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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012VOL. 106, NO. 108 10 PAGESUATRAV.COM
Collection of Treasures
Summer Brings Surge of Young
Job-Seekers
Cudi Concert Expected to Sell Out
One of the largest eggs ever produced by any species rests quietly in a bug-proof cabinet on the UA campus.
Measuring barely longer than a foot and capable of holding about two gallons of liquid goop, it is one of the last remnants of a 10-foot-tall ostrich-like creature that lived in Madagascar until its extinction in the 1600s.
Humans most likely ate the eggs of the elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus, which led to its extinction, said Nancy McCartney, the egg’s keeper and curator of zoolo-gy for UA Collections.
“Back in the late 1800s the British are all over the world and they’ve got nothing to do. So they start collecting things and trading them. ! ere were little books that had the pric-es of these eggs,” McCartney said.
A few feet from the large elephant bird egg is anoth-er cabinet with many draw-ers holding smaller eggs. Hawks. Pelicans. Bald ea-gles. Ostriches. Some eggs have a synthetic sheen. Oth-ers are white or faded yellow. Some are covered in beauti-ful brown specks. Most of the eggs roll around in groups of
threes or fours in small, light yellow boxes.
Organizing these eggs was a long and meticulous pro-cess, McCartney said.
“When you close the drawers, these things, they jump from one box to anoth-er. ! ey do! It’s like Night at the Museum,” she said.
McCartney, with the help of a work-study student, re-cently organized four sepa-rate collections of eggs. ! ere are hundreds of goop-less, unhatchable shells in these cabinets.
! e eggs came from four main donors. McCartney list-
ed them so quickly it seemed she might know them per-sonally.
“Wheeler, Luther, Tomlin-son and Miller,” she rang out. “! ey didn’t know when they made these collections what they would be used for.”
She estimates that there are anywhere from 50 to 200 elephant bird eggs in the world. Her egg came from H.E. Wheeler’s collection.
“It’s a curiosity and the ter-
Summer isn’t all late nights and pool parties -- many stu-dents spend the sunny months saving money for school.
“I work during the semes-ter but I work a lot more in the summer,” Blake Wilkins said. “! at way when school starts back, I’ll have money saved up so I don’t have to work as much during school.”
! e average wage a student earns in college is $11 per hour, according to classesand-careers.com.
! e rate of 16- to 24-year-olds working or looking for work grows sharply between
April and July each year. Dur-ing these months, large num-bers of high school and col-lege students search for sum-mer jobs while graduates en-ter the labor market in search of permanent employment, according to the Bureau of La-bor Statistics.
Last summer, the youth la-bor force grew 11.8 percent, to a total of 22.7 million in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
! e restaurant industry draws large numbers of young job-seekers. One-third of all adults got their " rst job expe-
Kid Cudi will perform in Barnhill Arena Sunday with Big Boi and Chip tha Ripper as the UA spring concert or-ganized by University Pro-grams.
Close to 7,500 people are expected to attend the con-cert.
“Tickets went on sale to the general public, and it’s ex-pected to be sold out,” said Nick Kapetenakis, a mem-
ber of the Headliner Concert Committee.
Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert will begin at 8 p.m. ! e concert is general admission, and there are no assigned areas aside from the # oor seating distinction.
! e Headliner Concert Committee books musicians with funds from student fees. ! e Kid Cudi concert will cost around $165,000, according to a headliner concert com-mittee advisor.
by JON SCHLEUSSStaff Writer
by KAREN STIGARStaff Writer
by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer
see MUSEUMon page 6
see JOBSon page 6
Seven Hour Stand Off
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERA UA Chartwells employee was sitting atop the ledge of the Garland Avenue parking garage between the University Bookstore and TCBY ice cream shop Wednesday night. See story, page 6.
COURTESY PHOTOS, PHOTO ILLUSTRAION BY SARAH COLPITTS
THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER WEEKENDER
FEATURES FEATURES EDITOR: LAUREN LEATHERBY ASST. FEATURES EDITOR: KELSI FORD PAGE 2 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012
Like this. Tweet this. Pin this. Post this. Broadcast this to the entire human race. Take this and stick it on your virtual forehead for everyone to see. ! is is where we’re at, the digital age. It’s an age in which being absent from the online realm is equal to be-ing absent from reality.
Are you on Facebook? Are you on Twitter? Add me. Follow me. Net-working used to be a time-consum-ing e" ort where trust had to be built from the ground up and relatable ex-periences took time to understand. Bob Dylan once said that the times they are a-changin’ and they most certainly have.
With the social network bub-ble continuing to rise, people have struggled to keep their online iden-tities consistent across the unrelent-ing sea of pixelated pro# les. With this rise have come numerous tools to keep it all together.
Hootsuite is an iPhone/Android app that consolidates most social networks into one clean, easy to use interface. ! e ability to post to Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and LinkedIn all at once is its key feature, according to its website.
Path is another iPhone/Android app that turns social networking into a type of journal that reaches across most of the popular networking sites. It allows you to choose which social network to post to, while giving the option to limit posts to the app itself. Supported networks include Face-book, Twitter, Foursquare, and Tum-blr, according to its website.
Instagram is another tool for iPhone/Android that makes upload-ing pictures not only easy, but also fun. With numerous # lters to choose from, your limited photography skills can be ampli# ed into some-
thing worth looking at. Add in the ability to post to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare, it is one of the best tools for mobile photo uploads.
Despite these tools that unite the ever-growing list of social networks, some people prefer to keep their identity fragmented.
Brian Carreno, a UA student ma-joring journalism advertising and public relations and an intern at Col-lective Bias, said that he tends to keep things separate.
“Facebook, for me, is very per-sonal. It is what I use to keep up with friendships and people I’ve met in real life, while Twitter is more strict-ly networking, such as professional contacts,” Carreno said. “Not that I
have anything to hide, it’s just keep-ing work and personal life separate. I don’t feel that they should intermin-gle.”
While keeping personal life sepa-rate from business is a wise trait to hold on to, some sharing of your own professional work toward friends is something others have taken on.
Joe DelNero, a broadcast journal-ism major and UATV Station Man-ager, said that while he has moved further away from Facebook, he doesn’t want his pro# le to remain stagnant.
“I use Twitter so much more, it’s easier for me to tweet something and have it go to my Facebook page and make sure that people who use Face-book more can still see what I’m do-ing, rather than just Twitter users,” DelNero said.
DelNero uses the Facebook con-nect option that can be found in Twitter’s settings on its desktop page in order to automatically send tweets to his wall.
Where in the world can you # nd a Belgian chest of drawers, pew-ter teapot bookends and vintage slinkies?
All this and more have found their home at Fayetteville’s new-est antiques and vintage store, ! e Striped Pig.
Located at the intersection of the bike trail and Center Street, ! e Striped Pig aims to be more than the typical antique store.
“I want it to be so that someone can come in and # nd something in their price range,” said Denise Dearien, owner of the store.
! e store’s furniture, import-ed from England and Belgium, is priced in the hundreds of dollars, but smaller items such as artwork and housewares run anywhere from $5 to $80.
! e Striped Pig, which opened on Feb. 15, has the vibe of an an-tique store. Every glance # nds new price tags, even a$ er the third or fourth look. Along with ornate (and unbelievably cute) furni-ture, the store o" ers vintage knick-knacks which could easily spruce up an apartment or dorm room.
“I want to attract all age groups,” she said. “! e vintage with the younger people, antiques with the older people.”
! e Striped Pig is located in what formerly housed Trailside Cafe and Tea Room before it closed last fall. Before that, the building was used as a concert space for lo-cal bands.
“It’s been a little bit of every-thing,” Dearien said of the building.
Dearien is very happy with her location, mentioning that rent is a lot cheaper than on the Square. Ad-ditionally, the store’s prime location on the bike trail allows for lots of business.
“! ere have been more walk-in customers than there probably would have been on the square,” Dearien said.
Dearien, a Springdale native, has had a lifelong passion for antiques.
“I’ve always been a collector,” she said. “I was wanting to start my own business selling vintage and antiques.”
Antique stores acquire their wares in a process known as “pick-ing,” during which they drive around the area looking for items to sell.
“We basically get in a vehicle and drive,” Dearien said. “We go to Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, wher-ever. We go to swap-meetings, junk stores, auctions.”
Pickers tend to avoid places like % ea markets, preferring sellers who don’t know the value of what they have.
“We try to # nd places where you can buy something to resell it at a higher price,” Dearien said.
One of the problems with an-tiquing is that when collectors # nd
that special something, it becomes hard to part with it.
“I would like to keep some things I # nd,” Dearien said. “But now, I think more about how I could sell them.”
However, that doesn’t mean that she can’t enjoy the occasional in-dulgence.
“! e beauty of it is,” she confess-es, “Is that I can keep an item I like and resell it later.”
! e store is open only Wednes-day through Sunday, primarily be-cause the picking process necessi-tates large expanses of time devoted to driving. Dearien mentioned that
she may have to close up shop for a week just to have the time to drive a farther distance to restock.
And how did Dearien come up with a name like “! e Striped Pig” for her store?
“My daughters and I brain-stormed on the name together,” she said. “We wanted it to be so that anyone walking by would think ‘What is that?’ and come in.”
“And it works! Many people are coming in just because of the name. ! ey tell me, ‘I saw the sign and I just have to know what exactly ! e Striped Pig is!’”
The Striped Pig: Selling SomeStripes, No Pigs and Lots of Vintage
UA Students Develop Online Presence
by LOGAN GILMOREStaff Writer
by EMILY DELONGStaff Writer
MADDIE LOGANSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe Striped Pig is a cute little shop on Center Street that’s filled with refurbished antiques
MADDIE LOGAN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Something you won’t hear people in Fayetteville say: ! ere aren’t near-ly enough Mexican restaurants here. Although it may be true that Fay-etteville has an excess of Mexican dining options, what we may lack is a source for original and authentic cuisine.
Problem solved, Fayetteville. A short drive north to our neighbor-ing town, Springdale, and you’ll be experiencing a very di" erent taste of Mexico. Charly’s Taqueria is as much of a hole-in-the-wall as res-taurants can get. Sharing a building with a garage, it would be easy to overlook the restaurant and miss out on a tasty adventure.
Walking in, it’s almost surprising that Charly’s looks so put together compared to its exterior. ! e res-taurant consists of three rooms of booths, tables and chairs. ! ere is a bar to sit at where you can watch them prepare your food. At the counter at which you place your or-der, I had to ask for some assistance when ordering. ! e wall is your menu here, and it completely over-whelmed me.
! e man behind the counter suggested I try the torta, a sort of Mexican sandwich. I didn’t even ask what was on it. For all I know it could have been tongue, a meat op-tion that was featured on the menu. Although it might be a delicacy to some, I don’t think I have enough mind-over-matter strength to ingest such a thing as tongue.
Luckily, that wasn’t the case with
the torta. A little bird told me that their horchata is some of the best around. Anytime someone says, “best in etc., etc.” I’m just going to have to give it a go.
I take a seat and am momen-tarily distracted by Heath Ledger as “! e Joker” on the television that is perched in two corners of the dining area. Never having seen this movie, I attempted to play catch-up, but alas, the movie was in Español. I should have known better.
My horchata made its way to my table. ! e cinnamon-y, milky con-coction stole my heart. I was deter-mined to make it last the entire meal instead of guzzling it down before I even had the chance to try anything substantial.
In the nick of time, my torta ar-rived, a heaping sandwich # lled with beef, and, if I’m not mistaken, ham, avocado, tomato and cheese. I ex-perimented with the two sauces that were brought to the table and found that a 50/50 combination of both the vinegary-yet-spicy green sauce and the chipotle spicy red sauce suited my taste buds best.
Once my torta performed a rath-er mysterious disappearing act (into my mouth, then stomach), I decided that was about as much damage as I could do for one trip. I returned to the counter to pay.
! e bill rang up to be # ve dol-lars even, amazingly enough. Deli-cious and thri$ y, is this real life? As I autographed my debit card receipt, the same handsome, I mean helpful,
Charly’s Taqueria a Delicious Hole-in-the-Wall
by KIMBERLY McGUIREStaff Writer
see CHARLY’Son page 5
“It’s just keeping work and personal life sepa-rate. I don’t feel that they should intermingle.”
- Brian Carreno, Advertising/Public Relations major
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It’s the week before Dead Day, and all I can think about is the stack of " nal exam study guides, the long list of proj-ects to " nish, forms to " ll out and sum-mer classes to enroll in, and the over-whelming mountain of dishes in my kitchen from late-night study snacks. It’s the end of the semester, and like most of us, I too feel like I am going crazy.
I admit, it’s 10 times harder to eat somewhat healthy during the last few weeks of the semester. An a$ er class mar-garitas-by-the-pool date with friends, a quick dash to Late Night a$ er that eve-ning study session in Mullins and the frozen pizza aisle are all looking like more promising sources of nutrition as Dead Day creeps up on us. Yet, I’m try-ing to keep a weekly menu together, and this recipe is one that is quick, simple and takes very little preparation.
Baked potatoes are " lling, easy to make and can be dressed with anything to create a delicious meal. Just pop them in the oven and one hour later, dinner is served. ! e possibilities are endless when it comes to toppings, but broccoli ched-dar is one of my all-time favorites, and this sauce is simply delicious. Serves 2.
Ingredients:2 large baking potatoesSeasoning saltOlive oil3 tablespoons butter or margarine4 tablespoons all purpose # our1 % cups milk1 % cups Cheddar cheese, shredded (I used Kra$ Triple Cheddar blend)1 head broccoliSalt and pepper, to taste Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Place the potatoes on a baking tray and poke the skin with a fork. Drizzle the po-
tatoes with olive oil and rub the oil over the skins until covered. Season with sea-soning salt and place in the oven. Bake for 45 minutes to one hour, or until the center of the potatoes are so$ .
To make the sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan on medium heat. When the butter has completely melted, add the # our and whisk until you have what looks like golden, so$ breadcrumbs. Add the milk, and whisk until smooth. ! e sauce should then come to the boil and thicken considerably. Remove from the heat and set aside. Add the shredded cheese and stir until smooth and creamy (at this point you can add more cheese, if desired). Add salt and pepper to taste and set aside.
To quickly steam broccoli, cut the head into smaller pieces and place in a large Ziploc bag. Add 2 tablespoons of water and almost seal the plastic com-pletely, leaving one corner open to let air in. Cook in the microwave for 2 minutes, or until the broccoli has so$ ened.
Add the broccoli to the cheese sauce and mix well. Take the potatoes out of the oven and allow them to cool. Cut
open, dress with butter and then cover with the broccoli-cheese sauce. Add oth-er toppings such as sour cream, bacon bits or chives.
Baked potatoes are a simple, fast and hearty dinner that can be enjoyed year round. Inexpensive to make, this meal is perfect for those last few days of school when bank account balances are low and stress levels are high. Invite friends over for a study night and get each person to bring a topping, or make this dish for a quick dinner break between library vis-its. However you choose to spend your last few days before summer, remember to eat well, sleep and keep those stress levels in check.
by EMILY RHODESOpinion Editor
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It’s that time of year. No, not the time for a lot of stress and little sleep, though sadly it is that too. It’s the time when we at the Traveler who are graduating gather around the metaphorical camp! re known as the opinion page and discuss what we’ve learned during our time at the UA and the paper.
It’s a chance for us to relate. It’s a chance for us to share, no, not our wisdom—speaking for myself, if attaining wisdom is like ! nishing a long cross-country race I’m not sure I’ve even gotten out bed—but at least our experience. To try to contribute to some sort of greater common knowledge. Before I le" my last internship, a couple of the guys decided they were going to scratch their name and a short message in the bottom side of the co# ee table in the apartment. I
imagine for some people these types of columns are a longer version of that.
If you’re hoping that my pseudo-philosophical opening means this isn’t that sort of column, I’ll go ahead and tell you it is. It’s also my last column. I’m sure some are cheering or breathing a sigh of relief the way we do a" er watching a bad performance. So, without further ado:
One: Try something new. No, I don’t mean when you head to Starbucks or RZ’s or Common Grounds this a" ernoon to order something di# erent, though feel free to. I mean get out of your comfort zone. Take risks. Go a" er things even if you think it’s a long shot. It’s hard and sometimes it’s scary. More o" en than not, we have the tendency to do it once, feel proud for a few days or a week and then retreat back to our safety net. Study abroad. Take internships. Take a class you’re interested in even if it’s outside your major.
Something I heard a lot at the Traveler, and it applies outside of maze the ! rst $ oor of Kimpel can sometimes be, is that college is the time to experiment. During college you have a lot of $ exibility and control over your decisions—what classes you take, what
RSO you’re a part of, o" en what you want to write a paper about. Looking back, I got spoiled during my time as an editor at the Traveler. Even as a columnist I get to decide what I want to write about within reason. Once I graduate much of that decision-making power will be gone. It’s part of growing up. It’s part of having to prove yourself all over again. It’s even a challenge we should all welcome, but I think taking advantage of $ exibility in college can provide puts you in a better position once you leave.
Two: Remember the small things. In other words, pay attention to the details. Even enjoy the details. I’m not saying don’t have big goals. Big goals are great. % ey are fantastic. I have no doubt that some of us have the drive and the ambition to change the world.
Maybe it stems from the same area that made us want to be superheroes and save the world when we were children. But while you’re busy learning how to $ y, ful! lling some larger quest or trying to ! gure out how to swing between skyscrapers via spider web, don’t forget we can do good things every day. Saving the world is a noble goal, but don’t forget in the meantime we can
save each other. We can do good things every day with our kindness, our willingness to help others and simply being polite.
In a world where we are pushed to be competitive from a young ago, it’s easy to overlook these things. As cliche as it is, we o" en don’t know what the people around us are going through. We forget how small things, how these overlooked details of our behavior, can impact even a complete stranger.
% ree: ‘% e time to make up your mind about people is never.’ So that isn’t completely true. % ere are probably some people, maybe the social outliers, that you can make up your mind about. But it’s easy to forget, especially at our age, that people change. We grow. We can get better, or worse. It’s hard to know in what ways we’ll change. It’s even harder to know how others will. I hope if college has taught you anything, it’s taught you to keep an open mind, to accept di# ering points of view and not think less of them and, as Steve Jobs famously said, to stay curious.
Jordain Carney is a Traveler columnist.
Her column appears every other ! ursday.
Time to Go: Experiences Worth Sharing
by JORDAIN CARNEYTraveler Columnist
FROM THE BOARDFROM THE BOARD
Students: Enjoy The Last Weekend of the Semester
% e ! nal week of school is here, and while we are busy preparing our $ ash cards, writing out study guides and putting the ! nishing touches on our last class projects, it’s important that we remember to enjoy the ! nal weekend of our spring semester.
Before we move out of our dorms, head across the nation for an internship or enter the job market, diploma in hand, it’s important to cherish the last weekend of the academic year and celebrate with friends. Whether you head outdoors for a weekend of camping and hiking or stay in town to study, remember to take a break from the ! nals preparation and enjoy everything that Fayetteville has to o# er. For many of us, it’s the last opportunity we have before heading out of town for the summer months.
It’s was a Friday night, and unlike the majority of UA students who were out partying the night away with friends, I was sat on the couch with a glass of chocolate milk, a bag of popcorn and my laptop. It all seemed a little pathetic, but last weekend was spent battling with ISIS for a spot in a summer journalism class.
As the clock ticked away, 11 p.m. came around along with a red “X” next to my enrollment shopping cart. 11:30 p.m. came and went with another, and by 11:45 p.m., the green check mark was nowhere to be found. Error a" er error
popped up, whether it was too many hours enrolled, a class schedule con$ ict or not enough prerequisites. I hurried to make it into the class before ISIS went to sleep, but as 11:59 p.m. rolled around, my screen turned an ugly shade of beige and the enrollment system hit the hay.
As I sat there in disbelief, I thought to myself, “It’s okay, I’ll get online tomorrow morning before work and get into the class.” But no, ISIS was destined to sleep in for another weekend, and with a noon alarm set, I would have to wait until Saturday night to try again.
ISIS is a hot topic among student complaints, with the main question being “why does ISIS shut down every night?” Blackboard access is available 24/7, along with UA email and the UA website, so why is the service most needed by students closed in the hours that many need to access it? Tell me if I’m wrong, but I’m going to guess that most students aren’t wanting to complete
Blackboard homework at one in the morning. Yet, when a class comes up that we need to enroll in, any time of day is a good time of day to ensure that we make it before the other hundred students do so.
I feel as if I’m speaking for the student body when I say that ISIS needs to be a 24 hour service. % ere really isn’t a reason for it not to be, and it would bene! t every student, especially at this time of year when we are rapidly attempting to get our fall schedules together.
With more students heading to the UA in the upcoming year, ISIS needs to be a service available any time of day because of the volume of people trying to access at one time. I don’t know if you have ever tried, but attempting to log on to ISIS in the daytime can sometimes end in typing your password in what seems like a hundred times before the system will allow you access.
% e university is all for bringing more students in to call the Hogs, but with
higher numbers brings a need for advanced access and assistance for students.
Without it, we are going to continuously be caught up in a dead-end cycle of attempted log-ins and sitting in the ISIS waiting room. % e UA is advancing so quickly in big operations that it’s easy to forget that small services like ISIS need an upgrade, but they are sometimes the most important to students.
% e Internet gives us opportunities to skip standing in line to complete enrollment - we’re just holding ourselves back still treating it like a real o& ce where we stand in line and wait to speak with the receptionist.
With the in$ ux of students coming to Fayetteville in the next few months, we can only hope, for our own sanity, that ISIS will become a 24 hour service so that we can move through our degree plans on time.
Emily Rhodes is a journalism major, and the opinion editor.
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man suggested I try their raw oysters next time. To that, I grimaced and laughed. De! -nitely not brave enough for that.
I turned to leave, and then something caught my eye. How is it that every time I’m in a Mexican restaurant that have ice cream cases, I miss the ice cream case? I was standing next to it the en-tire time, facing it. I prom-ised myself that, next time, I would allow myself such an indulgence.
My next visit came sooner than I had expected. I real-ized I hadn’t tried enough of the menu to thoroughly enjoy Charly’s Taqueria. I brought the troops with me, partly so I could be sure that Charly’s wasn’t a ! gment of my imag-ination, partly so they could also enjoy the authentic cui-sine.
It was something di" erent than our usual Mexico Vie-jo/La Huerta trip. Something I thought they’d appreciate, and I was right. One ordered tacos, the other fajitas. Hop-ing no one would recognize me, I disguised myself with the only thing I had glasses. I asked for assistance again and ended up ordering two sopes, which are basically # at tacos with a fried tortilla, and two tacos - one beef and one pork. I noticed they o" er cheese dip, and I just couldn’t pass it up. Colombia Mex, take note.
We sat and conversed while waiting on our food. Once our drinks made it to our table, we were informed of the little refrigerated sta-tions that house toppings for our meals - cilantro, lime, pico de gallo, onion and more.
Our feasts arrived. Mum-bling between bites, we were all doting on our meals. $ e fajitas, the tacos, the sopes—all wonderful. I have to admit, the pork taco was de! nitely
my favorite. $ e sopes, are a hazard for someone like me who can’t keep food o" their clothes due to clumsy eating. I even asked if I was eating it right, apparently there is no clean trick to eating a sope. Apart from the fact that I have the motor skills of a toddler, the sope was outstanding.
By the time I lost sensation in my lips due to over-saucing everything on my plate with the increasingly spicy picante that was at our table, I knew this was a place we would be returning to on a weekly ba-sis. $ e sta" is nice, pleasant and seems to enjoy their cus-tomers as much as their cus-tomers enjoy their food. $ e drive isn’t an issue at all when such a destination awaits.
We paid our bill, and I pulled out an extra dollar to purchase a guava-# avored ice cream bar, which quickly re-stored my lips to their natural state, killing the numbing ef-fect the picante sauce had on me.
Driving back home, we knew that Charly’s Taqueria was a place that would haunt our cravings from now on. Luckily, if those cravings hap-pen to be nocturnal, Charly’s is open until 11 p.m. every-day. I highly recommend it over Taco Bell, higher quality food for about the same price. You can’t beat that.
Charly’s Taqueria is locat-ed at 1830 South Pleasant St., in Springdale.
MIKE NORTON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERLittle Charly’s Taqueria, located at 1830 S. Pleasant Street in Springdale, serves au-thentic Mexican cuisine from 9 a.m.-11 p.m. every day.
CHARLY’Sfrom page 2
THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER WEEKENDER
NEWS PAGE 6 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 NEWS EDITOR: CHAD WOODARD ASST. NEWS EDITOR: BRITTANY NIMS
Chartwells Employee Atop Garland Garage For
Hours, UAPD O! cers SayAfter more than seven
hours, the UA Chartwells employee came down from atop the ledge of the Gar-land Avenue parking garage, UAPD officials said.
A UA Chartwells employ-ee, named Jack, was sitting atop the ledge of the Garland Ave. parking garage between the University Bookstore and TCBY ice cream shop Wednesday night, UAPD of-ficials said.
At nearly 8 p.m., Jack was still atop the garage and had not spoken with authorities.
UAPD got the call at 4:42 p.m. after bookstore employ-ees saw him sitting on the ledge, said UAPD Lt. Gary Crain, spokesperson for UAPD.
“We’ve got negotiators up there trying to get him to talk,” Crain said.
There was no identifica-tion available for the indi-vidual wearing a Razorback polo shirt and khaki pants, except that he was a Chart-
wells employee, because of his refusal, Crain said.
Crain said that authori-ties are “pretty sure” the in-dividual is not a student.
Paramedics, UAPD, the Fayetteville Police, represen-tatives from the Pat Walker Health Center and CAPS are all present, Crain said.
“We’ve got about every-one you can think of,” he said.
Dozens of students gath-ered around the scene by the garage. More crammed into the Quads computer lab be-fore staff shut the blinds and
told students to leave.At approximately 12:06
a.m., Jack was finally able to be coaxed down from the parking garage, from about 60 feet up in the air..
“This is the best possible end for this situaiton,” said Lt. Gary Crain for the UAPD. “We are now just focused on getting him to the hospital, and to get him help.”
Crain would not com-ment on whether or not they would press charges against Jack.
by JACK SUNTRIP and MATTIE QUINNTraveler Staff
rible thing is, if we keep going like we’re going , then all these things will be curi-osities and we’ll have noth-ing except cockroaches and grackles outside.”
! e value of egg collec-tions in museums was real-ized in the 1960s when they revealed a link between di-minished bird populations and use of the insecticide DDT. According to a 2004 BioScience article, research-ers used museum egg collec-tions to study eggshell thick-ness through time and com-pared shells before and a" er the widespread use of DDT. Government agencies used this information to ban DDT and likely saved species like the bald eagle from extinc-tion.
McCartney curates the zoology portion of the col-lection in the Biomass Build-ing, which is part of the Ar-kansas Archaeological Sur-vey Building o# Garland Av-enue near Interstate 540.
! e secured, tempera-ture-controlled room has high ceilings and incandes-cent lights. It’s enormous, with rows upon rows of arti-facts and cabinets containing all types of dead species.
A brown pelican lies $ at in a drawer near other bird species and the eggs. An-other drawer houses small rodents in$ ated with cotton that now leaks from their eye sockets.
Beyond the animals there is an assortment of furniture. Beyond that are rows of Na-tive American pottery. ! ere are the remains of Caddo In-dians who once lived in Ar-kansas and Louisiana. ! ere are Greek vessels and copper plates. ! e % elds of archeol-ogy, ethnography, geology, history and zoology contain some 7 million objects, ac-cording to the department website.
! is massive collection of objects is maintained by just two full-time sta# . ! ey
and the collection are all that remains of what was once called the University Muse-um.
A June 2003 article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said it all: “On Monday, o& -cials announced the Univer-sity Museum would suspend operations and lay o# eight employees.” ! e museum closed to the public Oct. 31, 2003, ending a 150-year run.
State budget cuts were the reason for the closing, according to newspaper ar-ticles published at the time. Don Bobbitt, then dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, told the Ar-kansas Democrat-Gazette that cutting the museum’s costs from his budget pre-served classroom seats for 1,500 students for the 2003-2004 school year.
He felt really bad about closing the museum, said Mary Suter, collections cura-tor since 1995.
“! ey told us that they were supposed to close the museum June 30, at the end of the % scal year,” she said. “! at was like two weeks no-tice that we were all going to lose our jobs.”
Suter said the dean found the money to keep the muse-um open long enough to dis-mantle the exhibits, which were on display in the Uni-versity Museum building north of the Arkansas Union.
“We couldn’t just walk away,” she said. “! ere were all these exhibits over there that needed to come out.” Sta# moved the exhibits to the collection storage space in the Arkansas Archaeolog-ical Survey Building, which opened in 1999.
At that time, Suter said, the administration planned to put everything in storage and close the door.
Academic departments raised enough of a fuss that the administration revisited the decision and decided to keep Suter and McCartney on as sta# , Suter said.
“! ey didn’t have any idea of how busy we actual-
ly could be,” Suter said. She said she receives several calls from researchers and other museums requesting infor-mation or objects from the collection.
Some researchers may come to the collection and take photos of objects, she said. She said she also sends items out. Suter said she’ll get requests from people who found the museum men-tioned in a footnote about seeds and they’ll request 10 of the museum’s seeds for DNA analysis. Some of these seeds can be up to 10,000 years old.
! e collection is busy in other ways. Suter said she gets requests to loan objects to museums for display. Re-cently, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
borrowed some artifacts from blu# shelters, which are hollowed-out shelters near creeks and rivers.
An e& gy pipe found in a Native American mound complex is one of the collec-tion’s most well known piec-es, Suter said. It recently went on loan to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“Some archeologists con-sider him the best example of Mississippian art,” she said. ! e Mississippian period lasted from about 800 A.D. to about 1500 A.D. Suter said the Los Angeles muse-um planned to put the piece in one of their upcoming ex-hibits.
Suter’s o& ce is down the hall from the large room with most of the collection. She exists in two worlds,
working in the collection ware and working in her of-% ce at her desk. ! e busy work of replying to research-ers and museums can con-$ ict with organizing objects in the warehouse.
Last summer Robin Rob-erts was named the new dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, which ad-ministers over the collection. Suter said Roberts toured the collection with a group of as-sociate deans.
Nancy mentioned to Rob-erts that it would be nice to have graduate students help-ing with the collection, Sut-er said. ! e collection hadn’t had any graduate assistants since the museum closed in 2003. One of the students came from zoology and the other from anthropology,
she said.McCartney said that the
work study students over the years have been a wonderful help, but they weren’t neces-sarily biologists.
“It’s good to have Cam, who comes pre-charged with this knowledge,” she said. Cameron Chesbro is the graduate assistant who works with McCartney.
Previous graduate assis-tants went on to successful careers in biology and muse-ums, McCartney said. Work-ing in the collection is good experience for them, she said.
“And besides, they’re big strong, young guys and they can li" stu# up,” she said. “And I’ve got a bunch of dead animals.”
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WEEKEND ON THE HILL
! ursday,April 26, 2012
A Lecture by Sister Helen PrejeanSister Helen Prejean will ad-dress a public audience on her long opposition to the death penalty in the United States. Old Main.
7 - 9 p.m.Gi! els Auditorium
Friday,April 27, 2012
Star Party! e University of Arkansas-Student Astronomical Society will be hosting a Star Party on the roof of Kimpel.
8:45 - 11 p.m.Kimpel
Saturday,April 28, 2012
Free Movie NightGarland Center on Saturday, April 28th at 7:00pm for Free Movie Night Event. We will be showing the movie, ! e Help.
7 p.m.Garland CenterArkansas Union
Sunday,April 29, 2012
Kid Cudi ConcertHip hop recording artist Kid Cudi will take the stage at Barn-hill Arena for the Spring 2012 Headliner Concert. Doors will open at 7 p.m.
8 p.m.Barnhill Arena
MUSEUMfrom page 1
rience in a restaurant. Half of all adults have worked in a restaurant at some point, according to restaurants.org.
Restaurants in Arkan-sas are a driving force in the state’s economy. ! eir sales generate tremendous tax revenues and provide jobs and build careers for thou-sands of people, according to restaurants.org.
Every $1 spent in Arkan-sas restaurants generates an additional 88 cents in sales for the state economy. Every additional $1 million spent in Arkansas restaurants gen-erates an additional 30.5 jobs in the state, according to restaurants.org.
In 2011, Arkansas res-taurants employed 115,100 people, making up 10 per-cent of state employment. In a decade, the industry will grow to 132,500 people, ac-cording to restaurants.org
“I work in retail and it is a lot better than food but you have to work more to make as much money as you would as a waitress,” said sophomore French major Kelsey Shumate.
! e median hourly wage of retail salespersons was $9.94 in May 2010. ! e me-dian hourly wage of parts salespersons was $13.88 in
May 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
Employment of retail salespersons is expected to grow 17 percent from 2010 to 2020, about as fast as the average for all occupa-tions. Employment of parts salespersons is expected to
grow 16 percent from 2010 to 2020, about as fast as the average for all occupations. Many workers leave this occupation, which means there will be a large number of job openings, according to the Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics website.
JOBSfrom page 1
LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERGeorgia Carter, a sophomore History major, as well as an avid cat, kid, and nature lover, works at Harps during the school year; however, during the summer she works as a youth counselor at Camp Couchdale for the Disciples of Christ Greater River Region.
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAs students pass by the Garland parking garage on Wednesday, shocked faces were abundant.
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DOWNTIME PAGE 7 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Comics, Games, & Much Much More!
1 Yes, in Yokohama2 __Kosh B’Gosh3 Superior talents4 Save for later, in a way5 Holdup6 Bus. line7 Track relentlessly8 Show derision9 One may be fatal10 Per capita11 Bold poker bet12 Jidda native13 Short online posting18 Job ad abbr.19 “Delicious!”22 It has defs. for 128 characters23 “Didn’t bring my A-game”25 Business biggies26 By the sea29 Respond smugly to 23-Down’s speaker32 __-bitsy33 Greek letter35 It may be retractable36 Desert trial37 Like non-hydrocarbon com-pounds38 Baseballer married to soccer’s Mia39 Diving bird44 Mountain warble45 Takes another look at, as a cold case49 Small winds50 Musical with the song “A New Argentina”51 Divided into districts53 Till now54 Rapa __: Easter Island57 “Peanuts” cry58 She met Rick in Paris60 UPS deliveries62 Carry a balance63 Brush-o! on the brae64 Reproductive cells65 Homespun home
1 Party boss?5 Bunks, e.g.9 Lavish meal14 Wine-growing region15 Neural conductor16 ‘80s-’90s legal drama17 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry20 Kindle competitor21 Chew toy material22 Scholarship, e.g.24 Spits out, as a DVD27 Small beef28 Move through muck30 Brand at Williams-So-noma31 Little songbird34 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry40 Kindergarten rejoinder41 Kan. hours42 Hacienda honori" c43 Frustrated crossword solver’s cry46 Formula One racer Fabi47 Enzyme su# x48 Spirited horse49 Shriner hat52 Two-time Bond por-trayer55 Ph.D. seeker’s exam56 Keys at a bar, perhaps59 Onetime larva61 Relieved crossword solver’s cry66 Nice states67 Co-star of Tom in “An-gels & Demons”68 Telethon request69 It may be roja or verde70 Shirts with slogans71 Walkout walk-in
A cloud of Helium fl oats into a bar. The bartender says, “I’m sorry, but we don’t serve noble gases here.” He does not react.
A man walking down the road sees another man arguing with a pony. As he passes by, the pony turns to him an asks, “Excuse me, but this man is being a fool. Would you kindly yell at him for me?” The man asks the pony, “I could, but why don’t you do that your-self?”, to which the pony replies, “I would, but I’m a little hoarse.”
Q:How do you get Pikachu onto a bus?
A: You poke him on.
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SPORTS PAGE 8 THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 SPORTS EDITOR: JIMMY CARTER ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: ZACH TURNER
GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Former Arkansas receivers Jarius Wright (left) and Joe Adams are projected as second-day selections in the NFL Draft. The draft begins Thursday night and ends Saturday. Both receivers participated in the NFL Combine back in February with Wright running a 4.42 time in the 40-yard dash, while Adams clocked in at a 4.55.
FOOTBALL GYMNASTICS
Hogs on DeckArkansas likely won’t have
a player selected in the ! rst round of the NFL Dra" on # ursday night.
# ere are more Razorbacks projected to have their name called this year than in any dra" since 2008, though.
Defensive end Jake Bequette and receivers Jarius Wright, Joe Adams and Greg Childs are widely projected to be dra" ed, a dra" class that would be the program’s largest since six Hogs were selected four years ago.
Linebacker Jerry Franklin –– the second-leading tackler in UA history is listed by some dra" analysts as a late-round pick and projected as undra" ed by others.
# ree Arkansas players were
selected in the dra" last season, but just ! ve have been taken the last three years combined.
No Razorback player is pro-jected to be taken in the ! rst round # ursday, but several could go Friday during the sec-ond and third rounds.
Adams is the consensus highest-rated Hog prospect de-spite his dra" status slipping af-ter he ran a 4.55 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine in February and repeated it at Arkansas’ Pro Day in March.
“I’ve never seen Joe Ad-ams get caught from behind, so obviously speed has never been that much of a problem,” Wright said.
He caught three touch-downs, returned four punts for scores and had a 92-yard touch-down run, displaying enough versatility to meet with all 32
NFL teams at the combine.Wright broke the UA ca-
reer receiving yardage record a" er having a team-high 1,117 receiving yards and 12 touch-downs last season.
His 4.42 40 at the combine tied for ninth out of 47 receivers present, but he’s just 5-foot-10. He’s listed as a consensus third day pick by analysts a" er his big senior season.
“I can’t explain how much it has really helped me, coming back here my senior year and putting up the numbers I did,” Wright said. “Nothing can tell you more about a player than his ! lm, and I put up a lot of good ! lm this year.”
Bequette is being looked at as a defensive end and a line-backer. He didn’t participate in pro day a" er a solid combine showing.
“Once teams ! nd out that I’m healthy and 100 percent, they have no choice but to go back to when I was 100 percent and look at the ! lm from my freshman, sophomore and ju-nior year,” Childs said.
Childs had better numbers than Adams and Wright enter-ing last season, but his produc-tion dipped as he struggled to recover from a torn patella ten-don su$ ered late in 2010.
Listed as a late-round pick by most dra" analysts, a strong pro day could have played a role in NFLDra" Scout.com project-ing him as a third-round pick. Regardless of where he goes, he doesn’t plan to wait around watching TV.
“I might be out ! shing
BASEBALL TRACK
Former Razorbacks ready for NFL Draftby JIMMY CARTER
Sports Editor
see FOOTBALLon page 9
Gymnastics Ends on Strong Note In a season filled with ups
and downs, Arkansas No. 6 gymnastics team finished on a high note by making the Super Six.
The Razorbacks placed third in Session II of the NCAA Championship to ad-vance to the Super Six, scor-ing a 197.15, the second-best score in school history and only the third time the Ra-zorbacks have scored a 197.
Arkansas fought through injuries and late-season struggles before rallying to advance to the NCAA Championships.
“After the ups and downs this year, towards the end you could just feel the mo-mentum build through the meet,” co-coach Rene Cook said. “The level of excite-ment and anticipation of achieving that goal was com-pletely overwhelming.”
With the third place fin-ish behind Alabama and Florida, Arkansas advanced
out of Session II and into its second Super Six appearance in program history.
“That was one of the ma-jor focal points at the be-ginning of the season or at the end of last season,” co-coach Mark Cook said. “Ev-erything we did within our powers was to make it back there this year.”
With the Razorbacks’ second Super Six trip in four years, Mark Cook said he thinks the team has set a precedent for the program.
“We are a player, people look at us now as a contend-er,” Cook said. “We’re not just a flash in the pan and being able to make (the Su-per Six) twice is a real testa-ment to that.”
Along with the No. 6 fin-ish in the final rankings, four Razorbacks gymnasts received eight All-American honors.
Sophomore Bailee Zum-walde and freshman Stepha-
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore Bailee Zumwalde earned her fi rst All-American honors this season on fl oor and is expected to be one of the Razorbacks’ key contributors next season with the graduation of Arkansas multiple record holder Jaime Pisani.
Arkansas Headed EastFresh off a 6-1 win Tues-
day against Oral Roberts, No. 21 Arkansas will face No. 2 Florida on the road this weekend.
The Razorbacks (29-12, 9-9 Southeastern Confer-ence) have won two consecu-tive games, but have lost two consecutive SEC series.
Arkansas dropped to No. 21 this week after losing a series at Ole Miss over the weekend.
The Razorbacks 8-2 and 1-0 Friday and Saturday, but won the third game 11-3. Ar-kansas was trailing 6-1 in the fourth inning Friday when the game had to be post-poned to due rain. The game resumed with a doubleheader on Saturday.
“We played an outstand-ing game (Sunday),” coach Dave Van Horn said. “It start-ed with the pitching. Offense, we jumped out into a big lead. We got to run our offense, move some guys around.”
The Gators (31-10, 11-7) enter the weekend series with the Razorbacks after falling 5-3 to in-state rival South Florida on Tuesday night.
Sophomore right-hand-er Jonathon Crawford (4-1, 3.86 ERA) will start Friday for the Gators, junior left-hander Brian Johnson (5-2, 4.04) start Saturday and ju-nior right-hander Hudson Randall (3-1, 3.52) will start Sunday.
“They have so much ex-perience,” Van Horn said. “Basically they have sev-en or eight starting posi-tions back, and basically
the whole pitching staff and they added a few high draft choices.”
The Gators are led at the plate by senior outfield-er Daniel Pigott, who has a .348 batting average, five home runs and 28 RBIs.
Junior catcher Mike Zunino is hitting .338 with has 12 home and 43 RBI.
“They are still probably the team to beat as far as winning a national champi-onship,” Van Horn said.
On the mound, Arkan-
sas will start sophomore right-hander Ryne Stanek (6-2, 2.30) Friday and ju-nior right-hander DJ Bax-endale (6-2, 3.78) Sunday. The Saturday starter will be determined after the Friday game.
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas sophomore pitcher Ryne Stanek will start Friday in the Razorbacks’ series at No. 2 Florida. Coach Dave Van Horn has not announced who will start for the Hogs in the second game of the series, but will go with junior DJ Baxendale in the final game against the Gators.
Freshman Hogs Receive Honors
Arkansas track had two freshmen earn conference ac-colades for their performance last weekend.
On the men’s side, Gun-nar Nixon made his debut in the pentathlon. Nixon placed third at the Mt. SAC relays with a score of 7,660 on his way to earning Southeastern Confer-ence Co-Field Athlete of the Week. His score became the highest in the SEC this season and ranks 9th nationally.
“Gunnar is a great athlete and continues to be a steady performer for us,” men’s coach Chris Bucknam said. “We think there’s a lot more in the tank for Gunnar. # e main objective is to qualify for the ! rst round of the NCAA championships and he got that done.”
In the women’s program, Dominique Scott placed sixth in the 5,000 meters at Mt. SAC
with a time of 16:12.69. Scott ran the fastest time by an Ar-kansas freshman in school his-tory, and is ranked third in the SEC.
Scott earned SEC Fresh-man of the Week, her second in three weeks.
Razorbacks All Over the Nation
Arkansas men’s and wom-en’s programs are splitting this week’s competition amongst three meets.
# ursday thru Saturday both teams will split up be-tween Des Moines, Iowa for the Drake Relays and Philadelphia for the Penn Relays.
On Sunday both teams will send athletes to compete at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif.
For Arkansas the 103-year old Drake Relays are a familiar meet. Arkansas’ womens team
FILE PHOTOArkansas freshman Gunnar Nixon was named Southeastern Conference Co-Field Athlete of the Week after his performance in his first career outdoor pentathlon.
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somewhere,” Childs said. “I
might be on the boat just ! sh-ing. " is is what I do. I’m real, real country …I’ll have my cell phone on me, my dra# day
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ni Canizzaro each earned their first All-America honors by making second-team for floor.
“That was astound-ing, the first two up in the (NCAA) meet earn sec-ond-team All-America honors and those scores held throughout the com-petition,” Rene Cook said. “They obviously did the best routines of the year.”
SEC Gymnast of the Year Jaime Pisani added to her school-record total by nabbing four All-American honors.
Pisani earned first-team in all-around, floor and beam, while she was named second-team on bars. She finished her career with a school record 13 All-Amer-ican honors
Sophomore Katherine
Grable also earned first-team honors on beam, along with second-team on vault.
“There are so many things you can say about Jamie, but when you do something that no one ex-pects you to do, I think that is definitely a state-ment,” Rene Cook said. “I think those accomplish-ments were definitely that for her.”
Arkansas will have to try to replace Pisani next sea-son, a task Grable, Caniz-zaro, Zumwalde and junior Kelci Lewis will take on as the program tries to take the next step.
“With making the Super Six twice in the last four years, people are definitely respecting our program as a program that can contend for the national champion-ship,” Cook said. “We are only going to get better.”
from GYMNASTICSon page 8
holds the record at the meet for the 4X400 meter relay set last year. " e ! eld in Des Moines is also very important for Arkan-sas since it will also be the host for the outdoor NCAA Cham-pionships this season.
Splitting up the team could seem to be a problem and is a concern for some coaches, but women’s coach Lance Harter knows his team can handle it
“We’ve promised the kids from the very get-go that we’re gonna take you to wherever is optimal for you in your event,” Harter said “" ere’s very few sites in the United States where it’s a great sprint and distance track and great place to jump. So we try to ! nd the best of each one of those. " ey’re con-stantly in contact with each other and wishing each other good luck.”
Season Close Gets CloserWith the Southeastern
Conference Championships just two weeks away, the Ra-zorbacks have minimal time le# to improve.
Both teams have made great strides and progress throughout the season, and are con! dent in where they want to be in time for SECs.
“I think we’re in really good shape,” Harter said. “" e sprint jump crew is probably a week behind schedule strict-ly because of Mother Nature’s vengeance. But I think in the next couple of weeks with Drake having good weather and then our home Twilight meet I think we’ll really start to round into form and carry that momentum into the SEC meet. We’re doing ! ne and a good job across the board.”
“I think we might have hit something like 11 personal bests this weekend,” Bucknam said. “But the main thing is winning events. What counts is what we’re going to start running into this weekend. (We’re) progressing well, but still remains to be seen. " e jury is still out on us.”
from TRACKon page 8
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201154 rec., 652 yds, 3 rec TDs, 4 PR TDsCareer164 rec., 2,410 yds, 17 rec TDs, 5 PR TDs
JAKE BEQUETTE – DE6-5 274 4.82DraftCountdown.com 5th round No. 14 DENFLDraftScout.com 5th round No. 14 DEScouts Inc./ESPN 5th round No. 15 DE
201128 tackles, 10 sacks, 10.5 TFL, 5 QBH, 5 FFCareer140 tackles, 23.5 sacks, 31.5 TFL, 24 QBH, 8 FF
GREG CHILDS –!WR6-3 212 4.41DraftCountdown.com 7th round No. 32 WRNFLDraftScout.com 3rd round No. 13 WRScouts Inc./ESPN 7th round No. 32 WR
201121 rec., 240 ydsCareer133 rec., 2,066 yds, 15 rec TDs
JERRY FRANKLIN –!LB6-1 242 4.6DraftCountdown.com N/A N/ANFLDraftScout.com 7th round No. 10 ILBScouts Inc./ESPN N/A No. 14 ILB
2011101 tackles, 0.5 sacks, 10 TFL, 4 PBU, 2 FRCareer382 tackles, 10 sacks, 31.5 TFL, 14 PBU, 6 FR, 5 INT
JARIUS WRIGHT – WR5-10 189 4.42DraftCountdown.com 4th round No. 18 WRNFLDraftScout.com 6th round No. 22 WRScouts Inc./ESPN 4th round No. 16 WR
201166 rec., 1,117 yds, 12 rec TDsCareer168 rec., 2,934 yds, 24 rec TDs
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