University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Monday, August 20, 2012 Vol. 107, No. 1

“About You,For You”

RZ’s ExpansionRZ’s Co!ee House has been temporarily closed because of additions of Au bon Pain Café Bakery and Freshens smoothie and yogurt shop.

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New Tech Center!e new technology cen-ter located in the Arkan-sas Union has opened.Full Story, Page 5

Hogs Undefeated

in Italy TourRazorback men’s basket-ball team won all four games to go undefeated in the Italian Tour. Full Story, Page 9

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"is summer construction projects progressed, yet many of the UA’s larger construc-tion projects will continue throughout the year, o#cials said.

“We had a lot of summer critical deadlines for things that have to be done before school starts,” said Bob Beel-er, director of design and con-struction.

Construction on the Hill-side Auditorium is running

behind schedule but is ex-pected to be $nished by the end of September, Beeler said.

“Maybe we were a little overly ambitious with Hillside and the gates are a little late as well,” Beeler said. “We’ve got to do like we did last year and work around it.”

Classes will be held in the Union Ballroom until the Hillside Auditorium is $n-ished.

During the summer, the second %oor classrooms of the Walton College of Business were gutted and rearranged and the restrooms were re-

furbished. In addition, eight classrooms in Kimpel Hall were revamped with cosmetic and technological upgrades. "e Jean Tyson Childhood Development Center was completed and is now ready to accept students and the Ar-kansas Union Fitness Center is expected to open on time, Beeler said.

"e Arkansas Union Fit-ness Center was opened at the end of last year, but was re-cently closed for a time to $x air conditioning units.

Another larger project completed over the summer was the Razorback Football Center — the addition of a new practice $eld and extra parking, Beeler said.

Several other, smaller projects were completed around campus, including an Einstein Bros Bagels kiosk in Bell Engineering Center and electrical upgrades in Pomfret and Yocum Halls, which are expected to make the resi-dence halls healthier places to live, Beeler said.

“A lot of that stu! is stu! students can’t see; we also cleaned out Mullins Creek,” he said.

Mullins Creek is o! cam-pus near the poultry science farm.

Students on campus dur-ing the summer noticed the increase in construction.

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"e price of a student Ra-zorback access pass increased from $65 to $85 this year, and the number of passes avail-able increased from 10,000 to 12,000, o#cials said.

"e passes allow students to attend any home football or men’s basketball game. Stu-dents without the pass may purchase tickets 30 minutes prior to the start of the game for $10 if seats are available, but access pass holders are given priority.

“"e $rst thing to note is that the University Athletic Department charges no stu-dent fees,” said Brian Pracht, associate athletic director for marketing and licensing. Ar-kansas is “one of a few institu-tions that has a policy like that with no student fees.”

"e increase in the price has some students at arms while others are supportive of the increase; however, their own elected o#cials in ASG proposed the price of the ac-cess pass.

“I personally don’t attend enough games to justify [buy-ing the pass],” Senior Mitchell

A new parking garage, with a practice football $eld on top, will not require a garage park-ing permit; o#cials expect the garage to relieve some parking struggles on campus.

Funded by the athletic de-partment, the new facility on Meadow Street is one level with 227 parking spaces. It will be open the $rst day of classes.

"ere was a net loss in parking space because of the construction. "e new prac-tice facility and garage was built in place of the 500-space Lot 67.

“It’s going to be metered parking, faculty/sta! and blue, so you won’t have to buy a deck permit for it,” said Andy Gilbride, education and in-struction specialist for the UA parking department.

Normally, garage permits are $720, but for this location the faculty and sta! parking has been priced as a standard yellow lot. "ese prices range from $106.94 to $138.23, de-pending on one’s salary.

“"at’s pretty cheap for a garage,” Gilbride said.

"e garage will provide more parking spaces for HPER users, Gilbride said.

“And then, of course, the lot beside it by the track, we’ve turned it back into student parking, but it’s no overnight,” Gilbride added. “So day-to-day parkers will be able to park there without it being a storage lot for the students.”

Parking on campus will still be di#cult, he said.

"ere are no new parking lots in progress, but there were some spaces lost because of the athletic project, Gilbride said. "e department will monitor how parking adjusts

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Kayli FarrisContributing Writer

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS MOVE FORWARD SOME DELAYS, OFFICIALS SAY

Courtesy of UA Media Relations!is map shows construction areas (orange) and available sidewalks (yellow arrows) that students can access on campus.

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Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerAfter two weeks of touring homes and meeting new people, sorority members o"er bids to new sisters.

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Courtesy of UA Media RelationsVolunteers will be stationed around campus to direct students.

Courtney Ulrich Sta" PhotographerFreshmen Kyla Hyatt (left) and Shauntell Mathis (right) help move students into Futrall and Holcombe !ursday, Aug. 16.

Home Away from Home

Volunteers from Help-A-Hog, a program to direct stu-dents around campus, will be out in full-force for the $rst two days of classes, an o#cial said.

“"e purpose is, at the beginning of classes, to help students who have a need to $nd their classes all across campus,” said Chase Young, the program specialist for new student programs.

Stations will be set up across campus. With increased construction, Young expects more questions from students.

Help-A-Hog volunteers are prepared to direct confused students around construction.

“We have partnered with university relations and other folks so that we have the con-struction areas highlighted, and we have print-outs print-ed at those locations.”

Volunteers Guide Students OnCampus

RZ’s Co!ee House in the Arkansas Union has been tem-porarily closed because of the additions of Au bon Pain Café Bakery and Freshens smoothie and yogurt shop, said a Chart-wells representative.

“We wanted to take a legacy location and turn it up a notch. We love the RZ’s name just like everyone on campus. We just

wanted to be able to expand the o!ering beyond the cof-feehouse. We think the menus will be a great update for the location,” said Kim Johnson.

Johnson explained that the addition of Au bon Pain Café Bakery and Freshens will add more retail food variety and additional locations to serve the ever growing campus pop-ulation.

“Giving more options is always a great idea. I love it. I like having a variety of op-

tions,” said Cheddar Ordorica.Au bon Pain will serve pas-

tries, sandwiches and wraps, salads, soups, and co!ee, among other dishes. Fresh-ens, also located in Maple Hill, will serve a variety of protein and low calorie fruit smooth-ies, frozen yogurt, shakes and crepes.

“We wanted to bring two quality food brands to the union family of brands. It’s just really good food and we think the students and faculty and

sta! will agree. "e Freshens side of RZ’s will include all of the yogurt and smoothies that the other campus location has; however, it will also feature crepes. "is is a unique prod-uct to campus that is not regu-larly served at any one of our current campus locations. We really believe that crepes are something that our customers will love and seek on a regular basis,” Johnson said.

RZ’s In Midst of Expansion

"e UA has made some changes to accommodate the growing campus population and pedestrians walking in and around campus.

"e corner of Razorback Road and Maple Street has become a four-way stop this summer a&er the Arkansas Highway Department re-ceived a complaint, said Lt.

Gary Crain, spokesmen for UAPD.

“"e Arkansas Highway Department received a com-plaint from a citizen who was involved in an accident in the intersection,” Crain said. “One of their tra#c engineers conducted a study and determined the intersec-tion quali$ed for the four-way stop designation.”

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Intersection Becomes Four-Way Stop

Jack SuntrupAsst. News Editor

Caitlin MahoneyContributing Writer

Jaime DunawayContributing Writer

to this, and determine if there is a need to create more lots at a later time.

“I’m positive that the $rst week is going to be challeng-ing, and it always is because every student that comes in drives,” Gilbride added.

Eventually, students begin to realize they can ride the bus, walk or ride a bicycle to get to class easier.

“So a&er the $rst week or two, it’ll calm down. Let’s hope that we have enough space. We have before, but we’ve really grown in enrollment. We won’t know until they get here,” Gil-bride said.

"e parking department has noticed more students buying parking garage per-mits, so they turned a number of faculty and sta! spots to student parking in the Garland

Avenue garage.“We already sold out of the

student Garland garage (per-mits). We sold less than 20 faculty/sta! permits, so we de-cided, ‘Let’s turn it over to stu-dents, give them the chance,’ and they bought it up,” Gil-bride said.

For the last few years, the parking department has sold all the permits for the Harmon garage, too. "e garages also have a lot of hourly parking spaces, which is a great source of revenue for the parking de-partment, Gilbride said.

Because Hotz Hall is being remodeled for residents, the lot beside it has been changed from partially faculty and sta! to entirely resident reserved parking.

“Just be patient the $rst week of school,” Gilbride said. “It’s going to be a madhouse.”

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“I took summer classes,” said sophomore food science major Julie Isenhower. “"e construction was a little an-noying, not being able to walk through certain areas and whatnot, but it needs to be done, I suppose, and it will be worth it in the end.”

While the progress made over the summer was “consid-erable,” Beeler said, students will not escape the construc-

tion during the school year. Several other large projects are just beginning.

"e foundations for Found-ers Hall began over the sum-mer and will add another 214 beds for on-campus students. Founders Hall is projected to be completed fall 2013, ac-cording to the facilities man-agement website.

McIlroy Street, stretching from Dickson Street to Fair-view Drive, is closed for the construction of Founders Hall.

Maple Street was brie%y closed for work on the Pi Beta Phi Gate and campus walk exten-sion, but that is not expected to happen again, Beeler said. No other roads are expected to be closed, barring intermittent sidewalk repairs.

"e area of Dickson Street was closed between Kimpel and Harmon Ave., but this area is now open.

“I noticed that the west end of Dickson Street was closed down, luckily I never drive

down there,” Isenhower said, “But, if you want to walk you have to cross the street, walk like 50 feet and then cross the street again.”

Vol Walker Hall and Ozark Hall are not scheduled to be $nished until next summer.

“It was a busy place (this summer),” Beeler said, “Over-all we’re feeling good; most projects are on schedule.”

Freshens will join the UA in their commitment to cam-pus sustainability. Every cup is 100 percent compostable, and all countertops and signs are made of recycled material such as aluminum and plastic.

"e RZ’s products and ser-vices will still be available; RZ’s is not closing, it is simply being expanded.

Students will also still be able to use their %ex dol-lars at the two new locations. Coupons and samples will be available for the grand open-ing. Most of these sales will take place on Union Day. "e tentative opening was set for Sept. 14, but was later pushed back to Sept. 24 because of construction delays.

“I think if they started working on this, they should have $nished it within two weeks of school starting, not one month later. It might not spark interest because it’s opening so late into the semes-ter. I like the idea of the shops, but the timing is bad,” said Or-dorica.

Starbucks, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Pete’s Co!ee will still have co!ee available for students while RZ’s is closed.

"e decision to bring two new food services to campus was one supported by the fac-ulty and sta!, but was primar-ily led by input from student surveys.

“I love it,” said James Wil-liams. “Smoothies are healthy and yummy.”

yet seen a signi$cant change from the stop sign, Crain said they would be able to deter-mine its e!ects once classes begin and tra#c is at its high-est.

Students have taken note of this change, and have mixed feelings about the new addi-tion. Junior Rachel Reed was less than thrilled about the change.

“I am used to driving

through the intersection with-out stopping where the new stop sign has been placed,” Reed said. “It is hard for me to remember the change has been made, and I o&en forget to stop.”

Sophomore Allie Berger said she likes the new four-way stop.

“It is less confusing when you know all cars have to stop, but it will still take some get-ting used to,” Berger said.

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Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerScholarship recipient, Monica Cortez, is interviewed at the Students and Educators for the D.R.E.A.M. “Beginning of the End” Scholarship Ceremony in the Multicultural Center on Aug. 17. S.E.D. is a university RSO dedicated to the dream act and higher education for all.

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Opinion Editor: Joe Kieklak

Page 4 Monday, August 20, 2012

My mom taught me not to play Monopoly conservatively. If you’re not familiar with the game, the concept is total mar-ket domination by players as they travel the board. Each player has the opportunity to buy di!erent properties such as Park Place and Boardwalk as they are landed on. A"er a player owns every property of the same color, they have a mo-nopoly and can then build up the value of their properties.

#e hardest decision to make in Monopoly is whether or not to buy a property. For me, it was almost always buy — do not play conservatively.

Here on the Hill, we just set up a new game of Razorback monopoly. In the realm of lame metaphors, I think this is the best way to describe this new year.

Each student will start on “go” with a new semester today and be open to a world of possi-bilities to “stake a claim” on this campus. UA o$cials provide students with unique opportu-nities to get involved with over 350 Registered Student Orga-nizations, according to the Stu-dent A!airs website.

#ere is an opportunity for everyone to be involved with something they love in an RSO. Plus, even if one of the 350 RSOs is not for you, UA provides stu-dents with the power to create a new organization.

#ere are even great ways to get involved as early as this week. Associated Student Gov-ernment (ASG) applications are open for multiple levels of administration. Students have the opportunity to become legislators as they create policy for Razorback students as ASG senators or serve the 2012-2013 ASG President, Tori Pohlner, as part of her administrative cabi-net. Finally, students can take a part in administering ASG elec-tions as part of the judiciary.

Applications for these groups were released 9 a.m. Monday morning.

O"en overlooked by fresh-men are ways to get involved in residence halls. As a freshman,

I spent my %rst year in Futrall Hall as vice president. My best friend was president, and as a hall government, we were close-knit a"er serving together.

With Holcombe Hall, Futrall won the 2011 Homecoming competition by bringing a phil-anthropic spirit and creativity to our residence halls. Hall senate is one of the most comfortable and easiest ways to get involved in improving life for your fellow students.

Hall governments have representative opportunity as well. Every year, residence halls choose representatives to serve on Residents’ Interhall Con-gress, a group of mostly fresh-men with upperclassmen lead-ership.

Last year, RIC was able to fund key events for students like Rollin’ with the Razorbacks and Interhall Leadership Sum-mit. #is year, RIC President Onnissia Harries has commit-ted to an e$cient platform, in-corporating important campus initiatives like gender-neutral housing and sustainability. #e only thing RIC needs now is a committed group of freshmen students to achieve goals.

Also, an attractive way to en-rich the campus but not govern is through University Programs. UP is a series of committees re-sponsible for bringing impor-tant speakers, fun concerts and other entertainment and the arts to campus.

Finally, Razorbash is 11 a.m. #ursday in the Union. #ink of high school club fair, but much better and with free T-shirts (don’t hold me to that). While not all RSOs will be represented #ursday, many will be %lling the Connections Lounge in full force. If student government is not your calling, you are bound to %nd something at Razorbash.

So now we roll the dice on this year. Whether freshman or senior, we all have an opportu-nity to get involved. We ought to make this year like Monopoly.

Jump on it. We all start out on Baltic, but we can soon move on to build our stake high. Whether you %nd your niche in an RSO or you serve our stu-dent governments, thank you in advance for being involved.

We are happy that you are here.

Joe Kieklak is the Opinion Editor. He is a sophomore ma-joring in philosophy and journal-ism/political science. His column appears Mondays.

Boardwalk, Do You Want to Buy It?

Joe KieklakOpinion Editor

So, here we are, staring down perhaps our %rst or one of our last semesters on the Hill. For years we learned skills to prepare us for the next level. In kindergarten, we learned how to write and tie our shoes. Elementary school carried us to junior high, where we su!ered through the last of our class-es that did not count.

#en we moved up to high school, which focused primarily on preparing for Razorback Nation. Appar-ently, we are ready to be at the university level. Nobody knows just how ready we are, but every resource helps in our four-year sojourn.

At the UA, we are lucky to have a seemingly undending “utility belt” full of resources.

Students continue to ben-e%t from a committed sta! on the administrative level, people who really want to

help students. Our faculty continues to

strive to be the best, which is clear from the level of educa-tion we gain on the Hill.

We have a range of tools for student use, beyond the HPER.

All of these resources make it “hard to be humble,” and it is warming to know that just one of the ways we excel as Razorbacks is by be-ing informed.

Enter: !e Arkansas Trav-eler.

#e award-winning news-paper made by students, for students. We pledge to our readership — students, fac-ulty and sta! — to produce a guide for life on the Hill and northwest Arkansas.

We promise to continue to o!er the best service pos-sible for daily events, night-life and other useful news.

As far as the Opinion section goes, we will o!er thoughtful, student columns each day this newspaper is published. We will continue to o!er cartoon commentary

of the campus and every sub-ject is on the table.

Our purpose is to inspire a dialogue on the campus and we will do this by o!er-ing a range of student views. #is year, we will tie as much national news as we can to campus. We will not publish any columns that go unde-fended.

As a section, we will con-tinue to o!er guest colum-nists that have worthwhile messages for students. #ere is no opinion that is not worth stating, and as long as it is built on solid foun-dation, students should feel free to contact the editor to submit work.

We intend to print more head-to-head opinions. We will continue to cover na-tional issues and make sure they are tied back to our ev-eryday life on campus.

Our online “look” will appear di!erent as well. Not only will we expand our con-tect, but we will add to our coverage of events as well. #ere will be more live blogs

of ASG meetings and we will be sure to cover major com-mittee meetings that hold in-terest for our readers.

#ough, the only way we can continue to o!er a qual-ity publication is if our read-ers hold us to our promises. #is newspaper has a high quality standard, and we ask our readers to hold us to it.

Call us out.If a reader feels that we

have not stayed true to our pledge, we will answer the challenge.

Whenever our readers pick up their copy of the Traveler, the time spent read-ing it will be worthwhile. We promise to serve as a guide as our readers navigate through the day. As long as our read-ers hold the Traveler, they will be informed.

We hope all enjoy their %rst day back. It will not be a “%rst day” without a few bumps, yet we hope all look back and remember it well. Welcome back and welcome home.

Welcome Home

Today freshmen are go-ing to take over campus.

Countless books will be bought, Chacos will be worn and wide-eyed freshmen will undoubtedly be lost in a maze of construction as they navigate the Hill.

Today, I will be wading in the sea of freshman start-ing my senior year as a Ra-zorback. As I begin my %nal year as an undergraduate, I can’t help but look back on my %rst week in Hog Nation. Between swine &u, missed classes, ISIS frustrations and the awkward “get to know your peers” games; no %rst week is without a few bumps.

To help all the newbies out there avoid common #freshmoves, I’ve compiled a few things I wish I had known as an incoming fresh-man.

First: Locate your classes in advance. Take a practice run to %nd out where every-thing is and how long it takes to get there.

Scoping out your classes ahead of time will also help you avoid pulling out your map, which instantly stamps “freshman” across your fore-head. It may be too late into Monday to heed this advice,

but there is still time to scope out classes for Tuesday.

Being late on the %rst day is embarrassing and makes a bad %rst impression. Arriv-ing early also helps you get a good seat or %nd friends to sit with.

Second: Sign up for more hours than you need. Signing up for 15 or 18 hours allows you to drop courses and have a little room in your sched-ule for the unexpected.

Unfavorable teachers, personal issues, jobs or de-gree changes are just a few reasons you may need to drop a class or switch around your schedule a"er the school year begins.

During sophomore year, I only enrolled in 13 hours during the fall. As the se-mester went on, I changed my biology major to English and creative writing, which meant I de%nitely did not need my comparative verte-brate morphology class any-more.

Not only was it a di$cult course, but it also did not count toward my degree. However, I did not allow any wiggle room in my schedule. So, I had to remain in the course to keep my status as a full-time student.

Having options is always bene%cial.

#ird: Get to know your teachers and, on the %rst day,

introduce yourself a"er class.#en, when you have a

question, you should pay a visit to your professor during his or her o$ce hours.

Getting to know your teachers is important.

For example, if you have an emergency, a teacher who is familiar with you is more likely to be understand-ing and helpful. Also, if you need extra help or a recom-mendation letter in the fu-ture, knowing your teachers will increase the likelihood that they will o!er their as-sistance.

Sitting closer to the front and participating in class will also help you in the long run. Not only will you be more likely to pay attention and understand the material, but it also helps your teach-ers put a name with a face.

Fourth: No books? No problem.

Wait to buy them. Some teachers may not require any books. If you decide to buy your books in advance, you may get stuck purchasing an expensive book only to sell it back for way less or %nd that the book was not necessary.

As a freshman, I watched a book collect dust in the corner for a semester. When I went to resell it, the $120 book was worth a whop-ping $5 because the teachers changed the required text for

the upcoming semester.For the %rst class, show-

ing up with just the syllabus and a notebook is usually the way to go.

Fi"h: Smile. #is seems easy enough, but a smile is one the most important things to bring with you to campus.

I rarely approach a stern-faced peer. When I get ner-vous, I accidentally put on my concentrated, don’t-talk-to-me face. #is mean mug of sorts is completely unin-tentional, but it can de%nite-ly make people want to stay away.

Remember, everyone on this campus was a freshman at some point. If you do need to ask directions, are run-ning a little late or show up with a stack of books taller than you, and that’s OK.

College is the perfect time to meet new people and be-come the person you want to be. Take every bump in the road as a learning op-portunity, and know that, no matter what, these next four years as a Razorback will be some you will never forget.

Ashley Flippin is a con-tributing columnist. She is a senior English and creative writing major.

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With stress levels about to go into overload with the new academic semester starting, there are a group of students virtually loading into a world of Italian brothers, dinosaur pets and peachy princesses. !e UA Super Smash Club, which became an RSO in Sep-tember 2011, began as just a few people sharing a hobby of video-game playing.

!e Super Smash Bros. video-game series began in 1999, according to their website, and has sold 2.6 mil-lion units for the Nintendo 64 and 3.7 million for the Nintendo GameCube in America.

“!e Super Smash Club was founded by Trent No-len, Brandon Butler, Jackson Boice and myself,” said Brij

Panda, vice president of Su-per Smash Club. “!e four of us, along with others, enjoyed getting together o"en and winding down a day by play-ing ‘Super Smash Bros.’ Trent wanted to play it competi-tively, so we decided to make a club that handled both as-pects of the game: fun and competitiveness.”

!e club began with a few students just playing a game in their dorm, but soon oth-ers were intrigued, allow-ing an idea for a club to be formed.

“Originally, I and a couple other friends played together in Pomfret all the time,” Super Smash Club president Trent Nolen said. “Eventually we had enough people where we decided to hold small tourna-ments under the dining hall, and from there, we knew we had to form an RSO.”

Super Smash Club per-

mits members to network with other people who share their interest, creating friendships and giving the opportunity to play against new people.

“!e club is centered around competitive play of ‘Super Smash Bros.,’ all three of them,” Nolen said. “We’re always looking for new and bet-ter players to play with and hopefully teach us a few things.”

While most of the gaming members are experienced, students who have never played before are encouraged to expose themselves to the RSO, allowing them to learn how to play.

!e SSC are always look-ing for people of all skill lev-els to come and testyourself, Nolen said.

“I absolutely love the community surrounding the game and hope to bring that to the university. It’s just such a great way to meet and play new people,” he said.

Since the club is just un-der a year old, increasing in size is a main goal for the near future.

“When we started, it was just six of us. Now I be-lieve we have over 30 active

members. We would like for membership/interest to grow, with members of the club representing the univer-sity at regional and national tournaments,” Panda said. “We have a meeting at least every month and usually have games set up every two weeks.”

!ose interested in join-ing can attend a meeting, join the Facebook page or email the RSO at at uarksmash-club@gmail.com.

“We plan to ramp up the speed and advertising tour-naments and what we call ‘smashfests,’ or big events

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

The library can be too quiet, the dorm room can be too distracting, but

the recently opened Student Technology Center located in the Arkansas Union can provide the perfect atmo-sphere of productivity and recreation at the same time.

!e new technology lab, located on the third #oor, opened on May 3 and o$ers a lot more than just computers for students. !e lab is open Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to midnight, Saturday 9 a.m. to midnight and Sunday noon to midnight.

“!ere is digital media lab, which is the work side of the union technology center, and the other side is the fun side,” said Jesse Anderson, union technology lab em-ployee and senior informa-tion systems major.

!e digital media lab of-fers equipment that students can use for various projects and editing. It is equipped with several Macintosh desk-tops, scanners and sound-proof recording rooms.

“!e digital media lab allows for people to have technology at their %ngertips who maybe cannot a$ord so"ware to be able to work on projects,” Anderson said. “!e Macs and the programs that are available on it are very expensive.”

!e “fun side” of the technology center has several Alienware computers that allow for the best gaming quality experience. !ere are also multiple large TVs that are always available to watch or to play Wii, Xbox or Playstation games on.

!e dining halls have rush hours of population tra&c, and the new technology lab is sure to have busy hours too as students get back into the academic semester.

“I work in this lab three days a week, and there are normally four people in at any given time. Sometimes it

can go from no one in here to a lot of people,” Anderson said. “During the summer, it has been hard to give an accurate statistic for tra&c, but employees go count the number of people in the lab frequently so we can start discovering when the busy hours are and what people like to do most.”

According to ISIS, the student media, facilities and network fees add up to over $300, but this money allows for students to access the labs and campus-wide wireless internet.

“!e total project cost

for the ITS Technology & Gaming Center in the Arkan-sas Union was 1.83 million dollars,” said Mike Johnson, associate vice chancellor for facilities management.

Students can also rent equipment free of charge, such as camcorders, still cameras, iPads, web cameras and phone chargers. !ere are even laptops that can be checked out for up to three days along with GPS systems and headphones.

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Senior Devin Kennedy wanted to take the oppor-tunity to study somewhere unique. Kennedy chose Chile, the long thin country stretching down the Paci%c coast of South America. She chose a program located in Valparaiso, an ancient port city an hour and a half from the capital, Santiago. With most students heading to Europe for the summer, Kennedy traded hot and sunny for cool and cloudy.

Arriving in Chile, Ken-nedy expected things to be like Mexico, where she had spent time in high school.

“Chile was nothing like Mexico,” she said. “Every-thing is so fast-paced and more developed.”

Overcoming those pre-conceived notions about other places and people is what studying abroad is all about.

Making the adjustment to a new culture was di&cult at %rst, Kennedy said, espe-cially during the %rst week.

“You’re in a busy city, and everyone is speaking Span-ish,” she said.

It was overwhelming, but Kennedy said most people were patient with her. A"er a little time to adjust, Ken-nedy said she was able to get by perfectly %ne with the language.

She took classes at the Ponti%ca Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. Her classes, Chilean Culture and Conversation and So-ciopolitical History of Latin America, were conducted in Spanish and taught by Chil-ean faculty. While in Val-paraiso, Kennedy lived with

a host family. She felt like a normal Chilean student, ex-cept for “being pretty white and having red hair,” she said.

Her typical day consisted of waking up to the smell of her host mom cooking a

big lunch during the morn-ing. Kennedy would usually eat some bread and drink a cup of tea and then walk 30 minutes to take the metro train to the university. Af-ter her classes, she and her friends would explore the hilly streets and alleys of Valparaiso. Walking around the maze of streets, Ken-nedy said she began to feel more and more like a local.

Kennedy would return home to her house and have tea and snacks for “once,” the Chilean version of Eng-lish teatime. A"er once, the entire family would gather together and watch “Quien Quiere Ser Milionario,” or “Who Wants to Be a Mil-lionaire.” It was those small moments at home with her Chilean family that allowed her to actually soak up the culture.

While at home, Ken-nedy was able to hang out with Pablo, a Chilean uni-versity student living with

An Arkansas Traveler’s Summer AbroadAlex MarchSta! Writer

As the pro%le bio of the UofA_fresh_move Twitter page says, “Some things in life are avoidable. Being a fresh-man is not.” !e Twitter ac-count was started in July 2011 in conjunction with the “total frat move” page. It was in-spired by incoming freshmen at orientation who asked men-tors frequent questions that the creator of the Twitter ac-count has infamously named “freshmove questions.”

!e creator of UofA_fresh_move, who wishes to remain anonymous, stated that many of the %rst entries on the page stemmed from his own experi-ences as a freshman.

“I think everyone has tried to go through the exit door at Mullins,” he said.

!e account has over 4,300

followers, and a lot of them send in their own “fresh-moves” to be shared, or re-tweeted, by the creator. He said that the most common “freshmoves” sent in have to do with the Mullins library and their tricky printers, fol-lowed by parking tickets and

other parking woes. So what’s the best way to

avoid being the next college “freshmove”? Just be mind-ful about your actions and learn to laugh when you make mistakes. Some of the college freshmen memes, which are re-curring themed jokes popular

on the internet — and this one is about common freshman er-rors, say things like, “Arrives to class late, brings note from his mom,” or “Learns about the Daily Show, becomes a political science major,” or an easy favorite, “Says he has no time for homework, plays Call of Duty all night.” Although many of these seem like obvi-ous mistakes, people consis-tently make them all semester.

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“Chile was nothing like Mexico. Everything is so fast-paced and more developed.”

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!e high school cliches of the jocks, the nerds, the cheer-leaders and the punks may be stereotypical groups of high school, but the students at the UA campus are not con%ned to certain groups of people. With over 350 student organizations at the UA, every new Razor-back can %nd their niche.

Making new friends can be nerve-racking in any place, but in college conversing with peers can be as simple as sit-ting next to someone in his-tory class.

“You’ll meet people every-where — from the residence halls, to classes, et cetera,” said Stewart Pence, freshman inter-national relations major.

!e %rst thing that many students look for in meeting new people is a commonality, whether it’s a love of a sports team or the hobby of reading !e Hunger Games book se-ries. !e registered student or-ganizations (RSOs) at the UA have groups that everyone can get involved in.

“Freshmen can get involved on campus by joining an RSO or creating their own RSO,”

said Robyn Barthel, assis-tant director for RSOs in the O&ce of Student Activities. “!e best advice I can give to freshmen is to take advantage of involvement opportunities early in your college career.”

!e UA has an organization that helps students learn about how to get involved in organi-zations.

“A new student-led group on campus called Student Organization Outreach and Involvement Experience, also known as SOOIE, is here to help students get involved,” Barthel said. “SOOIE mem-bers are student leaders who have been involved on cam-pus and who work one-on-one with new students to help them %nd an RSO that meets their speci%c interests. !ey are very knowledgeable about the di$erent RSOs on campus and can also assist students in forming their own RSO if there is not currently one that meets their interests.”

!e SOOIE members are dedicated to assisting UA students in %nding a group that makes them feel at home throughout the year.

“SOOIE members will be

present at the RSO info fairs at New Student Orientation. In addition, SOOIE members will be available throughout the year to individually help students %nd an RSO and help them %t into campus,” Barthel said. “Once the new school year starts, SOOIE members will have tables set up on a regular basis on the Union Mall and Union Food Court to talk to students about getting involved in an RSO. Students can also schedule individual appointments with SOOIE members by emailing sooie@uark.edu.”

!e “special interests” cat-egory of student clubs range anywhere from Razorback Quidditch to the American Heart Association.

For more information on all RSOs at the UA, students can visit the website at www.leadership.uark.edu/organiza-tions/.

Greek Life at the UA in-cludes 10 sororities and 14 fraternities that students can learn more about by visiting their website, uagreeks.uark.edu. Fall rush for sororities be-gins August 11, and fraternity rush begins August 20.

According to collegeboard.com, 21 percent of males join Greek fraternities and 41 per-cent of women join Greek so-rorities, but for the rest of the population it is possible to join a fraternity or sorority that is not a part of Panhellenic or the IFC.

Service fraternities and so-rorities allow brotherhood and sisterhood with a common in-terest of volunteering, such as Gamma Sigma Sigma, the ser-vice sorority.

“My RA Erin and my friend Kayla encouraged me to join [Gamma Sigma Sigma],” said Lisa Darden, freshman nutri-tion and hospitality major. “It is a lot like what I did in the Girl Scouts back in high school, so that’s what really drew me in. I was missing that kind of support, and Gamma Sigma Sigma really gave that back to me.”

!ere are also major-cen-tered fraternities such as Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, or Alpha Kappa Psi, the business fraternity.

For those students who are international or just interested in di$erent cultures, there are RSOs such as the Caribbean Students Association that al-low students from the Carib-

bean to adjust to the university lifestyle.

Razorbacks for Christ, a religious organization, o$ers Christian students and those interested in Christianity to become involved with others who share the same beliefs. Spiritual groups range from Hillel Jewish Student Associa-tion to the Muslim Student As-sociation.

!e UA, like any structured university, has its own gov-ernment. Associated Student Government (ASG) allows students to become a part of planning ideas for student life.

“I got involved with ASG in three di$erent ways,” Pence said. “First, a friend of mine tried to get me to run for sen-ate vacancies. Second, my RA, Matt Seubert, allowed me to assist him with the Tucker/Klein/Hazelwood/Banwarth campaign for ASG. While the ticket did lose, I got to see how a campaign is run %rsthand, and I learned more about ASG in the process.”

While there are a count-less number of RSOs already in existence, it is possible that a desired organization has not yet been created.

“New RSOs may register with the O&ce of Student Ac-tivities at any time,” Barthel said. “It takes a minimum of six students to start an RSO, and each one must have a fac-ulty or sta$ advisor who works at the university. !e complete process is outlined at osa.uark.edu.”

!e College Board reveals that 45 percent of undergradu-ates are from out of state, but no matter the hometown, UA students can %nd their place.

“!is is a campus with enough people to constitute a small town. You will %nd friends here,” Pence said. “Whether you love Razorback football or live-action role playing on Union Mall, there is something here for you.”

!e instant of stepping on campus for orientation can change a student’s life with the opportunity to meet other in-coming freshman in the same transition from a high school senior to a college freshman.

“Get involved with your classmates,” Darden said. “Pay attention to who you meet in Orientation, because you will see them all over campus. Making friends is really easy, and it’s easier if you join an RSO.”

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her family. “He was a metalhead with

a big beard, exactly like a met-alhead here. We would just hang out, and he would show me bands,” Kennedy said.

She said Pablo showed her how people everywhere are the same.

Hanging out with her host family is what made the big-gest impression on Kennedy. Being in a more relaxed cul-ture changed her perspective.

“Just hanging out doing nothing with your family is not wasting time,” Kennedy said. !e pace of life was just

a little slower than back home.Kennedy, a biochemis-

try and Spanish major, is researching AIDS in conser-vative Latin American coun-tries. Chile, perhaps the most conservative country in Latin America, a$orded Kennedy a place to do some research. Kennedy took the opportu-nity to ask Chileans on the street and at the supermarket about AIDS, learning more about the cultural mores that surround the disease. She even traded emails with the secretary of the minister of health for Chile.

Coming back to life in America was easy, but Ken-nedy found it di&cult to put her life-changing summer into words.

“You’ve just had this amaz-ing experience, and you just can’t describe it to someone who wasn’t there,” she said.

Kennedy strongly recom-mended study abroad to any-one.

“It was one of the cool-est things I’ve ever done,” she said.

When asked if she wanted to go back, Kennedy said, “I would. In a heartbeat.”

!ere are simple ways to avoid mistakes around cam-pus. Professor Peter Dykema, a professor at Arkansas Tech University, said his best advice is for students to write their names in their textbooks. A common mistake students make is when they leave their textbooks behind in class.

“Campus bookstores don’t care if it’s your textbook you’re selling,” Dykema said, “it seems almost brainless not to do it, yet every year I %nd text-books laying around for other students to steal and sell.”

!e good thing is that ev-eryone makes “freshmoves,” even those who are currently on the road to graduating. !ere were followers tweeting in to UofA_fresh_moves all during %nals about other stu-dents showing up to %nals 20 minutes late or showing up at the wrong test date.

!e main concept behind UofA_fresh_move is for stu-dents to laugh at themselves. Whether someone tweeted or

didn’t tweet your public mis-take to the account, the odds are that you have been or will be guilty of some of the memes at least once during your col-lege career. !at is what makes these memes so relatable - ev-eryone has done them before.

When asked what his best advice to incoming freshmen would be, the creator said for freshmen

“Get involved...in anything. You can’t ‘%nd yourself ’ in col-lege without trying. It is more important than ever that stu-dents use involvement to make connections and meet friends. Be smart about your decisions and who they may be a$ect-ing. A"er all, there is a reason freshmen year only happens once, so that we can learn from our mistakes early.”

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“I started working here late June, and I love it. It’s the best job I’ve ever had because I’m into computers and this job allows me to work around them,” Ander-son said.

With the UA increasing-ly gaining more of a student population, campus may not always have an available computer for use.

“Originally there were plans to get the #oor be-low, where the %tness center is, to be a part of the tech-nology lab too,” Anderson said. “!ere are de%nitely plans to grow and expand the technology centers to accommodate the growing student population.”

!e technology center provides the equipment to assist students with projects but also the guidance on how to use them.

“It is also a part of my job to help people with the so"ware and hardware pro-vided in the lab,” Anderson said. “We have to study how to use all of the programs and equipment in case any-one needs help using them.”

Once work is %nished, playtime can begin. Many students wind down the day

with some video gaming while simultaneously meet-ing new people.

“!e best thing about the tech center is playing Wii or Xbox,” said Brian Stallard, sophomore civil engineer-ing major. “I’ve played ‘Su-per Smash Bros.’ the past two nights there.”

!e computer lab is only about four months young, but renovations are always being thought of.

“!ere has not been large changes to the lab since it has opened, but we are constantly re%ning things and making them better,” Anderson said. “Stu-dents can go to the website or Facebook page and ask for something, and if there is enough demand, we will try and provide it.”

While many students en-joy the high-quality gaming computers along with the available editing equipment, it can remind others of how the UA can o$er opportu-nities that extend beyond classroom academics .

“!e coolest thing is the sheer volume of technol-ogy that students have at their %ngertips who would not otherwise have the abil-ity to,” Anderson said. “I’ve talked to friends at other campuses and they do not have anything close to our computer labs at the UA.”

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where everyone plays with-out any stakes, for the coming semester,” Nolen said. “Also, we do plan on competing re-gionally and nationally fairly soon.”

Although the RSO’s main essence is video gaming, the club also aspires to bene%t those in need.

“We hope to host a tour-nament soon for anyone to join, with proceeds going to help fund the club and to our charity of choice, Child’s Play,” Panda said. “I would like to see our numbers grow

and for our players to grow to become the best and rep-resent the U of A at tourna-ments.”

With the founders of the club entering their last few semesters of college, senior members hope to pass the legacy of passion for Super Smash Bros. on to younger members.

“!e future of the club is very promising. With more and more players %nding out about it, we’re getting to start something that could be huge,” Nolen said. “We

want the SSC to remain centered around competitive play with a friendly and inviting atmo-sphere. Training is a main priority for the club. In order

to com-pete, the focus must be on getting better.”

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!e Razorback Men’s Bas-ketball team won all four games, to go undefeated in the Italian Tour. !e trip, paid for by the athletic department, lasted nine days. All coaches and players eligible to partici-pate in the fall semester, ac-cording to the NCAA support sta", traveled to Italy.

!e team matched up with Atletas (Lithuania) twice and with both Amici del Campetto and All-Star Italy.

Before leaving, Coach Mike Anderson spoke of the di#cul-ties that the Razorbacks may encounter against the teams in the Italian Tour.

“!e rules are di"erent. !e 3-point line is (...) a little bit further. !e lanes are wider. It’s going to be physical. !ose teams are going to spread you and attack you,” Anderson said.

Amici del Campetto seemed to be no threat to the Hogs as they won the $rst game of the tour, 129-87. Mardracus Wade led in scoring with 24

points. He also threw in one assist and two steals. Junior college transfer Coty Clarke dropped 18 points, seven re-bounds and was 9-13 from the $eld.

!e game was close during the opening minutes, but the Razorbacks forced a handful of turnovers and took control to lead by 15 points a%er just 10 minutes of play.

!e Hogs had a 20 point lead a%er hal%ime and stretched the lead to 40 points to close the game. BJ Young added 10 points to the win, along with three rebounds and three assists.

Anderson thought that the trip would be “big for our young players,” and it was with Freshman Anthlon Bell also reaching double digits in the $rst game against Amici del Campetto.

“I want to see what kind of things they bring to the table instinctively, what kind of bas-ketball IQ they have,” Ander-son said.

In game two of the Italian Tour, the Razorbacks got a lit-tle scare from Atletas, but were able to come out with a win.

!e Hogs trailed at the end of the $rst quarter but were able to force pressure and create turnovers, which converted to points.

Young led the game; he was 7-8 from the $eld and 2-2 from behind the line. Along with his 16 points he added $ve steals in 16 minutes of playing time.

Clarke also reached dou-ble digits, dished four assists,

pulled in eight rebounds and added a steal. Clarke was ranked No. 2 in the nation in rebounding for junior colleges. !e Hogs’ strong third quarter led them to a 95-84 victory.

Arkansas defeated Atletas 84-67 the next day to get to 3-0 in Italy. Mardracus Wade dropped 19 points, along with four steals and assisted in cre-ating many turnovers. Clarke

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“Either way the students look at it, we are getting a great deal on the sports pack-age, simply because in like two games or three, you will pay o" your pass compared to a normal ticket,” Junior Kanyon Kimes said.

Before the student athletic pass was o"ered in 2010, stu-dents had to pay for tickets individually. According to a release by the Athletic Depart-ment, a student would have paid $115 to attend all home men’s basketball and football games in 2010.

“Pricing is actually a rec-ommendation from Associ-ated Student Government,” Pracht said. “We work with elected o#cials to determine pricing. !ere was a recom-mendation from ASG to go from $65 to $85.”

!e increase is an e"ect of di"erent causes, one being that Arkansas has six home foot-ball games since the Battle of

the Golden Boot against LSU will be played in Fayetteville, Pracht said.

Also, the Athletic Depart-ment “carved out a portion to go directly to ASG to supple-ment their budget,” Pracht said. “Just a few years ago ASG’s budget provided by the Athletic Department was $15,000. Provided we sell out the passes, it will be $48,000” this year.

“We began meeting with Athletics and the Athletics Marketing Department soon a%er elections, and the gen-eral feeling between us, the old administration and those in-volved at the athletics depart-ment was that a $20 increase would be bene$cial for all,” ASG President Tori Pohlner said.

!e recommendation by ASG to raise prices came with an agreement that more give-aways be provided to students at the games, Pracht said.

!e funds will also pay for alternative tailgates for stu-

dents to attend during home football game weekends and will be used to expand Rollin’ with the Razorbacks, student trips to athletics events pro-vided by ASG. Rollin’ will in-crease from two trips to three, since student demand indi-cated an interest to travel to the Southeastern Conference basketball tournament, Pohl-ner said.

!e increase in the num-ber of passes o"ered was also a recommendation from ASG.

“We don’t want to have empty student seats,” Pracht said. “We’ve been careful not to guarantee students a seat, but at the same time we keep inching further above capacity [in tickets o"ered], but we’ve never been at capacity [in at-tendance].”

“!ere’s been so many empty seats that it’s been a lit-tle disturbing for us,” he added.

More than 8,600 of the 12,000 access passes were sold by the end of July. Passes went on sale July 9.

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Razorbacks beat each team by an average of 22.5 points during the Italian Tour.

Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations!e Razorbacks defeated Atletas (Lithuania) 95-84 and 84-67 in Italy.

had the $rst double-double of the trip with 10 points and 10 rebounds, $ve of them be-ing o"ensive. Young, Michael Qualls and Jacorey Williams also scored in double digits with 12, 11, and 10 respec-tively.

Atletas held a six point lead at the end of the $rst, but Ar-kansas outscored Atletas 28-18 in the second quarter. !e

Hogs forced 24 turnovers on the game.

Arkansas came out of the $nal game with a 93-73 win over All-Star Italy. Young led scorers with 22 points. Once again, Clarke dominated the game with 17 points and eight rebounds.

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For two weeks every four years, the entire world gath-ers to compete in sports that are rarely spoken of any other time. NBC’s primetime cover-

age averaged over 30 million viewers every night. Shortly a%er the closing ceremonies, we immerse ourselves in major league pennant races and the start of football season, leaving the swimmers and gymnasts to train in anonymity for four long years

All of the Razorback fans that I have met will take pride in anything Arkansas. Most of us would approve of hot dog eating as an NCAA sponsored sport if we thought we could beat Alabama. Arkansas was the only Division I program to rank in the top 25 nationally in home attendance for football, men’s basketball and baseball.

If we love swimming and

we love the Razorbacks, why would 90 percent of us have an incredibly di#cult time naming a single member of the Razorback swimming team? As a junior last season, Chelsea Franklin was named an All-American for the sec-ond straight year. !e last Razorback football player to be named an All-American in back to back seasons was Shawn Andrews in 2002 and 2003.

When the Razorback base-ball team made its run through Omaha, Twitter was abuzz with constant support for the team. However, it might have been easier to $nd a needle in a haystack than it was to $nd

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a tweet about the gymnastics team when they made it into the Super Six.

When football recruits at-tended the basketball game against Michigan, Bud Walton sold out. !e gymnastics team celebrated the 10th anniver-sary of the program in front of a record crowd of 5,537. !is is nothing to turn your nose up at, but the meet was the night before the game against Mich-igan. Obviously, there were many more people in town that could have celebrated a record breaking win over LSU.

I am starting to feel a little bit like the pot calling the kettle black. If I’m being com-pletely honest, that is the only gymnastics meet I attended last year. I’m not really sure why. It’s obviously not because I don’t like the sports. I just spent two weeks on the couch watching gymnastics, swim-ming and volleyball for hours on end. Whatever the reason, this is a problem that can and

should be $xed.All fans claim to want a

successful athletic department, but we only want to attend the games of two or three pro-grams. Some people may think it does not matter if they go, because, as students, we don’t have to pay for most sporting events. !erefore, the program gets no monetary bene$t, but it is no secret that a support-ive crowd elevates the level of competition of most athletes.

“One of the reasons we were so successful this year was our fans and how they supported us,” Robert Pulliza, head coach of the Razorback volleyball team, said. “When Barnhill Arena is rocking, it becomes a very special place for us to play and a very dif-$cult place for our opponent.”

Many of the Razorback athletic programs return mul-tiple starters and are looking to have even better seasons this year than last.

“With the group of players

we have le%, which is the ma-jority of our roster, we’re going to spend the o"season talking about our mentality and how to overcome that, and to make sure we leave that in the past,” head soccer coach Erin Au-brey said.

I think that we, as fans, should try to do the same thing. We need to overcome the mentality that the “big three” are the only sports that matter. With the growth of the university there are more students on campus now than there ever have been. !ere is no reason that we shouldn’t be breaking attendance records during all of the sports sea-sons.

Haley Markle is the assis-tant sports editor for !e Ar-kansas Traveler. Her column appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

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scored in double $gures with 10 points. He added four-rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals in only 12 minutes of playing time; Powell sat out the majority of the 2011-2012 season a%er tearing his ACL in November.

!e Hog defense turned it up and forced 31 turnovers and created 23 steals to help the Hogs remain undefeated in Italy.

!roughout the tour, Mardracus Wade averaged 15.8 points and recorded 16 steals. Young averaged 15 points, dished 13 assists and added 11 steals. Clarke, who stood out the whole tourna-ment, averaged 14.3 points and 8.3 steals. No player got

more than 22 minutes of play-ing time, seeing as they were considered exhibition games.

While in Italy, the Hogs didn’t just play basketball. When they were o" the court, they went on a walking tour of Milan, boat tour of Lake Como, walking tour of Flor-ence and many other sightsee-ing events. !e team le% on Aug. 10 and returned Aug. 19.

“I want this to be a fun trip for our guys. We’re going to work, but I want this to be a fun trip as well.”

!e Razorbacks were eli-gible for the Italian Tour last year, but Anderson declined.

“I thought it was important this year because we have so many new faces,” Anderson said.

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Gareth Patterson Sta" PhotographerDuncan Phillips (left) and Chuol Dey (right) helped the men’s cross country team win #rst place at the SEC championships last year. Young runners have stepped up this year to replace them.

!is season’s Razorback Women’s Cross Country team, under coach Lance Harter, was picked second in the South-eastern Conference preseason poll, behind Vanderbilt. !e Razorbacks received three $rst place votes. Coaches rank the other teams in the conference 1-13 to create the standings. !is is the $rst season Mis-souri and Texas A&M will compete in the SEC.

In 2011, the Razorbacks had an outstanding season. !e team placed second in the SEC Championships and $rst in the NCAA Regional meet.

!e Razorbacks placed $rst or second overall in every meet they competed in except for the NCAA Champion-ships, where they placed 14th. Coach Harter was named South Central Regional Coach of the Year in 2011.

A%er losing last season’s

top runner, SEC runner of the year and conference champion Kristen Gillespie, the Razor-backs will have a huge hole to $ll. But that doesn’t seem to be a problem, considering the returning runners from last season.

Stephanie Brown, Kaitlin Flattmann and Jessica Jackson will all be huge threats this sea-son. Junior Stephanie Brown was named SEC Runner of the Week and was also named to the All-Region team.

Flattmann, a sophomore, was named All-SEC, All-Region and was also the SEC Freshman of the Year. Sopho-more Jessica Jackson was named SEC Freshman of the Week, All-SEC, All-Region and won the Arkansas Invita-tional last season.

Flattmann and Jackson re-cently competed in the 2012 Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country International Chal-lenge in Scotland this summer.

Teams from the U.S., Great Britain, Northern Ireland and

Europe competed in junior and senior races. Flattmann and Jackson helped the junior USA team win a silver medal. Jackson ran the 4k course in a time of 15:29 to $nish sixth in-dividually. Flattmann $nished 14th in the competition.

!e Razorbacks will com-pete with 18 runners on the roster this season. !e 2012 season will kick o" Aug. 31 with the Razorback Invita-tional in Fayetteville, a dual meet with Missouri Southern State University, a division two school located in Joplin, Missouri. Last season the Ra-zorbacks dominated this meet, placing 1-2-3-4.

!e team will compete in a total of eight meets this season. !ose eight meets include the SEC Championship, NCAA South Central Regional and the NCAA Championships, which take place on Novem-ber 17. !is season Fayette-ville will also be host to the 2012 South Central Regional Championship.

Razorbacks Ready to ImpressJessie McMullenContributing Writer

A%er a successful 2011 campaign, culminating in multiple individual and team awards, the Razorback Men’s Cross Country team is looking to win the Southeastern Con-ference Championship for the third straight year.

!e Hogs were picked by the coaches to win the con-ference championship Fri-day, receiving nine of the 13 $rst place votes and $nishing ahead of Florida, who was a

distant second.!e Razorbacks, led by

head coach Chris Bucknam, have a team full of experience. All but one member on the current team is returning from last season. !ey are led by All-American and SEC Run-ner of the Year Eric Fernandez.

Fernandez is returning a%er winning the Individual SEC Championship and a top 40 $nish at the NCAA Nation-al Championships.

!e Ballwin, Miss. native was the top $nisher for the Hogs in all $ve of last season’s events.

He was the only Razorback to make it to the NCAA na-tional meet last season a%er the rest of the team’s season ended in the regional meet, where the Hogs $nished third and just missed out on an at-large bid despite having $ve runners $nish in the top 20.

In addition to Fernandez, Senior Layne Nixon also looks to have a big impact on the team.

Nixon transferred from UT-San Antonio in 2009 and has been a strong runner since his arrival, $nishing 18th at the NCAA Regionals in Waco, Texas, last season.

Nixon has succeeded in the classroom as well. He was a member of the SEC spring academic honor roll.

Patrick Rono looks to have an even stronger season af-ter his impressive freshman season last year. He made an immediate impact right out of high school, which he at-tended in Lyndhurst, N.J., and became an integral part of the team.

As the only freshman on the team last year, Rono was

named SEC Freshman of the Week twice. He was named to the All-SEC second team and the All-Freshman team a%er $nishing 13th at the SEC Championships.

!e team will begin to de-fend their SEC title Aug. 31 at 5 p.m. with the Razorback In-vitational at Agri Park against Missouri Southern.

!e Razorbacks look to open the season against the Lions as dominant as they opened last season against them.

!ey had each of the top seven $nishers led by Eric Hernandez who had a time of 20.30.2 in his 6,600 meter run while the best $nish for Missouri Southern was eighth with a time more than 30 sec-onds behind the leading Ra-zorbacks.

!e cross country season continues with four more meets in the fall, including the Chili Pepper Festival in Fay-etteville, before the postsea-son, which includes the NCAA South Central Regionals in Fayetteville.

Hogs Look to Defend TitleEric HarrisContributing Writer

Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations!e Razorbacks worked a visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa into their schedule while in Italy.

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!Eric Fernandez!Layne Nixon

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Coming o" of a 2-1 win over Austin Peay Friday night, the Arkansas Razorback soc-cer team did not disappoint fans during its Sunday a%er-noon game against the Texas Longhorns, winning 1-0.

Arkansas’ only score came in the second half with 17 min-utes and 58 seconds remain-ing when sophomore forward Jeriann Okoro broke through the Longhorns’ defensive line to push the ball forward to-ward the goalie, who tripped and missed the block, allowing Okoro to run around her and score a goal.

“I felt amazing,” Okoro said. “Last year I didn’t really score that much, but this year I’ve been working on my shots and my shooting.”

Arkansas’ red-shirt fresh-man defender Margaret Power blocked a shot from Texas around 10 yards away from the goal, leading to a Texas cor-ner-kick. !e kick was aimed toward the middle of the goal, and sophomore goalkeeper Kelly Roliard grabbed the ball with 36 minutes and 47 sec-onds le% in the $rst half.

!at was one of seven cor-ner-kicks the Longhorns were

given in the $rst half, while Arkansas only had one.

Arkansas had a few shot opportunities during the $rst half, including a few break-away attempts by junior mid-$elder Evan Palmer, but all at-tempts were denied in the $rst half.

During one run down the right sideline by Palmer, a Texas defender kicked the ball out of bounds, leading to two consecutive throw-ins by freshman forward Ashleigh Ellenwood. Texas de&ected Arkansas’ attempt on goal a%er the second throw-in.

Coaches came on $eld to inspect Arkansas sophomore mid$elder Sam Wolf and Tex-as mid$elder Sharis Lachap-pelle a%er the two collided and fell halfway through the $rst half.

Tension rose during one Texas corner-kick when Ro-liard got tangled up with a teammate and fell, forcing sophomore defender Kaylyn Cooper to drop back to make a save. Roliard got up in just enough time to block and grab another goal shot.

At the end of the $rst half, the score was tied 0-0.

Texas started the second half o" with the ball, and with-in the $rst four minutes, were allowed three corner-kicks.

Texas took a free kick at the

24:39 mark of the second half because of an unintentional handball by Arkansas. Roliard popped the ball up to hit the top post of the goal and &y out, giving Texas another corner-kick.

With 22 minutes and 25 seconds le% in the second half, Texas shot a corner-kick from the le% side of the $eld straight into the arms of Roliard in front of the goal.

With one minute le% of play, Texas made one last at-tempt at a shot on goal, but overshot the ball.

During the last 30 seconds of the game, Texas quickly passed the ball among their teammates toward the goal, eventually giving up with four seconds le% on the clock.

“We had more energy,” Okoro said. “Sunday games are hard, I felt like we grinded through it.”

“All we kept saying was, ‘grind it out’ and that was kind of our word,” sophomore mid-$elder Tyler Allen said.

!e Razorbacks plan to work on improving the mis-takes they made consistently and to keep working hard on the $eld like they did today, Allen said.

!e Razorbacks’ next game is Wednesday at 7 p.m. against Missouri State.

Razorback Defense Holds o" LonghornsTamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

Kris Johnson Sta" Photographer In the 72nd minute sophomore Jeriann Okoro scored to give the Razorbacks their only goal.

Logan Webster Sta" Photographer!e White team beat the Red team in three sets during Saturday’s Red-White match. !e season opens Aug. 24–25 with the Arkansas Invitational.

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