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! is year the Invisible Chil-dren’s club at the UA has a goal to raise $32,000 for the “Protec-tion Plan” by December.

! e Protection Plan focuses on raising money for a rehabili-tation center in the Congo and expand Early Warning Radio Network, giving communities the chance to receive warnings of LRA activity and alert local security forces.

! e Invisible Children reg-istered student organization is a movement seeking to end con-" ict in Uganda and stop the ab-duction of children for use as soldiers.

! e RSO o# cers’ goal is to end the twenty-$ ve year war in Central Africa. ! e war be-gan in Uganda but has moved to

the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, and Central African Republic. ! e rebel army, Lords Resistance Army, is led by a man named Joseph Kony who lost public support so now primarily forces children to be soldiers in order to keep its rank full.

“! e army commits terrible crimes against humanity such as rape, torture, mutilations and murder, all so that they can keep the communities in fear and retain their power,” said Chirsty Harrington, president of the Invisible Children RSO.

US government o# cials have been working with the program to $ gure out the best way for America to help. ! ey also provide jobs for many peo-ple in Uganda as well as help support education for students and rehabilitation for escaped LRA soldiers.

“A% er working with Invisible Children for a year, I have seen $ rsthand how e& ective students e& orts are in fundraising for our initiatives. Its crucial and it has life saving e& ects in Central Af-rica,” said Bailey Cox, freshman international relations major.

“I have been involved with Invisible Children for the past few years and have been to Af-rica three di& erent times, so my heart is broken and the cause is real and tangible to me. I have experienced much sorrow but at the same times saw high school students look passed their own sel$ shness and start to give themselves for the betterment of humanity” said Chris Tuttle, a freshmen creative writing ma-jor and o# cer of the club.

Invisible Children RSO to Raise $32,000by MATILDE BONIFAZ

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Enrollment in graduate schools in the U.S. fell 1.1 percent in 2010, the $ rst decrease in $ rst-time graduate enrollment since fall 2003, according to the Council of Graduate Schools.

UA graduate enrollment, howev-

er, increased 2 percent in 2010, ac-cording enrollment records.

In fact, graduate school enroll-ment has increased since 2007 with 1,017 students, in 2008 the school enrolled 1,043, in 2009 the school enrolled 1,110 and in 2010 the school enrolled 1,137 students, according to the records.

! is is an 11 percent increase in

graduate student enrollment from 2007 to 2010.

! is increase in graduate student enrollment was met with a record-breaking number of doctoral fellow-ships, said Vicky Hartwell, director of graduate fellowships.

One UA doctoral fellow from Indiana said he will go where the job market takes him in a di# cult

economic time.“I would like to return to Indiana,

but I will go wherever the jobs are,” said John Blanchar, doctoral fellow in social psychology.

One title that could help students like Blanchar attain a job is a doctor-al degree, which has value in a tough economic climate, said Todd Shields, dean of the graduate school and in-

ternational education.“As more people attain under-

graduate degrees and the economy is changing and technology becomes so important, expertise is something that we need, especially in Arkansas,” Shields said.

Grad School Enrollment Up Despite National Declineby CHAD WOODARD

Asst. News Editor

Representatives of the parking and transit department will pur-chase four new buses by the begin-ning of next school year, an o# cial said.

! e buses will cost $365,000 each with 80 percent coming from

federal grants and 20 percent com-ing from the university.

“! e buses will likely replace ones bought in 1995 and 1997,” said Mike Seither, Razorback Transit manager.

“We’re replacing some buses in the " eet that are over 12 years old and many of the buses we’re getting right now are helping to replace old-er, smaller buses,” he said. “! e av-

erage life expectancy is 12-14 years. It helps with making us more reli-able on the street.”

While acknowledging a growing student population, Seither empha-sized these buses probably will not be used in combination with the older buses to reduce load sizes .

“If we do decide to expand the size of the " eet, we will have to ap-ply to the state legislature to give us

extra vehicle spots,” he said.“A transit bus is designed for

standing,” Seither said. “During the middle part of the day most people can get a seat but when we’re at peak times the bus is designed to carry upwards of 80 people.”

Senior Taylor Cole, who takes

Four New Buses for Razorback Transitby JACK SUNTRUP

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While some students study so frequently it seems they are living in a study room, some students at the UA have actually had to live in study rooms this semester.

! ere are still 14 students as-signed to over" ow housing, said Florence Johnson the executive di-rector of UA Housing.

“Last week we had students in Humphreys, Yocum and Gibson. Since then, all the students in Hum-phreys have been given reassign-ments,” Johnson said.

“Students were in study rooms for an extended period of time for the $ rst time in several years,” John-son said of the 2011 record number of UA freshmen.

! ese students should be moved out at a rate of roughly two students a week, as space opens up, Johnson said.

“! ey told us we’d be moved in two weeks to two months,” said freshman Danielle Bramblett, a child development and pre-med major, living in a study room in Yo-cum Hall. “It’s been $ ve weeks now.”

! e converted living space looks much like the other rooms in Yo-cum, except the door is glass cov-ered by a shade and there is a sign above the door that reads “study room”.

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Habitat for Humanity RSO o! cers sponsored a campus out on the Union Lawn.

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Fayettechill owner discusses inspiration, new o! ce.

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Film series promotes en-vironmental awareness on campus.

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Chemistry and Biochemistry Fall Lecture SeriesPaul Williard, professor of chemistry at Brown University, will present “Characterization of Organolithium Compounds by Di! usion NMR and X-Ray Di! raction.” A reception will take place a" er the seminar in CHEM 105. Lec-ture starts at 3:30 p.m. and will end at 4:20 p.m.

The Black Jew DialoguesUniversity Programs hosts a two-actor play where Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tish wittingly and interactively discuss close-held beliefs such as bigotry, hatred and bias. # e show starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Verizon Ballroom in the Arkansas Union.

September 27Sustainability Film Series WeekFilms begin at 7 p.m. in the Union # eater.

# is event is a part of the One Book, One Community Project.

Archeology of Historic WashingtonDr. Jamie Brandon, archaeologist with the Arkansas Archaeo-logical Survey, SAU Research Station, will present "Preliminary Results of the 2011 Arkansas Archaeological Society Summer Training Program at Historic Washington, Arkansas," at 7 p.m., Sept. 27, at the Kokoci Chapter meeting of the Arkansas Ar-chaeological Society. # e meeting will be held in the Arkansas Archaeological Survey building on the UA agricultural campus, at 2475 N. Hatch Ave., Fayetteville. # ere is no charge and the public is invited to attend.

September 28ASG Homecoming Applications Now Available# e application period for the Homecoming Court is available until Sept. 30th by Noon. Homecoming Court is open to all UA women nominated by a Registered Student Organization. Any questions should be referred to Leah Nichols, ASG Homecom-ing Director, lknichol@uark.edu.

Carlos Andreas Gomaz As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, University Programs will host award-winning slam poet, actor, and playwright Carlos Andres Gomez. # e event will start at 7:00 p.m. in the Arkansas Union # eater.

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RSO Information FairStop by the Connections Lounge in the Union from 12-3 p.m. to learn more about Registered Student Organizations. Visit with current members of over 40 RSOs.

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“Knowledge of the econ-omy demands young people revamping their careers in a tight market and the market rewards people who are ex-perts in something,” he said.

UA graduate o$ cials work to help students revamp their careers.

Seventeen UA doctoral candidates were awarded the distinguished doctoral fellow-ship this fall, which is up from 10 last fall, Hartwell said.

students were awarded the doctoral academy fellowship, which is up from 41 the previ-ous fall, she said.

“For fall 2011, there are a total of 243 students who are supported by either a distin-guished doctoral fellowship, 52, or a doctoral fellowship,

“# e fellowship award runs for a maximum of four years,” she said.

# e increased fellowships and enrollment can be attrib-uted to a couple of factors, especially the combination of UA rankings and faculty, Hartwell said.

In February, the UA was

top-tier colleges with high re-search activity in the Carn-egie Foundation classi% cation system, said Steve Voorhies, manager of news and media relations.

# e graduate faculty was an important part in bringing one UA student to the gradu-ate school.

“I visited a few graduate programs,” said Katherine Knierim, doctoral candidate in environmental dynamics. “# e UA had an interdisci-plinary program, and the fac-ulty was very supportive.”

Knierim has studied in various departments in the graduate school, including agriculture and engineering, because the interdisciplinary program incorporates

multiple % elds.Another doctoral fellow

cited graduation retention rates as a factor for the in-creasing graduate school en-rollment.

“# e UA has done a great job retaining students,” said Lydia Lawless, food science doctoral fellow.

Eighty-three percent of full-time students, who start-

returned in fall 2010, accord-ing to the National Center for Education Statistics.

# is percentage is com-parable to other universities placed in the high research activity category.

# e University of Mis-souri’s graduation retention, for the same years as the UA,

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# ese were not the only factors in attracting doctoral candidates.

Donna Davis, who is from Fayetteville, knew she wanted a doctoral degree when she graduated with her master’s

“I took a break, had a fam-ily and worked in the private sector,” she said.

Davis had connections to the UA — her father was a professor at the School of Law and her mother had an ad-vanced degree.

“I have had to % nd ways to balance her work and her family,” she said.

“I treat my degree like a job,” Davis said. “I come [to the UA] a" er I drop my daughter o! at school, and I commit 100 percent to my family a" er work.”

Davis has lived in Fayette-ville since she graduated with a master’s degree, but said she’s willing to move a" er she attains a doctoral degree.

“At this point, I am willing to move for a good job,” Da-vis said.

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Bailey Cox saw the im-pact that this movement had on her life and realized that her abilities ran much deeper and that she could be a part of an e! ecting change, therefore wanting to pass it along to stu-dents on a much larger scale, she said.

“# irty-two thousand dol-lars is a lot of money, but we % gured out that if every stu-dent at the UA donated one dollar and 50 cents to our club than we can reach this goal,” Tuttle said.

# e organizers and o$ cers Olivia Merrit, Flannery Was-

son, Emily Coats and Chris Tuttle, are raising awareness inside and outside campus for students to donate their time and money.

“A community of commit-ted individuals is unshakable, that’s why Invisible Children has been so successful at rais-ing the pro% le of this con& ict, bringing all the attention that it desperately deserves,” Cox said.

# e Invisible Children club meets every other # ursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Union, room 513 and is open to everyone. # e next meeting will be held Sept. 27th. For more informa-tion email S4S@uark.edu.

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the purple route, is glad old buses are being replaced, he said.

“I mean if [the bus] was for my route, I would like a new bus because sometimes it’ll be a little gross,” Cole said.

Kristin Justis, a sophomore who takes the blue or gray route, would like to see more buses on the streets to help keep a good time, she said.

“I think it might help if they added them to routes because there are sometimes where the buses will run like a couple minutes early and

sometimes they won’t,” she said.

Razorback Transit has ad-justed to increased ridership. During the 2007-2008 school year, 1.2 million rides were given and this past year the number rose to 1.6 million, according to the transit de-partment’s website.

Because of increased en-rollment there are more buses being run at one time than in the past, Seither said.

“It’s true that we have con-tinued to add buses to routes,” he said. “We went from 14 buses to 17 this year so we do have three more buses out there than we did a couple of

years ago.”“[We’re trying] to ! nd out

what the load counts are so that if it did get to the point to where, you know, it was impossible to get the students moved we’d have to ! nd a way to add more vehicles to more routes,” Seither said.

While there are 17 buses on routes at any given time, right now the department has 19 full sized transit buses, Sei-ther said

“We’re routinely (buying) two a year,” he said. “Before it’s all over with, we’ll have 21 full sized transit buses.”

" e students assigned to over# ow spaces have to cope with the inconveniences of temporary housing.

“It’s been a little weird,” said Ashley Lewis a freshman English major and Bramblett’s roommate.

“Random people keep opening the door and walk-ing in to see what this room is. " e other day I was lying on my bed and some per-son walked in and was like, ‘I thought this was a study room,’ even though there’s a sign on the door with names on it.” she said.

" ese students are also worried about the uncertain-ty of their housing situation, since they must move as space opens up around campus.

“If they move us to a more expensive dorm, we’ll have to pay. I was talking to some oth-er kids living in study rooms who were moving to Maple Hill and they said they were going to have to come up with the extra money by Decem-ber,” Bramblett said.

" e di$ erence between a double room in Yocum and a two bedroom suite in Maple Hill is nearly $2,000, accord-ing to the UA Housing web-site.

However, students in tem-porary housing will not be forced into a room that is out of their budget.

“If a space comes open in a more expensive dorm than the student can’t a$ ord, we won’t force them into that dorm. " ey’ll have the option to stay in the study room until

something comes up of com-parable price,” Johnson said.

Many students worry about the rising cost of on campus living.

“I don’t agree that it should take up more than 50 per-cent of my college education, which it does. Maybe we can see an expenditure sheet as to where all the funds go. " e price for living on campus in-creases each year as well,” said Sean Miller a pre-med fresh-man.

UA housing rates are com-parable to surrounding state universities, such as the Uni-versities of Oklahoma and Missouri. " e price of on cam-pus housing in these schools hovers around $4,000, but in-creases with tuition, utilities, and city taxes according to the universities’ housing websites.

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Habitat for Humanity held its annual Sleep Out on the Union lawn, Friday. " e sleep out is held to raise awareness for poverty and homelessness.

" e sleep out was not only to raise awareness of poverty but to also give the students a more realistic experience of actually being homeless, said Melanie Bolden, vice president of the Habitat for Humanity student organiza-tion.

Volunteers would be passing out pamphlets and information regarding the current poverty crisis in the nation, Bolden said.

Students and members congregated on a large patch of grass in front of the Union simply equipped with card-board boxes and sleeping

bags. " e “building” began promptly at 5:00 p.m. so that people could construct their temporary homes before nightfall. Food was served in a soup kitchen style to sustain the volunteers for a long night.

" e event not only raised awareness of the homeless population in the nation, but also in Fayetteville. " us, serving the local community while also working towards a common national goal in unison with other university chapters of Habitat for Hu-manity, said Lindsey Haney, Habitat for Humanity RSO secretary.

“" is is my third year of participating in the Sleep Out and it’s a lot warmer than last time,” said Morgan Byttner, senior international relations major.

It actually did rain back in 2009 and students had prob-

lems with collapsing card-board roofs, Byttner said.

Beginning in 2003, the Sleep Out has grown to be an exciting part of the fall schedule for Habitat for Hu-manity. Although the event was more to raise awareness of the ascending poverty rates, passersby and students were encouraged to donate what ever they could. Statis-tics were shown to the par-ticipants such as the fact that one in six Americans are currently living in poverty.

Habitat for Humanity of-! cials are gearing up for their next event, World Hab-itat Day, beginning the ! rst week of October. More in-formation on World Habi-tat Day will be posted on the Habitat for Humanity web-site this upcoming week. " e group meets every Tues-day at 5:00 p.m. on the 5th # oor of the Union.

Habitat for Humanity Camp OutMusic By the Camp Fireby ALEXANDRA WESTContributing Writer

While the Razorback tran-sit system caters largely to the student population, it is con-sidered a free public transit and makes o$ -campus stops all around the city, because it receives roughly $100 million in federal funding, said a Ra-zorback Transit o% cial.

“In rough terms, we've probably received $100 mil-lion in the past 21 years which would need to be reimbursed. I don't really think that chang-ing it so only UA students could ride the buses is much

of a viable issue,” said Michael Seither, associate director of the the Transit department.

" ough crowding is un-deniably an issue on the UA campus, and particularly the buses, UA Transit o% cials cannot deny federal funding to alleviate the amount of rid-ers on buses, Seither said.

“Buses are packed with mostly UA students, in my opinion” said Nick Alvarez, junior.

“Sometimes we have to just drive right by stops, because there’s no room,” he said.

Seither said the depart-ment has been forced to add

more buses to accommodate all the riders.

“Our ridership has in-creased the past several years and we assume much of it is due to increased enrollment.” Seither said. “During the school year when class is in session, ridership is roughly 85 to 90 percent students and 10 to 15 percent general rid-ing public.”

Crowded public buses are normal for such a concentrat-ed campus population, Sei-ther said.

Seither, who has worked for UA Transit for nearly six years, said students o& en

complain of being uncom-fortable around non-students.

“We have installed securi-ty cameras on all buses to aid in security, but most of it in-volves being uncomfortable being spoken to by a general public rider or having to sit next to someone or listen to them,” he said.

“" e non-UA riders cause no harm,” Alvarez said.

“I’ve never seen a problem with it. " ey normally keep to themselves,” he said.

UA Transit is considering a system that would require non-student riders to pay a fare in the form of cash, to-

kens or a bus pass. Seither said he fears that would fur-ther clog the bus routes.

“It would require higher dwell times to collect fares, which slows the buses down, which then makes the prob-lem even worse than it is now,” he said.

Nikki Baynes, freshman pre-dental hygiene major, “A fare would help keep the buses on time,” said Nikki Baynes, freshman pre-dental hygiene major.

“I have noticed that usu-ally the non-students will talk to the bus drivers a lot, which is one of the many reasons

the buses are usually behind schedule. " at can be incon-venient for those students who use it to get to class on time,” Baynes said.

As a means of easing the signs of crowding on bus routes, UA Transit may also look into expanding.

“We may increase # eet size as we grow, but we may also need to increase the size of the transit yard. We have add-ed buses and we are studying adding more,” Seither said. “" e good news is we contin-ue to buy bigger buses and we have four more new ones ar-riving next year.”

Bus Fare for Non Students Possible, but Not Likelyby JANNEE SULLIVAN

Staff Writer

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Childhood and college may seem like incompatible subjects at first. However, many nontraditional students face the daily challenge of raising children while work-ing toward a college degree. These hard-working students are pulled in many directions as they confront economic challenges, time management issues, as well as mental and emotional stress.

Nearly 25 percent of un-dergraduate students in the U.S. combine college life with parenthood, and half of those are single parents. In addition to college and parenthood, al-most half of student parents at two and four-year colleges work full time, according to U.S. Department of Education data compiled by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Higher education institu-tions in the U.S. are adjusting to student populations who desire on-campus child care, according to the IWPA. The UA administration does a fair job of assisting student par-ents. As a university, we are on par with other four-year pub-lic universities.

The UA should be better than “on par,” however. By helping student parents adjust

to their specific challenges, UA officials can more quick-ly reach its stated goals of in-creasing student retention and graduation rates.

“One of the main stresses of being a student and having a child is balancing my time,” said Jamie Frala, mother and UA graduate student in the psychology department. “My email constantly reminds me of what I should be working on for school.”

“Before having a child I wasted time in ways that I wasn’t even aware of, I would linger on Facebook too long or talk to friends in the halls for longer than I intend-ed to…now I am constantly aware of how I am using my time,” Frala said.

Economic challenges are nothing new for parents in campus classrooms. In many states, but luckily not Ar-kansas, the enormous cost of child care can exceed college tuition, according to the Na-tional Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies.

In Arkansas, parents ex-pect to pay an average of $4,500 annually for all-day child care. This represents an average of 10 percent of the income of married par-ents and almost 30 percent of a single parent’s income, according to the NACCRRA 2011 report on child care.

Tuition and school-related expenses for an undergradu-ate student averages more than $6,000 per semester, ac-cording to the UA Treasur-er’s Office. Keeping in mind that the USDA estimates that it costs an average of $8,000 to $13,000 per year to raise a

child, tuition is a hefty sum to fit into a tight family budget.

UA officials assists student parents in several ways. The multi-functional Infant De-velopment Center, on North Leverett Street, and Nursery School, on South Duncan Av-enue, provide care for about 50 children. In addition to their role as child care centers, they are also learning labora-tories for nursing, education and human environmental sciences students.

Of higher education insti-tutions that offer child care, more than half operate this way, according to the Nation-al Coalition for Campus Chil-dren’s Centers.

So how can student par-ents deal with the added stress of caretaking? Frala recom-mends developing a “support network, including a good childcare provider, trusted individuals to give you some personal time, friends who can offer advice and under-standing and classmates who can give you notes when you have a sick child at home. De-veloping a relationship with professors” is also crucial to keep from falling behind in classes.

The Pat Walker Health Center offers counseling for student parents through its Counseling and Psychological Services.

A new $4 million child care center is currently being built at the corner of Douglas Street and Oakland Avenue that will effectively combine the outdated Infant Devel-opment Center and Nursery School. The Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center will function as both a child

care facility and a student lab-oratory. The new center will be able to provide care for up to 140 children.

The Off Campus Connec-tions 2009-2010 annual report states that the UA administra-tion should strive to “increase class offerings for all students at nontraditional times and to offer more online classes and degrees” for nontraditional students. This would not only increase the retention and graduation rates of student parents, but it would also help the UA compete with commu-nity colleges that routinely of-fer night, online and hybrid classes. Hybrid classes are a combination of online and classroom learning.

Another way the UA ad-ministration can assist stu-dent parents is by subsidizing the high cost of child care, as other universities have done. The University of Southern California has had subsidized child care since 1999.

IWPR research has re-vealed a troubling pattern. Student parents, across insti-tution types and degree plans, are less likely to graduate than their classmates. Nearly half of student parents leave col-lege after six years without completing their degree plans, compared with 31 percent of non-parents after six years, according to the IWPR. If the UA really wants to improve its retention and graduation rates, assisting student par-ents is a good place to start.

Emily Hilley-Sierzchula is a columnist for The Traveler majoring in journalism. Her column appears bi-monthly every other Monday.

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If you’ve seen the latest census statistics you know that poverty in America is at a 52-year high, unemployment, sadly isn’t getting lower and the number of new jobs cre-ated in August is, well, depressing. But back to poverty—there’s only so much room in this “From the Board”— it’s a problem; it’s a big problem, and none of the Republican candidates nor President Barack Obama have much of a plan on what to do about long-term poverty levels. More than 15 percent of the U.S. population now lives in poverty, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, up about one percent since last year. That means more than 46 mil-lion people live not just in poverty, but below the poverty line. To give you some idea, the poverty line is $10, 830 for one person, and $22, 050 for a family of four. Unlike other states though, and the country as a whole, Arkansas is fairing better than most.The poverty level for Arkansas is more than 15 percent, down almost three percent since 2009, according to the Census Bureau. Child poverty, though, is still a reason for concern. Child poverty is almost 28 percent, according to the 2009 Census Bureau. Despite the ideas that some have about Northwest Arkansas being a richer, more educated part of the state, they don’t do much better than us. The neighborhoods between Garland and Whitman Avenues reaching all the way back to Interstate 540 has a medium income of less than $20,000, according to New York Times maps based on the Census poverty levels. The neighborhoods around Dickson Street don’t fair much better with the a medium income of $20,030. Perhaps that’s to be expected though, students and young working professionals might not have a lot of money and we’re all too familiar with the sometimes-joking-some-times-not “broke college student” line. As you get further from campus income levels go up ranging from more than $26,000 to almost $39,000 as the medium income. (Despite Bentonville, Springdale and Rogers being known as the home of WalMart, Tyson, etc, medium income levels of families in that area are about the same as those neighborhoods in Fayetteville not di-rectly connected to the UA.) Why does all of this poverty stuff matter for UA stu-dents or the UA community? Hopefully care about your neighbors. But the neighbor-hoods that have the lowest income levels in Fayetteville are in the neighborhoods often inhabited by mostly UA students, and with a majority of upperclassmen living off campus— at least until the UA expands the number of residence halls— we can only expect that number to grow. If students are having to worry— and not in the ste-reotypical will-I-be-able-to-afford-my-Starbucks way— about getting by with basic living costs, how will they be able to afford things like books for classes, or registration fees for various organizations. The UA administration does, and should continue to increase their effort, to help students with financial needs. Every student deserves a level playing field.

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Mid-Term Mind Crunch We hate to sound predictable but it’s already that time of the year. Our Twitter feeds are being crowded with #ClubMulins-related tweets, we’ve started breaking out the clothes we haven’t worn since last fall and, oh yeah, that paper we’ve been putting o% is due before noon tomorrow. Besides " nals, mid-terms is the most stressful time for students. We’re tired, over-ca$ nated, and trying to cram a half-a-semester’s worth of basic economics (or sociology, college algebra or a foreign language—take your pick) into our brains only to forget it all come Friday a& ernoon. And we hate to sound like your mom— it’s becoming a bad habit of ours-— but all of this stress is avoidable. Don’t skip class, plan ahead, do your reading for class when you can. We understand that are days —or for some of us weeks— that # y by even when we’re trying to pay attention. (We basically live in Kimpel Hall, we know.) But the only way to prevent these horrible weeks of stress and more co% ee than anyone should drink in a day is to stay on top of things. Also, if you " nd yourself on the basement of Mullins Wednes-day at 3 a.m. take comfort in the fact that as bad as it might be, this too shall pass.

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! e UA community has been focused on increasing sustain-ability for several years, and now, the One Book, One Community project is continuing the trend toward “green living.”

! e project will encourage UA students to decrease their carbon footprint by displaying movies that will raise awareness of the inevitable problems the envi-ronment is facing. ! is week is Sustainability Film Series Week, and the " lms “Garbage Warrior”, “Tapped”, “Climate Refugees” and “Natural State of America” will be shown at 7:00 p.m. Sept. 26-29 in the Union.

! e movies were chosen based on their central message of sus-tainability.

“We decided to begin building a library of " lms that we can use multiple times, and we’ve pur-chased the permanent rights for each of these " lms,” said Nicholas Brown, director for campus sus-

tainability. “! e purpose of the Film Se-

ries is layered,” said Patrick Kun-necke, an employee in the O# ce of Sustainability. “! e largest en-compassing layer is sustainability, followed by this semester's mes-sage of “No Impact” and to show the separate facets that make up the pursuit of No Impact on our planet”.

“Garbage Warrior”, a " lm by Oliver Hodge, reveals the story of Mike Reynolds, who does ‘ul-timate recycling’ by using de-bris to create shelters. ! e low-budget documentary was " lmed over the course of three years and 250 hours, according to garbage-warrior.com. “I was inspired by Mike’s apocalyptic view of the fu-ture, and by the urgent means by which he and his crew were pre-paring for it,” Hodge said on the " lm’s o# cial website.

“[! e " lm] deals with one ar-chitect’s struggle against his state government to build innovative homes out of recycled materials,” Kunnecke said.

Tapped divulges the bene" ts of using tap or " ltered water and the harsh side e$ ects of BPA, a sub-stance found in plastics used to make water bottles.

“Tapped is probably my fa-vorite " lm that we will be showing because it was so eye opening for me”, said Jordan Schanda,president of the Student Sustainability Council.

“Climate Refugees” is the next movie in the series. A climate refugee is a person displaced by climatically induced environ-mental disasters, according to cli-materefugees.com.

“! e movie is about displaced people around the world from climate related disasters and the con% icts on our borders,” Kun-necke said.

“Natural State of America” is an anti-herbicide documentary showing the damage of the weed-killing chemical.

“! e Natural State” is a local-ly created documentary about Ozark Electric Cooperative spraying the area around power

lines and it's environmental im-pact,” Kunnecke said. “It shows how the diverse Ozarks and the people living around them are af-fected.”

! e four movies chosen for the " lm week highlight the issues of the environment while encour-aging the viewers to be a part of the challenge to " x them.

“All the movies relate on the largest scale of sustainability. ! ey even all relate when you look at making the lowest impact on our planet,” Kunnecke said. “! e O# ce for Campus Sustain-ability strove to pick movies that we thought covered important current issues applicable to our time and location.”

Documentaries are meant to inform the viewer of the cause they are showing, but the sustain-ability " lms not only enlighten, they may motivate the audience to become the change they want to see. ! e OCS chose to share these " lms with UA students to impart a knowledge of the issues they will be forced to face in their

years to come, Kunnecke said. ! e OCS is trying to in% uence

students to become a part of the future of the environment, and sustainability is something every student can learn to practice.

“We can't a$ ord to simply trust others to take responsible actions for us,” Kunnecke said. “If we can open students’ eyes to the error of our current ways, we stand a chance to have our own fu-ture. Our own chance at a happy, healthy and full lives.”

! e UA is not the only college campus to inform their students on the global habitat problems.

“More and more campuses are purchasing the educational rights to show movies like these on campus,” Kunnecke said. “More and more universities and colleg-es are utilizing the wonderful tool of cinema to give students a " rst hand look at the environmental, social, and economical issues we face with sustainability.”

! is semester is not the last that students can see " lms related to sustainability.

It is encouraged that students go and see the " lms this week, but “they’re available for RSOs and other groups to check out for your own events,” Brown said.

“We will have a " lm series (probably four more, di$ er-ent " lms) in the spring that will be tied to our Earth Day/Earth Week celebrations,” said Brown. “ We’re thinking about Addicted to Plastic, WALL-E, Gasland and a few more. If students have sug-gestions, we’d like to hear them”.

Students can always become involved in the project even if they cannot make it to the " lm showings by visiting sustainabil-ity.uark.edu.

“! ere is a volunteer oppor-tunities document that will list all the ways they can help,” Kun-necke said. “In the future we will continue to receive input and support from our students on fu-ture projects, policies, and advo-cacy. ! ere will always be anoth-er chance to get involved.”

Campus Sustainability Looks to the Big Screen for Supportby STEPHANIE EHRLER

Staff Writer

Fayettechill: UA Grad Turned EntreprenuerBoxes over% owing with t-shirts

line a tiny, one-room o# ce on Center Street, the new home of Fayetteville’s hottest apparel up-start—Fayettechill Clothing Com-pany.

“Right now, we’re doing about 1,000 shirts a week,” said Mau-rice “Mo” Elliott, founder of Fay-ettechill, as he sits behind a % imsy counter " nished with the same faux wood paneling that lines the o# ce walls of his company’s new headquarters.

! e time had come to move the business out of his condomini-um—it was getting “Hoarders-style,” Elliot said, explaining why he moved Fayettechill out of his living space and into an o# ce.

But by the end of the week, 60 to 70 boxes of shirts—enough to meet a few weeks of demand—will add to the clutter of his al-ready busy o# ce.

And he’s barely had time to set-tle in. ! e windows are dirty, in-side and out. ! e air in the small room, formerly an accountant’s o# ce, has a musty quality.

! e place needs some work, El-liott said. But he’s no stranger to hard work.

He’s taken a single word, “Fay-ettechill,” and turned it into a suc-cessful brand of Ozark-themed outdoor casual wear. And at 22, he has already hit a major mile-stone—$100,000 in sales—a& er only two years in business.

“I was immediately impressed with how well thought-out his concept was,” said Mark Zweig, the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Walton College of Business and one of Elliott’s former profes-sors. “But more importantly—he has followed through on it. ! at

is one big di$ erence with Mo and many other would-be entrepre-neurs. He is a doer.”

Elliott’s tenacity has paid o$ . ! e Fayettechill brand, which El-liott recently made available in the University Bookstore, is fast becoming ubiquitous on the UA campus.

“! ey are in style,” said UA stu-dent Alyssa Scott, looking over Fayettechill’s selection of shirts and hats inside the University Bookstore on Garland Avenue.

Scott likes the brand because it represents Fayetteville’s chill vibe, she said.

“I like hammocks,” she said, in-dicating the Fayettechill logo, a simple design featuring a person relaxing in a hammock.

“It’s not like North Face,” said Scott’s friend, Carley Morrison, as both girls ignored the racks of other clothes in the store and browse through Fayettechill’s dis-play. “I think it’s more unique be-cause it’s based on Fayetteville.”

Elliott, who is originally from Dallas, fell in love with the uniqueness of Fayetteville and the Ozarks when he " rst visited the UA campus for the " rst time in 2007.

“Just like that,” he said, snapping his " gures. “I saw the mountains, saw the area and just fell in love with it.”

During that scenic trip, Elliott went % y-" shing on the Norfolk River, one of the most acclaimed trout-" shing destinations in the country, with his dad. A& er that—he was hooked on the Ozarks and the outdoor-lifestyle it a$ orded him. In the fall, he started classes at the UA.

“Being able to get outside of town in an hour and being able to go % y " shing, rock climbing,” Elliott said. “Just having that rec-

reation in your backyard—be-ing from a big city, you don’t have that, especially in Dallas.”

While on vacation with a friend at a Texas lake house during the summer of 2009, one of Elliott’s buddies asked him, “Hey, when are you going back to Fayette-chill?”

Elliott fell in love with the ex-pression, trademarked it and started thinking of ways to turn it into a business.

Ultimately, he decided to use the name to represent the relaxed, outdoor lifestyle that originally drew him to Fayetteville.

“I played on the Ozarks thing and it just evolved from that. It was something with the name,” Elliott said. “I thought it was so cool that you would want to rep-resent [it] and represent it by ap-parel.”

“I just wanted to make a run at it,” Elliot said, “And see if I could make it work before I got out [of college] so I didn’t have to work for someone else—and I did.”

Rather than just slapping a logo on a few cheap shirts, Elliott has insisted on selling quality prod-ucts with the end goal of making Fayettechill a long-term success.

He does rough sketches of de-signs before sending his ideas to a graphic designer. He carefully chooses the color and style of the shirts, checking for quality. If a shirt color doesn’t work with a de-sign, he sends it back.

Elliott wants Fayettechill to be a brand that he would buy if he saw it in a store somewhere.

But he also wants his brand to help change the way the rest of the country thinks about Ozarks, a place commonly thought of as home to hillbillies and rednecks.

“Clothing is one of the best ways to change the perception about an

area just because you have prod-ucts that represent it,” Elliot said.

And with business booming like it is, Elliott’s people around the state seem to be identifying with the lifestyle Fayettechill rep-resents.

As successful as his company is, though, Elliott isn’t in busi-ness just to make money. He has shunned outside investors, choos-ing instead to keep Fayettechill under his control.

“I don’t want to give up the company just to get rich quick,” Elliot said.

! e reward of building a com-pany from scratch and being his own boss are both major factors in why he started his own busi-ness.

“I think it’s the freedom,” Elliot said, sitting in a black, leather of-" ce chair in the middle of his of-" ce. “Having that freedom in life—it’s awesome.”

He’s also working to give back to the area that he has grown to love so much by launching One Percent for the Ozarks, a coalition of businesses that are dedicated to supporting charitable causes in the area.

He’s constantly thinking of ways to make Fayettechill bigger and better and more interwoven with the community.

Even his location, just o$ the square in Fayetteville was a con-scious decision to help revitalize the area, he says.

And even as he unpacks and sets up shop in his new o# ce, he’s considering expanding into a big-ger space, the o# ce next door, by Christmas.

Elliott’s roots have grown deep in the Ozarks. Fayetteville will al-ways be home to Fayettechill, no matter how much more success-ful it becomes.

CHANDLER CRACRAFT STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMo Elliot sits in front of some of his Fayettechill merchandise in his office on Center Street.

by EDDIE GREGGStaff Writer

Dr. Kathleen Condray energeti-cally tells stories of past classes and students as she sits in front of her bookcase full of German titles. Condray, an associate professor of German at the UA, was voted one of the most creative teachers in the South by Oxford American magazine.

“As a teacher, you have to be willing to make a fool out of your-self—in a good way. I do it every day, but it keeps things interest-ing,” Condray said.

Her nomination came a& er a conversation with Oxford Ameri-can publisher and former UA stu-dent, Warwick Sabin. Sabin nomi-nated her a& er noticed her enthu-siasm towards education.

Condray is known for her un-orthodox approach to teaching that impacts students as they go on to internships abroad, teaching German and working for global companies.

“I like to get students out of the classroom,” Condray said, “Any-thing to break up the monotony of me just talking at them. We play word tag in German, go to Devil’s Den, and we even visit the cem-etery on campus for some of the class reading.”

Condray comes from a long line of teachers, so she knows where lessons stick with the students and what methods need some help. Breaking through barriers is a pri-ority on the top of her list, she said.

By fully engaging the students, Condray helps them get past in-hibitions and makes them realize that they can learn another lan-guage, which is a goal of the UA World Languages Department. Some of her students pick up an-other new language in addition to German, Condray said, noting that once students learn another language, certain learning pat-terns and techniques make it easi-er to learn new ones.

! e attention she pours into her students doesn’t go unnoticed.

"Dr. Condray is like chocolate ice cream with a cherry on top. She is already awesome because of her exceptional intellectual-ism, and she manages to top it o$ with how much she cares about her students,” said Julia Pritchett, a junior psychology major in the Honors College. “It's pretty note-

worthy that she " nds time outside of intellect to give her students in-dividual attention.”

Condray’s humor, too, is a prominent part of her classroom.

“Let’s not forget her beloved wit-ty remarks,” Pritchett said.

In addition to her concern for academic e$ orts here at the UA, Condray stresses the importance of students studying abroad and makes an e$ ort to get students to sign up for such programs.

Studying abroad is an opportu-nity to gain work experience and cultural experience, in addition to the fact that it re" nes students’ un-derstanding and usage of the lan-guage, she said.

Even a& er experiences abroad and at home, students still recog-nize Condray as an outstanding instructor.

“Without question, Dr. Con-dray was one of the most excep-tional professors I had during my time at the University of Arkan-sas,” said Christopher Moon, a 2011 UA graduate in information systems. “She shared knowledge of the German language and cul-ture with a passion that informed and inspired students.”

Condray’s passion for her stu-dents sets a great precedent for other professors and demon-strates the high quality of the UA faculty.

“! e quality of her courses and devotion set a standard not only for other professors, but the Uni-versity as a whole. Always incred-ibly willing and gracious, Dr. Con-dray assisted me in numerous ac-ademic and professional pursuits with a genuine expressed interest in seeing me succeed,” Moon said. “It is professors such as Dr. Con-dray that made attending the Uni-versity of Arkansas an easy deci-sion, and it will be professors such as her that will continue to pro-mote the University of Arkansas as an exemplary destination for both students and faculty.”

Condray makes an impact on all those who come into contact with her. She is well spoken, wit-ty and goes out her way to make those around her comfortable. ! ere seems to be no end to her passion for teaching and love of working with students. ! is, cou-pled with her natural creativity and wit, makes her a stand-out teacher.

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Razorbacks Start 2-0 in SEC

Arkansas completed their Southeastern Conference-opening weekend sweep of SEC play with a 1-0 victory over Mississippi State Sunday a! ernoon.

" e Razorbacks (4-6, 2-0 SEC) and the Bulldogs were very evenly matched and most of the game was a defensive battle. " e game was scoreless for 65 minutes until senior Al-lie Chandler hit a beautiful shot right into the back of the net with 24 minutes le! in the game.

“I just knew that was the moment and I took the shot,” Chandler said. “We needed this. We needed to prove that Friday wasn’t a # uke—we’re here to execute and win games.”

" e win allowed Arkansas to start conference play 2-0 for the $ rst time since 2008.

“" e biggest thing we talk-ed about at hal! ime is $ ghting

for a win and choosing to suc-ceed,” Arkansas coach Erin Au-bry said. “We have enough tal-ent, once we choose to accept our responsibility and role on the $ eld and work together as a unit, we’re successful.”

" e Razorbacks took 16 total shots, but only three on goal. Arkansas had several of-fensive opportunities through-out the game, including one play in which senior Chelsea Tidwell headed the ball to-wards to goal and it ended up hitting the cross bar.

Freshman goalkeeper Emily Lillard had a standout game, making eight saves total, four in each half to accomplish the shutout for the Razorbacks.

“We de$ nitely needed this, Lillard said. “" is is our chang-ing point in the season. We know that we have the talent and the ability to win.”

" e Bulldogs got danger-ously close to tying the game when they took three shots in a 20 second time span with less

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than a minute le! in the game. It took a whole defensive e% ort to keep Mississippi State out of the goal until Emily Lillard got her hands on the ball and $ nal-ly cleared it.

“You couldn’t hope for any-thing better,” Aubry said. “We built a ton of con$ dence be-

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Arkansas swept past the Mississippi State Bulldogs in a 3-0 match Friday evening to open Southeastern Confer-ence play with a win at Barn-hill Arena.

Senior outside hitter Kel-li Stipanovich led the Razor-backs with 14 kills and six digs, while junior outside hit-ter Jasmine Norton recorded a double-double of 12 kills and 10 digs.

Junior Roslandy Acosta also added nine kills and a .438 attack percentage, helping the Razorbacks (9-4, 2-1 South-eastern Conference) win their only match of the weekend .

“To be able to win in this league you’ve got to have bal-ance, and that’s something we were able to have tonight,” Ar-kansas coach Robert Pulliza said. “We got good balance

throughout, and not only on the set distribution, but in the success of the hitting percent-age, also. We were very e& -cient from an attacking stand-point, and that’s something we’ve been working on quite a bit.”

Two kills from Acosta and two service aces from libero Christa Alvarez put Arkansas in the lead early in the $ rst set, 8-2. Mississippi State called a timeout at 9-2, but Arkansas returned with another kill by Acosta.

Arkansas maintained the lead and forced Mississippi State into their second time-out, 15-6. Mississippi State took a 3-point run, catching up 19-11, but Arkansas tallied 15 total kills and a .333 hitting percentage to clench the $ rst set, 25-14.

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Volleyball Sweeps SEC Opener

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COMMENTARY

Crimson Tide Roll Hogs

4-0, 1-0 SEC 3-1, 0-1 SEC

Not All Gloom

and Doom

I came away from the Ar-kansas – Alabama game Sat-urday night knowing three undisputable facts.

One: Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson are the most annoying broadcast duo out of the entire media.

Two: Tyler Wilson is the toughest player on our team.

Three: Alabama is a really, really good team.

I went into this game ex-pecting the Razorbacks to go down into Tuscaloosa and come away with the victory. I thought they would take the opportunity and make that jump to the next level, but they couldn’t.

Arkansas, riddled with injuries, just didn’t have enough to match up with an experienced Alabama team.

This has been the MO of the Razorbacks the past cou-ple of years. They are a great team nobody is arguing oth-erwise, but they are just lack-ing an element from making that jump to an elite team.

If you ask any Arkan-sas fan, I bet that they feel like the Razorbacks, when healthy, can play with any team in the country. The Razorbacks weren’t able to hang with the Crimson Tide, though.

Every team has an off week were they don’t play up to their standard and things just don’t go their way. Arkansas had one of those games.

With the loss of running back Knile Davis and defen-sive end Jake Bequette, the Razorbacks were already be-hind the 8-ball. Things got worse when the Hogs lost

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Another season, another loss to Nick Saban and Alabama.

No. 14 Arkansas couldn’t stop Crimson Tide running back Trent Richardson and gave up three touchdowns on special teams and defense in a 38-14 defeat at No. 3 Alabama.

" e loss was the Razor-backs’ $ ! h consecutive against Alabama. Saban improved to 5-0 against the Hogs as Crim-

son Tide coach, including 4-0 against Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino.

“" ey beat us in all three phases,” Arkansas coach Bob-by Petrino said. “" ey made all the big plays and we didn’t. O% ensively we couldn’t get anything established. " ey controlled the line of scrim-mage on both sides.”

Alabama shut down the Razorbacks’ high-powered of-fense, holding the Hogs to 226 yards, well short of their 517.3 average. Arkansas entered the

game ranked No. 8 nationally in scoring o% ense, but strug-gled to move the ball against a Crimson Tide defense ranked in the top three in the nation in scoring and total defense.

“I’m really proud of the way we played on defense,” Saban said. “" ey have a really good o% ense, a team that’s really hard to defend. " ey have re-ally good receivers. " ey made mistakes, we made plays.”

Defensively, the Razor-backs didn’t have an answer for Richardson.

" e junior running back ran for 126 yards on 17 carries, while catching three passes for 85 yards, including a 61-yard touchdown on a screen.

“We didn’t stop Richardson with the run game,” Arkansas defensive coordinator Willy Robinson said. “" at’s where you’ve got to start with that team because the play action is set up to where if you don’t start the run, it will be a long game.”

" e Hogs struggled to stop the run playing without their

starting defensive ends much of the game. Senior Jake Be-quette missed his second con-secutive game with a ham-string injury, while junior Te-narius Wright le! the game with a broken le! forearm, Ar-kansas radio sideline reporter Quinn Grovey said.

“You’ve just got to keep go-ing,” Petrino said. “Injuries are part of the game. " ey’re part of football.”

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

Going for it on 4th

HARRISON STANFILLhstanfill@uark.edu

No. 13 Arkansas14

No. 3 Alabama38

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas Junior receiver Cobi Hamilton and the Razorbacks’ o! ense was stifl ed against an Alabama defense ranked in the top three nationally in scoring and total defense. The Razorbacks just 226 yards of total o! ense, almost 300 yards less than their average entering the game.

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Razorbacks drop $ ! h consecutive game against Alabama, Saban

Saturday, Sept. 24Bryant-Denny Stadium

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Beth Stratton and Arkansas’ soccer team started South Eastern Conference play 2-0 for the fi rst time since 2008.

Arkansas routs Mississippi State in opener

SPORTS

! e Crimson Tide scored two special teams touchdowns and returned one interception for a score.

Alabama lined up for a 54-yard " eld goal before sopho-more quarterback A.J. McCar-

ron, working as the holder, dropped into the shotgun and found tight end Michael Wil-liams wide open for a 37-yard touchdown.

“It was a well-execut-ed play,” Petrino said. “I did think of calling timeout and didn’t get it done. ! at’s my fault. Perfect throw, perfect catch.”

! e Crimson Tide led 10-7 midway through the second quarter, then capitalized on Arkansas junior quarterback Tyler Wilson’s only intercep-tion of the game.

Wilson threw behind se-nior receiver Greg Childs on a third-and-7 slant. ! e ball ricocheted high into the air o# Alabama cornerback De-Quan Menzie’s shoulder pad, allowing Menzie to run under it and return it 25 yards for an uncontested score, giving the Crimson Tide a 17-7 hal$ ime lead.

“! at was a big turning point in the game from a mo-mentum stand point,” Saban said.

Alabama forced Arkansas to punt on the opening drive of the second half and Crim-son Tide senior receiver re-turned Dylan Breeding’s punt

83 yards for a score, following a wall of blockers to the right sideline, then weaving his way into the endzone to put Ala-bama on top 24-7.

Wilson struggled to avoid pressure and " nd open re-ceivers most of the game. He wasn’t sacked, but was hit 11 times a$ er releasing the ball.

He " nished 22 of 35 for 185 yards, two touchdowns and the interception returned for a score. ! e Crimson Tide shut down the Razorbacks’ down-" eld passing game and 14 of Wilson’s 22 completions were for less than 10 yards.

“He got hit a lot,” Petri-no said. “We didn’t give him a lot of help. We didn’t give him a lot protection-wise and we didn’t get him a lot of help getting open and making guys miss.”

! e Hogs struggled to es-tablish the run and had neg-ative-6 yards at hal$ ime. Ar-kansas " nished with just 17 yards and junior starting run-ning back Ronnie Wingo was limited to 35 yards on 11 car-ries.

“Alabama plays very good defense,” Petrino said. “When we tried to run the ball we didn’t do a good job of it.”

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Tenarius Wright early in the first quarter.

Despite these major loss-es, there were a few bright spots throughout the game for fans to appreciate, even in the ugly loss.

The defense managed to hold up quite well for the ma-jority of the game. For the entire first half they were a “bend don’t break” defense.

Sure, they gave up some big plays, but they always came back, kept fighting and made it pretty hard for Ala-bama to score. The goal-line defensive stand in the second quarter proved how tough this defense can be.

A telling stat that de-scribes just how good the de-fense was doing was that at a point during the third quar-ter Alabama was 1 of 6 on third down. When Arkansas got Alabama to third downs they were able to hold their ground and stand strong.

Later on, the shorthand-ed defense just seemed worn down by the massive and in-sync Alabama offensive line.

Another bright spot from the game was the tough play of Tyler Wilson. I haven’t seen a quarterback take that kind of a beating since Kea-nu Reeves quarterbacked the Washington Sentinels in The Replacements.

Time after time Wilson picked himself up after a hit from an Alabama defender, got back under center and went after it again. He stood in and delivered a perfect ball to Cobi Hamilton while tak-ing possibly the worst hit of the game.

Wilson had an admirable performance and won over many of the fans with the way that he played. He never gave up and neither did the team.

The Hogs kept fighting, kept plugging away and run-ning the offense, even if it wasn’t successful.

There were also times where the Arkansas offense found holes in the Alabama defense. The 26-yard touch-down run by Wingo that was called back was a great play call and found the Alabama defense in a rare position: off balance and unprepared.

There were many mo-ments during the game that you saw what kind of team the Razorbacks could be. They could put together long drives against experienced defenses, they could stack up with their backs in the end zone and come out fighting and they were a team that would not quit playing.

The Razorbacks showed they’re a team that will take their licks and keep fighting Saturday. The real key will be what happens next.

They are going to have to learn from this game if they want to be taken seriously as an elite team in college foot-ball.

Harrison Stanfill is a guest columnist for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.

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ARKANSAS (3-1)RUSHING No. Yds TD LgR. Wingo Jr. 11 35 0 14T. Wilson 1 3 0 3D. Johnson 3 -3 0 1J. Adams 1 -7 0 0

B. Mitchell 3 -11 0 0

PASSING C-A Yds Int TDT. Wilson 22-35 185 1 2B. Mitchell 2-5 24 1 0

RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgJ. Adams 6 37 0 19C. Gragg 4 31 0 14J. Wright 4 26 0 16R. Wingo 3 43 0 39D. Johnson 2 21 1 11G. Childs 2 17 0 15C. Hamilton 1 19 1 19J. Horton 1 9 0 9M. Wade 1 6 0 6

TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksA. Highsmith 4 4 8 2 1

M. Marshall 5 2 7 0 0E. Bennett 4 3 7 0 0R. Thomas 4 2 6 .5 0C. Smith 2 4 6 1.0 0B. Jones 0 6 6 0.5 0J. Nelson 3 2 5 0 0

ALABAMA (4-0)RUSHING No. Yds TD LgT. Richardson 17 126 0 31E. Lacy 13 61 1 10J. Fowler 4 11 0 11AJ. McCarron 5 -1 0 4

PASSING C-A Yds Int TDA.J. McCarron 15-20 200 0 2

RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgM. Maze 5 40 0 17T. Richardson 3 85 1 61D. Hanks 2 13 0 8M. Williams 1 37 1 37B. Smelley 1 15 0 15K. Ball 1 8 0 8E. Lacy 1 4 0 4B. Gibson 1 -2 0 0

TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksD. Hightower 4 5 9 2.0 0D. Kirkpatrick 6 0 6 1.0 0M. Barron 5 1 6 0 0J. Williams 4 1 5 2.0 0R. Lester 3 2 5 0 0E. Stinson 1 2 3 1.5 0A. Watkins 0 3 3 0 0B. Gibson 0 3 3 0 0N. Gentry 2 0 2 1.0 0W. Lowery 2 0 2 0 0Q. Dial 1 1 2 0.5 0

ARKANSAS

DATE OPPONENT RESULT

9-3 Missouri State W, 51-79-10 New Mexico W, 52-39-17 Troy W, 38-289-24 at Alabama W, 38-1410-1 Texas A&M10-8 Auburn10-22 at Ole Miss10-29 at Vanderbilt11-5 South Carolina11-12 Tennessee11-19 Mississippi State11-26 at LSU

DATE OPPONENT RESULT

9-3 at Kent. State W, 48-79-10 at Penn. State W, 27-119-17 North Texas W, 41-09-24 Arkansas10-1 at Florida10-8 Vanderbilt10-15 at Ole Miss10-22 Tennessee11-05 LSU11-12 at Mississippi State11-19 Georgia Southern11-26 at Auburn

ALABAMA

“It was a really fun match,” Stipanovich said. “I think ev-eryone was really jelling and playing together. When we play like that we are really un-stoppable against anyone. It was fun tonight to come out and win in straight sets.”

! e teams exchanged points to start the second set, but Arkansas broke away to for an 11-7 lead, forcing the Bull-dogs to take their " rst timeout of the set. A kill from Janeliss Torres-Lopez widened the gap a$ er the timeout.

! e Hogs kept the lead, causing Mississippi State to take their " nal timeout, 17-13. A series of kills by Acosta, Sti-panovich and Norton led Ar-kansas to take the second set 25-16.

! e Bulldogs broke away for an 8-4 lead in the third set. A kill each for Stipanovich and sophomore setter Raymariely Santos brought the Razorbacks within to 8-6, but Arkansas didn’t score again and Pulliza called the " rst timeout of the set with the Razorbacks down 11-6.

! e Bulldogs held the lead

until halfway through the set when Arkansas tied the score 16-16 on a kill by Torres-Lo-pez. Mississippi State called a second timeout when Arkan-sas took a 19-18 lead. ! e Ra-zorbacks continued to lead af-ter the timeout with a kill each from junior middle blocker Amanda Anderson, Santos and Norton, closing the match, 25-19.

! e Razorbacks defeated Alabama in four sets to open SEC play last weekend, but lost to Mississippi in a " ve-set bat-tle.

“! e fact that we can come out and play one of our best matches of the year a$ er a loss, talks a lot about our character,” Pulliza said. “It’s easy to play well when everything is going good. Obviously everything was not going good if we lost the last match, so the fact that we were able to re-gather and play the way we did tonight speaks a lot about what this group can do.”

! e Razorbacks have a bye on Sunday and a full week of practice ahead before facing the Kentucky Wildcats (2-1 SEC) on Friday in Barnhill Arena at 7 p.m. and Tennesee on Sunday.

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cause it’s been a rough non-conference, but now we get to see what everything has culmi-nated towards.”

Next weekend, Arkansas plays host to Georgia on Friday and Tennessee on Sunday.

Arkansas 2, Ole Miss 1 (OT)Arkansas opened South-

eastern Conference play Friday night with a 2-1 overtime vic-tory over Ole Miss in the latest meeting of a highly-competi-tive series.

! e Razorbacks won the overtime decision, the fourth time in the last " ve meetings Arkansas and the Rebels have gone into overtime. ! e match was tied for more than 88 of the 90 minutes in regulation.

Freshman mid" elder Beth Stratton scored the game-win-ning goal just two minutes into the sudden-death overtime pe-riod.

“It was de" nitely a hard match, but we wanted it more than they did,” Stratton said.

! e Razorbacks (3-5, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) put pressure on Ole Miss’ defense throughout the match.

Arkansas took nine shots in the " rst half, including " ve shots on goal. ! e Razorbacks " nished with 19 shots.

Freshman goalkeeper Em-ily Lillard had three saves for Arkansas, including two in the second half

“Our goalkeeper was huge tonight,” Arkansas coach Erin Aubry said. “She came up with some great saves and that’s really something she’s been working towards.”

Ole Miss’ senior goalkeeper Alley Ronaldi did an impres-sive job of keeping the Razor-backs out of the goal — making four saves in the " rst half and one in overtime.

! e Razorbacks have strug-gled this season to get points on the board, but struck " rst when freshman forward Jeri Ann Okoro scored her " rst ca-reer goal o# an assist from se-nior Kailey Anders with 23 minutes le$ in the " rst half.

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior quarterback Tyler Wilson wasn’t sacked against No. 3 Alabama, but was hit 11 times after releasing a pass.

GAME STATISTICS ARK ALABAMAFirst downs 14 16 by rushing 2 7 by passing 10 9 by penalty 2 0Rushing yards 17 197Passing yards 209 200Passing 24-40-2 15-20-0O! ensive plays 59 59Total yards 226 397Avg. per play 3.8 6.7Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-Yds 3-17 5-55Punts-Avg. 8-44.6 6-37.5Punt returns-Yds 2-6 4-125-1Kicko! returns-Yds 6-125 1-24Interceptions-Yds 0-0 2-25-1Fumble returns-Yds 0-0 0-0-0Possession time 27:09 32:513rd downs 4 of 15 5 of 134th downs 1 of 2 1 of 1Sacks by-Yds 2-8 1-10