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Five to seven senators will be forced to vacate their seats at the end of this se-mester for failure to adhere to a new Associated Student Government policy requir-ing them to write at least one piece of legislation each semester.

Mike Norton, senate chairman, has made it clear from the beginning that he would enforce this rule, he said at the ASG meeting last

week.“Currently there are 7

senators who haven’t met the requirement, meaning they haven’t written a bill or resolution and do not have one down for first reading on tonight’s agenda,” Nor-ton said before last night’s meeting. “They will be re-moved from the roster and kicked off senate. Their seat will be filled via an at-large vacancy by the fourth week of classes in the spring se-mester, which we always do anyways.”

The requirements ensure everyone contributes, Nor-

ton said.“In past years, only 26

senators wrote or sponsored legislation,” he said. “This year that number will be above 40. I am happy with

the content. We have ad-dressed some pretty diverse issues on campus as a body.

“A resolution illustrating the ‘voice of the students’ on a given issue is worth-less if they do not take it to the appropriate administra-tion and lobby for students’ wishes,” Norton said. “Most of them met with the admin-istration when writing their resolutions or bills to make sure that the last step will go in our favor. Most of that work will likely be done next semester for these last few pieces of legislation simply because finals are upon us.”

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Students forced o! cam-pus to relieve their nicotine cravings have been littering neighboring properties with their cigarette butts; neigh-bors think it’s the university that should clean up the mess.

"e student residents at 508 N Lyndell Ave, a property owned by Baptist Collegiate Ministries, said they sweep and clean up litter from smok-ers a couple times a month, sometimes once a week.

“I don’t think it’s our bur-den to bear to clean up a#er other’s litter,” Talon Brandon, a resident of the house said. “We just like to keep our place clean.”

"e Arkansas Clean Air on Campus Act of 2009 made it illegal to smoke on any cam-pus-owned property. As a re-sult, students and sta! have started smoking on neighbor-ing properties, leaving their butts a#er they leave.

"ere are no cigarette dis-posal receptacles on campus or at popular smoking spots provided by the university, said Mike Johnson, associate vice chancellor of facilities.

“We do not go o! univer-sity property [to clean up ciga-rette litter,]” Johnson said. “If we see cigarette litter, we let the UAPD know.”

But the UAPD cannot en-force the smoking laws where students are not on university property, and littering laws are hard to enforce because a speci$c person has to be asso-ciated with the litter, Captain Katherine Hurdler said.

If an owner of UA-neigh-boring properties complained to the police about smoking and litter on their property,

Cigarette Butt Arguments Litter Campus

Rebekah Harvey Sta! PhotographerDuring last night’s meeting, ASG senate members discussed numerous pieces of legislation to meet their end of semester dead-line. Senators who did not fullful the ASG requirement to write one bill of legislation will be kicked out of senate.

Kris Johnson Sta! PhotographerASG President Tori Pohlner gives the State of the Students Address in front of the student senate, cabinet members and the ASG justices. See page 3 for a story about Pohlner’s students address.

Pohlner Addresses Student Body

Volunteering — for high school and college students — has gained signi$cance because of the variety of community service hours that are o#en re-quired to gain eligibility for schools, study programs, schol-arships, internships and jobs, according to interviews.

Required volunteering has encouraged students to get in-volved in the community, how-ever the motives behind “doing good” range from volunteering just for the sake of giving back to volunteering for the purpose of numbers on a resume.

Many UA students admit the importance of gaining commu-nity service hours for a resume, but say that should not be the main catalyst to volunteering.

“It looks good on a resume, but that shouldn’t be your only reason to volunteer,” said Lyna Ninkham, junior, international business major at the annual Make A Di!erence Day. “"e mentality should not just be for yourself, but for others as well.”

Make a Di!erence Day en-gaged 1,100 students and com-munity members Oct. 20 in a national day of service to work with 35 non-pro$t organiza-tions on projects ranging from building homes for Habitat

for Humanity to gardening at Leverett Elementary School, according to the UA Center for Community Engagement website.

As a Make a Di!erence Day project leader, Ninkham super-vised beauti$cation projects at Mount Sequoyah in Fayette-ville.

She found students’ motives for volunteering to be “either they wanted to help out and give back to the community or they were just there for com-munity service hours, but either way people helped and a lot was accomplished,” Ninkham said.

Ninkham tutors elementary school students every week as part of the UA Volunteer Ac-tion Center Literacy Mentor Program.

“We read to kids and just do-ing something little like that for an hour a week makes a big im-pact on a child’s life,” Ninkham said. “It’s encouraging for me and really fun.”

Volunteering is an impor-tant part of the Fayetteville culture and many UA students have donated their time, money and resources to give back to the community and help Fay-etteville receive an award for volunteering e!orts.

City o%cials were noti-$ed that Fayetteville has been named a 2012 Arkansas Volun-

Students are ‘Doing Good’ For Many ReasonsWhitney GreenSta! Writer

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teer Community of the year for the fourth consecutive year.

More than 30,000 Fayette-ville volunteers contributed ap-proximately 600,000 hours of volunteer community service in 2012, according to the news release. "e Arkansas Volunteer Community of the Year Awards are co-sponsored by the state Division of Community Service and Nonpro$t Support, the Ar-kansas Municipal League and the O%ce of the Governor.

Awards are designed to thank the community, rather than individuals, for their vol-unteer e!orts in serving neigh-bors, according to humanser-vices.arkansas.gov.

Freshman Sophia Waller volunteers weekly at Potter’s House tutoring program in Fayetteville. Potter’s House uses a one-on-one tutoring method to give participants individual attention.

Waller has worked with Leverett Elementary kindergar-tener Tra-Darius Cambell since beginning the tutoring program and has seen dramatic improve-ment in his reading and writing skills, she said.

“He’s improved a lot,” Waller said. “It’s really gratifying to serve the community and con-tribute to Tra-Darius’s life. He might not be getting attention or help with school at home.”

"e growth in volunteering among students has led to in-creased interest in the UA Vol-unteer Action Center.

"e center has expanded from 800 students volunteering 2,000 hours of service in 2008 to 6,000 students volunteering 23,000 hours of service in the last year, said Angela Oxford, director of the Center for Com-munity Engagement.

Students are volunteering for many di!erent reasons and while some are “volunteering for the good of the community,” others might have di!erent mo-tives.

“I think there are a couple things at play,” Oxford said. “Generationally, college stu-dents feel they can do some-thing to make a di!erence, but I also think they have the realism that they have to be able to tell the story of their service to give them the edge when looking for a job.”

As college students graduate in a time when jobs are scarce, community service hours help set applicants apart when com-peting for jobs.

“Having service hours on your resume is helpful because right now during this time that’s considered a recession, it takes everything you can to set your-self apart on your resume,” Ox-ford said. “Students are being

encouraged to volunteer and have depth in their service.”

UA Homecoming queen Katie Waldrip has volunteered with many campus organi-zations including Diamond Dolls where she worked with the baseball team and miracle league for children with dis-abilities.

“Students volunteer for dif-ferent motives,” Waldrip said. “It can be for the purpose of a job or internship, but I just en-joy getting involved and giving back to the community. It’s re-warding.”

Waldrip said her volunteer service has played a big role in her college career. She thinks everyone should get involved with some form of volunteer-ing, despite their motives, she said.

“Our campus is 25,000 and that’s a lot of potential,” Waldrip said. “Although some people’s hearts might not be in the right place, they’re still volunteering. Regardless of if it has to be for a certain class or, whatever, any involvement is a good thing.”

Nationally, the volunteer rate rose by 0.5 percent to 26.8 percent for the last recorded year ending in Sept. 2011, ac-cording to the U.S. Department of Labor. About 64.3 million people volunteered at least once last year.

"e increase in last year’s volunteer rate followed a de-cline of equal size in 2010, ac-cording to the Labor Depart-ment.

Statistically, individuals who

attained higher levels of educa-tion engage volunteer at higher rates, according to the Labor Department. In 2011, among persons 25 and older, roughly 42 percent of college graduates volunteered compared with 18 percent of high school gradu-ates and 10 percent of those without a high school diploma.

In Fayetteville, high school students are encouraged to volunteer to “learn more about themselves and what really get’s them motivated to be a part of a community — whether it’s high school, city or even internation-ally,” said Dawn Norman, Fay-etteville High lead counselor.

“Volunteering at the high school level is part of life. "ese kids are just &at out impressive when it comes to their drive,” Norman said. “"ey will get be-hind a cause and give it every-

thing. "ere’s nothing like the energy of a teenager.”

In the past two decades, a growing body of research has indicated that volunteering provides individual health and social bene$ts, according to the Corporation for National & Community Service at nation-alservice.gov.

Research has established a strong relationship between volunteering and health: those who volunteer have lower mor-tality rates, greater functional ability and lower rates of de-pression than those who do not.

“People who volunteer are happier and a lot of people are looking for meaning in life,” Oxford said. “"ey’re looking for ways to increase their hap-piness and create change in a world that sometimes has a lot of issues.”

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the Fayetteville police depart-ment would be responsible to take action, she said.

“I don’t recall there be-ing this much cigarette litter when I was a freshman and there were places to dispose of your cigarettes,” said Ryan Conrow, a senior. “When I was a freshman, there was a place to dispose of them out-side the dorm.”

"ere are 5,514 stu-dents that live on cam-pus. Several studies have shown that nicotine, the addictive ingredient in cigarettes, is as physically addictive as heroin or co-caine. About 28 percent of 18 to 24 year olds in Ar-kansas smoke, according to 2008 statistics from the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention.

Prior to the 2009 law, students still could not smoke indoors, s t u d e nt s could still s m o k e outside.

“"ere are people who smoke that live here and pay enough money to have a place where they can smoke,” said Grant D’Aubin, a fresh-man that lives on campus. “You can’t stop people from smoking.”

Prohibiting smoking on campus has directly led to the litter on neighboring proper-ties, Brandon said.

“It would be nice,” he said, if the university took respon-sibility for the litter, cleaned it up and provided receptacles for smokers.

“Cigarette butts don’t automatically incorporate themselves into the soil, so they stay on the surface,” said Kris Brye, UA associate pro-fessor of crop, soil and envi-ronmental sciences. “"ey’re lightweight so when it rains,

they can be transported as water runs o!. Sometimes it makes it to nearby surface water, and then it is a pollut-ant.”

Cigarettes are the most common form of litter in the world and take 18 months to 25 years to decompose depending on the type of cigarette, environment, and

study, according to several anti-litter organiza-tions online.

Once butts reach water, c h e m i c a l s leach out and poison ecosys-tems. Studies have shown that smoked cigarette butt litter is toxic to species that are at the bot-tom of the food chain in aqueous eco-systems.

Half the sample size of a fresh-

water plankton used in scien-ti$c studies, Daphnia magna, died within 48 hours when a fourth of a smoked ciga-rette butt was present for ev-ery liter of water, according to 2011 study published by peer-reviewed journal, To-bacco Control.

"e study found that $sh, o#en used as indicators of healthy aquatic systems, were less sensitive than the plank-ton, but still susceptible. Half the sample size of the $sh studied, fathead minnow and topsmelt, would die when there was approximately one smoked cigarette butt per liter of water ("e study fol-lowed Environmental Protec-tion Agency guidelines that required a 90 percent survival rate).

Whitney Green Sta! PhotographerUA sophomore Carson Leavitt is a Potter’s House volunteer and tutors David Wolf,11, every week for the mentorship program. “I just love seeing kids learn and love seeing the lights turn on,” Leavitt said. “It’s exciting thinking about what these kids will do someday.”

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Student government presi-dent, Tori Pohlner, addressed the student body last night during her State of the Stu-dents address, which was streamed live on the ASG website.

“"e state of the students is strong,” Pohlner said. “It seems we are all on the hunt for the perfect parking spot. We love the hill, but we wish the walk to class was a little &atter. Sad, but perhaps re-lieved the football season is over, we are waiting on the edge of our seats to $nd out who our next head coach will be.”

Pohlner reminded students to appreciate the time they have here at the UA.

“It is about that time of the year that we are reminded just how much we love this place,” Pohnler said. “Freshman have returned from "anksgiving, their $rst big break, thankful for it, but $nding themselves anxious to return to a campus they have come to call home. Older students realize a quick-ly approaching graduation is looming over the horizon.”

Pohlner praised every facet of the university, highlighting everything from the presence of the Flaming Lips and Jane Goodall, to a booming greek life and student athletes.

She especially commended the work of student govern-ment in all branches, the “Be Part of It,” campaign and the new RSO Financial A!airs committee.

“I’m proud of what ASG has accomplished this year,”

Pohnler said “We hope to continue to have innovative ideas that re&ect who we are and what we are doing for the student body at large. Quite o#en, I think students feel the only way they can be heard is to let us know and have us take their issues to the admin-istration.”

It is a great time to be a stu-dent leader, Pohlner said.

“I am beyond thrilled with the progress we have made this semester and I look for-ward to the future of student government progress,” Pohl-ner said. “We are able to give student input through doz-ens of facets of campus, and students can make their own voices be heard.”

Pohlner encouraged stu-dents to make the most of their time here on campus.

“UA students have the unique opportunity to leave a mark on our campus. When each of us graduates, a space on senior walk is reserved for our names,” Pohlner said. “ We have 22 characters to leave our impression in the concrete, but o#en you will $nd that students leave last-ing impressions in the people around them, so two, even three years a#er they graduate, their names and contributions to campus are still brought up in conversation.”

Pohlner’s parting words were dedicated to fostering camaraderie among students.

“Embrace your UA fam-ily. As the UA continues to be the &agship for the state and a leader in the SEC, ASG will continue to be the voice of all students, and continue to do everything in our power to speak for and act on behalf of the students.”

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I don’t think it’s our burden to bear to clean up after other’s litter. Talon Brandon, resident of a house near campus“We just like to keep our place clean,” Page 1

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I’ve never been a fan of energy drinks—they’ve al-ways le! me jittery and the irregular heart rate doesn’t really help when trying to complete an assignment. In fact, what happens when I drink an energy drink is that I end up staying up all night with a very bad stomach ache, unable to concentrate on my work.

I learned very quickly that I’m better o" without energy drinks. I’ve tried Red Bull, Monster drinks and the 5-hour energy drinks and they’ve all had the same e"ects. It wasn’t worth it.

Is it worth it for you?Federal o#cials have

received reports of 13 deaths in the last four years that “cited the possible in-volvement of 5-Hour Ener-gy,” according to a recent ar-ticle in $e New York Times.

$e Food and Drug Ad-ministration also acknowl-edged that in October, it had received %ve fatality %lings mentioning Monster Energy.

“Since 2009, 5-Hour En-ergy has been mentioned in some 90 %lings with the F.D.A., including more than 30 that involved serious or life-threatening injuries like heart attacks, convulsions and, in one case, a spontane-ous abortion,” according to the article.

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New York Times, written nearly a year earlier, they reported that side ef-f e c t s of en-

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drinks include h e a r t p a l p i t a -tions, high blood pres-sure, cardiac arrest and death. It’s es-pecially dangerous to people who already take medicine

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turn to energy drinks in our last desperate hours. Dur-ing those late nights at the library, where we are strug-gling to stay awake to %nish that 10-page paper, an energy drink, or two, sounds like a pretty good deal if it will help us wake up.

Just be cautious. I think we’re all old enough to know what is good for us and what negatively a"ects our health.

$e risk is not just the en-ergy drink. It’s piling up on ca"eine when your body is already stressed. As college students, most of us start the day with a cup of co"ee and need another cup during the day.

Even down in the Traveler newsroom, the so! grumble of the co"ee maker has be-come a constant sound ac-companying production. Co"ee seems to be a neces-sity in our lives.

For most healthy adults, “moderate doses of ca"eine – 200 to 300 milligrams, or

about two to four cups of brewed co"ee a day – aren’t harmful,” according to the Mayo Clinic.

However, if that’s your normal intake and you pile energy drinks on top of that, it could put your health at risk.

I think the people that have to worry most are the ones who already su"er from an illness. If you have any sort of heart condition or diabetes, it’s probably safe to just stay way from these drinks.

As for other students, be sure to read the side e"ects and ca"eine amounts before you drink your next energy drink.

Saba Naseem is the opin-ion editor. She is a journal-ism, French, and Middle East-ern studies major.

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Do you trust the federal government to keep your personal data safe? What about your business’s re-cords and trade secrets?

If you answered “no,” you have good reason — the federal government has had 13 breaches and failures of its own cyber-security just in the last six months.

Yet President Obama and his allies in the Sen-ate are pushing forward to regulate America’s cyber-doings, without any clues about how much this will cost us or how it will work.

It’s become the norm with this president — if Congress fails to accom-plish his objectives, he goes around it with executive orders and federal regula-tions. He’s doing it again. Congress did not pass the Cyber-security Act of 2012 before the election, so the president has issued a draft of an executive order to put much of that legislation in

place without lawmakers voting.

Not to be left behind, though, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Ne-vada, may try to get anoth-er vote on the bill before the end of the year — some are saying as soon as this week.

If the idea of cyber-se-curity — trying to secure all of the country’s sensi-tive computer networks and data — sounds ab-stract, that’s because it is. It’s so abstract, in fact, that the legislation and execu-tive order our leaders are pushing offer few details about what they would ac-tually do, other than piling more confusing regula-tions onto businesses.

When you think about it, the idea of the federal government trying to be on the cutting edge of tech-nological security is pretty laughable. As The Heritage Foundation’s David Inserra notes:

“Simply put, govern-ment regulations usu-ally take 24–36 month to complete, but the power

of computers doubles ev-ery 18–24 months. This means that any standards developed will be written for threats that are two or three computer genera-tions old.”

A federal government that stays hopelessly be-hind the curve and can’t even secure its own net-works doesn’t exactly in-spire confidence. But oh, it can regulate!

President Obama’s ex-ecutive order would give multiple federal agencies new power to regulate businesses. It would work much like Obamacare, which passed with few details but gave agencies like Health and Human Services a blank check to write regulations. One of the incentives it may use to keep businesses in line is favoritism in awarding federal contracts — busi-nesses that met the gov-ernment’s cyber-security standards could be moved to the head of the line.

According to Heri-tage Visiting Fellow Paul Rosenzweig, “this order

will likely be very signifi-cant and very costly while not providing important cyber-security solutions, such as effective informa-tion sharing.”

How much will it cost businesses to comply with all these new (yet perpetu-ally outdated) regulations? We don’t know.

Will the standards be voluntary or mandatory? Also unknown.

Can companies share information about cyber-threats they have detected, with confidence that their sensitive information will be protected? No guaran-tees.

With so many unan-swered questions, the ex-ecutive order — or the legislation — would cre-ate massive headaches for businesses and could hin-der innovation. Just what the economy needs.

Amy Payne is Assistant Director for Strategic Com-munications at The Heri-tage Foundation.

Do you trust the government with your computer?Amy PayneMCT Campus

We at the Traveler are disappointed in the Associat-ed Student Government this semester. After seeing ASG President Tori Pohlner’s long platform when she ran for president, we haven’t seen many changes or many of her promises fulfilled.

We understand that it’s a hard job. Many of us here came into our jobs with big ideas, but once reality set in, we realized there was only so much that we can do.

However, we still believe that more could have been done.

This year Mike Norton, chair of Senate, required all senators to come up with one piece of legislation for the semester. While we think this was a good idea, it is sad that this had to be a requirement. ASG Senators should be eager to propose legislation, as it is a part of their jobs.

It is shameful that many senators waited until the last meeting to propose their legislation. This resulted in 23 pieces of proposed legislation at last night’s meeting. How does this allow for adequate time to debate issues like merging Fall Break and Thanksgiving Break, changing ISIS hours, offering Survey of Calculus supplemental in-struction or expanding seats on ASG senate for graduate students?

We do commend ASG for passing important legisla-tion on busing students to the polls for early voting and their proposal that visitors to the Islamic Center would not have to pay for parking on Fridays.

Pohlner was right saying in her State of the Student address that one of the only outlets for students to voice their concerns is through ASG. However, like many stu-dents, ASG has waited until the last minute to finish their work. As we all know, the more effort that goes into some-thing, the better the product. ASG needs to get down to business next semester, this time from day one.

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

You know the holiday season is approach-ing when the infamous holiday Starbucks cups begin appearing in everyone’s hands on their way to class. !e red holiday cups mean more than just the holiday season; they also mean that holiday drinks are back on the menu at co"ee shops.

From November through January, co"ee shops such as Starbucks, Arsaga’s, !e Perk and Einstein Bros greet the holiday season with a line of specialty drinks and co"ee blends.

When the cheer of the holiday season be-gins, students are more tempted to spend a little extra money at the co"ee shop, trading their regular lattes for limited holiday bever-ages.

“I rarely go to Starbucks, but during the holidays, it makes it more special,” said Mag-gie !ompson, junior biology major. “I only buy one or two over the course of the holiday season. It’s typically a way to treat myself for #nishing #nals or for the holidays!”

Starbucks began the tradition of holiday specialty drinks 25 years ago with their Egg-nog Latte. In addition to their Eggnog Latte, they now o"er a Pumpkin Spice Latte, Caramel Brulee Latte, Peppermint Mocha Latte, Pep-permint White Chocolate Mocha and Ginger-bread Latte.

Starbucks also o"ers holiday drinks for non-co"ee drinkers, including Peppermint Hot Chocolate, White Hot Chocolate and Salt-ed Caramel Hot Chocolate.

“I like the festive $avors,” said Meg Strobel, junior nursing major. “I like buying (holiday drinks) because they are only available once a year. To be honest, I didn’t even notice that the holiday drinks are more expensive than a regular drink, but it’s worth it!”

!is year, Starbucks is o"ering a skinny version of their Peppermint Mocha Latte. !e skinny version is 100 calories for a tall com-pared to a 250-calorie regular tall Peppermint Mocha Latte.

Arsaga’s also o"ers a specialty latte for the season: the pumpkin spice latte. !ey also have several new syrups such as winter berry syrup and winter spice syrup that you can add to your drink for some winter cheer.

!e Perk on Wedington is also following the trend of holiday drinks with a s’mores mo-cha and a maple nut latte. !ey have a number of holiday ground co"ee blends, like their ma-

ple syrup co"ee beans and pumpkin pie co"ee beans.

You can easily cut calories on any of these holiday beverages by substituting skim milk for whole milk and asking for no whipped cream, choices that can easily cut 100 calories.

Einstein Bros Bagels introduced their au-

tumn blend co"ee just in time for fall. !ey also have a frozen pumpkin latte and a regular pumpkin latte on their menu.

For brewing holiday drinks at home, Dunkin Donuts o"ers gingerbread, pumpkin spice and mocha mint $avored co"ee grounds, all of which are available at Walmart.

It is no surprise to graduating seniors that the job market is the sti"est it has been in years, but what most forget is the other part of the problem: how to make a resume stand out to employers. From internships to getting in-volved on campus, many students are having to #nd ways to create job experience in a market with few jobs to provide real exposure to the realities of the outside world.

In 2010-2011, 52 percent of UA graduates responded to postgraduate placement surveys, and 81 percent of them said they found a job a%er graduation, according to the University Career Development Center. While these num-bers are relatively positive, they do not exempt students from early preparation for a di&cult job market outside of Arkansas.

“Students should begin preparing as early as their freshman year,” said Angela Williams of the Career Development Center.

But this begs the question: What and how does a student prepare for the job market? It does not hurt to decide early what sort of job is most desirable. In fact, most counselors urge students to #gure out what their eventual goal is early into their undergraduate career — to get only a degree, or a job? Most students would agree a job is the preferable outcome.

“You won’t be able to get a job out of school without more than an undergrad degree,” said Blake Dixon, a 2011 UA graduate in biology. “Non-oriented degrees like biology are use-less unless you plan to do something with it.” Dixon is currently at UAMS getting his medi-cal degree. To increase his chances of getting into a good school, Dixon applied to numer-ous schools all around the country. He did re-search on their respective acceptance rates and interned during his undergrad at a hospice for a year and then with the Juvenile Diabetes Re-search Foundation.

Dixon’s method is essentially the plan that the Career Development Center has advocated in past years. By attending career fairs, doing personal research, sending out applications to various schools and participating in intern-ships, a student can land a job much more easi-ly. More importantly, it is of utmost importance to be committed to a certain degree program. Switching gears later on down the line can have detrimental e"ects on your future as well as your wallet.

For students outside of degrees like biology or psychology, it is imperative to attend and participate in the job fairs that are available on campus every semester. According to the Uni-versity Career Development Center, most stu-dents who attend job fairs have a much higher chance of landing a job out of school than a stu-dent who does not. Job fairs provide up-to-date information on available internships and job opportunities to prospective workers.

“For students, relevant experience is typi-cally gained through internships,” Williams said. !is is especially true as they are a great way to get a “foot in the door” to a permanent seat with an employer. Most internships require a 2.75 GPA or higher, so while it may seem like the importance of maintaining a high GPA is heard ad nauseum, it really can make or break a resume.

If it seems like internships or any of the of-fers at the career fair are not applicable to your major, bear in mind there are still other options to consider. Beau Barnard, a senior English and French major, plans on studying abroad in France for all of the Spring 2013 semester. He hopes to get into grad school the following year, but he has kept in mind the possibility that his future decisions may change.

“With my major, if you don’t want to teach, you should de#nitely look into internships or other opportunities around campus to make yourself more marketable,” Barnard said. “!at’s the goal of an undergrad — to show that you are a valuable asset to future employers.”

!ough the UA has many opportunities for students to improve their chances for future employment, there are still hundreds of people on campus who do not make use of the Career Development Center. Many forget that even though the economy is getting better, the job market is still di&cult terrain.

“If you graduate into a bad economy, then your starting point is going to be permanently lower in some ways than if you graduate into a good economy,” said Scott Winship, a research manager on economic mobility at the Pew Charitable Trusts, in an interview with NPR.

!e point is that this economy requires stu-dents to be more $exible than past generations. Be prepared to deal with lesser salaries than previous years as well as moving to less desir-able parts of the country. To make the best out of less-than-favorable conditions, be sure to take advantage of the many opportunities the UA o"ers to its students. A%er all, it is in the university’s best interest to make sure its stu-dents #nd jobs a%er school because it re$ects back onto them.

Workers go about their business harvesting resources and constructing buildings to help their community prosper, all this under the watchful eye of Terran marines and other mili-tarized units. !e ground beneath the work-ers begins to shi%, and in the blink of an eye a contingent of Zerg Roaches bursts through the earth and decimates the workforce, while a horde of Zerglings assaults the main gate, keep-ing the military units busy. !is is the work of the hive mind; this is what many players may fall prey to in Blizzard’s new expansion, “Star-cra% II: Heart of the Swarm.”

Blizzard has #nally announced a de#nitive release date for the long-awaited expansion for the popular RTS “Starcra% II: Wings of Liberty.” Along with this release date, Blizzard has also given some information on what players can expect with the new expansion, with hopes of delivering a needed home run.

!e expansion will feature all of the aspects that made the original a great game: an engross-ing single-player story line, bracketed com-petitive multiplayer matches, co-op campaign modes and “near-limitless” mods in the arcade, according to battle.net.

!e story focuses on the happenings im-mediately a%er “Wings of Liberty.” Kerrigan has been taken to a high-security research labora-tory to be studied by the Terrans. Kerrigan must plot her escape and reclaim her living empire at the Heart of the Swarm before the Terran Do-minion #nishes her o", according to blizzard.com.

Players will assume the role of Sarah Kerri-

gan and will lead the swarm on a path of “fu-rious vengeance,” according to blizzard.com. Players will be able to evolve their brood as they move from planet to planet. !ere will be mis-sions on new planets as well as old. !e planet Char that hosted the #nal battles between Ter-ran and Zerg will be featured in the story-driven campaign. Kerrigan returns to Char to reunite her Swarm by recovering hidden caches of eggs and returning them to spawning pools to grow her numbers; however, one rogue Zerg queen threatens Kerrigan’s plans and is spawning the eggs as her own. Players are tasked with hatch-ing as many eggs as possible and using superior numbers to subdue the rogue queen.

In addition to the gameplay that players saw in “Wings of Liberty,” there will be some new aspects to enrich gameplay. Sarah Kerrigan will be featured as a playable unit in most “Heart of the Swarm” missions. “When the former Queen of Blades takes the #eld, she has multiple roles to choose from. Each role is called a Battle Fo-cus and comes with a unique set of abilities,” ac-cording to battle.net.

As players progress through the campaign, new roles will become unlocked for Kerrigan and new abilities will be attained for existing roles. “!e Battle Focus (players) choose for Kerrigan in any given mission and the way you use her powers will have a major impact on how each mission plays out,” according to battle.net.

To supplement the evolution of Kerrigan, the swarm will also be constantly evolving. Be-tween missions, players will be able to mutate the di"erent Zerg species and eventually evolve them into one of the two di"erent strains avail-able.

!e popular RTS will also bring back the mod maps and competitive brackets for the

multiplayer mode. !e mod maps will allow innovative players to create their own maps and make custom games with their own rules in them. To help players in the multiplayer round out their army, each race will get access to all-new units in “Heart of the Swarm.” As of the recent announcement, the Zerg gets access to the Swarm Host and the Viper; Protoss gets access to the Mothership Core, the Oracle and the Tempest; and the Terrans get access to Hell-bats and the Widow Mine.

!e focus seems to be on the story-driven campaign in “Heart of the Swarm,” with the multiplayer section providing an endless replay value for the game. !ere is something for both multiplayer fans and story fans in this new ad-dition to “Starcra% II.” Mark the date — Ker-rigan returns on March 12, 2013.

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!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperWednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 Page 7

Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

Here are a few life lessons I learned over the course of this Razorback football season:

Count On Nothing

Bobby Petrino was not our coach. John L. Smith was not

a competent coach. Knile Da-vis was not even a factor in the Hogs’ o!ense for much of the season. Tyler Wilson was not a Heisman candidate. Injuries can change everything.

Louisiana Monroe went to overtime with two Southeast-ern Conference teams and de-feated one in Little Rock, Ark. Arkansas State got "ve votes in the latest AP poll; Arkansas has not had a single one since early September. Notre Dame will play in a National Champion-ship game.

#ese are all facts about which I believed the exact op-posite at some point during the o! season. All of these are things no one could have pre-

dicted.Adaptation and adjustment

are the keys to human survival. #ey in turn are keys to sur-vival in college football and not something the Razorbacks did well at any point — whether it be hal$ime adjustments or coaching adjustments, they just never happened for the Hogs.

Make the Best of the Situa-tion You’re In

#is applies to coaching sta!, players, students and fans alike. Of course, there are al-ways things coaches and players can improve upon from week to week to change the outcome of games, but the bottom line is that everyone was put into a

very tough situation this season and making the most of it was all you could really do.

It was an easy season to become content with losing quickly, and that is not at all what I mean here. Cheer for those Hogs, cheer for them with all your heart, but make the decision that you can still go out on Dickson a$er a loss and that you won’t just go to your room and cry yourself to sleep.

Yes, yours truly is guilty of both and worse in previous seasons and at the beginning of this one. Complaining and moping and being a bad sport does no one any good.

I recall tweeting soon a$er

the Alabama loss that “oh yeah, life goes on, long a$er the thrill of living is gone.” So the point is that John L. had it right early on — smile.

Smile and celebrate the sport we love and the college football culture that makes us who we are.

It’s Over When It’s Over

Dwelling on the past eight months is something no Ar-kansas fan is really trying to do right now, but the point here is to start looking towards the fu-ture and to see this season as an anomaly.

#ink of it as something that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, the bad that sneaks

in the middle of the good, just an aberration never to be re-peated.

I vote we never speak of 2012 ever again. Deal?

Friday marked my "nal football game as a student at this school. A moment that I had always thought would be bittersweet was more sweet than bitter even in its outcome. It meant that 2012 was over, and that is something for which we can all be thankful.

Liz Beadle is a sta! writer for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every other Wednesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravS-ports.

It’s Over When It’s Over: Hogs’ Season In Review

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

COMMENTARY

A$er "nishing the regular season 22-9 overall and 13-7 in the Southeastern Conference, the Razorback volleyball team received a bid into the NCAA tournament.

Arkansas "nished last sea-son with a record of 18-13 and were on the bubble of making the tournament at the end of the season, but did not get a bid.

Last year’s team was tourna-ment caliber, but they couldn’t get a marquee win down the stretch, head coach Robert Pul-liza said.

“#e fact that we were so close, I think it gave great fuel to these athletes to make sure when we were in the room this year we were going to be on the celebration side instead of the burst bubble,” Pulliza said.

#e team stayed in Fayette-ville over the summer to make sure that when it came time for tournament teams to be an-nounced this season, they were

not le$ out.#eir hard work has paid o!,

and the team leaves Wednesday night for Lawrence, Kan., where they will play their "rst-round match against Wichita State Friday at 4 p.m.

#e Shockers "nished the regular season 20-8 and won two games in the Missouri Val-ley Conference tournament before losing in the "nals to Creighton.

Arkansas and Wichita State have three common opponents this season: Oklahoma, Auburn and Tennessee.

#e Shockers defeated the Sooners 3-1 in Norman, Okla., but Oklahoma defeated Arkan-sas 3-1 in Fayetteville.

Wichita State beat Auburn 3-1 at the SMU Doubletree Classic in Dallas. Arkansas beat Auburn in straight sets in Fay-etteville, but fell to the Tigers 3-2 in Auburn.

#e Shockers pushed a match against the Tennessee Volunteers to "ve sets, but lost 3-2. #e Razorbacks beat the Vols 3-1 in Knoxville, Tenn.,

but were swept by Tennessee in Fayetteville.

Wichita State is a physical, competitive team, but Arkan-sas matches up well with them, Pulliza said.

#is trip to the NCAA tour-nament will be the "rst for Ar-kansas since 2006 as well as the "rst time ever for Pulliza.

“It’s a great feeling, a feeling of accomplishment, a feeling of excitement,” Pulliza said.

#e team features a group of six seniors. Roslandy Acosta, Kasey Heckelman and Marci King all transferred to Arkansas before their junior seasons.

#ose athletes along with Pulliza’s "rst recruiting class made up of Jasmine Norton, Janeliss Torres-Lopez and Pulli-za’s "rst commitment at Arkan-sas, Amanda Anderson have helped get the Arkansas volley-ball program to where it is.

“A lot of emotions involved in the "rst time around for athletes, especially the senior class. #ree of them were the

Hogs’ Invitation to NCAA Tournament Pulliza’s FirstHaley MarkleAsst. Sports Editor

Rebekah Harvey Sta" PhotographerHead coach Robert Pulliza spoke to the press Tuesday about the Razorbacks’ invitation to the NCAA tournament, which is the #rst since 2006.

VOLLEYBALL

FOOTBALL

see TITANS page 8

#is Saturday, the BCS No. 2 and No. 3 teams will battle to the end and the winner will punch their ticket to the BCS Championship to face Notre Dame.

Alabama and Georgia will face o! in the Georgia Dome for the Southeastern Confer-ence Championship in a “win and you’re in” scenario. #e winner goes on to the BCS Championship in Miami; the loser most likely won’t even make a BCS Bowl.

It is the perfect “playo!” in the imperfect BCS system.

Not since 2009 has the SEC Championship held similar implications, when Alabama and Florida played with the chance to take on Texas for the BCS Championship.

Alabama is back, and Geor-gia will try their best to spoil the party. #ese teams play similar styles of football. #ey both run pro-style o!enses, and have punishing 3-4 de-fenses.

Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray and Alabama quarter-back AJ McCarron have been considered game managers and won’t wow you with their stats, yet they are the nation’s No. 1 and No. 2-rated passers, respectively.

When teams can estab-lish the run like Alabama and

SEC Titans Clash to Face Notre DameCameron McCauleySta! Writer

see NCAA page 8

#ere may not be a better way to get in shape and let out aggression at the same time than in a boxing ring. Work-ing out has proven to be stress relieving, but boxing takes it to another level by actually al-lowing you to hit the mitts of your opponent.

#e boxing club has been around for a couple years at Arkansas, and president Dan-ny Huynh has been in charge since the beginning of the se-mester. #e club hosts two sessions in the HPER; one practice on Monday that fo-cuses on cardio, and another on Friday when the club spars with each other.

Most of the club’s m e m b e r s attend the M o n d a y m e e t i n g , since it main-ly emphasizes getting a good workout. Walk-ins are welcome, so stu-dents can get a more regimented workout instead of doing it on their own at the HPER. While the club is not speci"cally based on self de-fense practices, there are a few things members can pick up in that department.

“A lot of the workouts are

speci"c for boxing, so we need to build a good foundation for your cardio and legs. #ose are what give out the fast-est during a "ght.” Huynh said.

“When you are swinging around, you’re going to get real tired. When you get tired your hands will drop and that’s when you

m a k e a lot of mistakes. #ese are things we work on Mondays,” he said.

#e club stresses the tech-nique put into every aspect of the sport. Any gap-toothed

bum o! the street may think he can win a boxing match, but the reality is, it takes more than swinging your "sts at the

opponent. Boxers have to be in the right place

physically and

men-t a l l y

to be a successful

boxer. Many of

the workouts are very intense.

Huynh said it de"nitely helps to have 15-20 people

pushing you to do your best, as most of the workouts may be di%cult to complete on your own. One speci"c ab workout they do is almost im-possible if tried alone, Huynh said

“You become so much

more focused with the team than when you’re by yourself,” Huynh said.

Being focused is crucial to success in the ring. By the time Friday rolls around, the soreness from Monday’s

workouts will be gone just enough to practice sparring. Whether they have no prior experience or have boxed in the past, everyone participates in the practices to improve their cra$.

#e club is coached by Ber-nard Oliver and used to get help from a former member who was the Arkansas 2011-2012 golden gloves champion and his coach. #e team prac-tices hitting mitts and uses full face protection, gloves and mouth guards. When they spar, it is more focused on speed in their hits instead of power.

For the future, the club is hoping to start up some type

of tournament that the mem-bers can get involved in on campus, but that idea hasn’t quite came to fruition yet. As for now, the club is strictly in-tent on making its members better boxers.

“I’ve never boxed before

j o i n -i n g , ”

Huynh said. “When I

came into the club about a year and a half ago I was pretty surprised how many mechanics went into boxing. I didn’t know how to hold my hands up right and all the little tweaks I could have done that I know now,” he said.

Depending on what you want to get out of it, the box-ing club has plenty to o!er. What better way is there to learn self defense, relieve stress and get a great workout than in boxing?

It seems like an obvious choice for any active student. Check out the club’s Facebook page, Arkansas Razorback Boxing Club for more infor-mation.

Step Into the Ring with the Boxing ClubCLUB SPORT

Cameron McCauleySta! Writer

!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperPage 8 Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012

Tommy Tuberville was born 58 years ago in Cam-den, Ark. He’s one of the few native Arkansans in the conversation when it comes to the next head coach at Ar-kansas.

Tuberville is the head coach at Texas Tech where he is being paid $2 million per year.

He is most known for spending 10 years as the head coach at Auburn be-fore resigning in 2008. He then took the Texas Tech job before the 2010 season and is now in his third season there.

Tuberville is also vice president of the American Football Coaches Associa-tion.

Tuberville started his coaching career in 1980 at Arkansas State as a defensive ends and linebackers coach. He then spent time as an as-sistant at Miami and as a de-fensive coordinator at Texas A&M before taking a job as the head coach at Ole Miss. He spent three years in Ox-ford, Miss., before departing for Auburn.

While at Auburn, Tuber-ville won "ve Southeastern Conference Western Divi-sion titles and played in eight consecutive bowl games.

He le$ Auburn a$er go-ing 5-7 in the 2008 season, even though he had gone undefeated in 2004. #at 2004 team was le$ out of the BCS National Champion-

ship game.In 2004, Auburn won

the SEC and Tuberville won the Walter Camp and Bear Bryant Coach of the Year awards. Tuberville has been named SEC coach of the year twice, once during the 2004 season at Auburn and once during the 1997 season at Ole Miss.

Tuberville’s Auburn Ti-gers dominated cross-state rival Alabama during his tenure, beating them six times in a row in his last six years.

He has been known for aggressive play calling and excellent decision making in big-game situations, but has also been known for losing the games he has no business losing. Tuberville had a 5-2 record versus top "ve teams at Auburn.

Bobby Petrino, Gene Chizik and Will Muschamp all coached under Tommy Tuberville at one time or an-other.

Tuberville is also doing some good things at Texas Tech. He won a bowl game in his "rst season in Lub-bock, something that has not been done by a "rst-year coach there since 1951.

During his tenure at Tex-as Tech, season ticket sales have increased by more than 50 percent. He is also re-sponsible for bringing in the highest-ranked recruiting class in Texas Tech history.

However, the 2011 Red Raiders went 5-7 and missed the bowl season. #is year the Red Raiders are 7-5. Some negative press has been swirling around Tuber-ville lately as he allegedly hit one of his assistants during the Kansas game this season.

Tuberville is married to Suzanne Tuberville and they have two sons, Tucker and Troy.

#e thing about Tommy Tuberville is that he actu-ally wants this job and it would take little to no con-vincing to get him to Fay-etteville. Plus, unlike most of our other candidates, he has experience winning in the SEC. And as an added bonus he has Arkansas ties. Sounds like a great deal right? Wrong, in my opinion at least.

#is is the hire that would make me think “eh, OK.” And the Arkansas fan base is absolutely not look-ing for “eh, OK.” To move on as a program, Arkansas needs someone who is on the rise in his career and it is pretty obvious that Tuber-ville is not.

I like his style and his re-cord is hard to argue with, but he is not the young, in-novative, exciting force that Arkansas so clearly needs. I honestly think he is Je! Long’s last resort, but it could be a whole lot worse than Tommy Tuberville.

!e Nominees are In: Texas Tech’s TubervilleFOOTBALL COMMENTARY

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

TUBERVILLE

Georgia can, it makes it much easier for quarterbacks to set up the play-action. Both teams have arguably two of the best running back tandems in the country and will run the ball early and o$en in the SEC Championship game.

#e clear-cut frontrunner to repeat as national champi-ons, it seemed nothing would stop Alabama from hoisting the crystal football once again.

#en Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M pulled o! the mas-sive upset in Tuscaloosa, Ala., that le$ many SEC fans won-dering if the conference might miss out on a seventh-straight National Championship, de-spite multiple teams "nishing the season with only one loss.

But Oregon and Kansas State lost the very next week, which gave the conference and Alabama a lifeline. #e window of opportunity opened once again for the Crimson Tide.

Alabama is loaded in nearly every aspect, and it will re-quire a near-perfect game to take them down. McCarron is the leader on o!ense and Nick Saban trusts his ability. McCar-ron was a Heisman candidate at one point, throwing zero inter-ceptions until two costly ones dropped him out of contention in the loss to Texas A&M.

Running backs Eddie Lacy and TJ Yeldon are having good seasons, with huge running lanes open regularly behind one of the nation’s best o!en-sive lines. Freshman Amari Cooper has shined as McCar-ron’s deep threat, the best the Crimson Tide have had since Julio Jones. #e defense is as talented as always, led by CJ Mosley and Dee Milliner, but was exposed by LSU and Texas A&M later in the season. A col-laborative e!ort will be needed to shut down the Georgia of-fense.

Georgia has dominated most of their foes this season en route to an 11-1 record, and would have a case as the nation’s best team if not for a puzzling 35-7 blowout loss to South Carolina.

Aside from that one slip-up, the Bulldogs have had a daz-zling season. #ey have beaten 11 teams by an average of 22 points per game. #eir most important victory was the 17-9 win over then-No. 2 Florida, ruining their perfect season and eventually leading Georgia to clinch the eastern division despite both teams "nishing with only one loss.

Murray is the heart and soul of the Bulldogs’ o!ense, as he has thrown for over 3,200 yards

and 30 touchdowns in 2012. He became the "rst player in SEC history to pass for over 3,000 yards in three straight seasons.

But the di!erence-makers for Georgia could be their two true-freshmen running backs, Todd Gurley and Keith Mar-shall. When last year’s fresh-man sensation Isaiah Crowell was dismissed from the team in June, there was an abundance of question marks about Geor-gia’s o!ense.

Gurley and Marshall have surprised the nation to the tune of over 1,800 combined rush-ing yards and 22 touchdowns. Running against Alabama is no easy task, so one of the two rushers needs to have a big day for Georgia to pull it o!.

You can’t forget that tal-ented Georgia defense either, spearheaded by one of the best linebackers in the country, Jar-vis Jones. Jones has 10.5 sacks and 72 tackles in an All-Amer-ican-worthy 2012 campaign. It will be key for Jones and the Georgia defense to get pressure on AJ McCarron o$en.

Expect a typical smash-mouth SEC game, as whoever is able to manage the clock without committing turnovers will come out with the victory and a trip to the BCS National Championship.

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NCAA continued from page 7"rst recruiting class and helped us build this place from the ground up,” Pulliza said.

#e Razorbacks got lucky in being selected to play in Law-rence, Kan., which is only a four and a half hour drive. For com-parison, the University of Cen-tral Arkansas volleyball team will travel to Seattle, a trip that takes 35 hours in a car.

“I love the location because we get to drive and you get to kind of control your hours and control your travel and that is signi"cant at this time of year where everyone is kind of fa-tigued from the travel and the go,” Pulliza said.

In addition to their success as a team, the Razorbacks are receiving individual recogni-tion. Four Hogs received SEC

honors.Anderson was named the

SEC scholar athlete of the year, the "rst time in program histo-ry this award has been given to a Razorback. Anderson earned her bachelor’s degree in kinesi-ology in three years with a 3.839 GPA.

As a graduate student, she has a GPA of 3.75 in her pursuit of a master’s degree in recre-ation/sport management.

“It doesn’t get anymore, in my mind, prestigious than that. You get it done on the court and you get it done o! the court,” Pulliza said.

Acosta was named to the All-SEC First Team. Acosta played in the Olympics as a right side setter, but trans-formed herself into an outside

hitter to help the team.“She’s going to have a great

career in her sport for a long time,” Pulliza said.

Norton was named to the All-SEC Second Team, becom-ing only the second player in program history to earn a spot on the All-SEC team each of their four years on the team.

“She’s made an impact and every year she has made it count,” Pulliza said.

Freshman Liz Fortado was named to the SEC All-Fresh-man Team. Fortado played in every set this season, an amaz-ing accomplishment for a fresh-man.

“She was a big stabilizing force for us and she’s certainly a big part of our success,” Pul-liza said.

#e Arkansas women’s bas-ketball team returns to Bud Walton Arena #ursday a$er their trip to Hawaii.

A$er a tough stretch of games far from home, the Ra-zorbacks get a break against the Texas Southern Lady Tigers.

#is game for the Lady Ti-gers will also be the "rst game back on the mainland as they return from the Grand Ba-hamas Junkanoo Jam against Texas El-Paso and Arizona in Grand Lucayan, Bahamas.

#e Razorbacks have shown a strong o!ense this season, averaging nearly 79 points per game, with a season high of 97 against Jackson State.

Arkansas has had three players averaging double "g-ures so far this season, led by Junior Keira Peak with 16.5 points per game.

Calli Berna, a sophomore from Fayetteville, and senior Quistelle Williams are also in double "gures averaging 13.5 and 12.5 points per game, re-spectively.

#e Razorbacks also got a recent scoring spark from Sarah Watkins, who scored 25 points in her "rst game o! the bench this season in an 83-68 victory over Hawaii.

#e Lady Tigers have had much less scoring this season and have relied much more on their defense.

Texas Southern has only averaged 53.3 points per game with a season high of 68 in their lone win over Norfolk State.

No player for them is aver-aging over 10 points. #ey are led by "$h-year senior Bri-

jan Turner with 9.7 points per game.

Teera Williams and Janelle McQueen also average 9.0 points a game for the Lady Ti-gers.

One aspect where the Lady Tigers are statistically close to the Hogs is rebounding. #e Tigers average 36.7 rebounds while the Hogs average 39.8.

Arkansas has three proli"c rebounders. Q. Williams leads the team with 7.4 and Peak and Jhasmin Bowen average 6.4 re-bounds per game.

#e Lady Tigers are led by T. Williams in rebounding with 8.7 rebounds, while Gianne Fleming and Morgan Simmons average 6.0 and 5.0 rebounds per game.

Arkansas also distributes the ball better than the Tigers. #e Hogs average over 15 assists

per game while Texas Southern only averages 8.3.

Defensively, Texas South-ern has allowed less points per game with 59.3 compared to the Razorbacks’ 61 points per game.

#e Tigers have also had 16 blocks on the season compared to Arkansas’ 13.

For Arkansas, this is the beginning of the "nal stretch of the nonconference schedule with six of the next seven games at home.

#ey include a game at home against the Kansas Jay-hawks and a trip to face the Furman Paladins.

For Texas Southern, this is the beginning of a four-game road trip with a trip to Still-water to face Oklahoma State following the game against the Hogs.

Razorbacks Face TSU’s Tigers After Hawaii Trip BASKETBALL

Eric HarrisSta! Writer

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