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Alyson Low wears the same sil- ver bracelet, engraved with “Sara Low AA#11 Crew,” each day; she panics if she leaves the house with- out it. ere is also a silver ring dis- played on a chain that permanently hangs around Low’s neck. e UA alumnus and former Traveler editor wears the jewelry in memory of her sister, Sara Low, also a UA alumnus, whose life ended on Sept. 11, 2001. Sara Low was a ight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the rst plane that was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Within hours, a second plane hit the South Tower of e World Trade Center, the Pentagon was attacked by another commercial aircra and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania eld bring- ing the death toll to 2,752, according to CNN as of 2003. is year, on the 10th Anniversa- ry of the Sept. 11 attacks, the nation will pause as Americans remember those who lost their lives, the fami- lies of the victims, the rst respond- ers and all those who have served the United States at home and abroad. On Sunday, Sept. 12, President Barack Obama will visit Ground Zero in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. in honor of the 10th Anniversary. Meanwhile, events will be taking place nationwide. In Fayetteville, a candlelight vigil will be held on Old Main Lawn, the Fayetteville Fire Department will hold a ceremony in memory of fall- en New York Fire Department re- ghters, and churches will host memorial services. see LOW on page 8 Keeping the Memory Alive: A Sister’s Dedication UA Students Selected for 10th Anniversary Ground Zero Trip Elijah Garcia was in 5th grade when he heard that the towers had been hit. “I remember exactly where I was,” he said. “I was on my way to school, driving with my dad. I heard about it on the radio, and we were wondering what the big deal was.” Now Garcia will have the chance to visit the site of the event that he said forever changed his view of America. He was one of 12 UA students selected by University Hous- ing to visit Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. “I’m just happy that I’ll be able to be a part of history and show support for the United States and the thing that the people of New York City went through that day,” he said. Garcia applied immediately aer receiving an email advertising the trip from Jack Bree, coordinator of residence education for Holcombe Hall. “We were looking for people who really sounded like they could gain something from the experience, that this would be something transformative for them,” Bree said. e trip will last four days, from Sept. 11 to 14, and is mostly paid for by the uni- versity – students must pay $200 plus the cost of food. University Hous- ing tried to select students from every year of college, including two freshmen, Bree said. “e students coming into college now were very young when 9/11 happened, so they may not have been able to pro- cess what it meant for them and for their country,” he said. hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Within hours, a second plane hit the South Tower of e World Trade Center, the Pentagon was attacked by another commercial aircra and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania eld bring- ing the death toll to 2,752, according to CNN as of 2003. en New York Fire Department re- ghters, and churches will host memorial services. see LOW on page 8 ted for 10th d Zero Trip from Jack f residence mbe Hall. for people like they g from the would be mative for our days, and is e uni- must st of Hous- udents ollege, shmen, ming into ry young d, so they ble to pro- them and said. by BRADY TACKETT Staff Writer by KELSI FORD Asst. Features Editor see TRIP on page 6 CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER CODY DAVIS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Volunteers from across campus placed 2,752 flags around the Union Mall Sept. 1. The flags memorialize each life lost on 9/11.

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Alyson Low wears the same sil-ver bracelet, engraved with “Sara Low AA#11 Crew,” each day; she panics if she leaves the house with-out it. ! ere is also a silver ring dis-played on a chain that permanently hangs around Low’s neck.

! e UA alumnus and former Traveler editor wears the jewelry in memory of her sister, Sara Low, also a UA alumnus, whose life ended on Sept. 11, 2001. Sara Low was a " ight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the # rst plane that was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Within hours, a second plane hit the South Tower of ! e World Trade Center, the Pentagon was attacked by another commercial aircra$ and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania # eld bring-ing the death toll to 2,752, according to CNN as of 2003.

! is year, on the 10th Anniversa-ry of the Sept. 11 attacks, the nation will pause as Americans remember those who lost their lives, the fami-lies of the victims, the # rst respond-ers and all those who have served the United States at home and abroad.

On Sunday, Sept. 12, President Barack Obama will visit Ground Zero in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. in honor of the 10th Anniversary. Meanwhile, events will be taking place nationwide.

In Fayetteville, a candlelight vigil will be held on Old Main Lawn, the Fayetteville Fire Department will hold a ceremony in memory of fall-en New York Fire Department # re-# ghters, and churches will host memorial services.

see LOWon page 8

Keeping the Memory Alive: A Sister’s Dedication

UA Students Selected for 10thAnniversary Ground Zero Trip

Elijah Garcia was in 5th grade when he heard that the towers had been hit.

“I remember exactly where I was,” he said. “I was on my way to school, driving with my dad. I heard about it on the radio, and we were wondering what the big deal was.”

Now Garcia will have the chance to visit the site of the event that he said forever changed his view of America. He was one of 12 UA students selected by University Hous-ing to visit Ground Zero on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

“I’m just happy that I’ll be able to be a part of history and show support for the United States and the thing that the people of New York City went through that day,” he said.

Garcia applied immediately a$ er receiving an email

advertising the trip from Jack Bre% e, coordinator of residence education for Holcombe Hall.

“We were looking for people who really sounded like they could gain something from the experience, that this would be something transformative for them,” Bre% e said.

! e trip will last four days, from Sept. 11 to 14, and is mostly paid for by the uni-versity – students must pay $200 plus the cost of food. University Hous-ing tried to select students from every year of college, including two freshmen, Bre% e said.

“! e students coming into college now were very young when 9/11 happened, so they may not have been able to pro-cess what it meant for them and for their country,” he said.

hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Within hours, a second plane hit the South Tower of ! e World Trade Center, the Pentagon was attacked by another commercial aircra$ and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania # eld bring-ing the death toll to 2,752, according to CNN as of 2003.

en New York Fire Department # re-# ghters, and churches will host memorial services.

see LOWon page 8

UA Students Selected for 10thAnniversary Ground Zero Trip

advertising the trip from Jack Bre% e, coordinator of residence education for Holcombe Hall.

“We were looking for people who really sounded like they could gain something from the experience, that this would be something transformative for

! e trip will last four days, from Sept. 11 to 14, and is mostly paid for by the uni-versity – students must pay $200 plus the cost of food. University Hous-ing tried to select students from every year of college, including two freshmen,

“! e students coming into college now were very young when 9/11 happened, so they may not have been able to pro-cess what it meant for them and for their country,” he said.

by BRADY TACKETTStaff Writer

by KELSI FORDAsst. Features Editor

see TRIPon page 6

CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

CODY DAVIS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERVolunteers from across campus placed 2,752 fl ags around the Union Mall Sept. 1. The fl ags memorialize each life lost on 9/11.

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Lizzie Alvarez can’t remem-ber a time before the govern-ment could legally monitor her Internet activity.

“I don’t think I was aware that the government could do that at the time,” said Alvarez, a freshman pre-nursing major. “I never had a point where I thought about the government monitoring my Internet use.”

Alvarez is part of a genera-tion that grew up in a post-Sept. 11 world.

“I was in the second grade when the attacks happened, and we didn’t know what was going on,” she said. “I remember not understanding at all until a cou-ple of years later.”

Since then, security has been an issue shaped by the response to the Sept. 11 attacks both in the nation and at the UA.

“! e event changed the way

everyone looked at security and the magnitude, the scale of dan-ger,” said UAPD Lt. Gary Crain.

Numerous changes have been made since Sept. 11 to pre-vent another terrorist attack, said Brent Smith, UA professor and terrorism and homeland se-curity expert.

“Counter-terrorism re-sponses have become more pro-active and federal agencies have become more involved in infor-mation gathering in responding to counter-terrorism,” Smith said.

In response to the Sept.11 attacks, the government passed the USA Patriot Act as a secu-rity measure, Smith said.

! e USA Patriot Act gave the FBI authority to use a so" -ware program called Carnivore that could be installed on an In-ternet service provider’s equip-ment with a court order, to monitor a suspect’s Internet ac-tivity, according to a Congres-sional Research Service Report.

“! e threat of the USA Pa-triot Act might have deterred some people, but whether that is the case hasn’t been estab-lished,” said William Schreckh-ise, a political science professor.

In 2010, controversy sur-rounded new measures on air-port security, which included X-ray technology to scan the body of each passenger before board-ing an airplane to locate contra-band items.

! e X-ray scanners brought up privacy concerns because the scanners produced an “image of a person’s body underneath his or her clothes,” according to in-formation gathered from the Transportation Security Agen-cy, American Science and Engi-neering, Inc. and CNN.

However, according to the information, the images from the scanners are automatically deleted from the system a" er being cleared by a security o# -cer who never sees the scanned person.

“[! e attacks] a$ ected things across the board, imme-diately a" er 9/11,” said Mike Johnson, associate vice chancel-lor for Facilities, who was work-ing in Washington, D.C. for the

naval engineering program at the time of the attacks. “In the military perspective, people started looking at perimeters around buildings, bases, where large crowds might gather.”

“People also started [reeval-uating] at building codes, blast resistance on buildings, emer-gency power, % re and security systems, large concrete plant-ers on buildings, which would keep cars from driving into the lobbies of buildings [and] I.D. cards,” he said.

UA police o# cers also be-came more aware of the threat of terrorism a" er the attacks.

“It heightened everyone’s awareness and made you realize how dire the danger is, and to pay more attention to doing the best that can be done to provide a safe environment,” Crain said.

UA police have plans ready in case of a disaster, Crain said.

“We have procedures and plans in place to deal with any emergencies, whatever the event may be,” he said. “It is called Hazardous Planning and the police department has re-sponsibilities to things that hap-pen, so we will be responding to the scene and decide what needs to be done and bring the situation back to normal.”

“One security measure UA students can use is RAZalert. If a student registers for class they are automatically opted in and can receive noti% cations if something has happened,” Crain said.

While these security addi-tions have made us safer, that does not mean America is im-mune to other attacks, Johnson said.

“We are safer, but you can never be complacent, because as you do things, the bad guys are constantly working on the things you put in place and you shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security,” he said. “We live in a very challenging world, even more challenging in the last 10 years.”

Johnson added that it is im-portant not to pro% le a speci% c ethnic or religious group and that “the bad guys and bad gals are not all Muslim.”

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Thursday, September 8Al-Islam Student Associationand Community Blood Center Blood Drive! e Al-Islam Students Association is partnering with Com-munity Blood Center of the Ozarks to hold a three day Blood Drive Campaign in solidarity with the nationwide drive led by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to collect 10,000 units of blood on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. ! e drive will be held in Yocum Hall from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To volunteer, students must call 479-409-3247 for scheduling blood donation.

Saturday, September 10Volunteer Action Center Audubon SocietyRestoration ProjectAs part of the National Day of Service, volunteers from the Vol-unteer Action Center will be participating in an Audubon So-ciety Restoration Project from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ! e volunteers will assist in prairie restoration activities at Wilson Springs, lo-cated behind Sam’s Club in Fayetteville. Restoration activities will include re-establishing the native prairie, removing inva-sive vegetation from speci% c areas of the site. For more infor-mation visit volunteer.uark.edu.

Arkansas vs. New Mexico Game: Red, White and Blue Out ! e football game between Arkansas and New Mexico on Sept. 10 in Little Rock has been designated Razorbacks Remember in tribute to the anniversary. ! e department of intercollegiate athletics is asking all fans to participate in the Red, White and Blue Out by wearing alternating red or white depending on their seat location inside War Memorial Stadium. Fans in odd-numbered sections are asked to wear white, and fans in even-numbered sections are asked to wear red.

Sunday, September 11Old Main Lawn Candlelight VigilFrom 6:40 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. there will be a candlelight vigil on Old Main Lawn to dedicate a new memorial & agpole. Chancel-lor G. David Gearhart, Professor Hoyt Purvis and other com-munity members will address attendees. Candles will be pro-vided to the % rst few hundred arrivals.

First United Presbyterian Church “Hymn Festival for Peace”! e First United Presbyterian Church will host an ecumenical “Hymn Festival for Peace” at 4 p.m. ! e service will not direct-ly address 9/11, nor promote patriotism, but rather focus on peace. ! e theme of peace will be explored through scripture, prayer and song. For more information visit fupcfay.org.

Fayetteville Fire Department memorial for fallen NYFD! e Fayetteville Fire Department will hold a ceremony at 8 a.m. in memory of fallen New York Fire Department % re% ght-ers. ! e service will be held at Fayetteville Fire Department Station 1.

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International Travel StillDifficult a Decade Later

! e way people trav-el was forever changed on Sept. 11, 2001. New technol-ogy, stricter regulations and more manpower have been implemented to keep trav-elers safe, according to ! e Department of Homeland Security website.

“! e Transportation Se-curity Administration was created in the wake of 9/11 to strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation systems while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce,” ac-cording to a TSA fact sheet.

! e changes in security were almost immediate a" er the attacks.

Now, “there are more than 400 TSA explosives specialists at nearly 145 lo-cations” and “thousands of Federal Air Marshals who are deployed on domestic and international # ights,” ac-cording to the fact sheet.

Sept. 11 did not impact the UA study abroad pro-gram negatively, said DeDe Long, director of the study abroad program.

Students studying abroad actually increased, she said.

However, international students coming to the U.S. decreased because of tight-ened requirements for visa applications, a direct result

of the 9/11 attacks, Long said.

Other countries also tightened their visa require-ments, forcing U.S. students to make appointments with that country’s consulate to obtain a visa, Long said.

UA senior and medical engineering major Dimo So-liman is from Alexandria, Egypt and said he has felt the impact of post-9/11 security.

“[In the airport] I get stopped every time,” he said. “I usually stay calm and nice because I want to catch my plane, but if I miss my plane I get angry.”

He came to the U.S. for the $ rst time in August 2005 as an exchange student in high school.

“It was my $ rst time to come to the U.S. and I was 16 years old and by myself,” Soliman said. “I go to the of-$ cer sitting at the desk and give him my passport and identi$ cation. He looks at the passport, then at me and then at the computer.”

“He then gave the pass-port to a di% erent o& cer and they took me to a room where there were three o& -cers interviewing one per-son. I was nervous and didn’t know what to do. ! ey be-gan asking me questions about why are [I was] here.”

He le" a" er a year and would return for college four

years later.Soliman said he feels that

the security measures should remain as intense, “but to ev-eryone.”

Faculty at the UA have also seen substantial changes in airport security.

“! ere was always some form of security at the air-port, but a" er 9/11 it was quite di% erent,” said Carol Rachal, a journalism profes-sor. “! ere were long lines because they had to check you with the metal detector.”

“I # ew right a" er 9/11 and the woman made me take o% my belt and I just thought it was kind of ridiculous,” she said.

! e security has not re-laxed and is actually “worse” today than it was then, Ra-chal said.

“I think they feel like they have to do something, other-wise people will say ‘yea we got blown up and nobody is doing anything,’” Rachal said.

“TSA has screened nearly 5 billion passengers, detect-ed approximately 50 million prohibited items, including 4,600 $ rearms during air-port checkpoint screening” — all since 9/11 according to the TSA fact sheet.

! e repercussions of 9/11 will continue to be felt by travelers as long as the war on terrorism continues.

by MEGAN HUCKABYStaff Writer

Veterans Transition to College Life! ere are nearly 518,000

veterans and veteran fam-ily members enrolled in col-lege under the new post-9/11 G.I. Bill, according to the de-partment of veteran a% airs website. When other educa-tional programs from the VA are added, however, the tally climbs to 840,000.

“! ere are about 1,000 to 1,500 full-time student veter-ans in Northwest Arkansas,” said Timothy Farley, a veteran and a graduate student in re-habilitation counseling. “! e one problem that seems to bubble to the surface for most of the vets I talk to is the abili-ty to connect with [other] col-lege students.”

! e VA is second only to the U.S. Department of Edu-cation in providing educa-tional assistance to veterans and the post-9/11 G.I. Bill is the largest student aid pack-age of its kind, according to the VA website.

! e bill covers full tuition, with a $1,000 a year stipend for books, according to the VA website.

Most veterans, even the younger veterans, are a few years older then the average college freshmen when start-ing classes, Farley said. “[! e veterans] have done a tour or two and most college fresh-

men have never le" home and there is a big di% erence in out-look and maturity.”

! e majority, around 78 percent, of Iraq and Afghan war veterans are male and slightly half of the veterans are older than 25, according to a study about post-trau-matic stress published in the “American Journal of Health Behavior.”

“I have a daughter older than most of the students in my classes,” said Scott Cutlip, 40, veteran and junior jour-nalism major.

“I live in Alma and it is about a 40 mile drive, so I am not active in any organiza-tions outside of my classes,” Cutlip said.

“Graduate school is a dif-ferent pony to ride,” Farley said. “Graduate students are older, a little wiser and take their education seriously just like I do.”

Sometimes the gap be-tween classes during duty in Iraq or Afghanistan can be a big challenge.

“It is di& cult when you have to rely on things you learned before,” said Michael Rasche, senior industrial en-gineering major and active National Guard member. “For example, I took calculus one before I le" and then I came back and had to take calculus two.”

According to Rasche, it’s

true that veterans have to re-set back to a point when they were in college.

“You have like two or three years of living on you and you are older,” Rasche said.

! e added weight of age and experience is not all that veterans must contend with.

Post-traumatic stress dis-order was associated with col-lege veterans who were in-volved in physical $ ghting within the year they returned home, according to a study published in the “American Journal of Health Behavior.”

Rasche said that the stress of college seems like nothing a" er experiencing active duty and it’s di& cult to connect with classmates when student stresses are not a big deal to someone who has been on the front lines.

“Most people have to be in the ‘right mood’ to study, but not me,” Rasche said. “I just do what I have to do. ! e stress is not from $ ghting.

Most of your time on active duty is not spent $ ghting, but it is the stress of always being ready for a $ ght.”

! e VA reports more than 22 million veterans living in America and of that 22 mil-lion, $ ve million are veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Professors love veterans in class, Farley said.

“We are not afraid to ask lots of questions, we come to class on time everyday and we sit down in front,” he said. “Based on my observations, veterans are the best students.”

When it comes to assimi-lating into college there are no tips or hard and fast rules, Ra-sche said.

“! ere is no standard way to go back to school,” he said. “Not everything works for ev-eryone. Some guys I know come back and are better than they were before and others are worse than they were be-fore.”

by BOBBIE FOSTERNews Editor

GRACE GUDE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTen years after 9/11, heightened security at airports across the world, including XNA outside Fayetteville, remains in full force.

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THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER WEEKENDER

OPINION PAGE 4 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 EDITOR: SABA NASEEM MANAGING EDITOR: MATTIE QUINN

In the a! ermath of those occurrences the morning past, it is hard to know how to act, what to do, what to say or how to feel, disbelief countering emotions at every turn. Most, though, kneeled and prayed, which is really all Americans could do in the moments immediately following one of the deadliest terror-ist attacks in the history of the United States.

Let us begin with what is known. At about 9 a.m. EST Tues-day, two giants of the sky, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 en route from Boston to Los Angeles, and United Airlines Flight 175, also en route from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed minutes apart from one another into the side of the World Trade Center in New York City, each blasting into a separate tower with tremendous force. Black smoke billowed into the sky as gray ash fell from above. " e sky rained millions of pieces of paper from a height of 110 stories. Fires roasted from above, and some terri# ed people jumped from the windows so high up in an attempt to escape the inferno. One tower was seen to sway. Several # re# ghters who marched in came stumbling back out, choking on ash. Some police $ ed. It was near panic on the streets of lower Manhattan as many buildings were evacuated.

And then, 90 minutes a! er the terrifying impact, to the sheer horror of a nation and world captivated by live images on TV, one of the giant edi# ces, glass and steel and all, came slow-ly crashing down onto the New York pavement, dust consum-ing half the city. Minutes later, its twin, the one decorated with the red antenna on top, came tumbling down to the ground. And just like that, the World Trade Center, the very symbol of American capitalism, had been destroyed, gone, missing entire-ly from the skyline for the # rst time in 25 years. " e nation, the moment, seemed already wrapped in gauze and frozen in time.

Untold numbers of # re# ghters perished while trying to help. " ere were possibly more people on the two planes com-bined than people who died in the entire Oklahoma City bomb-ing. A combined 50,000 usually worked in the towers. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani feared the loss of life from the towers could be in the thousands.

Shortly a! er the strikes in New York, American Flight 77, a Boeing 757 en route from Washington to Los Angeles, was also hijacked and crashed on the helicopter-landing pad next to the Pentagon in Washington. One wall was black, in ruins and on # re. More black smoke plumed high above the Potomac River. " e Pentagon, the biggest o% ce building in the world, was felt to shake all around. No one knew how many more lost their lives. And United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757, crashed southeast to Pittsburg, en route from Newark, N.J. to San Francisco. It was reportedly headed toward Camp David when it crashed.

" e U.S. Capitol was evacuated. " e White House also was cleared of all personnel as snipers kept watch of the skies above. President Bush, in Florida to promote his education reforms, le! soon a! er learning of the attacks. Making only a brief, he was taken to a secure location in Omaha, Neb., by way of Air Force One and military escort. All U.S. # nancial markets closed as word of the bombings spread. As the Securities and Exchange Commission was announcing all exchanges closed, the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Exchange sus-pended trading. " e Federal Aviation Administration closed all the nation’s airports until noon today. All Trans-Atlantic $ ights to the United States already in mid-air were redirected to Canada, the rest cancelled. By Tuesday a! ernoon, no one had yet claimed responsibility, though many were already pointing # ngers at Osama bin Laden, who was accused of mastermind-ing attacks against two American embassies in Africa in 1998. Countries around the world responded in dismay to the attack. British Prime Minister Tony Blair o& ered his condolences and any assistance America might wish. Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said it was “simply a tragedy.”

" ere are days, infamous ones etched in the collective spir-its of all Americans. Dec. 7, 1941; Nov. 22, 1963; April 19, 1995. Now sadly, Sept. 11, 2001, joins them in painful remembrance of nightmares past.

It is too early in the course of events to know how all of this will play out. Clearly, America was the victim of a large-scale terrorist attack. It was an attack on the American way of life — on each American — and against freedom itself. Still, some-how, America will move on from this awful day, and emerge from the rubble certainly a di& erent but hopefully also a stron-ger country. And naturally, all wish those who are guilty might be brought to justice for these acts beyond capacity for rational comprehension. In the New York skyline of the morning past, behind and above the ruins below, was a beautiful, blue sky. Cool air and all. And the birds $ ew una& ected by it all.

What a mess humans make of things. What a tragedy in-$ icted upon brothers and sisters. What a ring of # re humans have surrounded themselves in.

FROM THE BOARD

I am a Muslim and a Paki-stani. My mind was full of prej-udice about American society when

I landed in the United States. in August 2010. A! er a brief tour of the U.S. Capitol, I headed to-ward my # nal destination — Fayetteville.

Before leaving Pakistan, I made up my mind that I would face tough times during my stay in America. I le! behind an ex-tremely concerned family and friends and embarked on this journey. " e memories of 9/11 were still vivid, and stories of discrimination against Muslims, and Pakistanis in particular, dominated the U.S.-related me-dia coverage in Pakistan.

I had numerous questions

about how I would be treated when I arrived at the airport. How would people react to my hijab and conservative attire? Would a male security o% cer scan me?

" ere were people who sug-gested that I think twice before going to America, and then there were people who encouraged me to explore this new land and its people. I was very concerned about what my experience would be like in a new country. " e only thing that was not on my mind was that I could actually fall in love with this place.

A year has passed since I # rst visited my host university, the UA. I studied at the UA during the Fall 2010 semester as part of my Fulbright Scholarship. My four month stay in Fayetteville is so far, my most cherished mem-ory. Even if I try really hard to re-member, I can’t recall a single in-cident that could be categorized as an “o& ” occurrence.

My journey started o& great. By the time I reached my desti-nation, the guy who picked me up from the airport had already planned a welcoming dinner for me with his family. " at was our

# rst meeting and he told me a lot about his family and asked me some really funny questions like, “What would my parents say if I were to marry an American guy?” and “Oh, you cover your head! What religion do you fol-low?” He was just one guy. I met hundreds of people just like him and every single day, my biases against the United States and its society were challenged.

Myself and other Pakistani students, a couple of Registered Student Organizations and the American Red Cross, organized a fundraiser for the 2010 Pakistani $ ood victims. " e response we got was overwhelming. " e amount of money raised was beyond our initial target. " at event turned out to be so in$ uential that one of the attendees, who also played music at the event, decided to take a semester o& from college and personally visit Pakistan during the $ oods.

" ese instances might not be anything unusual for Americans, but for me they were stunning. Back here in Pakistan, we love to hate America. Anything that goes wrong, we blame it on the

“war mongering” superpower. Be it cross-border attacks, sui-cide blasts in our mosques or ethnic-based killings, for us it’s all a part of the U.S. government’s new world order. A! er all, burn-ing American $ ags is our favorite past time.

When Osama bin Laden, America’s most-wanted man, was killed in Pakistan by Ameri-can forces in May 2011, our re-actions were mixed. We were shocked and embarrassed. Whether anyone knew about bin Laden’s presence is still a mystery in Pakistan, but the event has further deteriorated America’s image.

In Pakistan, America is the most misunderstood nation. I feel bad that people who gave me so much love despite my na-tionality or religion, are hated for all the wrong reasons. However, nothing is permanent. I hope that we all learn to love each oth-er — or at least cease to hate.

Ferya Ilyas, a former international student, studied at the UA for the Fall 2010 semester.

‘America is the most misunderstood nation’MARCUS FERREIRA STAFF CARTOONIST

Soldier reflects on time spent abroad, encourages students

One random Tuesday in early September, a friend of mine walked into my o% ce and simply said, “" ere’s a building on # re in New York City.” I didn’t think much about it until she added, “" ey think it was a bomb.” A bomb was di& erent than a # re. Turns out it wasn’t a bomb, but a plane that had been $ own into one of the World Trade Centers. " at random Tues-day was Sept. 11, 2001.

I remember every detail of that day. I was confused and a little bit scared. Sketchy details were com-

ing in through all forms of the media. And there I was, barely 23. I thought I had it all down, that I had all of the answers. I was wrong.

My peers were sitting around me and most of us were around the same age. I remember looking around the room when the # rst tower fell and we all had tears in our eyes. No one said a word. " e direction I thought my life was go-ing was about to drastically change.

I joined the Air Force in 1998. Some join as a duty and others as a family tradition. I did it because I had nowhere else to go. I was in a bad marriage and I didn’t want to stay home. I thought I was ready and willing to do my part, but I didn’t realize at the time that “that part” was war.

I didn’t sign up to # ght bad guys. I signed up to get a steady paycheck, to have good insurance and to learn a trade and earn mon-ey for school. I had a husband and a daughter for crying out loud. I couldn’t go shoot at bad guys. I fell

into a troubled sleep that night and Wednesday morning, Sept. 12, I put on my uniform and looked at myself in the mirror.

It wasn’t just a uniform any-more and the military wasn’t just a job. I realized in that moment that I had a family and they de-served the right to live in our coun-try, free of fear. I wanted them and all Americans to have the peace of mind that they did on the 10th of September, just two days prior. But most of all, I wanted the cowards who planned this attack to be held accountable for what they did.

By Sept. 22, I was on a plane heading to battle. I was scared and nervous but I was ready. I assumed we would tote our M-16s every-where and be on the “look out for Taliban.” But not all of those who support terrorism are out in the line of # re, in the weeds, ready to shoot.

We eventually landed in Bah-rain, a quiet island outside of Saudi Arabia once owned by the British.

" ey still held many traditional Hindu values, but there was also the younger crowd who wore jeans and T-shirts and the young ladies who wore makeup. It wasn’t what I expected, but we supported the war # ghters in Afghanistan from a “support base,” which provides soldiers a place to sleep and o& ers them medical attention, among other services.

A! er four months I was de-ployed to Kyrgyzstan, to a NATO base where we had a multi-na-tional force. It was another sup-port mission, another not-carry-ing-my-M-16-to-shoot base. A! er about two months I went home. " at deployment was “cake” as far as deployments go. And then we arrived in Germany and every-thing changed — again.

A! er exploring Germany, vis-iting local bars and chatting with residents, it was time to return to our home bound $ ight where we were ushered on a bus and taken to our plane. Upon our arrival, in

the middle of a cold March night, we noticed the proper and digni-# ed loading of $ ag-draped caskets. We all exited the nice, warm bus and stood at attention, paying our respects to the soldiers who would be $ ying home with us. It was the most sobering event of my life. Af-ter six months of missing my hus-band and daughter, I was going home to see them. I couldn’t say the same for these men.

I had two more deployments a! er that one. Both were in Iraq, and both I carried my M-16 but this time not for looks, for pro-tection. Again, everything I knew changed. I met some incredible people on those trips and made some lifelong friends. But the most important thing I learned was there are more good people living in that country than bad.

Seniors, you are at an amazing age; the age where you can really take the world by the horns and make a di& erence. Your life is just beginning for you. When you leave

here and you are doing your job, learning what you need to make it in your new life, be ready. You are of the age where you know you don’t know everything, though you do know where you’re going and how to get there.

I remember being 23. I knew what I knew and I knew it well. You will have certainty in what you do and be comfortable in doing it, just like I did. " en things will happen. " ings will change. What you signed up to do will have a whole di& erent meaning. Maybe your changes won’t be as dramat-ic as the attacks of Sept. 11 or my deployments following those at-tacks, but it will be just as personal to you. You will be scared and ner-vous, there’s no question. While I was wielding my M-16 at 23, you will be wielding your tools and knowledge. Use them wisely and be ready.

Heather French is a UA freshman, majoring in journalism.

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My 9/11: What 9/11 means to me as a Muslim American

We all remember that fate-ful day ten years ago, Sept. 11, 2001, when the walls of our country were breached and the heart of our nation was attacked. Most of us were young, in elementary school or just starting middle school. I remember sitting in my sixth grade math class tak-

ing a test when my teacher’s phone rang. This didn’t hap-pen often, so naturally, we all looked up. Next thing we know, she’s turning on the television and telling us that a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York.

I had no idea what the Twin Towers were or why they were so important. I silent-ly watched the TV screen in horror, but there was a slight disconnect; it was almost as if I was watching a movie.

I remember going home that day. As I got out of the bus and walked up my drive-way, my mom rushed outside to come get me. Her eyes were red and I could see the slight glimmer of tears marked on her cheeks. This was a lot more serious than I had thought.

The weeks after 9/11 were some of the most confusing

weeks of my life. The terror-ists responsible for this hei-nous crime turned out to be people who carried out the at-tacks in the “name of Islam.” My religion. These terrorists not only attacked my coun-try, they also attacked my re-ligion.

As an American Muslim, I received a lot of attention--weeks, months and years after 9/11. People wanted to know about Islam; If the ter-rorists actions did not re-flect Islam, then what are the teachings? I had Muslim friends whose parents did not let them go to school the week after 9/11, I had friends who stopped wearing the hi-jab and I have a friend who was accused of calling in a bomb threat at her school. However, here in Fayetteville, I don’t remember a single in-stance of intended physical or

verbal harassment. The Fay-etteville community remains just as open-minded today, if not more, as if in defiance of the travesty committed against thousands of our fel-low Americans.

Now, 10 years later, as we reflect back to that day and remember those inno-cent men and women who died, it is also important to remember the people who ran toward danger, regard-less of their lives, to save oth-ers. Thank you to all the fire-fighters, police officers, res-cue workers and other first responders who risked, and in many instances, sacrificed their lives for others.

Most importantly, I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the troops who fought and continue to fight for this country. There are about 45,000 troops stationed

in Iraq and as of June, 2011 there were about 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, with plans to send 1,400 addition-al Marines, according to The New York Times.

There are more than 1,000 military veterans on campus, many who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are now trying to adjust back into the civilian world, a transi-tion that can be very difficult. Although the university pro-vides many resources to help veterans with this transition, no one can quite understand the struggles that they must face.

As a student veteran once told me, “Nobody comes back unchanged…The support here is nice, but it’s difficult for anybody to understand. I found that the best support comes from people who have had the same experience.”

So while I cannot claim to understand the transition from a war zone to a college campus, I can say that I have the deepest respect for our troops and I appreciate those who come back to study at the university. Thank you for your service to our country.

This year, we decided to dedicate a special edition to the remembrance of 9/11. One of our own— Sara Low, a UA alumnus and sister of former Traveler editor Aly-son Low—died when the 1st hijacked plane hit the North Tower. We would like to hon-or her memory as well as the memory of the 2,571 others who died in the attacks.

Saba Naseem is the 2011-2012 Traveler editor.

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“I wrestled with the signi! -cance of 9/11 for 10 years, a process he detailed in his appli-cation essay,” Garcia said.

When Garcia entered his 5th grade classroom that Tuesday, there were TVs everywhere, " ashing with images that would be burned into public con-sciousness.

“# ey showed us a replay of the planes actually " ying into the towers, and then they showed all the suspects, like all the guys that were hijackers, and you see them and they’re all Middle Eastern, they’re all Muslim, they’re all wearing tur-bans,” he said.

“It a$ ected me because I was young, you know. I think it was the same for a lot of Americans – that light bulb went on in their heads and we started thinking, ‘# ese Middle Eastern people, these Muslim people, they’re all

bad.’ And we started having this stereotype against them based on this terrible action commit-ted by just a few guys.”

Garcia said he struggled with that prejudice for eight long years, until he moved into Holcombe Hall his freshman year. He’s stayed there every year since.

“I started becoming friends with Muslim people from Saudi Arabia, from Iran, from Egpyt, from Indonesia, and seeing that they’re just like me,” he said. “# ey’re working hard, they’re really nice people, and that helped me personally get rid of that stereotype.”

# e UA students will also visit Liberty and Ellis Island, the U.N. Headquarters, the Metro-politan Museum of Art and a Broadway show and go on a Central Park bike tour, Bre% e said.

“We thought, while we’re there, why not take advantage of some of the cultural and educational

opportunities?” he said.Garcia, who has never been

to New York City, said he is looking forward to the open-ing of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which “attests to the triumph of hu-man dignity over human de-pravity,” according to the mu-seum website.

“During times like this, the good thing about Ameri-ca is that people come togeth-er,” Garcia said. “It showed the courage and the character of the American people.”

Bre% e, who created and planned the trip with another residence education coordina-tor, said his recent trip to New York City changed the way he viewed the attacks.

“# ere’s a feeling of commu-nity at Ground Zero on an an-niversary of 9/11,” he said. “It’s a completely di$ erent experi-ence being there, rather than just seeing pictures or seeing it on TV.”

Razorbacks Honor 9/11 VictimsBetween the Union and

Mullins Library, 2,752 Amer-ican " ags decorate the lawn; each representing a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks.

On Sept. 5, 37 volunteers from the Volunteer Action Committee, the Residents’ In-terhall Congress and Associat-ed Student Government gath-ered in the growing dusk to place each " ag in the ground.

Matthew Seubert, a junior political science and econom-ics major, planned the memo-rial, along with other remem-brance events throughout the week.

What started as a simple project grew into a week-long event because he “saw how much it meant to folks” and wanted to give his generation a “constructive outlet to express those emotions felt by our age group for 9/11.”

Bin Laden’s death was a wake up call for many Amer-icans who saw the way the country reacted, especially

people that were young at the time of the attacks, Seubert said.

“I saw how deeply it a$ ect-ed the country, and the pent-up emotion that went along with it,” he said.

Many of the volunteers had personal reasons to help out at this memorial, while others did it to represent the country as a whole.

Senior Michael Sides still remembers where he was at when the World Trade Center was hit by two airplanes.

“I was in physics class in high school my freshman year,” he said. “# e school closed and we watched TV all day. I remember that I was surprised, but I didn’t re-ally understand what was go-ing on. I didn’t understand the rami! cations at the time.”

However, now his view has changed drastically, he said.

“# e war brought it closer to home because some of my friends enlisted,” Sides said. “I wish I understood more when it was going on.”

Sophomore Mckenna Gallager

was just looking for a way to give back to the community.

“It didn’t really a$ ect me personally,” she said. “But seeing the way it a$ ected the country as a whole, I know it is going to be something that ev-eryone is going to remember for the rest of their lives.”

University sta$ member Angela Black shared Gallager’s outlook on the event.

“I wanted to remember 9/11 and do something to bring that remembrance to others,” Black said.

Seubert said that the me-morial should serve as a re-minder to students and com-munity members of the im-pact the Sept. 11 attacks had on America.

“Each " ag represents an individual life, each with its own intricacies, but also when students stand in the center of the mall and look out over the expanse of " ags, they should consider the enormity of the loss of life on Sept.11,” Seu-bert said. “I think this will be a jarring moment for many stu-dents.”

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This year marks the 10th year anniversary of Sept. 11; many will be remember-ing where we were and what we were doing on that day. The weeks following 9/11 it was impossible to watch the news and not hear about the twin towers, ter-rorism, airport security and the word “Muslim.”

M a h f u z a Akhtar, admin-istrative super-visor for the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies joined the UA in 1999 and worked in the Dean’s office of Ful-bright College of Arts and Sciences when 9/11 occurred.

“I was shocked. All [the news] said it was done by Muslim people, I was feeling so bad and hu-miliated,” Akhtar said.

The King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islam-ic Studies opened its doors in 1998 with private funds from King Fahd himself in order to create awareness. Students are given scholar-ships through the under-graduate and graduate pro-gram to study Middle Eastern and Islamic history , culture and religion, Akhtar said.

There are not many Mus-lim students at the cen-ter, most students involved with the center are Ameri-can students, Akhtar siad.

Islam is very similar to Christianity, in fact they are “sister religions”, Akhtar said.

The five pillars of Islam are faith, prayer, charity, fasting

and hajj, which is the pilgrim-age to Mecca. The word Is-lam means “total submission to one God” and a male fol-lower is Muslim and a female follower is Muslima, she said.

“I’ve had a lot of people that are curious; they wonder what it (Islam) is and what we believe,” said Bilal Zia-da, senior anthropology and

Middle Eastern Studies ma-jor. “It’s made me realize that as a Muslim, especially and American Muslim, every day I am a sort of [an] ambassa-dor of our religion and as a Muslim living here it is kind of my duty to show people what the real Islam is, wheth-er it be by my actions and the way I conduct myself day to day, or informing people and educating them about Islam.”

Ziada is a native Arkan-san and is the President of the Muslim Student As-sociation, which is one of three Muslim student as-sociations on campus.

The three Muslim student associations are the MSA, Al-Islam Students Associa-tion, and Muslimas of UARK.

“For people to associate Muslims with 9/11, that’s not accurate. There are bad Mus-lims in this world that do bad things, but there are so many good ones that do good things. I think it’s a motiva-tion to step up and step out and let people know what we are doing and try to help and

try to do good things in the community.” said Sofia Nas-eem, vice president of AISA.

Al-Islam is an organi-zation that has events ev-ery semester. It was formed in the wake of the 9/11 at-tacks for the purpose of in-forming the community about Islam, Naseem said.

This year AISA is hosting a blood drive with the Blood Coalition of the Ozarks. Two blood drives were Sept.6-7 and there will

be one Sept.8 at Yocum Hall and anoth-er Sept. 12. One hundred-fifty people have signed up for the blood drive, she said.

Muslimas of UARK is the third organization on

As people around the na-tion remember where they were that day, Alyson Low vividly recalls the events.

Alyson Low was teaching her class at Washington Junior High in Bentonville, Ark. on Sept.11, 2001, when a fellow teacher showed her a live video of smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center towers. She knew Sara had to work on a ! ight to Los Ange-les, the destination of the " rst plane to hit the WTC, at some point during that week. When she got ahold of her parents, her father was on the phone with American Airlines. # e fam-ily was told what they wanted to

hear: Sara wasn’t on Flight 11.“When I got that good news,

I remember stepping outside and everything just suddenly looked so crystal clear and beau-tiful, and the sky even got blu-er. I was so happy,” Low said. “# e teachers were high-" ving me. So for a while, we just sat and waited for her to call us.”

Low waited through-out the morning for Sara’s call. # e longer it took, the more discouraged Low felt.

“My dad called about 12:30, and the " rst thing he said was, ‘Is there somebody there with you?’ # at’s all he had to say,” Low said. “I knew that she was gone.”

Cheri Freeland, business man-ager of student media, remem-bers Alyson and her sister well.

Alyson served as a Traveler Edi-tor in 1995 and 1996, and Sara would frequently visit the o$ ce.

“# ey were how sisters should be; they were insepara-ble,” Freeland said. “I remem-ber Je% Smith was the editor at the Traveler when it happened and he said that she was in one of the planes. I just thought of her smile when I found out.”

Since Sara’s death, the Low fam-ily and many others around their hometown of Batesville, Ark., have found many ways to hon-or Sara. # e bracelet, which was given to Alyson Low by a group in New Mexico, and the ring, one of Sara’s that was recovered from the debris at Ground Zero, are just two small ways that Sara’s memory has been preserved.

At Sara’s memorial service, Sara’s roommate, also a ! ight attendant, pinned her own ! ight attendants’ wings on the jacket of Mike Low, Alyson and Sara’s father. With the help of a neighbor’s son, the Lows found a Special Operations unit out of Fort Campbell, Ky., and asked if one of the men might wear the wings into combat.

Specialist Mark Baker wore the wings into Afghanistan. When he returned home, he gave them back to the Low fam-ily in a special ceremony. # e wings will be now be installed in the museum at Ground Zero.

“It stands for all the ! ight atten-dants who were lost that day and

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Student Soldier Serves US After Sept. 11

In April 2002, Scott Wiley ar-rived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Seven months ear-lier on Sept.11, 2001, terror-ists had completed the deadli-est attack on U.S. soil in Ameri-can history, and this memory was not distant in Wiley’s mind.

Fresh out of boot camp, Wi-ley inquired about how the at-tacks a% ected those on the base. His supervisor took him to

stand on the 60 foot tail of one of the planes and directed Wi-ley to look northeast in the direc-tion of New York City, which was three hours away from the base.

“You can’t physically see New York City from Delaware, but he said from the tails of the plane you could see the smoke plume from the World Trade Center,” Wiley said. “# at’s when it really hit me. You can’t synthetically feel some-thing until you’ve experienced the situation " rst hand, and at that point I felt closest to the victims of 9/11.”

An experience not easily for-gotten, Wiley was able to recall the instance easily, despite the de-cade that has passed. It’s some-thing that has helped to de" ne him, and those close to him notice.

Now a sta% sergeant stationed at the UA, Wiley is in his last se-mester and will graduate with his bachelor’s degree in mechani-cal engineering in December. He came to the UA as a part of a com-petitive program for previously enlisted military to return to col-lege to obtain a technical degree.

“It’s called the Airman Education and Commissioning Program,” Wiley said. “It’s only for prior en-listed, and it gives us a chance to go to school with pay and bene" ts and earn our education, and then go to o$ cer training school and com-mission as a second lieutenant.”

Despite Wiley’s drive to " nish the school and return to the Air Force, he still takes time to show compassion to

MARY MCKAY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudent Scott Wiley, US Air Force, gives a demonstration of the C-5 Galaxy during an interview. Wiley says he is proud of his service.

by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer

SOLDIERon page 9

Campus Muslims Feel Effects of Attacks on

World Trade Center

ANDREW HAGOOD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERBilal Ziada, senior, prays at the Islamic Center on Razorback Road Wednesday afternoon. The center was mostly empty, but gets crowded on Fridays, Ziada said.

by ZESSNA GARCIA Staff Writer

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UA Grad Student Shares Her 9/11

ExperiencesAt 8:36 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001,

" ve hijackers ! ew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

About seven miles to the north, a 23-year-old photojour-nalist named Tracey Haynes, a recent graduate of the Uni-versity of Missouri at the time, was just waking up. She had not been in New York City for long and was staying in a hostel near Central Park on 110 Street while she looked for an apartment.

She got up, washed her face and got ready for the day—she was planning on visiting the World Trade Center for the " rst time. When she le& her room, she walked through the entry-way of the hostel where a tele-vision happened to be broad-casting news of the attack.

Without hesitation or fear she grabbed her camera, two rolls of black and white " lm and headed to the subway station.

“Most people when they hear a gunshot they run away,” Haynes said. “A pho-tojournalist runs towards it. I didn’t think; I just went.”

She took the Red Line south towards the World Trade Center. She talked with the other pas-sengers on the subway, trying to " gure out what was happening.

While she was on the sub-way, " ve more hijackers ! ew a second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, into the South Tower.

As the subway moved closer

to the site of the attack, a voice came over the loud speak-ers saying that this would be the last trip for the that line because of the attacks.

Haynes exited the subway " ve blocks north of the World Trade Center and climbed up the stairs from the underground station. She emerged to the sight of people, some crying, some running away, some looking dazed and confused—against the gargantuan backdrop of the ! aming, smoking towers.

She took a few pictures and continued to watch the tow-ers with the people around her.

Minutes later the South Tower imploded.

“People started running north. I crouched down and kept trying to get a picture, but I kept getting hit on the shoul-der by people running,” she said.

Holding her ground, she " -nally captured a picture that wasn’t blurry—a picture of people ! eeing as a police o$ -cer, overshadowed by the col-lapsing tower and the billowing cloud of dust and debris it cre-ated, screamed for them to run.

As Haynes headed north with the crowd, she came upon and photographed a man and wom-an crouched on the ground. # e man was weeping and scream-ing into his cell phone; he was trying to " nd out if his daugh-ter, who he feared was in a day care in the World Trade Center,

by EDDIE GREGGStaff Writer

EXPERIENCESon page 9

MOSQUEon page 9

“People need to remember the acts of a few hijacked not only the planes, but our religion for their own purposes.”

- Bilal Ziada, Senior in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies

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was OK. ! e woman next to him, a stranger to him, was trying to console him by rubbing his neck and o" ering him a bottle of wa-ter as tears rolled down her face.

Haynes continued north, taking pictures of the peo-ple she saw along the way, but she was running out of # lm.

“Miraculously, I found a dude who was just opening up his camera shop,” she said. “I bought like 10 roles, 12 rolls of # lm.”

Haynes continued to docu-ment the events and people she saw around her, taking dozens of pictures, several of which were displayed in the Here is New York: A Democracy of Photos gallery, which featured thousands of photos taken by profession-als and amateur photographers on 9/11 and the days following.

Prints of all the photos could be bought for $25, which was then donated to support the children of parents killed in the 9/11 attacks. ! e e" ort has raised $850,000, according to the gallery’s website.

A year later, 880 photos from the gallery, four of which Haynes snapped, were selected

and complied into an 864-page book also titled Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photos.

Ten years later, Haynes is a graduate student at the UA ma-joring in education. But her work continues to gain recog-nition. Her photo of the weep-ing father is going to be featured in a 9/11 documentary narrat-ed by Tom Hanks, Haynes’ fa-vorite actor, that is playing at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 8 as part of the Capitol's day long 10th anniver-sary commemoration of 9/11.

Even though she is working on a teaching certi# cate, Haynes still loves photography and believes in the power of photojournal-ism and embraces the role her photos have played people’s lives.

“I used to kind of poo poo it,” she said. “You don’t want to act like it’s more than it is. But you also have to acknowledge that you’re contributing to the great-er conversation that we’re hav-ing as people and that there’s value to that. It’s cool that it’s meant something to somebody or that it has moved them—that it’s something that I contributed to their understanding of 9/11.”

EXPERIENCESfrom page 8

the profession itself,” Alyson Low said. “It connected them to the re-ally special people in the military.”

Back in Batesville, the Sara Low Memorial 5K was started by a Batesville native who ran track with Sara in high school. ! e race, which takes place the weekend be-fore Sept. 11 each year, raises mon-ey for a scholarship fund at Bates-ville High School in Sara’s name.

Alyson Low has only been able to attend the race one year, because she and her family are usually in New York City on Sept. 11, but when she attended in 2009, she was touched by the amount of participation.

“! ere were so many of my fam-ily members and my classmates and people in the com-munity,” Low said. “! at was such good medicine for me to see all those peo-ple come together for that. It was just extraordinary.”

A stone memorial dedicated to Sara Low sits in front of the Batesville Junior High. Alyson Low said sever-al students from the junior high’s art classes etched images from Sara’s life into the stone – including a plane, which commemorates when Sara became a $ ight attendant, and a Ra-zorback, which is a nod to her years at the UA. ! ere is a picture of Sara etched into the center of the stone.

Alyson Low said the sup-port from the community in Batesville has helped the Low family make it through the years following Sara’s death.

“We have a really support-ive community in Batesville, ex-tremely supportive,” Low said. “On one hand, it is very isolat-ing. But then on the other, because it has been so public, we’ve been able to absorb some of that good part of human beings on a big-ger level. ! at’s been very helpful.”

! e University of Arkansas Community College in Bates-ville also has a scholarship fund

in Sara Low’s name. ! e Humane Society of Independence Coun-ty in Batesville named a room for cats a% er Sara, because she owned a cat and loved animals. Alyson Low said the money that contin-ues to be donated to the Humane Society in Sara’s name is incred-ibly meaningful to the Low family.

Low said she hopes to some-day be able to open an ani-mal shelter in Sara’s honor.

“She loved animals,” Low said. “! at’s something I’d like to do in her memory, is to create a for-ever home for animals that just, for whatever reason, aren’t go-ing to be high on people’s atten-tion level for being adopted.”

In 2002, a maple tree was plant-ed on the Old Main lawn in Sara

Low’s memory. It is planted close to her name on the Senior Walk, near the intersection of Arkan-sas Avenue and Dickson Street.

“! at’s been really spe-cial, to have a living memo-rial to her,” Alyson Low said.

Low said she and her family will be in New York City on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. At least two members of the Low fam-ily have been at Ground Zero on 9/11 each year since 2002.

“I can’t see in the foreseeable fu-ture not going,” Low said. “It’s im-portant to me to be around the other family members. I get a lot from being with them. And not necessarily even talking to them, just being in their presence.”

Most importantly, Alyson Low wants to feel close to her sister on the anniversary of her death.

“I just need to be where Sara was,” Low said. “She was so far away from us on that day that I just need to be where she was.”

Low said her family is planning some special projects in her sis-

ter’s memory for this year, but not because it’s the 10th anniversary of Sara’s death. She said the em-phasis society puts on # ve, 10 and 15 year anniversaries makes peo-ple think there’s something even more important about the 10 year anniversary, but the Low fam-ily doesn’t look at it any di" erent.

“! e reality is, yes, it’s just an-other year without her,” Low said.

Low described her sister as being intelligent, quick-witted and calm. She said her family has heard from some of Sara’s former passengers, who said she was “always really re-assuring to them and made them feel comfortable on their $ ights.”

“We’ve had a couple of passen-gers who were kids at the time, $ ying by themselves, and they re-

membered how she made them feel comfortable,” Low said. “She had this demeanor of be-ing in control and in charge; not over-

bearing at all, but just somebody that you knew you could rely on as taking care of business.”

Low said her sister was “just hi-larious and loved to dance.” She said Sara became a $ ight attendant because she thought it was “just the perfect means to travel and see all the di" erent places,” and she was looking forward to becoming an international $ ight attendant. Sara graduated from the UA in 1995 with a degree in real estate and # nance.

When people ask Alyson Low how they can help honor Sara’s mem-ory, she knows exactly what to say.

“If you want to remember Sara in the most appropriate way, it’s to go and do something fun and to pay attention to what’s going on around you. It just sounds so cliché, but smelling the roses, because she real-ly had an appreciation for the beauty in life and having a really good time with her friends and her family. ! at to me is the best tribute,” Low said.

those around him, helping students at the computer lab, according to Debbie Haynes, secretary in the mechanical engineering department.

“He’s a really good kid, well a man actually,” Haynes said. “He makes [the mechanical engineering sta" ] feel like he cares about us and that the stu-dents care about us as well.”

! is sentiment is echoed by Carter Serage, Wiley’s roommate of nearly two years and fellow mechanical engineering major.

“On the solar boat team, he’s a leader,” Serage said. “He takes charge and tries to organize.”

Serage said that he be-lieves Wiley has gained his leadership abilities from in-volvement in the Air Force.

! ere’s something else that stands out about Wiley, accord-ing to those close to him. He is not haunted as one might ex-pect of a man whose # rst de-ployment was four months in Baghdad, during the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“He’s very positive,” Haynes said. “! e cup is always half full, never half empty.”

Wiley maintains his sweet-

ened disposition but he said he hasn’t forgotten the hard times while serving. One in-stance in particular was dur-ing his # rst deployment.

“It was at Baghdad International Airport,” Wiley said. “My prima-ry duty was to ensure that cargo planes landed at the airport, un-loaded cargo and departed safely.”

Early one morning during his deployment in Iraq, Wiley faced one of his most frightening mo-ments – a mortar attack. Iraqi insurgents # red mortars, which # res shells at high angles, over the fence surrounding the airport. A metal storage unit was hit dur-ing the attack, though the rebels were unable to see their targets.

“We used to go in and out of [that unit] all the time,” Wiley said. “It was hit. If I had done my normal rounds like I was sup-posed to that morning instead of getting there early, it could have gotten me. ! at was rough.”

But this experience didn’t break him, he said. Wiley was grounded in his decision to serve his country and said that he has always felt a patriotic duty.

“I thank him and I thank ev-erybody for the service that they put in,” Serage said. “It takes a special person to do that.”

“! ere were so many of my fam-

“If you want to remember Sara in the most appropriate way, it’s to go

and do something fun.” - Alyson Low, former Traveler editor and sister of

flight attendant on 9/11

LOWfrom page 8

SOLDIERfrom page 8

MOSQUEfrom page 8

LIBBY NYE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAlyson Low, former Traveler editor, sister of Sara Low and now the childrens librarian at the Fayetteville Public Library, sits by a window in the childrens department overlooking Fayetteville.

TRACEY HAYNES COURTESY PHOTOTracey Haynes’s photos from the 9/11 terrorist attacks are included in a Washington D.C. film festival, which will air at the Newseum in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

campus. Members of Muslimas have had many lectures in the past few years and helped coordinate an Islamic Awareness Week two years ago.

! ey have “had di" er-ent speakers introducing Is-lam to other students,” said Haxhire Myrteza, last year’s president of Muslimas. ! e events are open to everyone.

Mohandas K. Gandhi once said, "It is the duty of every cul-tured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.”

! ese young leaders have turned a negative into a pos-itive by opening the plat-form for conversation and bringing awareness to the Muslim community.

“People need to remem-ber the acts of a few, hi-jacked not only the planes but our religion for their own purposes.” Ziada said.

Editor’s Note: So! a Naseem, the vice president of AISA is the editor’s sister. She is the spokes-person for the organization.

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SPORTS PAGE 10 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 SPORTS EDITOR: JIMMY CARTER ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: ZACH TURNERTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Receivers Marquel Wade and Maudrecus Humphrey were right behind Joe Adams, tapping his helmet enthusiastically.

! e line judge was right be-hind those two with his own spe-

cial message.“Walk back to the huddle,” the

o" cial ordered Adams, not want-ing the senior receiver to linger in the endzone a# er his electrifying 69-yard touchdown return.

“I don’t think I’m going to make it ref,” the out-of-breath se-nior managed.

Adams had just recovered his mu$ ed punt, sprinted to one side-line, back across the % eld and then back again, a highlight-reel play that made him Arkansas’ career punt return touchdowns leader and tied him for the Southeastern Conference single-game punt re-turn touchdown record.

Walking to the sideline wasn’t going to be easy. Fellow senior re-ceiver Jarius Wright sprinted to the end zone and carried Adams back to the bench.

“I wasn’t lingering,” Adams said. “I was tired.”

His big night in the Razor-backs’ 51-7 season-opening win

against Missouri State, including a 61-yard return for a touchdown in the % rst quarter, earned him SEC Player of the Week and Special Teams Player of the Week honors.

“I was surprised when they told me, but I pride myself on be-ing a good return man and put-ting the o$ ense in good position

or score if I can,” Adams said.! e two touchdowns added to

his school-record 97-yard touch-down return against Ole Miss last season made the 5-foot-11, 190-pounder the UA career leader in punt return touchdowns.

Joe Adams etched his name into Arkansas and SEC record books in week one

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

Setup

Missouri State went three-and-out in the third quar-ter and punter Jordan Chiles hit an end-over-end 40-yard punt angled toward freshman returner Marquel Wade, Ar-kansas’ other returner back deep with Adams in Arkan-sas territory.

Adams moved in front of Wade, but the ball took an awkward bounce and hit Ad-ams at the 31-yard line, caus-ing him, Wade and Missouri State long snapper Kaleb Mueller to dive for the ball. Mueller tried to fall on it at the 33-yard line, but the ball

squirted free before Adams fielded it and headed toward the right sideline.

“I was trying to get Wade a punt return and it bounced. I didn’t think I touched it, but people said I touched it, so that’s why I went to get it. I’m never trying to dive on the ball. I’m trying to make a play with it. I tried to pick it up, make some guys miss and that’s what happened. It got blurry at the beginning once I picked the ball up. Once I got everybody to one side, I cut upfield and opened up some space.”

- Adams

Return

Adams reversed % eld at the 18-yard line, heading for the le# sideline, picking up blockers and outracing multiple defend-ers to the Missouri State sideline before cutting up% eld. Once he got to Arkansas’ 40-yard line, he started turning toward the middle of the % eld and ran past a diving Chiles.

When he crossed mid% eld he started heading back toward the right sideline and the Razor-backs’ bench, juking out Bears defender Mart Montgomery at the 40. Mueller got back up af-ter missing the recovery and has angle, but is chasing Adams

without his helmet, lost while % ghting o$ a block in Hogs’ ter-ritory.

Adams looked to have out-run Mueller, but Wade wiped out the long snapper at the 14-yard line as Adams trotted into the end zone.

“I came back across. At the end I noticed the guy chasing me with no helmet. In my mind, I was asking, ‘Are you ever going to stop?’ It was crazy. I was looking at him and he was looking at me. I was like, ‘You don’t have a hel-met.’ He never stopped, but Wade came, picked him up and I was happy.”

-Adams

Reaction

Adams jogged into the en-dzone and trudged out the side, with Wade and sopho-more receiver Maudrecus Humphrey close behind, tap-ping his helmet. The line judge was behind the two and talked to Adams. Senior re-ceiver Jarius Wright sprinted down the sideline and car-ried Adams back to Arkansas’ bench.

“The ref was like, walk back to the huddle.’ I was like ‘I don’t think I’m going to make it ref.’ It was about 150 yards. I didn’t think I was go-

ing to make it to the end zone, but I just kept pushing.”

-Adams

“It was exciting because we sat down and were look-ing, then he exploded. Ev-erybody had a smile on their face, was jumping up and tap-ping the hat. It was unbeliev-able. Not often a player does that in a game. We were all stunned, but we knew he had the ability to do it.”

-Junior linebacker Alonzo Highsmith on what he saw from the sideline.

Photos (Left to Right): CONTESSA SHEW, CONTESSA SHEW, RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

The Record-Breaker69 yards4:15 Third Quarter

Arkansas 44Missouri State 0

Spreading the Wealth

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas quarterbacks Tyler Wilson and Brandon Mitchell completed passes to 11 recievers in Arkansas’ 51-7 win against Missouri State.

Defense Itching For Shutout

Arkansas’ defense wasn’t satis-fied with giving up one touchdown against Missouri State and now have their sights focused on shut-ting out New Mexico.

The Lobos wobble into the game having scored just 10 points in their opener against Colorado State, after going 1-10 a season ago. The Razorbacks face an inexperi-enced offensive line for the second consecutive week, a unit that gave up 10 sacks.

“It was very disappointing to let them (Missouri State) score in the first game,” senior DE Jake Bequette said. “A shutout is some-thing we will keep shooting for and it might happen every week or it

might not happen any week. It is a goal we have as a defense and one that we strive to.”

Arkansas has not accom-plished the feat since 2006 under then-coach Houston Nutt. The Ra-zorbacks opened that season with a 50-14 loss at home to USC before rebounding the next week at home against Utah State, winning 20-0.

“It is something we haven’t done here in a while,” senior line-backer Jerico Nelson said. “It is something we are going to try and do this week and we will have to depend on our second group to come in and do the same thing the first group did.”

The Hogs’ opponent last week, Missouri State, is an FCS level

by ZACH TURNERAsst. Sports Editor

see ADAMSon page 12

see DEFENSEon page 12

Arkansas’ quarterbacks don’t lack for options.

Junior Tyler Wilson and sophomore Brandon Mitch-ell combined to complete 28 passes to 11 di$ erent receiv-ers in the 51-7 season-open-ing win.

“It was good to play so many guys,” coach Bobby Petrino said. “! at is one of the bene% ts of playing a game like this so early in the year. Everybody gets in and gets experience.”

Wilson, who made his % rst career start, was 18 of 24 for 260 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Wilson had seen limited time in his % rst three seasons of action play-ing behind former Razorback and current New England Pa-triot Ryan Mallett, but was named the starter on Aug. 25 by coach Petrino.

Mitchell, Wilson’s backup, led his % rst drive in the sec-ond quarter and played ex-

tensively in the second half. Mitchell % nished the game 10 of 11 passing for 104 yards and one touchdown.

“As a quarterback, right now in our o$ ense with the receivers we have, it is really easy to just read the defense,” Petrino said. “Know who you have to hold, know who you are going to key and distrib-ute the ball. You don’t have to force the ball to one receiver or to a tight end.”

Although 11 di$ erent op-tions caught passes against the Bears, Wilson complet-ed six of his passes and both touchdowns to senior receiv-er Jarius Wright. ! e 5-foot-10 captain had six catches for 108 yards to lead all receivers.

Among the others receiv-ing passes against Missouri State was starting running back Ronnie Wingo Jr. ! e ju-nior from St. Louis had three catches for 51 yards, second-best on the team.

by ZACH TURNERAssistant Sports Editor

see RECEIVERSon page 11

Photos (Left to Right): CONTESSA SHEW, CONTESSA SHEW, GARETH PATTERSON, RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

Big-Play Specialist

Photos (Left to Right): CONTESSA SHEW, CONTESSA SHEW, GARETH PATTERSON, RYAN MILLER

Big-Play SpecialistBig-Play SpecialistBig-Play SpecialistBig-Play Specialist

New MexicoSATURDAY, SEPT. 10

LITTLE ROCK, ARK.

6 PM

ESPNU

ARKANSAS

1-0, 0-0 SEC

NO. 14 AP, NO. 13 USA

MISSOURI STATE

0-1, 0-0 MVC

LAST MEETING

ARKANSAS 43-25 (1987)

SERIES

ARKANSAS 6-0-0

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ARKANSAS (1-0)RUSHING No. Yds TD LgR. Wingo Jr. 11 43 0 11D. Curtis 5 37 0 14K. Walker 9 33 2 8B. Mitchell 3 5 0 9

PASSING C-A Yds Int TDT. Wilson 18-24 260 0 2B. Mitchell 10-11 104 0 1

RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgJ. Wright 6 108 2 33C. Gragg 4 18 1 7R. Wingo Jr. 3 51 0 19C. Hamilton 3 38 0 20M. Wade 3 28 0 20J. Horton 3 23 0 12C. Childs 2 29 0 16J. Herndon 1 41 0 41

TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksB. Jones 1 5 6 0 0E. Ford 1 5 6 0 0J. Franklin 1 4 5 .5 .5C. Smith 3 1 4 1.0 2.0A. Highsmith 2 2 4 0 2.0T. Flowers 2 2 4 0 0T. Wright 0 4 4 0.5 0R. Rasner 3 0 3 0 0J. Nelson 1 2 3 0 0J. Lake 1 2 3 0 0

NEW MEXICO (0-1)RUSHING No. Yds TD LgJ. Wright 12 65 0 15T. Austin 25 57 0 15C. Gongbay 5 18 0 9D. Rogers 4 9 0 5

PASSING C-A Yds Int TDT. Austin 20-31 179 0 1

RECEIVING No. Yds TD LgD. Leon 8 79 0 25T. Kirk 3 20 0 9L. Thomas 2 34 1 27L. Reed 2 30 0 22C. Gongbay 2 -12 0 0A. Aho 1 12 0 12J. Wright 1 9 0 9 D. Rogers 1 7 0 7

TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksD. Bollems 7 6 13 0 0C. Messina 5 3 8 2.0 1.0F. Young 0 6 6 0 0D. Berry 4 1 5 1.0 0M. Barr 1 3 4 0 1.0R. Davis 0 3 3 0 0J. Harris 1 2 3 1.0 1.0U. Uzodinma 1 2 3 0 0S. Merritt 1 1 2 0 0A. Hooks 2 0 2 0 0

SEASON OUTLOOK

ARKANSASDATE OPPONENT RESULT

9-3 Missouri State W, 51-79-10 New Mexico 9-17 Troy 9-24 at Alabama10-1 Texas A&M10-8 Auburn10-22 at Ole Miss10-29 at Vanderbilt11-5 South Carolina11-12 Tennessee11-19 Mississippi State11-26 at LSU

NEW MEXICODATE OPPONENT RESULT

9-3 Colorado State L, 10-149-10 Arkansas 9-17 Texas Tech 9-24 Sam Houstin State10-1 New Mexico State10-15 Nevada10-22 TCU10-29 Air Force11-5 San Diego State11-12 UNLV11-19 Wyoming11-26 Boise State

“Ronnie did a great job of catching the ball out of the back! eld,” Wilson said. “De’Anthony (Curtis), Chris (Gragg) and Colton Miles-Nash as well, you just go down the line and there are a lot of guys that made plays.”

Last season, Wingo pro-duced more as a receiver out of the back! eld than at running back. During the 2010 season, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound back hauled in 27 catches for 274 yards and four touchdowns.

Junior tight end Chris Gragg was the recipient of Mitchell’s lone touchdown pass, a 3-yard pass with ! ve minutes remaining in the ! rst half. Gragg ! nished the night with four catches, second most on the team.

Last year’s leading receiver, senior Joe Adams, was a bigger factor in the punt return game

than the passing game, but still managed to haul in a recep-tion. Adams took two punts back for touchdowns for the Razorbacks, one and each half, as well as registering one catch for 11 yards.

“We have so many great athletes that you can just drop the ball o" to anybody,” Adams said. “(Marquel) Wade had catches, the young guys did a lot of good things and Jarius had a 100-yard game, so there is a lot of ways for us to get the ball around.”

O" ensive coordinator Gar-rick McGee said he expects the quarterback to do an even better job running the o" ense against New Mexico.

“# ey do understand you make your biggest jump from game one to game two,” McGee said. “Emotionally it’ll be dif-ferent. Some guys go out there and go, ‘Oh, I’ve done it be-fore.’ Other guys really turn the pressure on. # ey go out there

and work harder, really work on their technique in practice. # ose are the guys that be-come great. # at’s where we’re at now.”

Among others receiving catches against Missouri St. were sophomores Julian Hor-ton and Javontee Herndon who had three catches for 23 yards and one catch for 41 yards respectively. Also new-comers Marquel Wade and fullback Kiero Small combined for four catches for 35 yards.

Veteran receivers Cobi Hamilton and Greg Childs both had receptions as well. Hamilton caught the ! rst catch of the game and went on for three catches for 38 yards. Childs made his ! rst two catches since su" ering a season-ending knee injury last year during the Vanderbilt game, and had 29 yards total.

“We feel like all of our play-ers can make plays for us,” Petrino said.

from RECIEVERSon page 10

COURTESY PHOTOArkansas will play the fi rst of its two annual games at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock Saturday against New Mexico. The Razorbacks are 6-0 under coach Bobby Petrino in Little Rock including a 31-23 win over then-No. 5 LSU in the regular-season fi nale last year.

Arkansas will travel to Little Rock on Saturday to face New Mex-ico in the ! rst of its two annual regu-lar season games in the state capital.

# e Razorbacks have had plen-ty of success in their recent trips to War Memorial Stadium. Arkansas has won its last eight games in Little Rock and is 6-0 under coach Bobby Petrino in three seasons.

For some players, it’s their ! rst trip to Little Rock. For others, it is a chance to go closer to their home-towns and have family members in attendance.

“Little Rock is always fun to play in,” junior quarterback Tyler Wilson said. “# ere are a lot of our players from Little Rock and I remember playing state championship games there.”

# e Greenwood, Ark., native will be making his ! rst start in Little Rock, but has seen action in prior

seasons at War Memorial. In 2009, Arkansas won its season opener in Little Rock against Missouri State and Wilson completed 13 of 19 passes for 138 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

“It is a cool atmosphere,” Wilson said. “ It gives fans a chance that can’t travel all the way up here to Fayette-ville to come see us a couple times a year and that is always good.”

Senior receiver Joe Adams, a Little Rock native, will be making his seventh start in his hometown. # e 5-foot-11, 190-pounder at-tended Central Arkansas Christian High School, where he was named to the Associated Press Super Team his senior season.

“I love going home and playing in front of my Little Rock fans,” Ad-ams said. “A lot of them don’t get to travel up here, so I try to go down there and put on a show.”

Adams has 19 catches for 338 yards and three touchdowns in his War Memorial career. In his last

game at War Memorial, Adams helped cap o" an 11-play, 80-yard drive with a 39-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Ryan Mal-lett that helped seal the upset against No. 6 ranked LSU.

While both Wilson and Adams are familiar with traveling to Little Rock, newcomer Alonzo High-smith has never been to the capi-tal city of Arkansas. # e linebacker transferred to Arkansas by way of

Phoenix College in Arizona and is a native of Missouri City, Texas.

“I have never been to Little Rock,” Highsmith said. “Everyone tells me it is going to be exciting

though. # ey told me the crowd can get kind of loud down there.”

Highsmith made his ! rst career start against Missouri State in the season opener, registering four tack-les, including two tackles-for-loss.

Arkansas’ opponent for the ! rst of two Little Rock games, New Mexico is coming of a 14-10 loss in its season opener against fellow Mountain West Conference for Colorado State.

Headed to the Capital

by ZACH TURNERAsst. Sports Editor

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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NCAA/NFL Jimmy CarterSports Editor

Zach TurnerAsst. Sports Editor

Rumil BautistaStaff Writer

Liz BeadleStaff Writer

Monica Chapman Staff Writer

Martha SwearingenStaff Writer

Consensus Against the Spread

New Mexico atNo. 13 Arkansas (-36)

Arkansas 44-10 Arkansas 45-13 Arkansas 55-3 Arkansas 63-14 Arkansas 45-10 Arkansas 49-7 Arkansas Even

No. 2 Alabama (-10) atNo. 20 Penn State

Alabama 21-7 Alabama 28-6 Alabama 24-14 Alabama 45-17 Alabama 42-31 Alabama 28-14 Alabama Alabama

No. 17 Mississippi State (-7) at No. 22 Auburn

MSU31-20 MSU 35-13 MSU 35-17 MSU 38-10 MSU 34-28 Auburn 14-7 MSU MSU

No. 12 South Carolina (-3) at Georgia

Georgia 27-21 SC 34-20 SC 27-20 UGA 20-14 SC 35-17 SC 35-28 SC SC

Notre Dame at Michigan (-3.5)

Michigan 35-20 Michigan 28-10 Michigan 28- 24 Michigan 31-17 Michigan 21-10 Michigan 38-31 Michigan Michigan

Arizona at No. 7 Oklahoma State (-14)

OSU 38-27 OSU 42-21 OSU 35-21 OSU 41-27 OSU 38-21 OSU 35-21 OSU OSU

New Orleans at Green Bay (-4)

Green Bay 24-20 Green Bay 26-23 Green Bay 34-21 Green Bay 24-17 Green Bay 21-10 Green Bay 30-21 Green Bay Green Bay

Atlanta (-1) at Chicago Atlanta 17-14 Atlanta 17-10 Atlanta 27-20 Chicago 27-31 Chicago 35-21 Atlanta 24-21 Atlanta Atlanta

Indianapolis at Houston (-9)

Houston 31-17 Indianapolis 35-21

Houston 28-24 Indy 38-20 Houston 27-14 Houston 28-14 Houston Even

Dallas at New York (-4.5)

New York 23-17 New York 28-7 New York 24- 20 New York 24-14 Dallas 28-17 New York 28-21 New York New York

Last Week 5-5 7-3 6-4 5-5 7-3 7-3Year to Date 5-5 7-3 6-4 5-5 7-3 7-3

Traveler Staff Predictions! e two returns were grouped

together and ranked No. 7 on ESPN’s Sportscenter Top Plays. Adams received congratulations from family, friends and Hog fans a" er the game.

“! ere’s been a lot of mes-sages,” Adams said. “People are just saying thanks, that they re-ally enjoy watching me and (the 69-yarder) was the best punt re-turn they’d ever seen in their life.”

! e explosive showing came a" er his 15.6 yards per punt re-turn ranked # " h in the nation last season.

“He doesn’t surprise me,” Ad-ams said. “I know what he’s capa-ble of. He’s really explosive. Him with the ball in space is really dan-gerous because he has the ability to stop and start as fast as anyone in the country. At this point, he’s really con# dent, so he’s going to be hard to stop back there.”

Adams lined up as Arkansas’ lone return man last season, but shared return duties with true freshman Marquel Wade in the opener. Wade returned two punts for 14 yards, but provided several

key blocks on both returns.“We decided to put two guys

back there because both of them are real good punt returners,” coach Bobby Petrino said. “It helped us because it got us start-ed. Marquel always made a good block and Joe started on his re-turn. It’s amazing some of the runs he made. Not even just the two scores, but he had some other good punt returns.”

Wade returned # ve punts for touchdowns as a senior in high school and could get more action if teams start kicking away from Adams, starting with the New Mexico game Saturday in Little Rock.

“I don’t know what to expect, but if they kick it to me I’m going to try to return another one,” Ad-ams said. “If they kick it to Wade, I’m going to try to block it up and make sure he returns one.”

Adams’ big night broke him out of a tie with Gary Adams Sr., Orlando Waters Jr. and Marvin Jackson for the school record, a mark he wants to build on.

“I’m trying to make it more than three,” Adams said. “It’ll be hard for the next guy to try to beat me.”

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ARKANSAS - NEW MEXICO BREAKDOWN

New Mexico passing o! ense vs. Arkansas pass defense

New Mexico quarterback Tarean Austin com-pleted 20 of his 31 attempted passes for 179 yards last week against Colorado State, but was sacked nine times. Ar-kansas held Mis-souri State to just 79 passing yards last week. Senior linebacker Jeri-cho Nelson had an interception and the Hogs sacked Missouri State quarter-back Kierra Harris twice.

Advantage: Arkansas

Arkansas passing o! ense vs. Arkansas pass defense

Coach Bobby Petrino’s unit will pass ear-ly and often in hopes of opening up the run. Though the Lobos return nine defen-sive starters, the unit gave up an average of 44 points per game last year. Last week the Hogs had 364 passing yards in the win against Missouri State and try to take ad-vantage of a New Mexico secondary that allowed 25 passing touchdowns in 2010.

Advantage: Arkansas

Arkansas run o! ense vs. New Mexico run defense

New Mexico gave up more rushing yards last year (5.29 yards per attempt) than Missouri State did. Last

week, Arkansas only man-aged 102 rushing yards against Missouri State, but the Razorbacks should have better luck establishing a run game even with Den-nis Johnson doubtful with a hamstring injury. Ron-nie Wingo is still the feature back, but look for freshman Kody Walker to be utilized in short-yardage situations.

Advantage: Arkansas

New Mexico run o! ense vs. Arkansas run defense

New Mexico running back James Wright was held to 65 yards on the ground against a struggling Colorado State team last week and the Lobos have had a hard time developing a good ground game in recent history. Arkansas should have a heavy advantage with an experi-enced defense that held Mis-souri State to just 84 yards on the ground last week.

Advantage: Arkansas

Arkansas special teams vs. New Mexico special teams

New Mexico has good # eld goal and PAT kick-ing teams, but opportunities were few and far be-tween due to its o$ ense’s inability to score in the season-opening 14-10 loss to Colorado State. ! e two teams are even in terms of kicko$ and punt

yardage, but the Lobos struggled in returning punts (2.3 yards retuned per punt), while Arkansas’ Joe Ad-ams returned two punts for touch-downs last week against Missouri State.

Advantage: Arkansas

New Mexico coching sta! vs. Arkansas coaching sta!

Bobby Petrino is in his fourth season at Ar-kansas and is 24-15, including a 10-3 record last season and a 12-3 mark in the Razor-backs’ last 15 games. New Mexico coach Mike Locksley is in his third season at the school and has a 2-23 re-cord there, including a 14-10 loss to Colorado State to start off the 2011 season.

Advantage: Arkansas

two teams are even in terms of kicko$ and punt

sive starters, the unit gave up an average of

school. New Mexico is a bigger, FBS team, defensive coordinator Willy Robinson said the competition will be greater.

“No doubt there is a step up in competition,” Robinson said. “Just because of their quarterback and skill guys. The have a very veter-an skill group, but where it doesn’t match is that they have youth in the offensive front.”

New Mexico starting quarter-back Tarean Austin passed for 179 yards on 20 of 31 attempts with one touchdown in their 14-10 loss against Colorado State. The 6-foot-2 sophomore also had some suc-cess rushing the football for 57 yards against the Rams.

“The quarterback is a dual-threat,” Robinson said. “He can throw the ball. He is going to sit down there, look at his choice and if he is not there he becomes extremely dangerous.

With a young and inexperi-enced offensive line came plenty of sacks in the season opener for the

Lobos. Austin was the victim of nine of the Rams 10 total sacks in the game, but Robinson said he feels they will be improved heading into this week’s game.

“I think what you worry about is how they are going to try and adjust their offense,” Robinson said. “The comment I saw that their coach had made was it was not all the offensive line’s fault, but some of the receivers at times not running right routes. They will get that adjusted. That is first game jitters.”

The thought of a team allowing 10 sacks in the prior week, though, sounds appealing, sophomore de-fensive tackle Byran Jones said.

“We see some good opportuni-ties, but we do still have to prepare for these guys,” Jones said. “They have a big offensive line.”

If the Razorbacks are able to or-chestrate a shutout against the Lobos on Saturday, senior linebacker Jerry Franklin said it would be the first shutout he would have been a part of since junior high.

“It’s been a long time,” Franklin said.

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas’ defense allowed just 163 yards and one touchdown in the 51-7 season-opening win against Missouri State, but is shooting for a shutout against New Mexico.