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WAKA WINTER CLASSIC

With the last of the three lineup announce-ments occurring last week, fans of Wakarusa can feel the excitement building for this year’s festival. Widespread Panic, Snoop Lion (for-merly Snoop Dogg), STS9, and !e Black Crowes are headlining the 2013 installment. Other big name acts include Umphrey’s McGee, Of Monsters and Men, and Dispatch. !e headliners are well and good, but anyone who has been to Wakarusa knows some of the most memorable shows are the ones you never intended to see.

With that same spirit, Wakarusa hosts the Waka Winter Classic to allow regional bands the chance to share the playbill with the likes of Widespread or Snoop. Sure, it might be a 3:30 p.m. show on the Backwoods Stage, but it is still a major music festival. Waka Winter Classic travels all over, from Denver to Memphis, and the tour will be stopping in Fayette-ville. !e Fayetteville bands slated for the contest are Groovement, Spacecamp, Cadillac Jackson, Flipo" Pirates, and Revolution Butter#y. !e festivities be-gin at 9:30, and all the bands keep Facebook pages with music available to stream.

Groovement is a funk-rock group with a sound that is “like Robert Randolph and Stevie Wonder ate some New Orleans Red Hot Chili Peppers,” accord-ing to the band’s website. Cadillac Jackson brings the funk, too. Cadillac Jackson frequented to now-de-funct Legacy Blues. Fellow funk band Flipo" Pirates brings a diverse musical background, which shows

up in their music.Spacecamp, a trance group,

is the lone electronic act of the night. Certainly the most unique group competing is Revolution Butter#y. !e hip-hop/funk group has high-energy, politically charged lyrics, which is a break from more traditional jam groups at Wakarusa. At $5 a ticket, this is one of the cheapest shows in Fayetteville all year. It works out to just a dollar per band, and everyone could use a little sunny Mulberry Mountain on a cold December night.

OTHER HAPPENINGS Teatro Scarpino, located on West Street, has a full

calendar this weekend. Friday night, local favorites Boom Kinetic will be playing a bene$t 80’s-themed show for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Tickets are $20, and all proceeds from the door will be do-nated to the hospital. On Saturday, Scarpino has Salsa Night with Calle Soul. !ere is a $10 cover, with salsa and bachata lessons startings at 9:00, and the show following at 10:00. More information on either event can be found at Teatro Scarpino’s Facebook page.

!ere will be a free Hip Hop show on Saturday

Night at !e Stolen Glass on Center Street. Kansas City rappers Huey P. Nuisance, iR neKo, and DJ Dulo will be joining local talent T Jay, Bloka, and DJ E-YO. !ere is no cover charge, and the bar will have drink specials all night. !e show begins at 9:00.

A%er a busy Friday night, George’s will host an evening of electronic music with !e Floozies head-ling. Montu, Manic Focus, and Bizar will be accompa-nying. If you didn’t get enough Wakarusa in on Friday night, catch Saturday night’s action and spend some time with the dreadlock crowd. Tickets are only $8.

Cool Shoes, the popular dance music events, will be promoting Austin, TX DJ Psymbionic at Rogue. Tickets are $8 for people 18-20 years old, and $5 for those over 21. Wolf-e-wolf and Jason D will also be contributing to the vibes. Cool Shoes is a monthly series, which recently moved from Little Rock to Fay-etteville.

If you aren’t looking to rage, Smoke and Barrel has Georgia-based roots group Delta Soul with a $3 cover. Saturday night, Fayetteville’s Perpetual Werewolf! will be playing for a $3 cover.

our months and the spring semester stand between this weekend and Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival. Friday night at George’s Majestic Lounge, the Waka Winter Classic will bring a little Mulberry Mountain to Fayetteville.

Five local bands will battle for a spot on the festival lineup, and tickets to the action are only $ve dollars.

Elsewhere in Fayetteville, Teatro Scarpino has a salsa night, !e Stolen Glass will host a hip-hop night, and Rogue has dance music put on by Cool Shoes. Live music will be pouring out of the bars in Fayetteville, so tango, grind, or groove to whichever style you choose.

Alex MarchSta! Writer

Everything was ready. !e tiaras and crowns, the sashes and the roses. It was all on stage. !e emcees and the escorts were getting in place. !e par-ticipants were getting primed in hair and makeup. !e audience was seated. Just $ve more minutes. A volunteer walked up to Daphne England.

“!e wheelchair li% isn’t working.”England had a moment of panic.

!ey are supposed to be on stage with the rest of the participants, she thought. !ey are supposed to feel like everyone else.

England was out of options. !e

participants in wheelchairs had to be wheeled to the center below the stage, where the audience had a harder time seeing them.

England sighed. My daughter is in a wheelchair too.

!at day, Nov. 3., England had co-ordinated the $rst Northwest Arkansas Angels Pageant for kids with special needs at the Jones Center for Fami-lies in Springdale. !e 50 participants varied in age and had a wide range of disabilities. !e youngest Angel was a seven month old and the oldest was 70 years old. Some participants, like Eng-land’s daughter, Morgan, had cerebral palsy. Other participants had autism, some Down syndrome, many kids had hydrocephalus (#uid in the brain),

and some had disabilities England had never heard of.

“!is has to be a unique experi-ence,” England says. “!ese kids need to feel like the most important person in the world for at least $ve minutes. I’m a mom of one of these kids.”

England’s involvement in the pag-eant began in February. One of her friends told her about an Angels Pag-eant being hosted in Beebe and en-couraged her to sign up her 14-year old daughter, Morgan. Morgan watch-es all the beauty shows and had asked many times to join one.

“I would be scared of the ridicule she might face in a pageant like that,” England said about regular pageants. “I don’t want to put her in a position

where she is judged with everything she has going on.”

Cerebral palsy is a disorder that can involve brain or nervous system dysfunctions. Morgan has a nervous system dysfunction. Morgan is in a wheelchair, can’t hold her head up all the way, can’t talk clearly, is dependent on a feeding tube and wears a diaper.

Morgan was born in Hope Ark. on Jan. 5, 1998, almost two weeks late. England had a normal pregnancy. Morgan was active; she moved and kicked inside her mother. Everything seemed to be on track.

Her December due date came and went. Her doctor scheduled her for a

Mother Starts First NWA Angels Pageant for Special Needs KidsSara OsunaContributing Writer

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Spring rush has begun for sororities with numbers lower than campus total, Greek Life o!cials said.

While the National Pan-Hellenic Council does not participate in formal recruit-ment in the spring, a few chapters participate in open recruitment in the spring se-mester because their chapter size is below the UA’s campus total of 300, said Parice Bows-er, Greek Life director.

"e NPHC does not regu-late the activities of open re-cruitment to the degree that regulation occurs in the fall semester, so the process is much more relaxed, she said. Open recruitment occurs to give chapters every opportu-nity to have members num-bering at the campus total.

Alpha Chi Omega has set

up information tables outside the Union for women who are interested or have ques-tions about the organization. "e new sororities have also organized meet-and-greet re-cruitment events, including Snowed In with Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Mu’s Per-centage Night at Chick-Fil-A, which will bene#t their phi-lanthropy, Children’s Miracle Network.

Transfer students and women not involved in a so-rority have shown interest in rushing during the spring semester, said Kristen Smith, Alpha Chi Omega member. Nearly 40 girls have shown in-terest, and more than half have signed up for an interview.

In addition to attending organizational interviews and events, all students interested in going Greek must attend an intake seminar held by the O!ce of Greek Life, where they are informed about haz-

ing policies and are able to ask general questions about the intake process, Bowser said.

Despite numbers below the campus total, the new sorori-ties are settling in to campus life, and many members said they feel very welcome at the UA.

“I feel like Alpha Chi Ome-ga is getting o$ to a really great start,” said Shawnya Wething-ton, sophomore journalism major. “Being a member of the founding class is such a unique and truly incredible experience. We are able to get to know each other on a more personal level, which has al-lowed us to become such a supportive and tight-knit group of sisters.”

In its #rst semester, Al-pha Chi Omega participated in several Greek-wide events such as the Watermelon Bust and Carol of the Greeks, Wethington said. Members have participated in intra-

mural sports teams and have partnered with Peace at Home Family Shelter in Fayetteville, whose mission is to end do-mestic violence.

“Greek Life has been ex-tremely welcoming,” Wething-ton said. “I know we’ve en-joyed our activities with all the fraternities and sororities on campus.”

Women from other so-rorities have helped in the re-cruitment process by recom-mending the organization to non-Greek-a!liated students and o$ering words of encour-agement as they walk by the recruitment tables, Smith said.

“We de#nitely mesh well with the other sororities and fraternities on campus,” said Kerbie Merrill, Alpha Chi Omega member. “We have multiple social events with each fraternity and soror-ity. We’re being accepted very well, and we’re very apprecia-tive of what they do for us.”

Spring Rush Begins for New Sororities

McKenna Gallagher Sta" PhotographerStudents participate in the Martin Luther King Day of Service in the Union, Tuesday, Jan. 22.

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Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerSociology and Criminal Justice major Will Toller plays guitar at the Union Mall Wednesday, Jan. 16. Toller frequently plays music on Dickson Street and at the Arkansas Union.

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Fundraising has begun for the Arkansas Entertainers Walk of Fame, the newest addi-tion to the Fayetteville arts dis-trict that will be placed along Center Street on the Square.

Butch Stone, music man-ager, music promoter and Ar-kansas native, created the in-duction board and will select the entertainers for the Walk of Fame. Featured artists will be chosen because they have established themselves in the areas of literacy, music, #lm or visual arts, Stone said.

Mayor Jordan and other city o!cials, including Dede Peters, community outreach coordinator, saw Stone’s idea as a great opportunity to support the arts in a meaningful way, Peters said.

It’s a great place for the monument because of the pub-lic access, Peters said.

"e city will pay for the installation and maintenance costs, Peters said. "e induc-tion board will collaborate and

select the #rst set of names to be engraved in the Arkansas Entertainers Walk of Fame.

"e induction board in-cludes members from the Arkansas Film Commission, Bigbee Enterprises, Cumulus Broadcasting and other orga-nizations.

Entertainers will be added annually with a public concert and reception, Stone said. Con-struction for the plaque is ex-pected to begin July of this year, he said. During the reception, the public will have the oppor-tunity to meet members of the Walk of Fame induction board as well as the inductees.

Each selected entertainer will receive their own two-by-two bronze diamond with the entertainer’s name, their distinguished #eld and their sponsors.

Stone and others estab-lished the 501C3 group to raise funds for the Walk of Fame through individual and corpo-ration donations, Stone said.

All donors are listed in the brochure and participate in the annual reception, Stone said.

Projected costs for the Walk of Fame, including the con-

cert and reception, are roughly $100,000, Stone said.

By creating the plaque, Stone said he wants to establish a tradition that will continue on to future generations.

“It’s something the state can be proud of,” Stone said.

Stone said he thought of the idea when working with Jim Ladd, a disc jockey legend, whose father is also from Ar-kansas. Stone realized the sig-ni#cant amount of predomi-nant Arkansans when the three were talking one day.

Stone said wanted to cre-ate a monument similar to the one on Hollywood Boulevard, where Ladd’s name is featured.

Stone’s professional career began when he became man-ager of Black Oak, a rock band from the late 1960s and 1970s who were the #rst group from Arkansas to reach national charts, according to the De-partment of Arkansas Heri-tage.

Stone produced over 400 arts at the Riverfest Amphi-theatre and now manages the Maumelle Family Fest in Little Rock, according to the Depart-ment of Arkansas Heritage.

Arkansas Artist Memorial Enhances Fayetteville SquareJeannette BridouxContributing Writer

What are the odds of turn-ing a chance encounter at a yard sale into a national TV gig?

"at’s just how Danielle Colby says she met Mike Wolfe more than 10 years ago. "ey were both eyeing the same “#nd” and struck up a conversation.

Wolfe and his buddy, Frank Fritz, are the popular pair who star in the History Channel’s top-rated “Ameri-can Pickers.” "e Laurel and Hardy-like duo travel the country, scouring basements and barns for collectibles and treasures, then explaining to viewers the value of their #nds before driving on to the next pick -- rather like a drive-by “Antiques Roadshow.”

"eir discoveries are resold either to collectors or through their store, Antique Archeol-ogy, which Colby manages.

“"ere are rumors as to whether the business is real or if it’s just for TV. It is real, we actually do work there, we do depend on it for our liveli-hood,” Colby says in a phone interview earlier this week from Chicago.

Colby says that, three to four days a week, she makes the two-hour trip from her home in Chicago to work at Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, Iowa. Viewers know she was also the driving force behind opening the pickers’ second store in Nashville, which she says she frequently visits. She also owns her own store, 4 Miles to Memphis in Chicago, which her husband and niece run.

Colby says it’s not unusual for fans at meet-and-greets -- like the one she’s doing to-night in Chattanooga -- to bring in items for her inspec-tion, but she’s quick to add “the boys know so much more about antiques than I do as far as value goes.

“I do the best that I can. I am really awesome with

Google.”While Wolfe and Fritz are

the stars of “American Pick-ers,” fans will readily say that Colby is the brains behind the operation.

“"ey may go out and #nd the stu$, but she runs the company,” says viewer "omas Rayburn, an East Brainerd resident. “"e thing I like about her is the way she takes a lot of mess o$ Frank and Mike all the time. Like the time she needed a car or a raise and they bought her that little mini car.” (Colby called it a clown car in the episode.)

“Mike and Frank are aver-age guys, and she’s anything but average-looking,” says Rayburn.

Indeed, her cat-eye make-up, boho fashion style and tat-toos give Colby an edgy look that sets her apart in televi-sion. Wolfe has said in inter-views that Colby’s unique look is one reason he hired her for the show, not to mention her business savvy.

Although her body is a palette for more than 30 tat-toos -- so many even Colby says she has lost count -- she’s adamant that it’s not just gra-tuitous ink.

“I’m not one of those tat-too collectors out to collect as many as possible. I have certain people I like to collect work from and, when the mo-ment hits me just right, I will have a piece done,” she says.

Jack Pendergrass, of Rite of Passage on North Market Street, recognized Colby’s tats as custom work designed ex-clusively for her.

“Every last one has special meaning,” Colby concurs. “A lot of them, unfortunately, are about death and love and people I’ve lost. A lot of my body is a memorium of sorts. I just want to make sure to

carry these people and mo-ments with me the rest of my life. All of them are about my loved ones.”

Lala Hartline, owner of Evermore Galleries on Shal-lowford Road, says Colby’s two most prominent tattoos are called a chest piece. "ey include a turquoise and rose design resembling a necklace around her collarbone with a cheetah pattern beneath.

“My sister and I used to do Roller Derby together,” explains Colby. “She is crazy about %owers so my tattoo artist designed it to bring the two of us together.”

"e cheetah-skin tattoo, meanwhile, represents the close a!nity she feels for the

wild animal.Viewers frequently hear

Wolfe call Colby “Dannie D” on the show and she explains that the nickname is one that her “dad’s best friend gave me growing up because my dad drove an old diesel Mercedes.”

“"at name has stuck my entire life,” she says, noting that it was her name when she was in Roller Derby and is now the name she uses in her act as a burlesque dancer, aka stripper.

“When I get onstage, the performance matches that name; it’s not a frilly and deli-cate show,” she jokes.

Her burlesque career is a startling pursuit for a girl who grew up in the strict house-hold of Jehovah’s Witness par-ents. But Colby is passionate about the performance art, even though she says it has caused an irreparable separa-tion from her family. She says she spends countless hours studying the moves and tech-niques of burlesque legends in old video because she wants a “classic, vintage, vaudeville take on stripping.”

Colby More !an a Pretty Face on ‘American Pickers’

Popular television series “American Pickers” is coming to Arkansas and could even end up right here in Fayette-ville.

“American Pickers” is a reality television show on the History Channel. "e show follows Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz around the Midwest as they hunt for antiques, an activity known as “picking.”

Danielle Colby-Cushman generates leads to areas the pick-ers may want to in-vestigate. She doesn’t travel with the men, but instead runs their business, Antique Archaeology, in Le Claire, Iowa.

"ere are many reasons why pickers may want to visit Fayetteville. Forbes lists Fay-etteville as No. 19 on their Best Places for Business and Careers list. Hitting the top 20 in this list could cause any number of pickers to want to visit the area and see what they can #nd.

Sperling’s Best Places has even called Fayetteville “one of the country’s best-kept se-crets with its thriving econo-my.” If any area has been able to keep its economy going fairly well in the face of the 2008 recession, then more

residents are likely to keep hold of their heirlooms rather than sell them.

However, most pickers like to #nd a house or per-son worth looking into for a particular artifact. In the case of Wolfe and Fritz, they will chase down leads to barns full of what appears to be junk, check the trash or even knock on the door of a hoarder. Be-

cause of this, they are able to #ll their store with antiques and stay in business.

“Fayetteville has a ton of small-time collectors and hoarders,” said Stephanie White, a longtime resident of Fayetteville. “You could look out on my dad’s carport and #nd something of value in all the rubble. If they could si& through the college junk, then I’m sure they would #nd a gem.”

Although northwest Ar-kansas has plenty of rural ar-eas, scenic Mount Sequoyah and nearby Bentonville,

Fayetteville is still a college town. "ere is a good chance of #nding antique Walmart or even older Razorback memorabilia, but there’s also a strong possibility of #nd-ing a large collection of cheap college material. Fayetteville could be very hit or miss, but that thrill could also make the pickers choose this area over any other in Arkansas.

While important, it’s not all about getting money in the end. "e owners revel in the his-tory of the artifacts they #nd. Amateur collectors and historians are likely to know much more about the heirlooms they own than anyone else. With this, a story can go along with the item, which can make it much more desirable.

“American Pickers” is essentially bringing

“Antiques Roadshow” to the people and instead buying the artifact from the owner.

In the end, it would cer-tainly be exciting for “Ameri-can Pickers” to visit Fayette-ville. It’s inevitable that many will attempt to bring the team to areas they feel would contain a knickknack worth some value, and it’s likely they would #nd one with the right lead.

"ere is still time to submit ideas, so if “American Pickers” should come to Fayetteville, either send them an email at americanpickers@cineflix.com or call 646-493-2184.

Reality TV Show ‘American Pickers’ to Visit Arkansas

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is o$ering a col-lege ambassador program for students who are passionate about the arts.

Participants will experience many facets of the museum and be part of a group work-ing together to obtain profes-sional practice and research, according to the Crystal Bridges website. "e program’s goal is to develop collegiate learning through networking opportunities, vivid museum programs and engagement for college students.

Other organizations will help plan the museum’s college programming, including a culminating event or commu-nity project for the spring of 2013, according to the website.

"e applications are due Jan. 31, 2013, and up to 25 par-ticipants will be selected. All registered college and univer-sity students who are interest-ed in art are eligible to apply. Applicants should #ll out the online application with a brief essay of 500 to 1000 words on why they would like to be a

college ambassador. Applicants will be in-

formed of the results by Feb. 7, and the program’s #rst meet-ing will be during the last week of February.

Jeannie Hulen, chair asso-ciate professor, said the pro-gram sounds interesting and has a lot of potential for stu-dents.

Hulen said that students will see the bene#t from the program and students’ access will be great.

"e program encourages students to be more active in the arts and to participate in artistic and educational activi-ties.

“I think it is a good op-portunity for students to learn more details about arts,” said Youjin Kim, UA student. “I have always been interested in arts but could not #nd enough opportunities in my commu-nity. Now I am so happy that there is the program like this for students who have inter-ests with arts, and we can have a chance to work with profes-sionals from the museum. I will de#nitely apply for the program, although the partici-pants are limited. I hope to get selected.”

Crystal Bridges O!ers Ambassador Program

Megan SmithContributing Writer

Susan PierceChattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.

Nuri HeoSta! Writer

“I do the best that I can. I am really awesome with Google.”

Danielle Colby

Wolfe and Fritz

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!e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student classi"cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri"cation. Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

Traveler Quote of the DayGreek Life has been extremely welcoming. Shawnya Wethington, sophomore journalism major “Spring Rush Begins for New Sororities,” Page 1

Hebron Chester Sta" Cartoonist

College is presented as the place to try new things and meet new people. A!er fresh-man year, however, most stu-dents form regular schedules dri!ing into a college comfort zone doing the same activi-ties in the same clubs with the same people.

A!er my freshman year, I had the club ultimate frisbee team and the university televi-sion station without any desire to look for other social clubs. My classes became journal-ism focused and the next two years, I was in classes with the same 30 students.

It took me two years to "g-ure out I was stuck in my com-fort zone, within which, there was nothing new. #ere was only the expansion of previous clubs, jobs and assignments. Finally, I decided to break out and traveled abroad.

I directly enrolled in the University of Auckland in New Zealand for their spring semester. Despite the fact New Zealand is a "rst world, English speaking country, the people, the clubs, the city and the academics were extremely di$erent. I was introduced to extremely intensive overnight hiking and camping with the university tramping club. I

was taught to drive on the le! side of the road and walk on the le! side of the sidewalk. And professors quickly taught me to ignore the letter ‘z’ to make room for British spelling in essays, along with an “-ou” in words like “colour” or “%a-vour.”

Even more unique was the reiteration of APA styles with longer essays including pic-tures, footnotes, diagrams, and even charts embedded in the paper to make a point.

Simply living on a college campus planted in a city of half a million residents boggled my mind.

At the end of my six month stay, I emerged more versatile in foreign situations and peo-ple from extremely di$erent backgrounds.

Managers in the global workplace are looking for “cross-cultural competency” and the ability to work in multicultural environments abroad, according to Cheryl Matherly, the assistant dean of student a$airs from Rice Uni-versity.

In order to ensure every student graduates with that leg up, Arkansas should require students to spend at least three weeks in a study abroad pro-gram.

#e main deterrent for students not studying abroad is cost. However, there are re-

ciprocal programs that have you pay the normal Arkansas tuition, while a student abroad pays their college tuition and you trade places, with only room and board costs varying.

If the UA extended the re-ciprocal program and formed partnerships with more uni-versities around the world, especially focusing on summer programs, while the majority of students are out of school, there is little reason each of the 25,000 students could spend at least a month experiencing a foreign country. Even working with mission trips and rebuild-ing e$orts abroad deserves university credit because it proves vital cross-cultural competency.

In addition to the "nan-cially reasonable reciprocal programs, there are massive scholarships along with state and federal grants for students traveling abroad. #ere are also hundreds of opportunities to get involved in work-study programs where most of the expenses are paid for because you work for the school.

Over time, the study abroad costs are proven to help students more than the short term costs. According to the 2012 Institute of Edu-cational Sciences survey, study abroad alumni have a start-ing salary about $7,000 more than general college graduates.

Also, more than 97 percent of study abroad alumni secure jobs within a year of gradua-tion, compared to 49 percent of general graduates.

I am certain there would be exceptions to a mandatory study abroad including medi-cal necessity, but that should be determined by advisors and circumstances. Besides that ex-ception, every student should prove competency abroad.

With the help of my profes-sors and my inspirational old-er brother and sister, I talked with the right people in the study abroad o&ce, did exten-sive scholarship and university research and had the incred-ibly opportunity to spend six unforgettable months in New Zealand’s Middle Earth.

#is should not be an op-portunity for the students who put forth this e$ort. #e uni-versity should ensure every student has worldly experienc-es while furthering their edu-cation by making it a require-ment for graduating students. More money should expand the study abroad o&ce so all 25,000 students can experi-ence a foreign country for at least a month out of their four or "ve year college stay.

Joe DelNero is a contribut-ing columnist. Joe is a senior journalism major.

Study Abroad Should be RequiredJoe DelNero

Contributing Columnist

Colleges and universities charge too much, deliver too little and channel too many students into a lifetime of debt. Genuine reform must be instigated to curb those abuses.

College graduates still earn more and are unemployed less o!en. However, with so many recent graduates serving cap-puccino and treading water in unpaid internships, a four-year diploma is not the solid investment it once was, and it should not be so o!en viewed as such a necessity by society.

Since 2007-2008, the aver-age pay for recent four-year graduates has fallen nearly 5 percent, while the average earnings of a typical Ameri-can worker, as tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is up 10 percent.

Graduates in high-de-mand disciplines can still earn strong starting salaries and expect rising earnings as ex-perience grows, but in many majors they face market con-ditions that have bedeviled skilled manufacturing work-ers for decades: too many folks chasing too few jobs.

Academics tend to see a university education ideal-

istically — cultivating criti-cal thinking and facilitating a satisfying life — but most middle-class families view the situation in more practical terms. For them, a diploma is a capital investment o!en purchased at extortive prices.

Over several decades, Americans have become con-vinced jobs require a college education which, when evalu-ated in terms of their objective skill requirements, shouldn’t. Convenience restaurant man-agers and cellphone salespeo-ple don’t need an diploma in business. Yet, employers o!en press for several years of col-lege or a degree — because college graduates are cheap and plentiful.

#e result is that too many young people are pressured into a costly education they don’t need. Universities, en-joying such a captive market, have over-expanded, acceded to faculty demands for light teaching loads, layered on costly bureaucracies, and un-conscionably raised the cost of college to beyond what it is worth to students.

Outstanding student loans now exceed $1 trillion, with 1 in 6 in default — a ratio that will likely grow.

Unlike loans taken to capi-talize a small business or buy

a house, student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, and stories abound of folks in their 40s and 50s still saddled with onerous debt and the el-derly with garnisheed Social Security bene"ts.

Colleges o!en fail to fur-nish families with all the in-formation necessary to make sound choices — including the probability a student will complete a degree in four years; the full cost of complet-ing a degree; and likely sala-ries and prospects for repay-ing loans, especially according to major and for students who attend but do not complete a degree.

Too o!en, university presi-dents are like bankers who wrote bad mortgages dur-ing the housing boom: #ey admit students, facilitate lots of borrowing, and pay them-selves well but don’t have much skin in the game.

For their students to qualify for both government-sponsored and private bank loans, universities should be compelled to provide audited information about the likely time required and cost of ob-taining degrees in various ma-jors; salaries graduates earn the "rst years a!er gradua-tion, and the resulting repay-ment burdens; and similar

data for those who attend less than four years. Like CEOs of corporations who must attest to the accuracy of "nancial statements, college presidents should be required to do the same, and be subject to simi-lar legal penalties for failure.

Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy when investments don’t work out; otherwise, we will con-tinue to create debtors for life. Universities should be on the hook for a signi"cant share of defaulted loans — perhaps, 25 percent to 50 percent.

Well-run institutions would get their costs under control, seriously evaluate and become transparent about the prospects for a decent-paying job a!er majoring in art histo-ry as opposed to mechanical engineering, and have little problem lining up private in-vestors to insure their share of prospective default liabilities.

Schools that take students’ money and deliver too little for it would go the way of Circuit City or the St. Louis Browns, and stop blighting the futures of young people.

Peter Morici is an econo-mist and professor at the Uni-versity of Maryland. !is was published in the Baltimore Sun.

Universities need to do more to control expenses, help students

To eat the cookie, or to go for a run? To stay up until 2 a.m. watching Downton Ab-bey, or to watch it this week-end a!er I’ve "nished my homework? To throw all my FlexDollars at Starbucks the "rst two weeks of school, or to save some for "nals? You know what I’m talking about. We all stare down decisions like these several times an hour, and, if you’re like me, you usually go for whatever feels best in the moment.

In 1969, a now-famous experiment was conducted at Stanford University: pre-schoolers were placed alone with a tray of sweet goodies such as marshmallows and Oreos. A nice researcher with a measured voice and a secret smile told them that they could eat one right then if they want-ed, but if they waited until he got back then they could have two. We, in all our grown-up wisdom, can see quite clearly that waiting for two was the better option. However, it was not so clear to the preschool-ers: merely 30% of the tested children were able to wait the "!een minutes until the re-searcher returned to give them their well-earned double spoil.

#e snazzy academic term for ignoring cravings and wait-ing for a better reward later is “delayed grati"cation.” How-ever, I prefer to simply think of it as happy now vs. happy later. Choosing happy now means ful"lling immediate desires; choosing happy later means putting o$ those desires in favor of a higher happiness in two hours, two weeks, or two years.

#ough on the face of it these decisions don’t seem too signi"cant, they can shape every part of your life and mine. For example, the happy now choices of what I eat and whether or not I exercise today a$ects my health not just to-day, but down the road, when arteries are plugged with Ba-conators and a middle-aged metabolism strikes. #e happy now decision to buy another Fayettechill shirt or a daily cup of co$ee from Arsaga’s hurts a bit when I don’t have the money for gas or to buy my little sister a nice birthday gi!. #e happy now decision to

shrug o$ deadlines means that two days before the papers are due my nerves are stretched so tightly that a sneeze might un-ravel me entirely.

#e Stanford study tied a child’s ability to wait for their treat to their later success in school and in careers—the ones who waited had more success in life. A writer for the Wall Street Journal pointed out (in an article unrelated to the study) that “Remarkably… self-control is a better predic-tor of students’ college grades than IQ or SAT scores.” No small potatoes here. Disci-plining ourselves to hold o$ on what sounds good now for what will certainly be good later provides a sturdy founda-tion for success—both in the long run and here in school. Self-control isn’t a skill to be learned in a couple of years, when we brandish our fresh degrees and land our "rst “real job,” or when we put a ring on it, or when the pounds start to stack up. #e prime time for learning self-discipline is now, while we can practice on com-paratively small things like managing time between class-es and budgeting our double-digit checking accounts.

How can we do this? #e psychologist that created the Stanford marshmallow test, Walter Mischel, gives his opin-ion as follows: “If you’re think-ing about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it. #e key is to avoid thinking about it in the "rst place.” If we learn to hide the object of desire or distract ourselves in some way—taking a walk, brushing our teeth, forcing ourselves to think of the words of our fa-vorite song—when decisions between happy now and later pop up, we can more success-fully save our satisfaction for later. Personally, I have found that another good way to by-pass impulsive decisions is to force myself to think of the long-term results of my ac-tions.

So now you know. #e question is, what will you do? Will you keep settling for the o!en thin, piddly happy now, or start mustering up the strength to say no and be happy later?

Clara Spann is a contribut-ing columnist.

Happy Now or Happy Later?

Clara SpannContributing Columnist

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nonstress test for Jan. 2. !e doctor tested the baby’s heart rate for normalcy and had good results. !e doctor decided to wait 48 more hours to let England go into labor when her body was ready. If not, he would induce labor on Jan. 4.

On Jan. 4, England returned to the hospital at around 10:30 a.m. with irregular contrac-tions. She was only one centimeter dilated and was hooked up to a fetal monitor again. !e baby’s heartbeat was normal. Her doctor

then le". !ings started to go bad. Morgan’s heartbeat decelerated while he was away and the nurse did not let the doctor know when he returned later that day. By 6:00 p.m., Daphne was having contractions but she was not di-lated so the doctor decided to push the cesar-ean section to the next day. !e nurses did not notice England was dilated nine centimeters until 2:40 a.m. and did not inform England’s doctor until 2:51 a.m., when Morgan’s heart-beat dropped and did not come back up. By the time the doctor returned to perform an emergency C-section. !e room had not been prepped and there was no surgical sta# avail-able, just one other nurse.

England remembers being wheeled into the delivery room, knowing Morgan’s heartbeat was gone. “Please don’t let my baby die,” Eng-land said to the nurse as she was being put to sleep.

Morgan was born at 3:24 a.m. !ere was no amniotic $uid le" in the amniotic sac, mean-ing Morgan was dying inside of England. When Morgan was delivered, she was clinically dead for 11 minutes. As a result, she su#ered a traumatic brain injury that resulted in cerebral palsy, a condition that England and her hus-band, Larry, would not know about until four months later, when Morgan started to experi-ence seizures.

A doctor at Children’s Hospital in Little Rock told them that Morgan would never have a normal life.

“You know,” England said to Larry. “I’m not willing to accept that. !at’s not OK with me. !ese doctors don’t know. !ey’re not God and they don’t know what she is capable of. !ere’s just too much potential, I see it in those little eyes.”

Morgan started therapy at 6 months old and always got praise from her doctors on her progress.

“!ere is nothing cognitively wrong with my daughter,” England said. “It’s all physical. A doctor put in better than I ever can: Mor-gan is a normal person trapped inside a body that does not work. Had she been born just 30 minutes before she was, Morgan would be a normal girl.”

!e England’s eventually settled with the hospital and the doctor.

“!ere is no doubt they [the hospital and doctor] were at fault.” England says. “!ey did not hold up to the standard of care and as a result of their negligence, she su#ers. All of the warning sign were there. !e only voice she had was her heartbeat and she was crying out for help. Nobody listened to her.”

Fourteen years later, as a student for the UA and pursuing a major in Community Health Promotion, England sits at a table for two at the UA Union food court. With tears falling down her red face, England says she would do things di#erently if she could. “It’s really hard you know?” She clears her throat. “You think back as a mom and ask, why did I go to that hospital? Why did I choose that doctor?”

“Every day,” England’s voice cracks as she wipes the tears from her cheeks. “I feel guilty every day of my life. I don’t think there will ever be a time when I do not cry for my daughter.”

On the day of the Springdale pageant, Mor-gan was dressed in a sleeveless black ball gown with silver sparkles. Her name was called and an escort wheeled her to the center below the stage, while England watched from the sides with her hand on her mouth. Morgan was pre-sented with a rose and a sash as someone put on her crown, which would slide to the right. Morgan was all smiles as she returned to her place beside her mother, while England was

all tears. A"er staring at her daughter for a few moments, England wiped the tears from her eyes, put her hands on each side of Morgan’s face, and kissed her.

“We come from a town that had nothing for kids with special needs,” England says. “My daughter had to sit and watch other kids play and take parts in other activities. She has spent her entire life watching from the sidelines. !e pageant was one of the %rst things she’s ever done that made her feel like she was a part of something special. As a mom, I can’t express what that does for my heart.”

Morgan was just one of the many partici-pants who was celebrated.

In 1984, Bill Hartley, was in a car crash that le" him with a catastrophic brain injury. He was in a coma for three months. When he woke, he had to learn everything again, how to walk, how to read, how to talk. Ten months of intensive therapy put him back on track. He graduated college with a degree in psychology. He was one of two emcees at the pageant that day.

“!e %rs. !e %rs. !e %rs. !e %rst,” Hart-ley struggled to get the sentence out, repeating the %rst two words over and over. Pastor Darell Watts, the second emcee smiled patiently and whispered encouraging words to Hartley.

“!e %rst contestant is Harper Gillespie,” he said in a rush as if afraid he would have to start his sentence again.

Wearing a green tunic, a green and gold cape with purple tights, 19-year-old Lisa Smith looked like she stepped out of a Shakespearean play for her presentation, making her stand out from the ball gown wearing participants.

“She is a very androgynous young lady,” said Joy Illumine, mother of Smith. With her short hair, Illumine said her daughter can look like a woman one moment and a man the next.

Smith’s favorite part of the day was her coronation. “I’m just gonna pretend this is a crown, not a tiara,” she said to a friend. Smith would rather be a prince or a king.

Smith has Asperger’s syndrome, so social communication is di&cult. People with As-perger’s tend to have %xated interest. Smith lives in her own fantasy world. She collects swords and daggers and dragons. She likes ad-venture.

“I wrote each and every one of the bios be-ing read that day,” England said. “So I felt con-nected to these kids and their parents.”

England likes to call the kids with disabili-ties, “di#erently abled.” She uses her daughter as an example.

“She might not do things normal kids do or do things the way you or I would do them,” she says. “But she does it her own way.”

England remembers the last day of her trial against the doctor who delivered Morgan. Her husband and she were outside the courthouse. She remembers seeing him walk across the parking lot to his car. She remembers telling her husband, “You know, it’s just not fair. He gets to walk away and he gets to live the rest of his life like nothing ever happened. He took her life away from her. When he didn’t take her in time, her took her life away.”

But the England’s have ensured Morgan has a full life.

Morgan behaves just like a teenage girl does. She blushes because she thinks boys are cute and gets excited when she sees people she knows. She also has dreams to attend the UA and be a Razorback, just like her mother.

“!at is something she is so adamant about,” England laughs. “And that makes me so proud. If she wants to go to college, we will make it happen.”

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Photo Courtesy of Daphne EnglandDaphne England (right) coordinated the "rst Northwest Arkansas Angels Pageant for kids with special needs at the Jones Center for Families in Springdale, Ark. Her daughter, Morgan England (left), participated in the pageant among 50 other participants.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

It is said that Peyton Man-ning doesn’t have it but that his little brother Eli does. It

was debated about LeBron James until last year. It was immediately stamped on St. Louis’ hometown hero David Freese a!er the 2011 World Series.

"is is the enigmatic theo-ry of clutch. I’ve been in many a debate with my two best friends about whether or not clutch, or an athlete’s ability to rise up and deliver under pressure and in elimination scenarios, exists.

My friends, both very pas-sionate baseball fans, are of the opinion that clutch is only a #gment of the imagination,

a misinterpretation of talent and twisting of stats.

I believe the contrary, but not in the magical way that many speak of clutch.

I believe in scienti#c stud-ies that support my claim that some people perform better under pressure, while others maintain and still others fal-ter.

What is comes down to is self awareness. An athlete is just a person like the rest of us, except his or her job is put on display in front of an audi-ence.

According to a study by

Scienti#c American, “We choke under pressure because such conditions thwart the normal brain processing of tasks that are so well learned they have become ‘auto-matic.’ Trying to concentrate on monitoring the quality of your performance is coun-terproductive because the cerebellum, which controls complex motor tasks, is not consciously accessible.”

See, athletes have prac-ticed and re#ned their game to the point that it is second nature. It’s automatic, the way Kevin Durant shoots free

throws or the way Justin Ver-lander releases his fastball.

When an athlete becomes too self aware, then he isn’t able to force himself to do what has become a mechani-cal task.

Some things can be done to help augment performance under pressure as shown by a study in the Journal of Exper-imental Psychology, which said that athletes performed better under pressure when they made a #st with their le! hand.

“‘Hemisphere-sp ec i f ic priming’ appears to discour-

age over-thinking in high-pressure situations,” accord-ing to an article about the study in the Atlantic. “Acti-vating the right hemisphere of the brain by doing a simple action with the le! side of the body (making a #st, in this case) appears to negate con-text-related declines in com-plex motor performance.”

So take that, non-believ-ers! Remember clutch isn’t a supernatural phenomenon but rather how the person’s brain reacts during those situations, and there are steps to improve the performance.

!e Question of Clutch: Performing Under Pressure

Kristen CoppolaSports Editor

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FOOTBALL TRACK & FIELD

Twitter is used for vari-ous purposes: advertising, making people laugh, rally-ing people for a cause or even just to keep an internet log of someone’s activity.

UA Athletic Director Je$ Long and Razorback football head coach Bret Bielema use Twitter to connect to their fans — and even their non-fans — and for this reason, many students admire the two.

Bielema spends most of his Twitter time replying to tweets, especially to his “hat-ers.” A fair chunk of his tweets end in #1-0, which represents his mantra to take things one at a time: one game at a time, one play at a time or even one drill at a time.

Tweets demeaning Bielema and his coaching ability are regularly sent from various accounts, some of which he quotes or retweets, then adds a short quip responding to it.

Bielema has told people “why hate. Life is too short,” and “weak minds get weak dreams,” — his words of wis-dom when comments get nasty from Wisconsin fans excited about Bielema getting

knocked down by Alabama in the 2013 season.

“I really like how Bielema responds to people,” said Ty-ler Moudy, sophomore elec-trical engineering student. “He’s kind of in-your-face, a de#nite change from what we had before. He responds to criticism really well, which is a good character trait.”

Not everyone is a fan of Bielema’s twitter antics, though. In fact, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alva-rez said that Bielema needed to just move on to Arkansas and stop talking about Wis-consin, as he does not ap-preciate the “swipes” Bielema is taking at the Badger’s ex-pense.

Long is equally involved with Twitter. Retweets are more up Long’s lane, whether they be from various Razor-back sports’ twitter accounts, fans who want a retweet for a birthday or even people who just want to interact with Long.

Following Long’s Twitter call for a red-out against Ala-bama a!er the football team’s loss to ULM, the Arkansas athletic director caught some %ack, and again when he agreed with a fan that Arkan-

Athletic Sta", Fans Connect Using TwitterTamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

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A!er a tough meet in Col-lege Station, the schedule doesn’t let up any for the wom-en’s track team.

"e Hogs opened the in-door season with a meet against two of their top South-eastern Conference foes, LSU and the home team, Texas A&M.

"e meet was hotly con-tested as the Razorbacks #n-ished behind both teams but scored 103 points, only 4.5 be-hind winners Texas A&M.

“We are elated with the meet,” said head coach Lance Harter, “We told our indi-viduals to wear the jersey with pride and they did that.”

Twelve Razorbacks put up personal bests during the meet as well as three 1-2 #nishes on the day.

Despite not #nishing at the top of the team scoring, many Hogs had successful events.

Seven Razorbacks won their events and three set na-tional marks for their events.

Regina George had a time of 53.30 seconds in the 400-meter, Sandi Morris went over 14 feet in the pole vault and the 4x400 meter relay team recorded the best mark in the NCAA so far this sea-son.

No. 5 Hogs Ready for Home MeetEric HarrisSta! Writer

see MEET page 8TRACK & FIELD

A!er a meet at Texas A&M #lled with tough competition that the Razorbacks will see again in the championships, the men’s track and #eld team retained their No. 1 ranking.

Arkansas #nished second in the Texas A&M Triangular, but competed strong enough to hold their top ranking.

Despite #nishing second in the team scoring, head coach Chris Bucknam was happy with his team’s individual per-formances.

“We had some great indi-vidual performances,” Buck-nam said. “Its great to see Tarik [Batchelor] back on the runway. It was an emotional li! for all of us to see him compete.”

Tarik Batchelor jumped 51-4 1/4 to win the triple jump for the Hogs in his #rst meet in over a year as a Razorback.

A ruptured patella tendon kept him sidelined all of last year’s indoor and outdoor sea-son.

“We shortened up his ap-

proach so we could gradually get him to full speed some-where along the season,” Bucknam said.

"e Hogs had many other noteworthy performances, in-cluding Raymond Higgs in the long jump.

His jump of more than 26 feet is currently the top mark in the NCAA.

Possibly the top perfor-mance of the week, though, came from freshman Cale Wallace.

For the second time in two weeks, the Cyprus Hill, Texas, native was named the South-eastern Conference Freshman of the Week.

Wallace was at the top of a 1-2 #nish along with Cameron Efurd in the 3000-meter run.

“Caleb has worked tremen-dously hard all fall, and he is reaping the bene#ts of that right now,” Bucknam said.

Both runners set personal bests, and Wallace’s time of 8 minutes, 21.27 seconds, is the fourth fastest time in the SEC. Wallace also leads the confer-ence in the mile.

Looking ahead to the Hogs’ next meet, Arkansas will face

some sti$ competition in the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville.

"e Razorbacks are one of six teams ranked in the top 25 nationally.

“Its going to be an out-standing meet,” Bucknam said. “Looking at the entries, we should see many national marks and performances.”

Florida and LSU are the other SEC teams that will be at the invitational and both come in highly ranked.

Florida is ranked third in the country and LSU is sixth despite being the fourth-high-est ranked team in a tough SEC.

Florida State comes in ranked No. 21 in the country, and features some excellent sprinters.

“Marvin Bracy, the foot-ball player from Florida State is a freshman and an excellent athlete,” Bucknam said.

Other ranked teams taking part include Texas and Ari-zona.

“It’s going to be a great meet this weekend,” Bucknam said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Razorback Invitational toFeature Six Ranked TeamsEric HarrisSta! Writer

Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerJunior Anton Kokorin won two events in the #rst meet of the season against Texas. !e Razorbacks return to Fayetteville for the Razorback Invitational this weekend after #nishing second at the Texas A&M Triangular.

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TWITTER continued from page 7sas is “Hog country” and not Red Wolf territory.

Soon a!er, Long sent a tweet supporting the Arkan-sas State Red Wolves in their bowl-win pursuit and ex-plaining he was only showing full support for the Hogs.

Apart from those two %are-ups this year, Long has kept himself respectable and professional on his Twitter while still engaging Hog fans.

Few days go by without seeing a tweet from Long,

and he o!en does the job of live-tweeting about sporting events that he attends.

“I like how they are both active tweeters,” freshman Drew Viguet said. “"ey re-spond to quite a lot of fans’ questions and comments, even the absurd ones.”

It’s di&cult to constantly maintain a Twitter account without losing the respect of most fans, but so far in Ar-kansas, these two men have managed to do just that.

MEET continued from page 7Arkansas will turn their

attention to the Razorback Team Invitational this week-end, which is #lled with tough competition.

“No one can accuse us of dodging competition,” Har-ter said, “We’re seeing a lot of nationally ranked competition coming in.”

Seven other teams in the top 25 will face o$ against the #!h-ranked Razorbacks in the upcoming Invitational.

Among those teams are SEC rivals Georgia, Florida and LSU. "e Hogs will also see familiar foes in Texas and Baylor.

Just like last week, Harter says that the coaching sta$ will be more focused on the indi-vidual results than the team scoring.

“We’re not going to focus on team scoring as much as trying to get individuals to have quality performances,” Harter said.

Fans going to the meet this weekend will get to see plenty of talent, and not just from the Razorbacks.

“Any of the sprints are go-

ing to be blistering,” Harter said. “"ere are going to be a sprinkling of Olympians throughout this week.”

Many of the meets, espe-cially the sprints, will feature plenty of Olympians from schools like Arizona and Tex-as.

George, Arkansas’ own Olympian, will have a busy meet competing in three events this weekend: the 200-meter, 400-meter and the mile.

Despite the tough compe-tition coming into the meet, Arkansas is the highest ranked team taking part in the Invita-tional.

LSU and Florida closely fol-low the Hogs, ranked sixth and seventh, respectively.

"e Hogs will get another look at LSU’s top runners like junior Natoya Goule, who won the 400-meter, as well as senior Kimberlyn Duncan.

Arizona and Texas enter this week ranked No. 12 and No. 13, respectively, followed by No. 16 Georgia and No. 17 Baylor.

No. 23 Nebraska rounds out the list of ranked teams.

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