholars from 117 countries, according to the International Student Scholars o$ ce website. Of the 1,191, the

top " ve countries represented are China, India, Korea, Boliv-ia and Vietnam.

We have so much to learn from these students—geogra-phy, culture, history and lan-guage. Before I started min-gling with international stu-dents, I probably could not have pointed Mauritania on a map or told you the capital of Libya.

As a student who has stud-ied abroad twice in two di# er-ent parts of the world, I can-not stress how important it is for us to make international students feel at home and to respect their culture. In both France and Morocco, native students, who had many ste-reotypes about America and the culture, learned that Amer-icans do not eat burger and fries for every meal, that the government’s actions to not necessarily represent the views of all and that as students, we are all essentially striving for the same goal—a good educa-tion and a good job.

We all have our stereotypes about other nations, but it is important for us to learn about a people before we decide to judge them.

! is week represents

International Education Week across the globe. It is a joint initiative of the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Education Department to “promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States,” according to the IEW website.

At the UA, there will be various events to celebrate IEW, and I encourage you all to go and meet new people, to try new food and to learn facts about a race and culture that you perhaps do not know about.

If you want to know how to get involved in Internation-al Education Week, Wednes-day night there is a Holcombe Night Market from 6- 8 p.m., a Japanese Tea Ceremony Fri-day and the Diwali Banquet is Saturday.

Saba Naseem is the 2011-2012 Traveler editor. She is a senior majoring in French, journalism and Middle East-ern studies.

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International Students Integral to Campus

Traveler Quote of the Day“We are trying to figure out what technology is most important for

students to have to navigate around campus. We are working with Uni-versity Relations to make navigat-

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FROM THE BOARD

Like most people across the country the biggest is-sue for Arkansans in the upcoming election is —no sur-prise— the economy. With a lingering recession, Clin-ton’s old adage of “it’s the economy stupid” continues to be true.

The Arkansas Poll, conducted by Janine Parry, a UA political science professor, found that the economy is the top issue for 70 percent of Arkansans.

Unemployment is at 8.5 percent and underemploy-ment — a huge problem for graduating students— is more than 18 percent, according to Gallup. Almost one in five Americans are underemployed.

Even worse, for those who are 18-29 —the group that includes college students and recent graduates— under-employment is almost 30 percent, according to Gallup.

As college students that means working part-time in-stead of full-time, or at a lower paying job than one we might have been able to get a few years ago, or when the economy recovers.

Perhaps the only good news is that while across- the -board unemployment is 9 percent, for those with a bach-elors degree it is approximately 4.4 percent as of October 2011, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics

The staggering economy and high unemployment also make tough reelection prospects for President Barack Obama. No president has been elected with unemploy-ment above 8 percent since World War II, according to The New York Times. The presidents approval rating is still barely above 40 percent—43 to be specific— and 70 percent of Americans think the economy is getting worse, according to Gallup Daily.

With a tough, stubborn economic reality shaping our foreseeable future, perhaps UA officials should make in-ternships a required part of earning a degree. While we love our liberal arts majors, it’s all too easy for students to get caught up in theory and classes and not give enough thought about how their degrees can have a practical use post-college.

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“Youyì,” “ujeong” and “tumhara dost” mean “friendship” in Chi-nese, Hindi and Korean, respec-tively; these are the three most-represented cultures by UA inter-national students, all of which ac-count for nearly 10 percent of the UA population and hail from 117 countries. International students may speak di! erent languages and come from di! erent cultures, but they can still create lasting friendships during their time in the United States.

One of the easiest ways that UA students can get to know interna-tional students is simply by talk-ing to them.

“I have many in-ternational friends from all over the world. Any student can be involved, but it can require step-ping out of your comfort zone,” said Ray Salmon, a UA senior ma-joring in mechanical engineering. “Having Japanese heritage myself, as a freshman, I would o" en walk up to international students and ask where they were from and start a conversation.”

Many international students live in Holcombe Hall, which is also the location of the the Of-# ce of International Students and Scholars.

“We, as international educators in ISS, make sure about students’ immigration status during their study at the UA, and we also make sure that students are having a positive experience in the United States by o! ering various educa-tional programs,” said Namiko Bagirimvano, program assistant for UA O$ ce of International Stu-dents & Scholars. “Holcombe Hall is a unique place and with 140 co-ed students from as near as Fay-etteville and as far as Asia, Europe, Africa and South America, it is truly a home away from home.”

Holcombe Hall is not just lim-

ited to international students. Ev-eryone is welcome to socialize and learn about di! erent cultures.

“[Students can become] in-volved with Holcombe Interna-tional Living Learning Commu-nity, whose mission is to ‘create an environment that fosters cultur-al awareness, develop a broader world outlook, and build strong, lasting bonds among citizens of the world’,” Bagirimvano said. “HILLC hosts many events dur-ing the semester and joining for the programs is one of the best ways to get to know the interna-tional community.”

Another way to create relation-ships is to volunteer on campus while creating “personal interac-tions with international students,”

Bagirimvano said. “Among dif-ferent o$ ces, there are various di! erent volunteer opportuni-ties as well: ISS o! ers Conversa-tion Club, Cross Cultural Men-tor Program, Friendship Family Program, Global Greeks, Interna-tional Culture Team and Dinner in the American Home as cultural exchange programs.”

% e Friendship Family Pro-gram allows American students to form a friendship with an in-ternational student through the creation of an informal setting in which students can get to know familes.

“% e Friendship Family Pro-gram helps international stu-dents at the UA connect with lo-cal families and individuals,” said Casie Shreve, coordinator for the Friendship Family Program. “% e goal of the program is to enrich the students’ learning experience.”

Many students experience homesickness when they move away to college, but international students are crossing more than just state lines.

“% e Friendship Family Pro-gram hosts can o! er a type of home away from home and a fa-miliar face for the internation-al students as well,” Shreve said. “% e program is very bene# cial both to the host and the student as there is a great exchange of cul-tures and friendship.”

% e program lives up to its title by allowing American and inter-national students to create a kin-dred partnership.

“% e Friendship Family stu-dents will do a variety of things with their families,” Shreve said. “It could be anything from fam-ily gatherings for meals, birthday parties, sporting events, hiking and even possibly visiting some of the surrounding parts of north-

west Arkansas.”And for American

students, interacting with international students can be as easy as going to class, speci# cally those fo-

cused on international subjects. “Taking language classes pro-

vides a great way to interact with people who speak that language,” Salmon said. “Whether it's a con-versation partner, or just making more friends, having the ability to speak another person's language really gives you a better connec-tion with those people.”

Communicating with diverse students can change students’ per-spectives and educate them on di! erent cultures. Few places in the United States are as culturally and ideologically diverse as col-lege campuses.

“I have learned that if you want to look at the world objectively and broaden your understand-ing of the world, you need to in-teract with people from di! erent backgrounds from you,” Salm-on said. “% ere are just some things (world views, family back-grounds, politics, beliefs, etc.) that you will be completely oblivious to if you don't interact with people from international backgrounds.”

Friendships That Transcend Borders: International Students on Campus

A Long Way From the Village Called ‘Dirt’: UA Student Seeks Change

by STEPHANIE EHRLERStaff Writer

Housseine Mheimid is rarely seen without a smile. % ough he is a Fulbright scholar with great career potential wherever in the world he might choose, Mheimid has decided to return to Maurita-nia. Mauritania, a sparsely popu-lated country located largely in the Sahara Desert, remains ranked among the poorest countries in the world.

“People ask me sometimes why I don’t prefer to stay here and # nd a job here,” Mheimid said. “Life in the United States is easy. It’s com-fortable, but I want to go back be-cause it’s my home, you know? And home is home. Life may be more di$ cult there, but I want to make change.”

% ough much of the Western world stamped out slavery more than a cen-tury ago, slav-ery remains entrenched in Mauritanian so-ciety. % ere are more than 600,000 slaves in Mauritania – roughly 20 percent of the population, accord-ing to 2007 # gures by SOS Slaves, a Mauritanian anti-slavery group. O$ cially, slavery has been abol-ished in the country, but laws have not been enforced.

Mheimid was born into the Ha-ratin ethnic group, the group that is o" en sold as slaves to the Arab elite, and he wants to enter the Mauritanian government to make a di! erence for his people.

“I want to be a voice in politics for my ethnic group, and not only for my ethnic group, but for all minorities, to bring social justice and bring equality, freedom and respect for everyone,” Mheimid said with a smile.

Mheimid and his immediate family have never been slaves, but he has seen slavery # rsthand throughout his life, even when he recently visited.

“I returned to Mauritania over Christmas break, and one of my friends from the wealthy Arab aristocratic elite invited me to his house,” Mheimid said. “You would think it was a palace or something, and they had a black Haratin working there as a slave. I was uncomfortable about that.”

Situations like this have shaped Mheimid’s career goals.

“I want to be a political voice for victims of slavery,” Mheimid said. “Especially in the north, there are still a lot of victims of slavery, es-pecially my ethnic group. We are very marginalized. Even though we are about 40 percent of the population, we do not have ade-quate representation.”

Getting a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. Department of State has taken Mheimid a long way from where he grew up. % ough he attended school in other cities in Mauritania, he grew up with his family in a small village in the Sa-hara called el-Ghabra.

“It literally translates to ‘dirt,’” Mheimid said, laughing. “It’s very dusty. % e ground is dirt. When the wind blows the dirt in the dis-tance, the sky is literally dark be-cause of the dust. It would seem odd to most Americans that peo-

ple have adapted to life there.”Instead of feeling disillusioned

or angry about the status quo in his country, Mheimid instead ap-proaches it with optimism and a practical approach of ways he can promote change.

One of the biggest areas in which Mheimid sees hope for the future is through improved edu-cation for a greater portion of the Mauritanian people.

“% ere needs to be education reform. % ere’s so much human capital that goes to waste because people don’t get an education or because they are sold as slaves. Mauritania is a very poor coun-try because it doesn’t have a strong workforce, but it doesn’t need to be,” Mheimid said. “% ere are so many natural resources like iron, copper, # sh and more.”

Mheimid sees a few other ways, too, that the government of his country could be reformed.

“% ere’s a lot of nepotism that needs to be # xed. Sometimes you’ll see one person in govern-ment get everyone else in his fam-ily a job,” Mheimid said.

For all of this, Mheimid empha-sizes a peaceful approach.

“I don’t promote any retalia-tion,” Mheimid said, “Because if you retaliate, you aren’t any di! er-ent from your oppressors. % ere

needs to be some justice and rec-onciliation.”

Scholarship funding from the Mauritanian government typi-cally goes to the already wealthy, Mheimid said. He got the Ful-bright scholarship even though his family is not from the wealthy class because of his hard work and because the scholarship is admin-istered through a fair system.

“It’s a transparent process,” he said, “Because it was administered through the U.S. Department of State.”

Mheimid was chosen from more than 600 applicants.

Because of his family’s remote location, sometimes it is di$ cult to get in contact with his parents and siblings. % is year, a drought is taking place in Mauritania that will a! ect Mheimid’s family.

“It’s still early during the drought. % e drought is really go-ing to have an e! ect in the next couple months,” Mheimid said. “I de# nite-ly worry about my

family. % ey have some animals, and there’s a mentality in the vil-lage about it. Like, even if I told my family that this is going to be a tough year and that they should sell their animals to meat markets or to Senegal, they would keep the animals and spend a lot of mon-ey to feed them, and they would watch them die.”

A" er he graduates from the UA, Mheimid will attend gradu-ate school for public policy. He is applying to attend some of the top public policy graduate schools in the world before he returns to Mauritania, a place altogether dif-ferent from Fayetteville.

“% e standard of living is com-pletely di! erent compared to here,” Mheimid said, “And the dif-ference between the wealthy and the poor is much greater. % ere are some wealthy, aristocratic people in Mauritania in the capi-tal city. % ey live in these homes that look like palaces, but when they walk out of their gate, it’s all dirt, and the poor live like nothing you see here. % ey live every day just hoping to get by.”

Mheimid is a long way from el-Ghabra, the village named ‘dirt,’ but his thoughts and plans contin-ue to revolve around his people.

“It’s my home.”

by LAUREN LEATHERBYFeatures Editor

MELEAH GROSS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERHousseine Mheimid is a Fulbright scholar studying at the UA from Mauritania, an African countrylargely located in the Sahara Desert.

“I don’t promote any retaliation, be-cause if you retaliate, you aren’t any

different than your oppressors.” - Housseine Mheimid, UA student

MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMohamed Boudhoum, President of ISO, meets with his fellow officers in the Union Living Room. The officers hail from all around the globe, from Morocco and Mexico to China and Cameroon.

“Taking language classes provides a great way to interact with people who speak

that language.” - Ray Salmon, UA Senior

Monday November 14th:Ringing of the Tollert Celebration Bell11 a.m. Alumni House

Faculty, sta! and students will be wearing clothes represent-ing cultures from around the world and group picture will be taken in the Arkansas Union at 12:20 p.m.

Declaration of International Education Week in Arkansas and the reading of Governor's ProclamationArkansas Union Connections Lounge 11 a.m.

International Bazaar and Study Abroad Photo Contest11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Arkansas Union Connections Lounge

International Education Week

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Eighth-ranked Arkansas racked up big play after big play, routing Tennessee 49-7 on Senior Day in front of 72,103 fans at Reynolds Ra-zorback Stadium.

The Razorbacks had three scor-ing plays of 40 yards or more and racked up 499 yards of offense in their sixth consecutive win.

“I thought we played well in all three phases,” Arkansas coach Bobby

Petrino said. “Certainly had big plays in all three phases. It was a good, good team win for us.”

Hogs senior receiver Joe Ad-ams had a 60-yard punt return for a touchdown in the first quarter, junior running back Dennis Johnson broke a 71-yard touchdown run in the sec-ond and junior quarterback Tyler Wilson hit senior receiver Joe Adams for a 40-yard touchdown in the third.

“Big plays kind of get their hope down,” senior receiver Jarius Wright said. “They probably felt at one time that everything was going against

them.”Arkansas built a 21-0 lead early

in the second quarter and the Volun-teers never pulled closer than 14.

“To win the game the way we did tonight was a great win,” Petrino said. “I liked the way we put them back to back, last week and then here.”

The Razorbacks (9-1, 5-1 South-eastern Conference) took a double-digit lead at the end of the first quar-ter on Adams’ highlight-reel return.

He fielded the ball at the 40-yard line, broke a tackle, retreated to the 30 and broke four more tackles. He

raced down the sideline, swerved toward the middle of the field, then headed back toward the sideline, fol-lowing a wall of blockers for his third punt return for a touchdown this season.

“That’s like one of those where you go, ‘Oh no, don’t run backward, don’t run, ooh. OK. Here he goes. Oh my gosh. Touchdown,’” Petrino said. “It was an amazing play and certainly

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Hogs Top Spartans in Opener

Arkansas started the Mike Anderson era playing like teams in the Nolan Richardson glory days.

The Razorbacks built a 19-3 run within the first five minutes, getting up and down the court on a momentum-building run like Richardson’s teams were famous for in the 1990s when Anderson was his assistant.

The Hogs didn’t play perfect the entire game, but pulled away down the stretch for a 83-63 win in Anderson’s Arkansas head coaching debut.

“It’s been a build up to this point and we finally got a game in under our belt,”

Anderson said. “We came out and had a tremendous run. If you want to start off a game, that’s the way you want to start off. A lot of that was emotion. You can only play so long with emotion, but I was proud of our guys in terms of really leaving it out on the floor.”

The Razorbacks started fast in front of an estimated 10,500 fans at Bud Walton Arena.

Sophomore guard Julysses Nobles hit a 3-pointer just 14 seconds into the game on the Hogs’ first shot.

Arkansas hit 10 of its first 11 shots, building a 16-point lead.

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArkansas junior forward Marshawn Powell scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Razorbacks to an 83-63 win over USC Upstate in the season opener.

Seniors Light Up ScoreboardArkansas o! ensive coordina-

tor Garrick McGee isn’t easily im-pressed.

When Jarius Wright broke the school’s career receptions recep-tion on a ball tipped four times, all McGee thought about was hurry-ing the o! ense back to the line.

Joe Adams 60-yard punt re-turn for a touchdown wowed Mc-Gee.

“I said to Joe a" er the game, ‘I’ve seen you make a lot of plays around here, but that punt return tonight was special,’” McGee said. “# at was a hell of a play.”

Arkansas’ 17 seniors account-ed for $ ve touchdowns in their $ nal Fayetteville home game of their careers. # e Razorbacks jumped out on Tennessee early taking a 21-7 hal" ime lead before piling it on in the second half of a 49-7 Senior Day win.

“It was a good win for us,” Petrino said. “Very, very happy for our football team. It’s a great way to send out our seniors; a group of young men that have done a lot for this football program.”

# is year’s senior class had a rocky start to their careers, going 5-7 in 2008, but have since gone a combined 27-9 with an appear-ance in the school’s $ rst ever BCS Bowl game and a Liberty Bowl victory in 2009.

Wright caught a total of $ ve passes to give him 155 receptions for his career, breaking Anthony Eubanks 14-year old record for most receptions in school his-tory. # e Warren, Ark., native’s 7-yard touchdown catch was his

team-leading 10th touchdown of the season and moved him with-in one touchdown of tying former Hog receiver Marcus Monk for most touchdown receptions in a season.

“It’s always good to break a re-cord,” Wright said. “Especially in your home state and somewhere you’ve been so long.”

Adams continued the $ re-works with his nation-leading third punt return for a touch-down this season. Arkansas leads the nation with $ ve special teams touchdowns.

“Special-teams wise, what can you say, we have had $ ve special

teams’ touchdowns,” Petrino said. “Very proud of our special teams, we have been good on special teams.”

Adams wasn’t done just yet, the Little Rock native hauled in a 40-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter to give Arkan-sas a 35-7 lead. It was Adams sixth touchdown of the season to run his career total to 21.

“We’re just trying to $ nish out this season strong,” Adams said. “Coach has been preaching that. # at’s the reason I came

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore setter Ray Santos and the Razorbacks beat Ole Miss and Alabama over the weekend, moving the Razorbacks into second place in the SEC West.

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Anderson’s “Special Night”Arkansas coach Mike Ander-

son started his new head coach-ing job with a win in a familiar place in front of his mentor No-lan Richardson and an estimated crowd of 10,500 fans at Bud Wal-ton Arena.

# e Razorbacks won 83-63 as Anderson, the 17-year assistant for the Hogs under Richardson $ -nally got his moment as Arkansas’ head coach nine years a" er leav-ing to take his $ rst head coach-ing job at Alabama-Birmingham. Richardson was in attendance and even visited the Razorbacks’

locker room prior to the game for a pregame speech.

“It was short and sweet and to the point,” Anderson said. “# e thing about it is, since I have been with coach, played for him and coached with him, he just rein-forces a lot of things that I talk about. I think when our guys get a chance to hear a Hall of Fame coach and legend speak it kind of opened their eyes up and hope-fully gets their attention.

“# ere is a lot of newness with me with them so when he says that, a Hall of Famer, it means a whole lot more.”

Juniors Julysses Nobles and Marshawn Powell also enjoyed

Richardson’s speech.“It was nice to see; he is a vet,”

Nobles said. “He was here when they won championships so to get some words from him is always good. It carried us and gave us more energy.”

“# at is the guy,” Powell said. “# at is the guy of this Arkansas basketball team. For him to just come in our locker room and speak I was honored. It li" ed me up more and just gave me a di! er-ent sense of urgency.”

Richardson spoke on the di! erent kinds of teams in

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Coach Mike Anderson made his debut as head coach of Arkansas Friday night in front of an estimated 10,500 fans including Hall of Fame coach and mentor Nolan Richardson.

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“Coach (Anderson) had put an emphasis on coming out and playing from the beginning because we’ve been waiting a little while to turn it up,” junior forward Marshawn Powell said. “Shots were falling.”

Powell scored a game-high 19 points while sophomore guard Rickey Scott finished with 11. Eight players scored seven or more points.

“It was a pretty good start, but we’ve got to go back and get better at certain areas,” junior guard Julysses Nobles said.

Despite the quick start, the Razorbacks made just 5 of 19 field goals to finish the first half. The Spartans then cut the lead to 10 with less than 12 minutes in the second half.

“It comes with playing too fast at times,” Powell said. “Like Coach (Anderson)

says, over time we’re going to clean that up and it’s going to be some good basketball.”

The Hogs used a 22-8 run to take a 79-53 lead with less than five minutes left in the game.

“We came out in the second half and I thought played really good defense to extend the lead again,” Anderson said.

Powell scored 12 of his 19 points and grabbed five rebounds in the second half after picking up two fouls and playing just seven minutes in the first half.

“I’ve got to stop fouling,” Powell said.

He scored eight of the 12 points in the run that put the game out of reach with less than five minutes left in the second half, scoring in a variety of ways.

“I don’t know that they can be a great team yet because they don’t have a definitive low-post presence really,” USC Upstate coach Eddie Payne said. “Powell kind of gets it all kinds of ways. He’s really good, but to advance in the NCAA you need a good, strong low-post presence.

“That’s probably the

weakness they have, but their style of play masked that a little.”

Arkansas forced 19 turnovers, but committed 23 of its own, allowing USC Upstate to score 20 points off turnovers.

“I think the turnovers were disappointing,” Anderson said. “When you play a lot of players like we did tonight you expect some. I can live with maybe 15, 14 in a game of this magnitude. Some of them were just careless turnovers and we can’t afford to be a team that turns the ball over.”

The Razorbacks four freshmen – guards Ky Madden and BJ Young and forwards Hunter Mickelson and Devonta Abron – combined for 21 points and 12 rebounds in 65 minutes.

“Their freshmen didn’t impact the game like maybe I thought they would, but they’re going to be good players,” Payne said.

The freshmen were part of the group that checked in after the starters built the 19-3 lead early. The Spartans outscored the Hogs 15-10 after the group checked in.

“Those freshmen got some quality minutes early on,” Anderson said. “We were up probably 18, 16, almost 20 in the first half, but those guys were out there and the lead kind of dwindled.”

Arkansas has five days off before hosting Oakland Wednesday at 7 p.m.

“We continue to be a work in progress,” Anderson said. “You’ll hear that word a lot, but I like the attitude of our team.”

back, because we didn’t ! nish last season strong.”

Adams ! nished the night with two catches for 52 yards.

Two senior running backs got a chance to play in the fourth quarter.

Senior Broderick Green had three rushes for 44 yards, but scored on a 10-yard touchdown catch from junior quarterback Ty-ler Wilson.

Senior De’Anthony Curtis has played a variety of positions in his career, but moved back to running back prior to the season opener and found the end zone for the ! rst time in his career. " e Cam-den, Ark., native broke a couple of tackles on his way to a 23-yard touchdown run.

“He has been the ultimate team player for us,” Petrino said.

“Anytime we have asked him to change positions or help us here or help us there he has done it, and done it with a smile and a positive attitude. You really got to see how the players enjoyed him scoring at the end.”

Curtis ! nished second on the team in rushing against the Vol-unteers, totaling 59 yards on six carries.

Although the o# ense was heavily carried by the seniors, the story on defense wasn’t much dif-ferent. " e senior Razorbacks combined for 40 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and an interception.

Fi$ h-year senior Jake Bequette had Arkansas’s only sack against the Volunteers, taking down true freshman quarterback Justin Wor-ley for a loss of 11 yards, while also forcing him to fumble.

“" e thing I will remember most about this game is that we got the win in such convincing fashion,” Bequette said. “" e time

of what it means to be a Razorback and what it meant to play here, that time is a$ er the season.”

Safety Tramain " omas was inches away from having two in-terceptions as he snagged a one-handed pass in the second quar-ter, but came down inches out of bounds. However, the Winnie, Texas, native came up with an in-terception at the goal line just be-fore hal$ ime, halting a 72-yard Tennessee drive and preserving a 21-7 lead.

“" at was huge,” defensive co-ordinator Willy Robinson said. “A lot of our seniors had big plays, it was a team victory. We had two goals and one was to win and the other to send our seniors out with a victory and we accomplished both so we were ecstatic about the entire outcome.”

" omas was benched during Arkansas only loss of the season to Alabama and struggled with in-consistent play in the Razorbacks next couple of games. " e 2010 All-SEC second-teamer has since rebounded and led the team in tackles Saturday night with 10.

“My con! dence was always high and I never got done on myself,” " omas said. “I was able to come out here tonight and have another good game. All the younger guys, we put it in their head that we were going to come out here and dedicate this game for the seniors. I am really proud of our whole team.”

Arkansas will head south to Little Rock for its ! nal home game of the season against Mississippi State. It will be the seniors’ be their ! nal time to play in War Memo-rial Stadium.

“" at will be a lot of fun,” Be-quette said. “Get the Little Rock crowd to be in full force like they always are.”

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Marshawn Powell

basketball and which one were this year’s Hogs going to be, Nobles said.

“He was like ‘some people play to play and some people play to win,’” Nobles said Richardson told them. “’" e people that are self-ish go out there to play to play. " e people that want to win do what-ever it takes to win, so rebounding, steals, whatever it takes to win.’”

In addition to Richardson, the coach that guided Arkansas to its only national championship in 1994, Anderson had plenty of fam-ily and friends on hand for the Ra-zorbacks 20-point opening night victory.

“" ose are the people who help make who I am,” Anderson said. “My brothers, all my siblings are here. " ere are eight of us in our family so to have all those mem-bers here as well as their family, my wife and their family here, that’s kind of special. Not only that, you got one of the people who is largely responsible for some of the success I had and that was coach Richard-son.”

It was the biggest opening night

crowd since 2008 and had more than 4,000 more fans in atten-dance for Anderson’s debut than the opening game last season in former coach John Pelphrey’s ! nal season as Razorbacks’ coach.

“It will be even (more) super when we continue to get the peo-ple to come in and see us,” Ander-son said. “It is a new style of basket-ball that hasn’t been played here in a while.”

Although Anderson has coached in nine other season-opening games as head coach, he said coaching the Hogs to start as season as the head coach for the ! rst time was something special.

“Well I guess I so was so en-gaged into the moment even as my family came in, I hadn’t seen them until tonight,” Anderson said. “I was engaged in what was taking place here, that’s where my energy and focus was. But I think when I get back and re% ect on it, it is a spe-cial night.

“" is job at the University of Arkansas is a special, special job. It is a special place. Having an oppor-tunity to be here the years I worked and see what took place to get it where it was, that give me the mo-tivation to stay focused on the task at hand.”

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior linebacker Jerico Nelson runs out during the Senior Day cerimonies prior to Arkansas’ 49-7 win over Tennessee.

showed his athleticism.”Adams’ return was the fourth

punt return for a touchdown in his career, ranking fourth all-time in the SEC. His three touchdowns this sea-son are second-best SEC single-sea-son history.

His 68-yard punt return for a touchdown in the season open-er against Missouri State was a SportsCenter top play on ESPN. The return Saturday was reminiscent, but he broke more tackles.

“I surprise myself,” Adams said. “I try to play a lot of NCAA (Football 12), do some plays on there and try to bring it to the game. It’s one of my top plays.”

Tennessee (4-6, 0-6) cut the lead to 21-7 and had an opportunity to make it a closer game before half-time. Hogs senior safety Tramain Thomas intercepted Volunteers quarterback Justin Worley at the goal line with 31 seconds left in the half.

“I thought it was huge,” Petrino said. “It was a great momentum saver for us.”

The defense allowed 376 yards, but gave up just the one touchdown.

“We started out fast,” defensive coordinator Willy Robinson said. “We kind of had the old bend, but don’t break because we were con-cerned about a couple of their receiv-ers and tight ends. The kids played hard throughout the night.

“We did a very good job. The one drive they scored a touchdown on,

I’ll put that on me.”Arkansas extended its lead to

28-7 on Johnson’s second touch-down of the night, a 15-yard score with 7:07 left in the third quarter.

Johnson finished with 97 yards and two touchdowns on 11 car-ries, while catching four passes for 43 yards. He entered the game aver-aging 189 all-purpose yards the last three games.

The Razorbacks ran for 254 yards and had 245 passing yards, the first time this season the Hogs have had more rushing yards.

“I certainly like when we start cranking up the running game,” Petrino said. “That certainly helps us and makes us a much better football team.

Wilson struggled at times in the first half, but hit Adams in stride for a 40-yard touchdown to give Arkansas a 35-7 lead late in the third quarter.

He completed 16 of 26 passes for 224 yards, three touchdowns and one interception.

“We felt like we could have been a little better in the first half, but he re-ally came out in the second half and made big plays,” Petrino said.

Adams finished with two catches for 52 yards, tying Anthony Eubanks school-record 153 career catches.

Wright beat him to the record, though, finishing with five catches for 94 yards and one touchdown, break-ing Eubanks’ record and giving him 155 career catches.

“I’ll have to even it up next week,” Wilson said. “That’s great. I’m happy for both those guys. They deserve it.”

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