University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Monday, April 8, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 106

“About You,For You”

Spring Headliner ChosenKip Moore, country singer chosen as Spring Headliner Concert Per-former. Full Story, Page 3

Event Brings ‘Flava’ to Campus!e Caribbean Stu-dent’s Association and its members celebrated this successful semester Friday, April 5 at Uark Bowl, which was a semi formal event sponsored by Associated Student Government.Full Story, Page 5

Syrian Graduate Drama Student Overcomes Cul-tural DissonanceKhouloud Sawaf, a grad-uate drama student and international student, is directing the UA Drama department’s production of “A Doll House.” Full Story, Page 5

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Kris Johnson Sta" PhotographerAthletic Director, Je" Long, speaks at a celebration of the track team winning the national championship, Friday, April 5, at the Union Mall.

Razorbacks Celebrate National Championship

When applying to study abroad programs and receiving acceptance letters, the furthest thing from students’ minds are o!en the risks that come with being in a foreign country for months at a time.

A recent death of a Univer-sity of Virginia senior studying abroad in the Caribbean has reinforced perspectives that the rewarding experience comes with uncertainties.

Fortunately, the Pat Walker Health Center has a system to help students prepare for their experience abroad without as much unpredictably.

Registered nurses in the Immunization Clinic provide travel consultations to assess immunization needs, malaria risks, food and water safety, personal safety, and other pre-ventative measures. Medical providers in the clinic can pre-scribe medications for malaria prevention a!er a travel consul-tation has been performed.

Pat Walker Health Center sta" can also assist with the

“certi#cate of health” that is required by some programs, which requires an appointment for a physical exam through the clinic.

“Students should schedule a travel consult or physical exam as soon as possible. Some im-munizations are given in a se-ries and require several weeks to complete, and many students schedule too late,” said Lyn Ed-ington, director of nursing.

Edington stresses to stu-dents to consider every aspect of their health prior to travel-ing. Because of the numerous aspects to take into account, the health center o"ers a checklist for travelers.

“$e most important factor in preparing for a study abroad program is to be smart and protect yourself,” said Mary Al-ice Sera#ni, Pat Walker Health Center director. “Destination, length of stay, where you will be living and what you will be do-ing determine the risks associ-ated with the trip.”

$ere are risks associated with every trip, but using on-campus resources can help stu-dents enjoy their study abroad experience with preparation and preventative measures.

Students Prepare to

Study Abroad

Both current and former UA students who have par-ticipated in study abroad programs described their positive experiences and bene#ts they learned while overseas.

$omas Roblee, a biology major, said that his trip to

Germany was “the chance of a lifetime.”

“I can tell you from my experience studying in Ger-many this past summer, there

is nothing like getting out of your element and gaining a whole new outlook on other cultures and people,” Roblee said. “Not only is it fun, but

studying abroad also has a multitude of bene#ts. $ere is nothing like actually get-ting to go see what you are studying instead of having to look at it in a textbook.”

$e study abroad pro-gram is fairly easy to join with plenty of time to plan the trip, Roblee said.

“$ere are terms in the fall, spring or summer, so

Study Abroad Has Many Bene#ts, Students Say

Courtesy PhotoKatie DiSabato is a ISA Global Ambassador. “Studying abroad is the best thing I’ve done in my 20 years. I am so excited that I can now say that this has been my best experience in life without hesitation,” said DiSabato in her blog.

$e UA Career Develop-ment Center is organizing Career Fest, a week of profes-sional development events for all UA students, said Angela Williams, CDC director.

Career Fest, taking place this Monday through Friday, is designed to prepare and equip UA students with the skills and knowledge neces-sary for success in the profes-sional world.

$e weeklong event will feature various activities, in-cluding an employer panel discussion, a dining etiquette dinner and a dress-for-suc-

Events to EquipStudentsTravis Pence

Sta! Writer Travis PenceSta! Writer

UA OFFERS HELP FOR STUDENTS WANTING TO STUDY ABROAD

see BENEFITS page 3

see EQUIP page 3

Stephanie CarlsonSta! Writer

For a story about the Steve Wozniak Lecture that took

place Sunday, See UATrav.com

“!e study abroad program in Mexico is an unbelievable experience that changed my life.”

Michael GlennFormer Spanish and Latin American Studies Major

Editor’s Note: "is story is part of a response series giving students’ opinions

on various issues.

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$e Caribbean Student’s As-sociation and its members cel-ebrated this successful semester Friday, April 5 at Uark Bowl, which was a semi formal event sponsored by Associated Stu-dent Government.

$e event is to complement the exemplary members as well as attract non-Caribbean student body in hopes to help

them experience the Caribbean culture, according to the press.

$e Caribbean Student’s As-sociation have been celebrat-ing the event every year. $ey have strived to promote and celebrate the contribution of its members into passing down their multicultural legacy.

A!er there was a 3-course dinner served, the cultural show began, which it was a full-blown party. $ey served a fully stocked bar Tropical drinks all night as long as they were to show their I.D.s.

$e event coordinator, De-andrae Lynette Smith expected many students to come and en-joy their shows and services.

“We hope to have approxi-mately 160 people to come,” Smith said.

Its members participated in the event actively and en-couraged the audiences to be involved in the activities. $ey dressed up nicely and showed their cultural dance to the audi-ences.

One of the audiences, the UA student Iesha Williams en-

joyed the show.“$ey danced really simple,

but looked really fun,” William said.

“$e dances seemed not so complicated that everyone can join them. I liked their music and almost ran out to dance with them.” She continued.

Some students did not get what their show and dance meant.

“I didn’t know what they were doing until someone told me,” said Iseulle Kim, UA se-nior student.”

Event Brings ‘Flava’ to Campus

Mary Kate P!"ner Sta" PhotographerMembers of the Caribbean Student’s Association enjoy dinner and drinks at the Caribbean “Flava” Banquet, Saturday, April 6.

Mary Kate P!"ner Sta" PhotographerHigh school students take part at the Razorback Regional robotics competition, Saturday, April 6. Team Chaos of Picayune, Miss., won the competition and will qualify for the world championship that will take place later this month.

Mississippi Team Takes Robotics Competition

cess event, in addition to net-working, leadership and social media job-search workshops, Williams said.

During each event, stu-dents will have the opportu-nity to ask questions and learn from knowledgeable employ-ers and sta".

On Monday, from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House, there will be an event called “Pathways to Possibilities.” $e event will be presented by Erica Estes, associate director for career education.

$is event will o"er stu-dents the opportunity to listen and learn about various career paths of Arkansas alumni em-ployers, managers and entre-preneurs, Estes said. Speakers will o"er information to stu-dents on what employers are seeking from job candidates

and how to best prepare for the job market upon gradua-tion.

$e “Dress for Success” event, sponsored by Dillards, will be Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. in the “A” Club of the Reynolds Razorback Stadium. $is event will o"er free, expert style tips on how to dress profession-ally as well as business casual on the job, what accessories to wear and how to choose what clothes to buy on a budget, said Alex Roszak, selling busi-ness manager for Dillard’s.

On Wednesday, there will be an event entitled “Nothing Prepares You for Leadership Like Liberal Arts,” presented by Susan de la Vergne, a profes-sional training and coaching expert. $is presentation, held in the Union Ballroom from 3:30-4:30 p.m., will describe “the practical liberal arts” and

how to convey for business au-diences the business-relevant skills and abilities that study-ing the liberal arts develops, de la Vergne said. $ese skills include communication skills, managing qualitative infor-mation, conducting research, analyzing data, cultural litera-cy, emotional intelligence and more, she said.

On Wednesday from 5-6 p.m., there will also be an event organized by representatives from the Walmart Home Of-#ce in Arkansas Union room 507. $e presenters will dis-cuss how their science, tech-nology, engineering or math degrees have assisted them in the work they currently do, said Kristina Williams, direc-tor of Walmart U.S. relation-ship management.

On $ursday, from 3-4:30 p.m. in Arkansas Union room

507, the event entitled “Utiliz-ing Your Strengths” will take place. $is workshop will help students acknowledge their speci#c talents, said Adrian Smith, director of strengths-based initiatives. Further-more, the workshop will showcase how students can apply their strengths to a job they are seeking.

Finally, on Friday, in the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House from 6-8 p.m., the “Professional Dinning and Etiquette” event will take place. At this event, students will learn the fundamentals of social and general business etiquette with the highlight of a full meal to learn dining eti-quette in both formal and ca-sual settings, said Katy Jones, campus college chair at the College of Humanities of the University of Phoenix.

Kris Johnson Sta" PhotographerStudents and UA Art faculty attend an exhibit of photographs by visual design student, Celi Birke, on display at Studio 3, !ursday, April 4.

Student Showcases “Tibet in Exile” During Art Show

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there is no restriction as to when you have to go,” Roblee said. “Last summer, all I did was write a short essay and sent a resume in, and over half my study abroad got paid for by the university.”

Former student and hospitality major Paige Buchanan said she appreci-ates what she learned while studying abroad in Europe.

“I learned to appreciate all the freedoms I have in America and truly under-stood what my friends and family mean to me,” Bu-chanan said.

“$e hospitality in-dustry is hard to learn in a book,” Buchanan said. “Hospitality is about expe-riences, openness, personal goals and hard work. I

learned the reality of tour-ism and the idea that hos-pitality is not just common sense.”

Michael Glenn, a for-mer Spanish and Latin American studies major, said his trip to Mexico was amazing.

“$e study abroad pro-gram in Mexico is an un-believable experience that changed my life forever,” Glenn said. “I had been to Mexico prior to studying there, but you never get to actually embrace the cul-ture until you live there.

“If you let yourself be immersed by the people and the culture, you will learn more in six weeks than your entire time being at the University of Arkan-sas.”

UA Headliner Concerts Committee choose Kip Moore to perform at 9 p.m. May 2 in Barnhill Arena, according to a press release.

Moore is country mu-sic singer known for “Mary

was the Marrying Kind” and “Somethin Bout a Truck.”

Drake White and Jana Kramer will be performing as opening acts. Kramer is known for the single, “Why Ya Wanna” and for her role as Alex Dupre on “One Tree Hill.”

Students can pick up tick-ets during two rounds of ticket reservation and distribution in the Arkansas Union Inter-national Connections Lounge will a valid UA I.D.

Reserve Tickets:First Round: 9 a.m. Mon-

day April 8- 11:59 p.m. Tues-day, April 9

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“Some immunizations are given in a series and require several weeks to complete,

and many students schedule too late.”

Lyn Edington, Director of Nursing“Students Prepare to Study Abroad” Page 1

Just a few weeks ago I booked my !ight to Boston. May 18, a mere week a"er graduation, I will be !ying to the northeast to go #shing for some 40-pound striped bass and blue#sh. I booked my !ight, and a week later, I am half regretting it. I am scared I may never make it to Bos-ton.

$e Transportation Se-curity Administration re-cently changed regulations on knives aboard aircra", re-verting to a policy similar to one that allowed the terror-ists to scare !ight attendants and passengers in the Sept. 11 attacks, according to ABC News.

According to ABC News, the TSA will permit “folding knives with blades under 2.36 inches in length and without a locking mechanism onto !ights starting April 25.” In addition to the knives, ski poles, golf clubs and other blunt objects that have been banned will be allowed back on !ights.

While this goes along with international standards for !ights, I do not feel it ad-equately ful#lls our U.S. stan-dards for excellent safety on domestic and incoming inter-national !ights. I understand there is an incredibly small chance of an attack on airlines with the Advanced Imaging Technology units that screen people at almost every airport

in the U.S. However, just like guns on campus, I feel we are just introducing an unneces-sary potential weapon into a fairly safe environment.

TSA Administrator John Pistole said airport security needs to focus on objects that are most destructive to the aircra". But knives and clubs can be lethal to people within the aircra". Is that not a jus-ti#able priority as well? Secu-rity on the !ight, while I trust them with my life every time I !y, will have a far easier time handling a potential terrorist if they don’t have a knife with them.

$e Association of Profes-sional Flight Attendants has been outspoken against the knives on airplanes, saying they’d rather see regulations change dealing with liquid and shampoo containers, not potential weapons. As Homeland Security looks that the issue, I would think the thoughts of pilots and !ight attendants would be more important than the passenger. $ey !y and see the risks ev-eryday.

While the possibility of an attack is incredibly small with the billions of dollars put into airport security since 9/11, I do not think now is the right time to introduce knives and clubs back into the airplane compartment. I don’t think there will ever be a right time to have a knife in an airplane.

I have already booked my !ight for late May. However, before you book your summer adventure, I would encourage you to read about the new TSA policies and how they may af-fect you. It really doesn’t seem right that in a crowded com-partment, the person next to you could have a sharpened 2-inch blade in his pocket.

Joe DelNero is a senior broadcast journalism major and the opinion editor of the Arkansas Traveler.

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$ere’s some pretty fa-mous separation that exists in America. We are all quite aware of the separation of church and state. But could it be that we are reaching a time when a new separation is becoming necessary? I am referring to the separation of state and football.

Last week, Arkansas Rep. Andy Mayberry #led a bill that would require the UA to play Arkansas State Univer-sity in football each season, according to KATV. My fel-low Razorbacks, this bill is an outrage! Does Andy May-berry know who we are?

When faced with any de-

cision, I o"en like to make a list of pros and cons. When considering what I thought of Rep. Mayberry’s proposal, I made a mental list and dis-covered that my own #nd-ings were wrought with cons.

Let’s start by considering the pros, though, just to be fair. I am going to be consid-ering what the UA stands to gain by playing ASU. Well, we could win the game! However, no one would care. $is is a game we should win with our eyes closed and our bu% SEC arms tied behind our backs. Beating ASU is akin to beating Jacksonville State. Even though they were one of the only teams we managed to beat last year, no one was impressed by the victory. $at’s how it’s sup-posed to happen.

Now, for the considerably longer list of cons. If we were to lose a valuable player in a state-mandated exhibition game, I can only imagine there would be some seri-ous backlash. It’s not worth potentially ruining anyone’s season to make the state look more uni#ed. Further-

more, we could lose. It’s not impossible, considering last year’s performance against Louisiana-Monroe. If we lost to ASU, this would be a major con. $ey could brag about beating an SEC school. My friends up there would no doubt be sure to remind me of such a loss at every opportunity. It seems to me that we have nothing to gain and everything to lose.

I also started wondering about the ability of the Leg-islature to mandate things as seemingly super#cial as foot-ball games. Although they are topics for another time, it would seem things like hun-ger, poverty and bad public education would be higher priorities to a state govern-ing body than whether two colleges should engage in a game of football. According to KATV, this is totally fair. It seems that because Arkan-sas State and the UA are both state universities, the legisla-ture is well within its right to force us to play one another.

At this point in time, it’s impossible to say whether or not this game will actu-

ally happen. As anyone who is even marginally familiar with the political process knows, things don’t o"en get done quickly. However, we at the UA should look out for the verdict, because it might represent even another con — we would have to drive to Jonesboro, which is decid-edly not Fayetteville.

Furthermore, it is our re-sponsibility as the upcoming generation of political lead-ers to ensure that the politi-cal process focuses on more important things than foot-ball. $is is a slippery slope, my friends. Once they can a%ect football, who knows what’s next? $ey’ll try and tell us whether or not we can own guns, and who can and cannot marry. I, for one, won’t stand for such injus-tice.

And, don’t forget, we could lose.

TJ Stallbaumer is a sopho-more journalism major in the Advertising/ PR sequence and a sta! columnist for the Ar-kansas Traveler.

Stop Interference of Sports and State

TJ StallbaumerSta# Columnist

Where Judges Stand Seeking marriage equality

Between now and July, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases dealing with same-sex marriage: one testing the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the other involving the Defense of Marriage Act, which de#nes marriage for federal purposes as the union of a man and a woman. Oral arguments in the court last week raised the disheartening possibility that a majority of the court may be unwilling at this time to ex-tend to same-sex marriages the constitutional protection it af-forded to interracial marriages four decades ago.

Of course, questions and comments from the justices don’t necessarily predict how they will vote; sometimes they think aloud and play devil’s advocate. But that usually sen-sible caveat may itself have to be quali#ed when it comes to last week’s arguments. Based on comments from both lib-eral and conservative justices, a majority of the court seemed averse to confronting the cen-tral constitutional question raised by Proposition 8 and DOMA: whether denying same-sex couples the right to civil marriage violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws.

During arguments on Proposition 8, the California ballot measure that wrote a ban on same-sex marriage into the state Constitution in 2008,

Justice Anthony Kennedy -- a perennial swing vote on the court -- wondered why the court had agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which inval-idated the measure on the nar-row grounds that, having once legalized same-sex marriage, the state couldn’t do away with it. “I wonder if this case was properly granted,” Kennedy said. $at suggested that he wasn’t among the minimum of four justices who decided to hear the case and that he might be willing to join in a decision to dismiss it as “improvidently granted.”

For their part, the liberal justices likely to be supportive of marriage equality seemed doubtful about whether the citizen proponents of Propo-sition 8 had legal standing to appeal lower-court rulings against the measure once the governor and attorney general refused to do so. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that the proponents’ role ended when the measure was put on the ballot. “Once it’s passed,” she said, “they have no propri-etary interest in it.”

If the court were to dismiss the Proposition 8 case, the de-cision of the 9th Circuit would be reinstated and same-sex couples in California would be able to marry. $e same would be true if the court decided, that the proponents of the measure lacked legal stand-ing. But a narrow decision that merely undid Proposition 8 in California would be a piti-

fully limited victory and would leave intact prohibitions on same-sex marriage in 38 states.

Ironically, the position of those states would be strength-ened if the court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it intrudes on a state’s right to de-#ne marriage.

What we’d rather see is a ruling in the Proposition 8 case that prohibiting same-sex marriage is a violation of equal protection of the laws. $at would reduce the DOMA case to a footnote. Four liberal jus-tices are thought to be sympa-thetic to that view, four conser-vatives hostile to it. $at leaves Kennedy, the author of two landmark gay-rights decisions.

During the Proposition 8 argument he indicated that he recognizes the reality and dig-nity of same-sex relationships. Kennedy noted that more than 40,000 children are be-ing raised by same-sex couples in California, “and they want their parents to have full rec-ognition and full status. $e voice of those children is im-portant in this case, don’t you think?”

But Kennedy is also an advocate of states’ rights. In the DOMA context, a sym-pathy for states’ rights works to the advantages of gay and lesbian couples in states that allow same-sex marriage. But the same impulse could make Kennedy reluctant to rule that states may not limit marriage to heterosexuals.

$ere were some other

ominous notes in Kennedy’s questions and comments. In the same exchange with the lawyer for Proposition 8 pro-ponents in which he referred to the children of gay couples, Kennedy said “there’s sub-stance to the point that socio-logical information (about the e%ect of same-sex marriage on children) is new. We have #ve years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.”

$e notion that same-sex couples cannot be loving and competent parents is not sup-ported by research, and in any event children already are be-ing raised by same-sex parents even where same-sex marriage is not legal. Speculative con-cerns about harms to children should not prevent Kennedy or his colleagues from li"-ing blanket bans on same-sex marriage in California and elsewhere. Nor are states’ rights and respect for the dem-ocratic process an excuse for declining to vindicate consti-tutional rights any more than they were in the case of inter-racial marriage. Proposition 8 and DOMA o%er the Supreme Court an opportunity to a&rm an ancient principle -- equality before the law -- in the con-text of contemporary social realities. $e court should rule clearly and boldly.

"e following editorial ap-peared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, April 2. It was re-trieved from MCT Campus.

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Joe DelNeroOpinion Editor

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

In August, a UA student landed here for the !rst time from over 6,000 miles away, was picked up from the airport by a professor and immediate-ly delved into what she came all this way to do — theater.

Graduate student Kholoud Sawaf is directing the drama department’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s, “A Doll’s House.”

Sawaf is originally from Syria, a country very harsh when it comes to censorship, so she had to tread care-fully when it came to what she put on stage, she said. Also, theater is not a part of the educational system. People do it as a hobby, but do not devote their lives to it like they do here, and it is typically not o"ered in high schools and was not o"ered as a major where Sawaf went to college, she said.

Because this is Sawaf ’s !rst play to direct here, she has struggled in learn-ing how to deal with her newfound freedom.

“#eater is about telling the story. Anything that is going to help tell it, I strongly agree with and support it. #at is our number one goal in doing any play,” she said.

#e cast has been helpful in mak-ing her comfortable with her deci-sions, she said.

“A Doll’s House” deals with a woman who is restrained because of the gender roles in her culture, which Sawaf saw clearly in her own culture.

“Women need to take more initia-tive to be independent,” she said. #ere is a widespread idea that women must be dependent on their fathers, broth-ers or husbands, which is frustrating to her, she said.

“It was hard to !nd something I could relate to that would relate to the audience,” she said.

#e play is about !nding your cage and breaking away from it, Sawaf said, and that is what she hopes the audi-ence will take away from it.

#e !rst play Sawaf ever saw as a child was a dancing performance in Lebanon. Her mother saw that it sparked her interest and asked, “Do you want to be like them?” Sawaf re-plied, “I want to be the one moving them.”

She then began getting involved in theater and, at the age of 15, directed her !rst play,for which she also per-formed some of the music and also played a small role.

Although she has done some act-ing, directing is her primary focus.

“How do you change it from that page to that stage? It’s turning the writer’s script into humans that are real, that talk and have volume. #e

actors embody the characters,” she said.

She moved to the United Arab Emirates, where she got an under-graduate degree in mass communica-tions from the American University of Sharjah. Although she was not able to major in theater, she did take classes from the only theater professor.

“#at’s when I decided this is really what I want to do,” she said.

In Syria, it is unusual for children to move out before getting married, and before August, Sawaf had never been outside of the Middle East. When she arrived, one of her professors picked her up from the airport and helped her !nd an apartment. #e drama de-partment has been like a small family to her, she said, and has helped her with everything from buying grocer-ies to communicating with people.

“#ey had this very welcoming at-titude that was just amazing,” Sawaf said.

She has found that “this big idea that when you get to the states, your problems are over,” to not be totally true. Coming here made her see that Americans are hard-working, she said.

Sawaf is not used to working with such a dedicated group of people, she said. In Syria, it would not have been easy for her to ask actors to rehearse for four hours, !ve days a week, but here, they are willing to put in the time and e"ort and will easily give her more time on top of that to learn new things such as dance routines or even how to play the piano, she said. #e cast helped her choose a translation to use for the Norwegian play and has come to her with new ideas that would require of them more work.

“Every time, I am surprised,” she said.

#e student director is not totally sure what she would like to do af-ter she earns her master’s degree, but would like to open up a theater pro-gram in Syria and expose students to some of the skills she has learned, she said.

It is no secret that many frater-nities have been suspended due to alcohol violations or hazing, but a group of brothers at the UA achieves large parties and pledge classes without these threats as Brothers Under Christ.

#e purpose of Beta Upsilon Chi is to establish brotherhood and unity among college men based on the common bond of Jesus Christ, according to the UA RSO website.

“BYX is an opportunity for col-lege men to not only meet other incredible guys and have a great college experience, but also to do it in a way that glori!es Christ,” said Jonathan Graham, senior so-cial work major.

With over 200 members, BYX still wants to teach its core values of brotherhood, unity, faith, lead-ership and character to new poten-tial members.

“#e pledging process is one of the most fun aspects of BYX,” Gra-ham said. “It is a semester long and consists of coke dates, missions, and other activities that provide the pledges an opportunity to get to know their brothers by spend-ing a lot of time with them.”

One of BYX’s key components are cell groups, which consist of four to six guys who gather weekly to discuss their lives openly while creating friendships.

“Most of my closest friends to this day are from my pledge class,”

said Jason Polley, senior sociology major. “#e unity and bond you create with your pledge brothers is based solely in Christ and His love. Because of this, the relationships that formed out of pledge ship will last my entire life.”

BYX has many chapter ac-tivities including retreats, service projects and socials. #is August, the national council will choose 12 BYX brothers to journey to Texas, then Colorado to participate in the “Cor Leadership Retreat” where they will grow spiritually, academ-ically and professionally for two weeks.

BYX was founded in 1985 at the University of Texas at Austin by a group of Christian men who wanted to create another fraternal lifestyle, according to the BYX UA chapter website.

“BYX is similar in a lot of ways to Greek fraternities. We seek to establish many of the same things they do, such as brotherhood, leadership, and an incredible col-lege experience,” Graham said. “#e only di"erence is we seek to do it in a way that gives glory and honor to Jesus Christ. Although we fail constantly in our pursuit of Christ, we continuously come and repent humbly before him and accept his free grace. We are not a perfect fraternity, but we seek to please Jesus in all that we do.”

Members pay dues of about $200 per semester, as they venture to not be a church, but a brother-hood of Christian men.

“BYX has shaped me into a man and leader that I would have

never thought possible when com-ing into college,” Graham said. Serving this fraternity has been one of the hardest and most fruit-ful things I have done. BYX has taught me to mature and that the best way to learn is to go out of my comfort zone and fall on my face, but at the same time get up and learn from my mistakes.

BYX is a non-denomination-al Christian fraternity, but they strongly encourage their members to join a local congregation.

“As a freshman I knew I wanted to !nd a group of guys that I could be apart of that would encourage me to push farther in my faith,” Polley said. “I feel like God gave me the opportunity of BYX just for this; for my faith to be sharpened and stretched. BYX o"ers an op-portunity to grow in faith amongst others of God by being around men who pour their heart into the brotherhood.”

With the core morals bring-ing BYX together, the fraternity inspires its members to unite in the common bond of Jesus Christ while also being the foundation to life altering relationships.

“BYX has changed my life and my relationship with Christ, but my favorite aspect is what it has done in the lives of my fraternity brothers,” Polley said. “I love see-ing a guy come in as a freshman and see God use BYX to totally change who he is as a person in social changes/character. #e most satisfying transformation is to see how God can evolve brothers’ hearts through BYX.”

Stephanie ErhlerSta! Writer

Bioshock: In!nite - 10 out of 10Irrational games has created a both visually

stunning and remarkably fun game with their production of Bioshock: In!nite.

Players take on the role of Booker Dewitt in the newest edition to the Bioshock series, and the main objective in the game is to !nd and res-cue a girl named Elizabeth in the skyward city of Columbia and return her to Dewitt’s employers.

#e story is thick with twists and turns that will keep fans of role-playing games interested and packed with enough violence and may-hem to put many other !rst person shooters to shame. Like every other FPS out there, Bioshock brings an assorted armory of guns for players to use at their leisure, however, the old time look of the guns lend players a di"erent feeling than were they just walking around with AK-47s. #ese guns range from pistols all the way up to RPGs for those more meddlesome enemies like the Handyman.

Speaking of enemies, players will have no shortage of people to mow down, and may even get clobbered themselves by enemies of a higher caliber called Handymen. #ese giant mecha-nized men can give even a seasoned gamer a run for their money. #e big enemy that constantly hounds Booker and Elizabeth throughout the game though is the Songbird. #is guy is a hassle

for the duo and our heroine Elizabeth ends up helping out more than thought possible.

For example, when Elizabeth is not ducking and covering in a !re!ght, she actually proves very useful. Booker’s sidekick will actively go and !nd things to help keep him !ghting and keep him alive. #is ranges from !nding health packs to tossing him ammo. #is aspect of the game can be life saving, and fuels the continu-ous $ow of murder and mayhem. #at’s not all she does though. Elizabeth has an ability to open “tears” –– essentially doorways into the fabric of reality –– in the world to provide a strategic ad-vantage to Booker, be it in the form of cover or even automatic turrets; Elizabeth is certainly not the average damsel in distress.

Every shooter has their close-ranged melee attacks, and Bioshock: In!nite is no di"erent, ex-cept it is a whole lot more fun. At the start of the game Dewitt comes into possession of an item called the Skyhook. #is little marvel of technol-ogy accomplishes two things: maiming and kill-ing enemies, and traveling around the city via a skyrail system that makes transitioning to new areas exhilarating. #is melee weapon is brutal: two hits are enough to kill an average enemy and if players do it right they can end up triggering an execution scene that will sometimes result in a decapitation. Aside from killing, the skylines around the city will let Booker travel very fast as well as strategically place himself during battles. I dub this little beauty of a weapon the “Swiss army knife” of the game.

What the game does really well with and

what separates it from the normal shooter is the secondary weapons provided to Booker, vigors. #ese powers give players the extra edge in combat that lets them utterly annihilate an entire army of troops. What’s even bet-ter is there is more than just one type of vigor –– players can do things ranging from throwing murders of murderous crows at people to charming enemies to !ght for them. In addition to that, players can combine the vigors for devastating e"ects on the battle-!eld. #ings like burning crows attacking enemies are common on the battle!eld. Players can also charge up these vigors to lay traps that will deal even more damage to foes. #e vigor aspect is really a game changer and changed my outlook on FPS games, particularly the Bioshock series.

A%er a thorough look through the game I can honestly say this is one of the best games I have played, and in fact the best FPS I have played to date. Normally I wouldn’t endorse this kind of game, but it is a hoot and a half. I give Bioshock: In!nite a 10/10, a perfect score for the stun-ning visuals and rich game-play it gives players. Bravo Irrational games. Keep ‘em coming.

John MullinsSta! Writer

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Alex GoldenSta! Writer

Sawaf

Caroline Potts Sta" PhotographerMembers of BYX fraternity dance at the spring formal event at the Memphis Zoo, Saturday, April 6.

Syrian Graduate Drama Student Overcomes Cultural Dissonance

BYX: Faith and Brotherhood

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44 Meddles (with)46 “Pretty please ...”50 GPS choices51 Pinnacle53 Geologic periods54 Extensive property57 Sorrowful cry59 Slangy “OK”60 “Wheel of Fortune” purchase61 Gender-determining heredity unit64 Mauna __: Hawaii’s highest peak65 Harbor cities66 ESPN analyst Garciaparra67 Bachelor in personals, brie$y68 Early stage69 Extends across

DOWN1 __ that be: authorities2 Inventor Otis3 Remington weapons4 Egg: Pref.5 Casual turndowns6 Second-largest planet7 Physicist Nikola8 Dadaism founder9 Spanish rivers10 Greek letter that seems like it should be last11 Summer refreshers12 Hardly an amateur

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!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperMonday, April 8, 2013 Page 7

Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

So this minor league base-ball stu! is pretty cool, huh?

Some people don’t think

so. Some fans seem to think there’s no point in watching a couple of teams full of players they’ve never heard of. Where do these people think major leaguers come from?

Since there are 40 rounds in the MLB dra", baseball may be the easiest sport to make it to the professional level. However, it may be more di#cult to get to the big leagues than to get to the top level of most other sports.

For that reason, it makes it even better when a player $nally makes it to the majors, and the fans that watched them in the minors can say

they watched them play be-fore anyone else.

Sure, many baseball fans knew who Bryce Harper was before he was called up to the big leagues, but it’s a pretty good bet that fans in Hager-stown, Md., Harrisburg, Pa., and Syracuse, N.Y., feel like they know him better.

Maybe they do. %ey did get to watch him play before everyone else, a"er all.

For an example of a star that went through a minor league town closer to home, think of all the fans in central Arkansas who have what now must be one of the most di#-

cult signatures to get in all of baseball.

Mike Trout hit .326 in 2011 in 91 games with the Ar-kansas Travelers, the double-A a#liate of the Los Angeles Angels.

Fans that spent any time at Arvest Ballpark, the home of the Northwest Arkansas Nat-urals, the double-A a#liate of the Kansas City Royals, last season may have seen three of the top four prospects, as ranked by MLB.com.

%e top-ranked prospect, Jurickson Profar played for the Frisco RoughRiders, the double-A a#liate of the Texas

Rangers, hitting .281 with 62 RBIs.

Oscar Taveras, the No. 3-ranked prospect earned a spot in major league spring training a"er hitting .321 with 23 home runs and 94 RBIs as a Texas Leaguer in double-A Spring$eld, an a#liate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

%e No. 4 prospect, Wil Myers, was a Natural for 35 games, during which time he hit .343 and drove in 30 runs, before he joined the triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers.

Myers went on to hit .304 with the Storm Chasers be-fore being traded to Tampa

Bay during the o!season.So maybe the minor

leagues are full of a bunch of players that will never make it to the major league level and will spend their lives tak-ing long bus rides and mak-ing way less money that most fans would think.

Or maybe it’s a really cool opportunity to see the stars play before they become stars.

Haley Markle is the assistant sports editor for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravS-ports.

Minor League Baseball Provides a Unique Opportunity

Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor

COMMENTARY

GYMNASTICSTRACK & FIELD

%e No. 11 Arkansas wom-en’s track and $eld team com-peted in the 34th Sun Angel Classic Saturday in Tempe, Ariz., where the team was able to take away four wins and six personal bests.

%e Hogs competed against over 20 colleges and universities, and there were seven top-25 teams at the meet: No. 1 Kansas, No. 8 Ari-zona State, No. 11 Arkansas, No. 16 Illinois, No. 17 Iowa State, No. 23 Oklahoma and No. 24 Colorado.

In addition to these ranked teams, Division II No. 8 Acad-emy of Arts also competed and was able to post several high performances through-out the event.

Arkansas went into the meet with $ve top-10 national event rankings, which were based on performances from the season-opening meet.

Regina George was the top-ranked runner in the 800-meter, Sparkle McKnight ranked second in the 400-me-ter hurdles, Makeba Alcide ranked fourth in the heptath-lon, the 4x400-meter relay had the fourth-fastest time and the 4x100 relay earned the tenth-ranked time in the country.

%e $rst win for the Ra-

Hogs Win 4 at 34th Sun Angel Classic

%e Razorback gymnas-tics team is headed to the NCAA Championship for the sixth year in a row, a"er competing in the Corvallis, Ore., regional.

Junior Katherine Grable led the charge for Arkansas, winning three individual

event titles. Grable matched her career-best scores on the &oor and the vault and scored a season-best 39.650 to win the all-around com-petition.

As a team, the Razor-backs posted a program-best 196.950 to get second place in the region which included $ve teams. Georgia won the meet, but the top two teams at each regional clinch a

berth in the NCAA Cham-pionship meet. Georgia won the meet with a 197.425 overall.

“I am just so shocked right now,” co-head coach Rene Lyst said. “We thought coming into the meet that Oregon State would win as the host and we would be in a two-way battle with Geor-gia.”

Oregon State placed

fourth with a 195.375. Ari-zona State, Boise State and California also competed in the regional, coming in third, $"h and sixth, respec-tively.

On the &oor, the Ra-zorbacks posted a 49.250, the second highest score in regional history. Led by Grable’s 9.95, the other Ra-zorback scores were a 9.875 from Amy Borsellino, a 9.85

from Kelci Lewis and a 9.825 from Heather Elswick.

%e score on the vault for Arkansas was also a 49.25. Once again Grable’s 9.95 was the highest mark for the Hogs, followed by a 9.85 from both Elswick and Lewis and a 9.80 from both Bailee Zumwalde and Erin Freier.

A"er those two events,

Gym‘Backs Punch Ticket to Nationals

see CLASSIC page 8

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsMembers of the Arkansas gymnastics team pose for a team photo at the Oregon State NCAA Regional, Saturday, April 6. !e Gym‘Backs earned second place and a spot in the National Championship meet with a score of 196.950.Liz BeadleSta! Writer

see NATIONALS page 8BASEBALL

Ben EnyartSta! Writer

Arkansas’ baseball team picked up their third straight series win this weekend in Tuscaloosa, Ala., taking two of three games against Ala-bama.

The Razorbacks, who came into the series ranked No. 11 in the Collegiate Base-ball rankings, defeated the No. 22 Crimson Tide in the first two games but fell short of the sweep and lost third game.

The series began Thurs-day with a nationally tele-vised game on ESPNU. De-spite stranding 13 runners on base, Arkansas won 3-1.

Senior Matt Vinson scored the first run of the game in the second inning, when ju-nior Jacob Morris laid down a squeeze bunt up the first

base line.Arkansas added a pair of

runs in the fifth inning, us-ing two Crimson Tide errors and an RBI fielder’s choice by Vinson. Alabama scored a run off two hits and an error in the bottom of the fifth.

Freshman Willie Schwan-ke had a solid day at the plate, going 3-for-3.

Junior Barrett Astin start-ed the game for the Razor-backs and gave up three hits, two walks and struck out four in 4.1 innings, before he was relieved by sophomore Jalen Beeks.

Beeks earned the win, his fourth of the season, giving up only one hit and one walk in 2.2 innings while striking out three batters.

Alabama threatened to score in the eighth and ninth innings but came away with

Errors Prevent Sweep in SeriesAgainst the TideAndrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

see ERRORS page 8Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations

Joe Serrano takes a swing at a game earlier this season. !e Razorbacks earned the win in each of the "rst two games against Alabama, but fell to the Tide 5-0 in the series "nal after committing "ve errors.

!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperPage 8 Monday, April 8, 2013

NATIONALS continued from page 7Arkansas only trailed Georgia 98.525 to 98.500. Boise State, Arizona State, Cal, and Oregon all trailed the two Southeastern Con-ference teams in the meet.

%e Hogs then posted a 49.150 on the bars. Shelby Salmon led the way for Arkansas, marking up a 9.875 on the bars. Grable followed with a 9.85 and Freier and Borsellino both posted a 9.825.

Arkansas’ beam score was 49.300 in the last event of the day. Grable and Frei-er both posted a 9.90 to an-chor the rotation.

Borsellino and Sydnie Dillard both recorded a 9.85 and Salmon and Glov-er each recorded a 9.80 to $nish strongly for Arkan-

sas and punch their ticket to Los Angeles for the championship.

“It was just awesome to $nish the way we did on the beam,” Lyst said. “%is was a really fun meet for us the throughout the whole time. Everyone competed extremely well for us and I still can’t describe the feeling right now about making it to the National Championship meet.”

Since 1982, the same four teams won the NCAA Championship in gymnas-tics: Georgia, UCLA, Ala-bama and Utah. If the Hogs can pull it o!, they would be the $rst team to break into that elite group. %e championship meet begins April 20 in Los Angeles.

zorbacks was from Ivanique Kemp in the 100-meter hur-dles. Her season-best time of 13.27 seconds was enough to secure her $rst title of the sea-son.

%e next win for the Hogs was from pole-vaulter Megan Zimlich who cleared the 12-8 3/4 mark to win the open sec-tion of the pole vault. %is height was an outdoor person-al best, although she cleared 12-9 1/2 during the indoor season.

%e Hogs then had a $rst-place $nish from the 4x100 relay with a time of 44.65. %e race was led o! by George, who was followed up by Gwendolyn Flowers and McKnight and anchored by Tamara Myers.

%e $nal $rst-place $nish of the night for the Hogs was from McKnight in the 400. Her time of 52.17, based on the times entering the week-end, earned her a spot as the new NCAA leader in the event.

%ere were also multiple second-place $nishes for the Hogs Saturday, including a runner-up performance from Kristen Hasseltine in the high jump with a mark of 5-8 3/4. Hasseltine was just behind

Northern Arizona’s Lauren Laszczak and her jump of 5-10.

Tamara Myers also man-aged a runner-up perfor-mance in the triple jump with a mark of 41-2 1/4. %is was just behind the 43-1 jump by Academy of Arts’ Vashti %omas.

And although they weren’t able to reproduce their school-record time of 3:28.42 earned at the 86th Clyde Little$eld Texas Relays, the 4x400 team was able to $nish second with a time of 3:37.22, just behind Kansas’ 3:32.26.

Saturday also produced many personal bests. Kemp ran a 11.80 in the 100-meter and a 24.44 in the 200-meter, Caitlin Noonan ran a 2:15.54 in the 800-meter, Flowers ran a 58.74 in the 400-meter hur-dles, Danielle Nowell cleared a 13-5 3/4 in the pole vault and Myers jumped 19-8 1/4 in the long jump.

%e Hogs compete next in Fayetteville for the John Mc-Donnell Invitational. %is will be the $rst full home compe-tition. %e meet will be held Saturday, April 13, and will start with $eld events at 9 a.m. followed by running events at 5 p.m.

CLASSIC continued from page 7

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsIvanique Kemp competes at the Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Ariz., Saturday, April 6. !e Razorbacks won four events and set six personal records.

ERRORS continued from page 7no runs. A pair of strikeouts by sophomore Chris Oliver stranded runners on first and second and ended their threat in the eighth.

In the ninth, junior Colby Suggs gave up a lead-off walk and after a wild pitch and a groundout, the Crimson Tide had a runner on third with one out. However, Suggs struck out a batter, walked another and finally got a groundout to earn his fourth save of the season.

The Razorbacks rode a strong performance by junior Ryne Stanek to clinch the se-ries Friday, winning 6-0.

Stanek tossed eight shut-out innings, allowed four hits and struck out five to improve his season record to 3-2. In his two road starts against

Southeastern Conference op-ponents, he is 2-0 and has only given up seven hits, one walk and struck out 12 batters in 17 innings.

Alabama freshman Kyle Overstreet collected half of their hits, going 2-for-3 on the day.

Arkansas’ offense struck first in the second inning. Sophomore Brian Anderson reached on an error and ju-nior Jake Wise drove him in with an RBI-single. Morris added a run with an RBI sac-rifice fly later in the inning.

The scoring continued in the third inning. Sophomore Joe Serrano led off the inning with a double, and an RBI-double by Anderson scored him. An RBI-single by Vin-son scored Anderson a couple

batters later.An RBI-single by Ander-

son in the seventh and anoth-er Morris sacrifice fly in the eighth tacked on the last two runs for the Razorbacks.

Five Razorbacks collected two hits and junior Dominic Ficociello went 3-for-5 and scored a run.

Arkansas lost their chance for a sweep Saturday, com-mitting five errors and losing 5-0.

The five errors brought their season total to 52 errors and dropped their fielding percentage to .960.

Senior Randall Fant start-ed on the mound for Arkan-sas and picked up his first loss of the season. He lasted just three innings and gave up two earned runs on five hits.

This was the first time Fant failed to pitch at least six innings since his first start of the season, when he pitched four innings and earned a no-decision in Arkansas’ 4-3 loss to Pacific March 3.

The Crimson Tide led off the second inning with a home run by senior Brett Booth, his third of the season. Booth went 2-for-2 with two RBI, two walks and two runs Saturday.

Most of Arkansas’ offense came from Serrano, who went 2-for-4 with a double.

Fant’s two earned runs were the only two given up by Arkansas pitchers in the series and it brings the team ERA to 1.59. The Razorbacks entered the series with an NCAA-leading 1.68 ERA.

SOFTBALL

%e Razorback so"ball team hosted the No. 13 Tigers of LSU in a three-game series at Bogle Park this weekend. Despite an exciting win Satur-day and a close game Sunday, the Razorbacks dropped the series 2-1.

%e Razorbacks fell to 26-15 (4-8 Southeastern Confer-ence) on the season while the Tigers improved to 33-8 (9-3 SEC).

In Friday’s game, the Tigers came out strong o!ensively and

beat Arkansas 8-2. LSU was up 5-0 a"er three innings and the Razorbacks never recovered. Arkansas did not score a single run until the sixth inning.

“%e bottom line is that we didn’t play Razorback so"ball tonight,” head coach Mike Lar-abee said of Friday’s game. “We didn’t pitch or defend well. I thought we had some qual-ity at-bats o! of a very good pitcher.”

In Saturday’s game, the Razorbacks pulled o! a come-from-behind win to even out the series 1-1. Stephanie Can-$eld’s two-out single in the bottom of the seventh gave the

Hogs their winning point and their $rst victory over LSU in 12 consecutive meetings.

Devon Wallace was the runner batted in by Cran$eld’s single. %e $nal score Saturday was 4-3.

“%ey might start calling us the ‘cardiacbacks’,” head coach Mike Larabee said in reference to Saturday’s thrilling game. “Two weekends in a row we have had dramatic comebacks. I was feeling con$dent with Can$eld coming to the plate. %e kid hates to lose.”

Kimmy Beasley pitched seven innings for Arkansas Saturday and only allowed one

earned run on two hits. Jayme Gee led the Hogs at the plate, going 2-for-3 with both a dou-ble and a solo home run.

“Beasley can beat any team in the country,” Larabee said. “She needs to stay consistent. She beat Alabama and Cali-fornia last year, now she has to stay consistent. She has all the tools and there are not a lot of le"-handed pitchers in the SEC right now.”

%e comeback was the second in as many weeks for Arkansas and Larabee really hoped it would swing the mo-mentum back in the Hogs’ di-rection.

“Just like last week, this is a huge momentum swing for us,” Larabee said. “Last week we talked about being a consistent program. To be a consistent program, you have to win the series.”

But the Hogs were unable to get it done to win the series on Sunday and dropped the game 5-4 and the series 2-1.

“%ere are a lot of positives to take away from this game,” Larabee said. ”We talked about coming out and scoring a big number, early. In this confer-ence, teams are not going to quit. I think we can learn from that today.”

Devon Wallace walked three times in Sunday’s game to make her Arkansas’ all-time career walks leader. Wallace is only a sophomore and will likely break many more Ar-kansas hitting records in her playing career.

Sierra Bronkey led the Hogs at the plate, accounting for a two-run home run in the sec-ond inning. Beasley pitched for the second day in a row in Sunday’s game and gave up four earned runs on seven hits to take the loss.

Next up for Arkansas is a game with Missouri State at Bogle Park on Wednesday.

Razorbacks Fall to Tigers 2-1 in Conference Series

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

Addison Morgan Sta# PhotographerChelsea Cohen pitches at the Arkansas v. LSU softball game, Friday, April 5. Cohen pitched two and a third innings, allowed "ve runs on six hits and struck out four bat-ters in the 8-2 loss to the division rivals.