UA students and residents of Fayetteville took part in the “Oc-cupy” movement, 3 p.m. Tuesday on the steps that lead to Old Main lawn from Arkansas Avenue.

! e “Occupy” movement be-gan in New York and is uni" ed by a cause, as opposed to a leader, said Aaron ! omason, junior biological engineering major.

“[! e group] agrees that we are

opposed to excessive rights to cor-porations,” he said.

! e group has had the ability to attract people from many di# erent political parties.

“We are here to do something: Libertarians, Socialists, Tea Par-tiers, everyone is welcome here,” said Drew Dodson, graduate stu-dent. “! is is an American move-ment.”

“! e message is we aren’t going to take it anymore,” he said.

“99 percent” was written on a

few of the signs.“! e 99 percent means that the

population is not one percent of the richest [and the one percent] in$ u-ence politics,” said Mark Prime, one of the protestors.

! is was not the " rst or last “Oc-cupy” protest in Fayetteville.

“! is is a precursor to the Ar-kansas Demonstration o# of the Wall Street movement,” ! omason said.

! e group has another demon-stration planned for 10 a.m. at the

Fayetteville Square.“We are going to march down

College Avenue and down Dick-son Street and end [on the corner of Dickson Street and Arkansas Av-enue],” Dodson said.

“I believe in America, this is a compassion thing,” he said.

As one car drove by the pro-testors, the passenger yelled, “Go home!”

One of the protestors standing by the road yelled back, “We are home!”

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With the large num-ber of students current-ly enrolled at the UA and construction taking place throughout campus, the university has had to make several adjustments — but students are begin-ning to feel the strain.

With midterms around the corner and " nal ex-

ams in the not-so-distant future, the question of whether or not UA o% -cials are o# ering students an e# ective classroom en-vironment is one that both students and teachers are asking.

Unusual classroom lo-cations have le& some stu-dents disappointed, while others see it as a “tempo-rary setup, an adventure that’s short-term,” said Su-

zanne McCray, vice pro-vost for enrollment man-agement and dean of ad-missions.

“I never thought the day would come when I would take classes in an arena,” said senior Ramiro Pena, a business " nance major. “It’s so hard not to get angry. Sitting on benches instead of a nor-mal desk wasn’t part of my plans.”

“! e university knew about the changes they would make during the semester, construction wise and the high rate of incoming freshmen. Perhaps they could have planed out a better strat-egy for us students and teachers,” he said.

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! is semester UA students have likely seen a dramatic change in pace at the university. Classes have been relocated to unusual places like Barnhill Arena, com-mon rooms were transformed into dorms, and students " nd them-selves walking alongside construc-tion workers on their way to class.

! e UA has seen a dramatic in-crease in applicants and students attending the university, said Su-zanne McCray, vice provost for en-rollment management and dean of admissions.

Some attribute the increase to the introduction of the Arkan-sas Challenge Scholarship, which is largely funded by the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery.

! e number of freshman from 2009 to 2010 increased from 3,046 to 3,873, according to the UA Of-" ce of Institutional Research. ! is sharp increase rivaled past years by more than 500 students.

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A Professions in Sports Panel will be open to UA students, noon ! ursday in the E.J. Ball Courtroom, provided by the sports and entertainment law society, a law school o% cial said.

! e event is comprised of professionals who have experience in the sports indus-try and they will give advice to students who are interested in the industry at any level, said Ti# any Fields, vice president of sports in the society.

“If you are interested in working in sports it is a di% cult industry to break into, so this is a great networking oppor-tunity,” she said. “! ese people can give the best advice where to start.”

Topics will range from “how to get into operations jobs in athletics to internation-al sports,” she said.

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UAPD o% cers will im-plement emergency plans on campus to better re-spond to threats on stu-dent safety, o% cials said.

Residence Halls have drills once a semester, but UAPD is working with the " re marshal to de-velop " re drills elsewhere on campus, said Lt. Matt Mills of UAPD emergency management.

Some students who

live on campus said they don’t " nd drills to be a nuisance.

“It’s only a small incon-venience, unless [the drill is] during the night,” said Andrew Dugan, fresh-man.

Some students said they would not welcome the implementation of such drills on campus during class hours.

“I lived in Holcombe Hall for two years, and it seemed like we had a few " re drills a semester,” Ka-

tie McGehee, junior said. “We do so many drills on campus that it’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf.”

! ough UAPD o% -cials are making plans to implement " re drills in more areas on campus, there will be no actual campus-wide evacuation drills.

“We haven’t had any-thing that would warrant a campus-wide evacua-tion, but for special cir-cumstances, such as those

that involve Hazmat, we have had to evacuate spe-ci" c buildings,” Mills said.

In case of emergen-cy, the UA would contact students through media sources such as RazA-LERT and give instruc-tions electronically. At present, UAPD is looking to revise the current plan for campus emergencies.

“We are looking at incorporating di# erent things, like the campus " re drill, into a new plan or policy,” Mills said.

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A new documentary about mid-century modern archi-tecture in Arkansas, set to pre-miere next month on the Ar-kansas Educational Television Network, will feature Fayette-ville buildings and UA alumni and faculty.

! e documentary will air Nov. 14 at 9 p.m., in addition to an early screening in Fayette-ville on Oct. 9., which will take place at the global campus at 2 p.m. ! e screening its free, said Mark Wilcken, producer of the AETN documentary.

! e documentary, called “Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture,” focuses on the construction boom in the Unit-ed States a" er WWII, according to the AETN website.

“Clean Lines, Open Spac-es” features several UA alum-ni and faculty, including Greg Herman, associate professor of architecture and Ethel Good-stein-Murphree, the associate

dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture.

! e documentary also fea-tures some Fayetteville archi-tecture, such as the Fine Arts Center and the Fulbright Build-ing.

“Obviously, one of the build-ings we knew was going to be featured was the Fine Arts Center. It was a very important building and it was published internationally at the time it was built,” Goodstein-Mur-phree said.

During production of the documentary, Wilcken trav-eled the city with various advis-ers looking for examples of the mid-century modern style. One of the most interesting areas was the Mount Sequoya neigh-borhood, Goodstein-Murphree said.

“You wouldn’t normally think of that area as an architec-tural example — it only became a place for housing a" er the postwar period,” she said. “But many Southern states, ours in-cluded, were really coming of age in that period.”

! e post-war period was the time when mid-century archi-tecture was born, Goodstein-Murphree said.

I was involved in almost ev-ery aspect of the production, Goodstein-Murphree said.

“Not to sound immodest, but I inspired the documenta-ry,” she said.

Wilcken attended a confer-ence put on by the special col-lections section of the UA li-brary on mid-century modern architecture, where Goodstein-Murphree was speaking on modern Fayetteville-born ar-chitect named Edward Durell Stone.

“Mark [Wilcken] just got totally wrapped up and got in touch with me saying that he wanted to make this documen-tary, so we applied for some grants,” Goodstein Murphree said.

Local architecture was in-credibly helpful to advisers dur-ing the production of the # lm, said Wilcken, who had no for-mal architecture training other than the year-and-a-half of re-

search he conducted prior to production.

! e documentary screened in Jonesboro and Little Rock earlier this week, and the turn-out was impressive, Wilcken said.

“A lot of people have an in-terest in architecture that they just don’t know about yet,” Wilcken said. “I hope this doc-umentary develops an appre-ciation for architecture in gen-eral, and mid-century modern architecture, a style that’s over-looked or dismissed too easily.”

“Unfortunately, like so many other things, people take archi-tecture for granted,” Goodstein Murphree said, “You live your whole life in architecture. Not everyone will stay up late read-ing architecture journals and sketching, but everyone will live in a house or an apartment building and that’s one of the things the # lm does.

“It reminds people we’re not just looking at buildings, but our culture and ideals.”

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“We’ve had about a 30 per-cent increase in students at-tending the university from 2009,” McCray said. “! e in-crease in students in 2010 is de# nitely attributed to the lot-tery scholarship.”

! e number of students seeking to further their educa-tion initially depleted the lot-tery scholarship’s funds, Mc-Cray said.

“! e reason the lottery scholarship has decreased from $5,000 to $4,500 is because they didn’t anticipate how many people would choose a four-year institution,” McCray said.

! e scholarship’s advisory board plans to keep up with the growth by recruiting and in-creasing daily ticket sales, said Julie Baldridge, interim director at the Arkansas Lottery Com-mission.

“! e mission of the ASL is to fund scholarships for Arkan-sans attending two and four-year colleges and universities in the state,” Baldridge said in a press release about the recent peak in ticket sales. “! e suc-cess of the Ra$ e will contribute to ASL accomplishing its mis-sion.”

! e UA’s total enrollment is higher than any other four-year university in Arkansas by 600 students and has more than 17,000 students seeking under-graduate degrees compared to other Arkansas schools, which do not exceed 10,000 for the 2010-2011 school year, accord-ing to the Arkansas Depart-

ment of Higher Education. ! e UA’s recruitment strat-

egy has also been updated. ! roughout the bordering states, aggressive recruiting has become more prevalent, Mc-Cray said.

“! e Arkansas Lottery has certainly been a positive factor in our growth, though more last year, in the # rst year of students receiving scholarships from this funding source, than this year,” said Donald Pederson, vice chancellor of # nance and ad-ministration.

“A major contribution to our growth has been the improved e% ectiveness of our admissions o& ce under the direction of Su-zanne McCray, who is doing a fantastic job in getting our mes-sage out to students and their families,” Pederson said.

Although most students still come from the state of Arkan-sas, more than 10 percent of the total student population in 2010 is from Texas, according to the UA O& ce of Institutional Research enrollment data.

“We actually have a recruit-er in Texas; she lives in Dallas,” McCray said. “! e UA is exot-ic compared to Texas schools, which makes it appealing for Texas students.”

! e UA even o% ers a dis-counted tuition rate for border-ing states, and that rate is lower for Texas students than attend-ing the University of Texas at Austin or Texas Tech Univer-sity.

“It’s a great university with an even greater price,” said Lau-ra Bonds, a freshman at the UA. “I love how in spite of how large it is, it has the feel of a small,

connected community. ! ere is something here for everybody.”

Kerby Keller, a sophomore at the UA agrees.

“Honestly, you feel less like a number at the UA,” Keller said.

! e UA’s new recruiting strategy was not just noticed by Texans, but by Arkansans all over the state.

“We recruited really aggres-

sively in the Arkansas Delta, so all of the Arkansans would see us as a # rst class institution,” McCray said. “We wanted to of-fer more diversity to Arkansas students, so they can network without leaving the campus.”

! e UA also hopes to start recruiting more heavily in Kan-sas, Illinois, and even as far as California, McCray said.

“We believe we have become the institution of choice in Ar-kansas as well as the region, including surrounding states,” Pederson said.

! roughout the campus, updates have been made to in-crease appeal amongst future students.

! e campus tours were completely redesigned, operat-ing around the student’s aca-demic interests rather than a basic tour of the school.

“We revamped everything,” McCray said. “Especially for students who visit. ! e down-stairs of the admissions build-ing looked like a dentist o& ce, so we redesigned all of down-stairs and the tour rooms. We made the o& ces more attrac-tive, so we could really show that this is a great school with tons of opportunities.”

Pederson said that the im-provement in the UA’s goal is to improve student retention rates, which will a% ect the number of students who “persist and re-main enrolled.”

“All these positive factors in growth are made possible by the high quality of our facul-ty and programs, and the sup-port they are given in renovat-ing older facilities and building new facilities,” Pederson said.

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University of Arkansas of-! cials recently hired a new engineer who will work at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, developing cost-e" ective water manage-

ment practices, said the head of the UA department of bio-logical and agricultural engi-neering.

Chris Henry, who has pre-vious experience in the ! eld of water engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will start work at the

RREC in late November, said Lalit Verma, head of the de-partment of biological and ag-ricultural engineering.

# e RREC focuses on con-ducting local research to cater to Arkansas rice farmers, ac-cording to the center’s website.

# e RREC has been lacking

since the previous irrigation specialist retired a few years ago, Verma said.

Henry worked as a special-ist in livestock waste systems and environmental issues, and has conducted several research programs on developing runo" control systems for livestock at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Extension Center. Henry has published his research in several publica-tions, according to the Univer-sity of Nebraska website.

Henry is expected to con-tribute valuable research that will help drive down the costs of irrigating rice in southern and eastern Arkansas and in-crease e$ ciency, Verma said.

“We need to have research on water conducted,” Verma said. “Water is a precious com-modity that a" ects cost pro-duction.”

Rice grown in Arkansas makes up over 46 percent of to-tal rice production in the U.S. and also constitutes an impor-tant part of the Arkansas econ-omy. Rice farming contributes more than $1 billion to the state economy and thousands of jobs, according to arkansas-ricefarmers.org.

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# e panelists all have some-what di" erent backgrounds in the sports industry, she said.

“One of the panelists worked for the Olympics, we have an athletic attorney who handles contracts for coaches, he did the contract for Bobby Petrino and Mike Anderson, and the direc-tor of football operations [will be on the panel],” she said.

Steve Dittmore, who was a

former Olympic Committee member, plans to give advice to students that will help them in the sports industry, the Olym-pic games and place them above their competition.

“[I plan to] ensure students are maximizing their opportu-nities, taking advantage in the o$ ce settings so they can dis-tinguish themselves from oth-er [potential employees] or in-terns,” he said.

Activities outside of the classroom are one thing that

can help students stand out, he said.

# e panel will also include Jon Fagg, senior associate ath-letic director for compliance and student-athlete servic-es, Mark Robinson, director of football operations, Scott Varady, athletic attorney and general counsel at the UA and Dann Kabala, director of on-campus recruiting at the UA, said Andy Albertson, director of communications for the law school.

Freshman Daniel J. Paz Sol-dan, a mechanical engineering major, has the same problem as Pena but said that initially he was not bothered by the situ-ation. Paz Soldan is taking a philosophy class inside of the Union where both teacher and students are overwhelmed by their new classroom setting.

“Perhaps because I am a freshmen I didn’t get as upset as I should have,” he said. “I never before took a class at this university, therefore I didn’t know what to expect. I thought of it as a normal situation.”

However, a% er reevaluating the situation, Paz Soldan ad-mitted that the classroom was missing necessary infrastruc-ture.

“I soon realized, a% er see-ing how a" ected my teacher was by her new location, that it is a concern,” he said.

A well-run classroom be-gins with the room’s physical layout. # e arrangement of desks and working space, the attractiveness and appeal of bulletin boards and the stor-age of materials and supplies is essential in providing students an e" ective place to learn, ac-cording to a Scholastic Inc. study titled, “Classroom Or-ganization: # e Physical Envi-ronment,”

# e temperature, lighting and noise level were all fac-tors in creating a positive class-room environment, according to the study.

“# ese factors a" ect stu-dents in di" erent ways and are directly related to individual learning styles. Studies suggest that when teachers adjust the environment to the students preference they perform better academically and are better be-haved,” according to the online article.

“I am taking a class in a large room at the Union and as the teacher is presenting new material...the students are try-ing our best to catch up and

listen with all the noise com-ing from outside,” said fresh-man Maria Cristina Janer, a nutrition and dietetics major. “All the buzzing and loud nois-es from the construction just make it harder to concentrate.”

Students are not alone in their frustration. Faculty are also learning to adjust to high noise levels and added distrac-tions.

“Even if I turn my micro-phone all the way up so the kids can hear me over the drill-ing or hammering or whatever is going on that day, it is still distracting,” said Gay Stewart, an associate professor in the physics department. “# e as-sistant director of the (student) union has tried to be helpful but apparently there are a lot of individual groups working on the remodeling, so routinely someone will forget that they are not supposed to make huge noises during my 8:30 a.m. section, which has several stu-dents who require a reduced-distraction environment.”

# e noise level is not the only concern, Stewart said.

“I really am uncomfort-able being up on a stage look-ing down at my students in the Union # eater, but I have it a lot better than some of my col-leagues and the students com-fort is more important than mine,” Stewart said. “At least they have tablet arms on their

seats, so there is a writing sur-face and the chairs are comfy.”

Teaching his psychology class in Barnhill Arena, al-though a challenge, is not so bad, said Professor David Schroeder.

“Teaching in Barnhill is ad-mittedly a di" erent venue,” he said. “I remember basketball games in the arena and the vol-leyball nets are not what one originally sees in a lecture hall. [But] as far as being uncom-fortable, not at all. My focus is on the students, not the sur-roundings.”

Faculty members are “crea-tures of habit” and are most comfortable sticking to a fa-miliar routine. While he said moving to a new location is certainly a change, it is “not re-ally a big deal,” Schroeder said.

Union classes are well equipped, Stewart said.

Schroeder added that the UA Information Technology Services sta" have been very accommodating in getting equipment for instructors in a timely fashion.

UA o$ cials are working dil-igently to ensure a smooth ex-perience for both students and faculty.

“# e construction was go-ing to be a crunch no matter when it happened,” McCray said. “It’s not a matter of over-crowding, but rather coping with construction.”

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As a journalism major it isn’t uncommon to hear how print media is dying; newspa-pers are going the way of the dinosaurs.

(Ironically, as I’m writ-ing this, there are some peo-ple sitting in the Traveler o! ce talking about how the decline in print is “dramatic.” " anks guys.)

Almost 45 percent of Americans said that they get their national and interna-tional news from the internet, compared to 31 percent that said they get it from newspa-pers. When focused solely on college age students (18-29 year olds) the percent for the internet jumps to 65 percent, and 24 percent for newspa-pers.

Local news fares slightly better, with only 17 percent using the internet to get their news, but the overall increase is only by 6 percent.

(Congratulations UATV kids, television still reigns su-preme with viewers for lo-cal, national and international news.)

Overall the public’s dis-trust in the media is growing too.

More than 65 percent think stories are o# en inac-curate, 77 percent think news organizations favor one side and 80 percent think power-ful people and organizations, according to the Pew Research Center, in$ uence news organi-zations.

Like most things though, these numbers depend on if you regularly use the news or-ganization.

About 25 percent of peo-ple think news organizations in general get facts straight, while 62 percent think news organizations they o# en visit get the facts straight.

With the doom-and-gloom atmosphere I was pleas-antly surprised when I went to the Society of Professional Journalist to take part in its Working Press internship.

SPJ is organization dedi-cated to is dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty, according to its website.

At the national conven-tion in New Orleans I met people who had been in the industry for decades and still believed in the power of the media to be a trusted resource for news and information.

" e convention was a three-day reminder of how journalist from various medi-ums—print, broadcast, web, etc, are focused on improv-ing our profession and moving forward their work and teach others how to do the same.

Convention members learned about various things including how they can use Google and other social me-dia tools to help their work translate online to how we can upload SPJ’s core areas—di-versity, ethics and indepen-dence— as increasingly print media and the internet with its alphabet soup of blogs and so-cial media websites overlap.

As part of the Work-ing Press I worked with and learned from people—both journalism professionals and other college journalist—

whose attention to detail and perseverance in reporting a story $ ies in the face of all of the negativity surrounding the industry.

All of that positivity and ambition doesn’t mean that we can keep on keeping on exactly as we do now. Print journalist have to adjust. If you’re a jour-nalism major and you’ve been able to ignore all of your pro-fessors telling you this, start following Je% Jarvis on Twitter. His tweets constantly mention how he believes much of print media is failing to adjust.

Despite all of the bad news though journalism can still be a rewarding career for those who are willing to work hard and continuously ad-vance their work as technol-ogy changes.

As Robert Krulwich said in his commencement speech at Berkeley’s journalism school, no matter how scary it seems, we are lucky, perhaps luckier than we realize, to be going into journalism right now.

Jordain Carney is the 2011-2012 opinion editor. Her columns runs every Wednes-day.

" e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student clas-si& cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri& cation. Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

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FROM THE BOARD

College Has Become a Survival of the Busiest

In case you were living under a rock during your college years, I am sure you have been told by the outside world that the job market is bad. It is something that as college students we try to blissfully ignore, simply be-cause it just isn’t our prob-lem quite yet. I cannot count how many times friends of mine have told me about their plans to go to gradu-ate school, not because they want to further their educa-tion, but to evade the fact that job hunting is beyond tough.

So if that wasn’t enough pressure on our young souls, college has become less and less like an academic institu-

tion and more like a pre-job interview. While one could argue that college is techni-cally pre-job interview, since typically what follows col-lege graduation is finding a job, the pressure to stand out among classmates is nothing short of brutal.

It is no longer enough during the undergraduate years to just pick a major and make good grades. In order to even compete in the job market, you are expected to have an internship, show that you are involved on campus, take on a minor (or three) and, if you are a true over-achiever, have study abroad experience.

Maybe I have it hard-er than many other under-graduates because journal-ism is already a competitive field no matter what the job market looks like, but I have yet to see a major that is im-mune to the “survival of the fittest” race that college has become. Summers are dedi-cated to having the perfect internship, which is often unpaid, and with application deadlines often in the middle of the first semester, just as the heat from the previous

summer has begun to fade away. While searching for a journalism internship for this summer, I found a ton I would be honored to have, only to find the tagline “pre-vious internship required.” So now numerous intern-ships are required if we want to make an impression on our potential employers.

My freshman year when I declared journalism to be my major, I was encouraged by my advisor to tack a mi-nor on, to add to my educa-tional resume. Being the am-bitious person I am, I added on two, which meant sum-mer school was necessary if I wanted to graduate in four years.

I don’t think many would argue with me when I say that high school ac-tivities and clubs exist for the sole purpose for add-ing to high school students resumes for when they ap-ply to college. I, like many high school students, had a nice list of clubs that I was involved in that didn’t re-ally meet but made me feel good when applying to col-lege. I thought this shame-less resume building ended

once college started, but not in this day in age. College or-ganizations tend to be much more involved with more of an actual objective, but that doesn’t stop peers of mine from joining organizations just to help boost their re-sumes.

While I never have any free time and my parents al-ways tell me I spread my-self too thin, I never, never feel like I’m doing enough. There is always more to ac-complish, more that I could be doing to help make my post-graduation life easier. I was recently speaking to a member of an older gen-eration, who, when asking about what I have been do-ing during college remarked “wow, you are doing quite a bit.” My response, which was simply my knee-jerk reac-tion to that thought, was “I am just doing what I have to do to get by.” I am sure that many college students would have said the same thing.

Mattie Quinn is the 2011-2012 Traveler man-aging editor. Her column runs bimonthly, every other Wednesday.

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Traveler Quote of the Day

“I lived in Holcombe Hall for two years, and it seemed like we had a few fire drills a semester. We do so

many drills on campus that it’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf.”

- Katie McGehee, junior,“Emergency Drills to Expand Beyond Dorms,” page one

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

" ank you for the coverage about the proposed crosswalk for Gar-land Avenue. " e safety of our students is very important! Another crosswalk proposal has been requested for Arkansas Avenue. Due to the renovations and construction at Ozark and Vol Walker Halls on campus, hundreds of our students, faculty and sta% cross Arkansas Avenue daily to attend classes and meetings in Stone House (temporary housing for the Department of Geosciences and the Graduate School). " is cross-ing is hampered by long rows of parked cars on both sides of the road. We hope by being proactive we can raise awareness of this very hazard-ous crossing, add a needed crosswalk, and hopefully prevent a serious accident.

-Lisa MilliganSecretary, geosciences department

“Occupy” Hits CampusA group of people were around the corner of Dickson

Street and Arkansas Avenue with signs that read “The Police Are One Layoff Away From Joining Us”, “Stand Now Or There Will Be Nothing To Stand For” and “We Are The 99 Percent.” The “Occupy” protests officially came to campus Tuesday.

We’ve held off on commenting about the protests because they hadn’t been in Fayetteville—though we’ve seen the plan-ning and advertisement of future events on social media web-sites like Facebook— but now that they’re here:

Like a lot of people we like the idea behind the “Occupy” protests. The idea that they’re going to protest because they want to take back the country from top 1 percent. Countless people have pointed out students protesting because they are being drug down by their debt— in 2009 the student default rate was almost 9 percent— isn’t surprising.

But, so far, all of these good ideas are only resulting in protests that have, so far, no way of moving beyond groups of people across the country being angry and protesting.

The “Occupy” protest needs a central leader; it needs its version of a Martin Luther King, Jr.

The energy behind the “Occupy” protests is great, but it lacks what, sadly, the Tea Party has. Oddly developed clout, a leader, a central agenda and a plan on how to get actual results from these protests.

There also seems to be a lack of organization with differ-ent groups working together. The group at the corner was Oc-cupyNWA which should be working with OccupyArkansas which should be working with a larger “Occupy” organization or central command center. (Though maybe this is too much to ask for with a group that lacks a central leader.)

Tuesday’s protest that around 3 p.m. probably totaled about ten people, was a means to raise awareness and build for Saturday’s event, protestors said, which is a protest that starts at the Arvest bank on North East Street (across from Hugos) before marching down Dickson Street.

(We’re trying to ignore the fact that one of the ways to be “a solution” according to the group’s flyer is to support local business, and yet they’re protesting on Dickson Street which is a haven of local businesses. It just seems like something that would make more sense near one of Fayetteville’s Walmarts.)

Long story short, the “Occupy” protest sound good in the-ory and as it solidifies could stand for something this country desperately needs—which is reform that puts the needs of the working class above those that can afford to spend thousands or millions a year lobbying members of Congress, but for now it lacks the specifics that would help many people understand what its members are trying to accomplish, and probably in the process losing potential supporters because of how vague it is.

Also, touche Kappa Sigma members.

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World-Renowned Artist to Show Exhibit on Campus

! e UA art scene will get a little richer this semester. On Oct. 8, Mark Dion, a world-renowned artist, began the dis-play of his artwork in a public exhibit at the Fine Arts Center Gallery on campus. ! e exhib-

it, “Mark Dion: Process and In-quiry,” will be a part of the cel-ebration of the 60th anniver-sary of the Fine Arts Center.

Dion is best known for us-ing representations of nature to examine evolution, and for exploring both the past and the present through his work. His art has been shown in nu-

merous exhibitions across the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Gallery in Lon-don. Dion was also featured on the PBS series “Art 21” in 2007.

“I like to surround my-self with things that are in-spirational,” Dion said in the PBS series. “I really identify

with the mission of the mu-seum where you go to gain knowledge through things. I think that is very close to what sculpture and installa-tion are about, and what for me contemporary art is about.”

Dion uses things from na-ture, such as trees, animals and insects to build his art, and

uses humor and irony to make a statement to his viewers. He created a work titled “Tar and Feathers” where he hung dead animals that were tarred and feathered from a large tree trunk to make a statement about animals that are typical-ly viewed by society as “pests.”

“I’m not one of those artists who are imagining a better eco-logical future,” Dion said. “I am one of those artists who is hold-ing up a mirror to the present.”

! e materials that he uses in his art each have a purpose, Dion said. He used tar to cov-er dead rats in his piece of art titled “Rats and Tar” that was shown in “Art 21.” He explained that tar was used for punish-ment in the Middle Ages and that it was a material that has a “history of intolerance.”

In 2009, Chancellor Gear-hart created the Public Art Oversight Advisory Commit-tee in order to increase the amount of public art avail-able in Fayetteville. Dion was the " rst artist chosen to visit the UA and since has been commissioned to cre-ate a work of art on campus.

“! e committee carefully se-lected Mark Dion to create a site-speci" c proposal for nu-merous reasons, the most im-portant of which include his

sensitivity to place, his meticu-lous inquiry into a society’s cul-ture and history, his collabora-tive process, and his profound investigation into the natural sciences,” said Bethany Spring-er, assistant professor of art.

! e exhibit features sever-al pieces of Dion’s work, in-cluding a library section to help the public become more acquainted with his artistic style. It also features draw-ings of the preparations for the on-site exhibition that Dion plans to create for the campus.

His on campus project is site-speci" c, so it will be created to re# ect the students on campus as well as the community. As the art work is constructed, the campus will be able to witness its transformation and be able to contribute to its creation.

“We want all students to have positive experiences with pub-lic art, and the more the com-munity can claim ownership of art on our campus and feel in-volved in the process, the more impact it will have,” Springer said. “We want everyone on and o$ campus to play a role.”

! e exhibit will be held from Oct. 8 through Nov. 18 in the Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday 2 to 5 p.m.

by CAITLIN MURADStaff Writer

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERRenowed artist Mark Dion gives a lecture about his exhibit Process and Inquiry . The exhibit runs until November 18. Dion will be installing a permanent sculpture on the UA campus.

Phil Jones wakes up every morning just like any other UA student. He gets ready for his day, and he heads out to class. He stud-ies, he participates in class, and makes good grades. Like many students, Jones is involved in ex-tracurricular activities on cam-pus and is vice president and in charge of community service for his honors business fraternity. On top of all that, Jones, a senior ac-counting major, is also a second-year Resident Assistant at Maple Hill East, and he’s on duty tonight.

“You have to half expect that you aren’t going to sleep from all the calls and situations that may arise when you’re on duty,” Jones said.

When on duty, Jones’ on-call duties during weekdays last 15 hours - from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. ! e occasional lengthy weekend duty is from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday. On-call RAs hold the duty phone and do patrols, called “rounds” on every # oor at di$ er-ent times throughout the night.

“Being on call means to make sure everything runs smoothly. ! at could be a lock-out, which is the most common, or a " re alarm that you have to handle,” Jones said. “Your biggest prior-ity while on rounds is to make sure everybody is safe and to make sure nothing bad is go-ing to happen. ! at’s the big-gest thing about being on duty.”

While on duty, an RA’s night could be anywhere from mundane to hectic; Jones has experienced both.

“I was on duty, I was sitting in my room, and I got a call from a

student saying they were having a roommate problem. Luckily I got there when I did, because it would have turned violent,” Jones said. “! ere were so many underlying factors that a$ ected what was go-ing on that nobody knew. It was about a two-hour process work-ing through a lot of those troubles.

Extensive training helps to pre-pare RAs mentally and gives them a good foundation for nights like this, but sometimes out-of-the-ordinary situations cause RAs to have to learn as they go, Jones said.

“You never know what you’re going to get. It creates new expe-riences every time,” Jones said.

While being on duty can be tough work, the overall job of an RA is to facilitate a commu-nity on their # oor and establish personal relationships with their residents. RAs plan for many scheduled events for their # oor every semester, but perhaps the most bonding comes with in-formal gatherings, Jones said.

“We usually just sit in the hall, and we just talk to some-body. Eventually, it snowballs and attracts more people, since big crowds draw people in, and we have a huge group go-ing,” Jones said. “We have a purpose behind it. It works.”

On top of keeping residents safe and promoting community, the RA position is vital for helping guide residents through college.

“To me, the RA job is about transitioning incoming freshmen and being the bridge between high school and college to help them transition into a better in-dividual and a more prepared in-dividual to succeed,” Jones said. “As an RA, we play an impor-

tant role in making that happen.”For Jones, helping his resi-

dents through their year has been his favorite part of the position.

“! e absolute most wonderful thing about this job is watching your residents’ progress through their education,” Jones said. “You can see when they move in as star-ry-eyed freshmen, and as the year progresses you can see them ma-ture mentally, emotionally and in every aspect of the word. Watch-ing them grow is one of the most rewarding things about this job.”

! e RA job can be a rich and rewarding experi-ence, but it comes with a toll.

“! ere are nights you’re on duty and get a call at three in the morning because a " re alarm is going o$ , or something like that, and then you have to go take care of it. ! en you have to write your report about it.” Jones said. “By the time you " nish your report, your alarm is going o$ for when you have to get up for the morn-ing. Sometimes you have tests or other commitments the next day that makes it very di% cult to get that done without sleep.”

! e biggest toll is the balanc-ing act an RA must handle. Time management and setting priori-ties become essential on the job. Training helps teach RAs essen-tial skills for this careful balance, but there are still tough weeks in which balancing tests and papers on top of RA duties is di% cult.

“Last year, I put all my time and e$ ort into the RA position and school, and it burned me out pretty fast,” Jones said. “! is year the responsibilities are more even-ly distributed, and I’m able to take a step back, apply the time and en-

ergy that’s needed for the position to create a community and put on programs, and still have per-sonal time for myself. As a result from last year, I’ve learned how to better manage my time and keep me from getting burned out.”

When RAs feel that the going is getting tough, they can consult their Coordinator for Residence Education. ! e Coordinators for Residence Education, who super-vise and provide support, are full-time master’s-level profession-als that understand the demands and hectic schedules a student may face, said Takama Statton-

Being an RA also gives real-life working experience. ! e RA posi-tion has broadened Jones’ leader-ship skills, interpersonal skills and ability to mediate con# icts, he said.

“As an accountant I’ll be do-ing external audits and going to clients. To do that, I have to be honest, I have to have integrity, and I have to have people skills. ! e RA job needs the same quali-ties,” Jones said. “You’ll be in situ-ations you have to take care of whether you know what’s right or wrong. Sometimes you have to put what’s right before what you want. ! at will play out in what I want to do, by auditing I will be making sure the companies stay in accordance with the law.”

! ere’s much more to the RA position than free room and board. Not only do RAs have a job to do, they are all students who must " nd a balance between academics, RA duties, social lives and, well, sleep. ! ey’re well-trained and devoted to be the ones who will stay up all night if nec-essary to provide for a safe living environment for their residents.

by NICK BROTHERSStaff Writer

Day in the Life of an RA

BRITTANY WULF STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAlex Laufer, J.T. Welshofer and Phil Jones hang out at the Union Mall. Phil Jones is an RA for Maple Hill who supervises students living in the residence hall.

On a Saturday a& ernoon at a lo-cal clothing store, shoppers crowd around racks of dresses, try on piles of jeans and wait in a snak-ing line to the cash register while employees rush to ensure every-thing runs smoothly. ! e crowd-ed, chaotic atmosphere makes it easy for the shopper to be grate-ful that they are not the person working with the clients trying to make sure they are satis" ed.

Making this people-orient-ed and o& en fast-paced career a more prominent choice on cam-pus is one of the reasons students came together to initiate the Na-tional Retail Federation Student Association in August at the UA.

! e Walton College of Busi-ness covers a broad spectrum of specializations in the enterprise industry, and NRFSA allows stu-dents to socialize and bene" t with others interested in their " eld. According to the group’s web-site, NRFSA, founded in 1981, is the largest retail association across the globe striving to ad-vance those interested in retail through advocacy, communica-tions, and education. It provides a support system to help guide students with their career goals.

“! e purpose of NRFSA is to foster and recruit talented students into the retail industry, enhanc-ing their opportunities to interact with other students and retailers and gain a better understanding of how retail works,” said Patricia Edwards, advisor of NRFSA. “[It provides] leadership opportuni-ties, competitions and prestige that can build students’ resumes.”

While the organization is only about two months old, it pro-

vides students interested in re-tail networking resources and information on how to become successful in the retail business.

“Retail is a very diverse " eld and the NRFSA showcas-es the diverse opportunities,” said Corey Ealy, sophomore in-ternational business major.

! e Center for Retailing Ex-cellence strives to help stu-dents interested in retail by providing them with men-tors, a student advisory board and scholarships opportunities.

“! e mission of the Center for Retailing Excellence is to pro-vide a bridge between academ-ics and industry for the develop-

ment of future leaders. ! is orga-nizations helps fuel our mission”, said Edwards. “It is our goal to help students develop the skills, knowledge and leadership they will need to succeed in this ex-citing, fast-paced profession and [NRSFSA] also helps them make valuable connections with lead-ers in the industry along the way.”

! e organization was cre-ated to provide a group for stu-dents that bene" ts their fu-ture career and to help students learn more about the industry.

“Retail is a dynamic " eld that more people should get involved with. It is fast-paced and forever changing,” said Nicholas Locke, NRSFA president. “I want to re-move the negative connota-tions the word ‘retail’ portrays. Retail, in some shape or fash-ion, encompasses all majors.”

NRSFA allows students to plan ahead for life a& er gradu-ating from college by focus-ing on bene" ting members with the chance to meet people who could be their future bosses.

“It is a professional organiza-tion with a social focus,” Ealey said. “One of the organization's goals is networking with col-leagues and future employers, so we place an importance on the social aspect of the NRFSA.”

Members plan for the society to grow and provide members the chance to attend educational pro-grams and networking sessions. Retail, like any career, is a tough job to begin, but NRSFA allows the transition from college to the work force to be less intimidating.

“While the organization is just being started, I feel the best

part of the organization is meet-ing with all the members and the executive that have and will come,” Locke said, “Not only that, but gaining more in-sight into the world of retail.”

Any student that is inter-ested in retail can join NRF-SA by " lling out an applica-tion in WJWH Room 540.

“I wanted to join because the National Retail Federation is a very prestigious and successful organization,” Ealey said. “! e act of them reaching out to vari-ous institutions across the coun-try gives the students a way to take command of their future earlier.”

NRFSA Gives Selling Point to UA Students

by STEPHANIE EHRLERStaff Writer

“It is a professional organization with a social focus”

- Corey Ealey, Sophomore

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Arkansas’ volleyball team is back in Fayetteville and will try to make a push in the Southeast-ern Conference Western division play as the Razorbacks begin a ! ve-game home stand this week-end.

Friday, Arkansas hosts Au-burn at 7 a.m. in Barnhill Arena, while facing Georgia Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

“Auburn, they just ! ght,” Ar-kansas coach Robert Pulliza said. “" ey’re great competitors and they’re going to be ready to go. We just from our end have to be very organized and be consis-tent.”

After starting SEC play 2-0, Arkansas’ soccer team has lost its last four games in a row.

This weekend, Arkansas will travel to Auburn and

Alabama in an attempt to reassert their chances of making it to the SEC tournament for the first time in program history.

The Razorbacks lost close games to Georgia, at No. 10 Kentucky (in overtime), and

at Vanderbilt and were de-feated 4-0 by Tennessee in their last four games.

Arkansas coach Erin Aubry said she saw both

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Men’s CC Reloading For SEC Title

Arkansas’ men’s cross country team finished first last year in the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA Regional before a tenth-place finish in the NCAA’s.

Despite losing three of their top five runners, No. 15 Arkansas looks to continue its success at the SEC Champion-

ship in two weeks.“Every day, we’re thinking

about the SEC. We plan on coming back with a trophy,” junior Eric Fernandez said.

Fernandez, an All-SEC performer in track and cross country, has been the team’s first place finisher in both of the team’s events this season.

“Thus far, I’ve been our frontrunner, which I enjoy,” Fernandez said. “Coach ex-

pects me to maintain that po-sition in the field and be with the leaders. And then I my-self personally have high goals for the season as a whole. So within those goals I expect to be one of the top finishers in every race.”

Fernandez and senior cap-tain Duncan Phillips are the team’s top returners after Dorian Ulrey and Lane Boyer graduated last year and junior

Solomon Haile redshirted this season due to a torn meniscus.

“The general expectation for all of us is just to do our best and put our best foot for-ward for the team as a whole,” Fernandez said. “I’m always joking with Solomon that I miss having him on my shoul-der in workouts and races. I don’t have him to take the lead and I’m just counting on dif-ferent guys now.”

This season, Fernan-dez and Phillips have led the team to a first-place finish at the Arkansas Invitational and fifth place at the Cowboy Jam-boree.

“As coaches, we always want our athletes in our team to want to fill the gap and I think that’s what this team has

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Chuol Dey (right) and Cameron Efurd will lead the Razorbacks against top competition Saturday in the Chile Pepper Fesitval, the biggest home meet of the season for the cross country team.

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FOOTBALLVOLLEYBALL

After consecutive come-from-behind wins against top-15 foes Texas A&M and Auburn, No. 10 Arkansas has a bye week and is using the time off heal midway through the system and get back to basics.

The Razorbacks (5-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) are off to the best start in coach Bobby Petrino’s four seasons, thanks in large part to going 2-1 against Ala-bama, the Aggies and the Ti-gers.

“We need to get our fun-damentals and our tech-nique better,” Arkansas of-fensive coordinator Garrick McGee said. “The off week, when it comes to the mid-dle of the season, it’s a good time because you don’t have to concentrate. It’s not under the intensity of a game this week, and you can concen-trate on executing your fun-damentals.”

With more individual time at practice Tuesday, Mc-Gee said he and the quarter-backs worked on technique.

“With the quarterbacks, we worked a lot about just

taking your drops and sit-ting- with the ball in the right place, your shoulders in the right place,” McGee said.

The newcomers prac-ticed 30 minutes longer than the rest of the team, allow-ing coaches to get one-on-one time not allowed with younger players. McGee was able to spend extra time with true freshman quarterback Brandon Allen.

“He looks good,” McGee said. “He’s developing. He’s

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas junior quarterback Tyler Wilson said the bye week midway through the season will give Razorbacks an opportunity to

SOCCER

Razorbacks Look to Turn Things Back Around in Alabama Road Games

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman setter KC Dobbins and the Razorbacks are one game out of first place in the SEC West one-third of the way through the conference schedule.

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ZACH TURNERzwturner@uark.edu

I, just like most, probably don’t have an answer for why Arkansas’ defense has gotten off to slow starts in the first half before being completely dominate at times in the sec-ond half.

Luckily for Razorbacks fans, it is the first half that the big plays are allowed and not the second half, spe-cifically the fourth quar-ter where games seem to be won. The Hogs’ rush defense has allowed many holes get exposed early in games, but by the games end, the de-fense is solid and has been the biggest reason the Hogs have won their last two games after falling behind early.

Flashback to two weeks ago when then-No. 14 Texas A&M shredded the Razor-back defense for 225 yards rushing in the first half, while averaging 8.6 yards per carry. After a halftime adjust that the coaches described as “going back to the old defen-sive formation,” Arkansas forced Texas A&M’s average yard per carry down to 7.0 and allowed 156 yards total in the second half.

Although 156 yards on the ground is one half is high, it was good enough for the Razorbacks to outscore the Aggies 25-3 in the sec-ond half en route to a 42-38

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done,” coach Chris Bucknam said. “We’ve noticed the drop-off a little bit, there’s no ques-tion. But we also expect a year of improvement from our kids that are returning, so hopeful-ly we can fill that gap.”

The team has taken this and turned it into a positive response by putting forth ex-tra effort to fill the gaps, Fer-nandez said. So far, the pro-gression of the runners has translated to success in com-petition.

“You could say positives about everyone right now,” Fernandez said. “You look at anybody from our freshmen to our upperclassmen, and everyone’s just really excel-ling beyond what we’ve done before, which is really cool to see.”

Phillips, who was a non-factor in cross country in pre-vious years, was the second Arkansas runner to finish at OSU. Freshman Patrick Rono earned SEC Freshman of the Week also with his perfor-mance at OSU.

“They’re doing a great job. They look as fit as I’ve ever seen them,” Bucknam said. ”You expect those kind of kids to step up and start to make an impact on your program, and they’re doing that.”

Fernandez credits the team’s progress to tough train-ing cycles and the opportunity to train more after the MSSU Stampede was cancelled.

“The results of our work-outs now compared to ear-lier in the season are actually probably better than we ex-pected. So at this point, we’re looking good coming into the championship part after this,” Fernandez said.

While winning the SEC Championship is a key goal for the team, Bucknam is not overlooking the Chile Pepper Festival this weekend.

“We need to have a good race this weekend. This is where our focus is right now,” Bucknam said. “We can’t take a step back; we have to keep moving forward. That’s what’s really key for our SEC Cham-pionship—to take this penul-timate meet and have a good one, and focus on that.”

victory.The latest first-half

struggles came in the 38-14 win against Auburn when the Razorbacks gave up 141 yards in the first quar-ter, while also allowing two rushing touchdowns in the opening period.

Arkansas natives Michael Dyer and Kiehl Frazier bust-ed off a 55-yard touchdown run and a 7-yard touchdown run, respectively, Auburn’s only scores of the game.

Arkansas pulled it to-gether again after halftime and gave up 124 second half rushing yards, but, like the Texas A&M game, didn’t al-low a second-half touch-down.

The most impressive stat? Limiting Dyer to just eight yards on nine carries in the third quarter.

After the Hogs were smashed by Alabama and dominated in the first half of the Southwest Classic against Texas A&M, some fans were calling for the fir-

ing of defensive coordinator Willy Robinson. Robinson is in his fourth year as Ar-kansas’ defensive coordina-tor and his defenses have been middle of the pack to bottom in the Southeastern Conference.

The players will tell you it is all about tackling. The coaches say they have changed some schemes.

Whatever it may be, though, Arkansas seems to slowly be putting together something that could give them the chance on defense to run the table until the Nov. 25 meeting with No. 1 LSU.

Junior linebacker Alonzo Highsmith is only getting better with each game and is Arkansas best player on defense, while the defen-sive line is picking up steam again with Jake Bequette returning from injury. Se-nior safety Tramain Thomas had two straight irrelevant games against Alabama and Texas A&M, but seemed to find his footing with a nine-tackle, two-interception game against Auburn.

Senior linebacker Jer-ry Franklin was the leader and best tackler on the team against Auburn, like Arkan-sas fans have come to expect the last three seasons, with his 15 tackles and 1.5 tack-les for loss.

After playing the tough-est three-game stretch of maybe any team in the na-tion in No. 3 Alabama, No. 14 Texas A&N and No. 15 Auburn, to emerge 2-1 in those games while continu-ally getting better is a huge advantage heading into the second half of the season.

Whether it was tack-ling technique or if the Ar-kansas coaches have finally found a winning formula on defense, if the unit contin-ues its effort from the sec-ond half of Auburn, regard-less of the one loss, the Ra-zorbacks could be headed to their second consecutive BCS bowl game.

Zach Turner is the assis-tant sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. His col-umn appears every Wednes-day. Follow him on Twitter @zwturner.

positives and negatives in her team’s performance at Kentucky and at Vanderbilt over the weekend.

“We had two first half very strong performances against Kentucky and Vanderbilt,” Aubry said. “In the first halves we dominated the run of the play. The problem with both games was after half-time we came out as an en-tirely different team on the worse side of the spectrum.”

Aubry said her team did a good job of connecting pass-es and maintaining posses-sion which was something they had been trying to im-prove over the last few weeks and that what they really need to improve upon now is mostly the mental aspects of the game.

“We’ve obviously got to overcome our halftime di-lemma and overcome the di-lemma of getting scored on and not responding to it—that’s something that really plagues us right now mental-ly,” Aubry said. “We’re not re-ally willing to fight back from that and that’s tough to over-come.”

Three of Arkansas’ five re-maining opponents are cur-rently ranked in the top 25 nationally, including No. 2 Florida and No. 15 Auburn

whom the Razorbacks will play in Auburn this coming Sunday.

“Well obviously the SEC is the SEC so both games are going to be tough,” Aubry said of the team’s schedule for

this weekend. “Alabama and Auburn are a tremendous op-portunity but we really need to take care of the mental as-pect of our mistakes.”

This week, the Razorbacks are in the middle of a stretch of four SEC road games in a row. “It wears on them for sure and we’ve got to be very conscientious of not burning them out and making sure we take care of them this week emotionally and physically,” Aubry said. “We’ve got to find ways get through what we need to get done but also take it a little easy on them. It’s very tough but every team

in the SEC has to do it—we’re not special.”

That intensive schedule is especially rough on the 18 freshman on this team who are still adjusting to the col-legiate level of play. “Younger players think four years is a long time and they have plen-ty of time to have good sea-sons and so they don’t play with the urgency and desper-ation that say a senior would play with,” Aubry said. “Try-ing to get them to understand how short a career is and how much every game means and every day means is a tough thing especially when half of your team has that mental-ity.”

Looking down the stretch, the Razorbacks are currently tied for last in the SEC tour-nament picking order and have a lot of hard work ahead of them if they are to make it to the SEC tournament for the first time in program his-tory.

“Making it to the SEC tournament is something that this senior class real-ly wanted to accomplish, to change, to make a mark, and to leave their legacy,” Aubry said. “But it’s not going to be easy from here on out. Our last three games are going to be our hardest games of the season so we need to make sure we get down to business pretty quickly.”

growing. He’s understanding what we’re doing. We’re real-ly fortunate to have Brandon Allen in our program.! He can throw every pass we need him to throw. He’s a fast and willing learner. I think he’s doing a really good job for us.”

Arkansas’ offensive line began the season ranked in the bottom half of the SEC in sacks allowed and ranked No. 92 in the country with rushing, but has made prog-ress the last few weeks, help-ing the offense run for 176 yards against Auburn after combining for just 88 against Alabama and Texas A&M.

“It’s about to be a stretch run here,” McGee said, “For us to accomplish our goals and win these games one game at a time, we’re going to have to run the ball better, so we’re doing a lot of prac-tice under the hurdles; doing a lot of finish drills. The line taking their proper steps, proper technique so that we can run the ball better later in the season.”

Junior running back Ron-nie Wingo didn’t play against Auburn because of a toe in-jury suffered against Texas A&M. The additional week off serves as a time to heal from various injuries.

“It’s huge,” Wilson said. “There are a lot of guys that battled some minor stuff and we are able to get them re-couped. Really it’s two weeks we get to get back to 100 per-cent.”

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Head CoachErin Aubry

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The Razorbacks (11-7, 3-4 SEC) are coming off a straight-set loss Friday at Florida and a straight-set sweep Sunday at South Caro-lina.

Despite splitting the weekend, Pulliza said he was pleased with how the team played.

“We did some good things,” Pulliza said. “We got better throughout the match; I think the best step forward as a team. It showed on Sun-day as we kept going through the match.”

Arkansas went through a tough two-week stretch, go-

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ing 1-3 the top four teams in the SEC East. The Razor-backs are still third in the SEC West, just one game behind division leader LSU.

“We’ve had a lot of differ-ent, good individual perfor-mances throughout differ-ent matches,” Pulliza said. “I think that’s why we are at where we’re at, in such a good place is because dif-ferent people stepping up.”

Senior Kelli Stipanov-ich was named SEC Defen-sive Player of the week for her play last weekend. She averaged 4.33 digs and 1.17 blocks against the Gators and Gamecocks.

“I think it’s pretty evi-dent Kelli Stipanovich is having a great year,” Pulli-za said. “She’s always been a great leader; she’s always done it the right way. We’re just really excited to see that it’s really paying for her, her senior year.”

Stipanovich was named SEC Defensive Player of the week for her play at Florida and South Carolina. She av-eraged 4.33 digs and 1.17 blocks over the weekend.

Arkansas is in its best position at this point in conference play in recent memory and is playing to make its first NCAA Tour-nament appearance in Pul-liza’s four years.

“Our energy overall this season has been good,” Pul-liza said. “It’s been pret-ty steady. We played that stretch of tough opponents against Tennessee, Ken-tucky and Florida. Obvious-ly we got better throughout those two weeks because we were able to play well on the road and close out that one at South Carolina. I ex-pect that energy to stay the same and I certainly expect them to be excited to play at home.”

The Razorbacks’ first four opponents in the homestand have a combined conference record of 10-22, while Arkansas finishes the stretch against LSU.

“I expect us to be ener-gized,” Pulliza said. “When you’re back for five match-es, that’s just exciting.”

The length of the home stand is unprecedented, Pulliza said.

“I don’t remember five in a row,” Pulliza said. “I know we’ve had back to back weekends, but never five. It was tough on the front end but right now it really pays off that we survived that front end and survived the games on the road. If we bring the energy we need to bring it can really pay off for us in this little stretch.”

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Arkansas Gearing up for Chile Pepper

Arkansas is set to host the 23rd annual Chile Pepper Fes-tival Saturday.

" e festival was created in 1992 to bring together three Northwest Arkansas cross-country races under a single event.

" e event hosts about 10,000 people each year and is attended by over 80 college teams and 120 high school teams, according to www.chil-epepperfestival.org.

" is year, the festival ex-pects to host approximately 4,800 runners and over 5,000 spectators, according to the event’s website.

“I think we have a lot of positive momentum,” women’s cross country coach Lance Har-ter said going into the weekend.

" e Razorbacks earned a spot in national rankings at No. 11 a# er a second-place $ nish at the Notre Dame Invitational two weeks ago.

Other ranked teams com-peting are No. 23 Iowa and No. 29 Oklahoma State, while Texas Tech just missed top 30.

by RUMIL BAUTISTA