April 29, 2013

University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906Monday, April 29, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 118

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A UA student completed the Boston Marathon April 15, unaware that a little over an hour later, the scene that rep-resented a runner’s triumph would be the site of a national tragedy.

Senior C h r i s t o -pher Mou-tos had already le! the downtown area by the time the bombs exploded and was unharmed, but he remained in Boston during the chaos that followed — a shootout between police and suspects, the death of a police o"cer, a

manhunt, a lock-down of the city and the

capture of suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19.

Tired from running the race, Moutos went to where he

Student’s Close Call in Boston STUDENT HAS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerChristopher Moutos stretches on the Frisco Trail in Fayetteville, Sunday, April 28. Moutos participated in the Boston Marathon in April 2013 and completed the marathon an hour before the bombing attack.

#e UA chapter of the Society of Women Engi-neers organized a Women’s Appreciation Banquet on #ursday, April 25. #e banquet was funded by the Associated Student Govern-ment and was held at the Inn at Carnall Hall.

SWE is a national orga-nization that aims to “stim-ulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engi-neers and leaders, expand the image of the engineer-ing profession as a positive force in improving the qual-ity of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity,” ac-cording to their website.

“SWE is a good way to meet other women in this male-heavy $eld,” said Cal-ley Martin, sophomore SWE member, “and this banquet is a nice way to see everyone before we all leave for summer.”

While the event was held by SWE, the focus of the evening was not solely on women in engineering.

“It was titled ‘Women’s Appreciation’ Banquet to represent empowering women not only for the members in the Society of Women Engineers, but to any women aspiring to-wards careers that are tra-ditionally male-dominated,” said Amy Powless, SWE president.

#ose who attended the banquet were treated to dinner and presented with

#e student-run cam-pus radio station, KXUA, is partnering with the Wa-karusa for #e Road to Wa-karusa to have trivia contest where students could win Wakarusa merchandise, ac-cording to a news release.

Starting Monday, April 29, until Friday, May 3, DJs will be asking trivia ques-tions on the air, 88.3 FM. Students that know the answer email kxua.uark.edu. Students with the cor-rect answer will have their names put into a drawing.

Prizes include 2 Wa-karusa event passes, one camping pass and a swag bag containing four Waka-rusa items. #ere will also be two daily winners who will receive Wakarusa mer-chandise.

Students should follow KXUA’s Twitter feed and Facebook page for informa-tion about when the ques-tions will be asked.

Wakarusa will be May 30 to June 2 at Mulberry Mountain in the Ozarks and will feature more than 100 acts.

Women’s Appreciation Banquet

KXUA to Contest Away PassesConnor Malone

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#e brothers of Beta Upsilon Chi had their an-nual Island Party April 28 for their fellow students at the UA. #e event started at 6 p.m. and was relocated from the Chi Omega Greek #eater to University Baptist Church. Students in atten-dance were able to eat, enjoy live music and hang around with friends.

BYX is the largest Chris-tian social fraternity in the country, o%ering its mem-bers “a lifelong brotherhood of committed Christian men seeking the bonds of broth-erhood and unity in Christ through the avenue of a so-cial fraternity on the Arkan-sas campus,” according to their website.

BYX has the party annu-ally at the UA, but the Island Party is not speci$c to this campus; it is a national BYX

tradition. Dating back to the group’s founding in 1985, the founding chapter at the Uni-versity of Texas held the $rst Island Party to announce the founding of their fraternity. Today, chapters nationwide hold the party annually.

Here at the UA, members of BYX use the Island Party as an outlet to serve the community.

“Our purpose for Island Party is to show God’s love to those who may not have ever experienced it and to create relationships with

those in our community by serving them,” wrote vice president Josiah Raiford on the group’s website.

#e music kicked o% at 6:30 p.m. with an open-ing performance by local UA folk band Little Chief, a group that described them-selves as “a ghosty feel, but overall pretty relatable,” ac-cording to singer Matt Coo-per.

Fraternity has Party as Part of Tradition

#e names of 4,533 UA graduates from the class of 2012 will be added to Senior Walk this summer, according to a news release.

Engraving of these names was started earlier this year,

but was stopped because there was an error in the list that le! out students’ names. Engraving will begin shortly and is expected to be $nished by August, said Dave Daw-son, the university’s registrar of students.

#is error will add $75,000 to the original cost of about $350,000-375,000.

#e class of 2012 is com-prised of 4,631 students, and 98 students opted out of hav-ing their names engraved.

Normally, university o"-cials wait several months a!er students actually walk across the stage to engrave names to make sure that all students

More Names to Be Added to Senior Walk !is Summer

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Sta! ReportConnor MaloneSta! Writer

“Our purpose for Island party is to show God’s love to those who may not have ever experienced it.”

Josiah RaifordBYX Vice President

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerCyclists compete on the #nal day of the Joe Martin Stage Race, Sunday, April 28. During the four days this race was held, over 700 athletes from 20 countries and 50 states competed.

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#e dust had barely settled when Gerry O’Sullivan and Dolly arrived in Massachu-setts the morning of April 16, several hours a!er a pair of bomb blasts during the Bos-ton Marathon killed three people and wounded hun-dreds.

O’Sullivan is a senior spe-cial agent canine handler for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex-plosives, based in Bu%alo. K-9 Dolly, his $ve-year-old partner, is a yellow Labrador retriever with the job title of Explosives Detection Canine and a dog tag-sized badge on her collar.

#roughout that week, they were part of the investi-gation that culminated with the death of one suspected terrorist and capture of an-other. #ey returned to Buf-falo Monday morning.

“In my 24 years, it was the most unbelievable response I have ever seen. Every police o"cer within the greater New England area wanted to be there,” O’Sullivan said during an interview Friday.

Details about the work performed by O’Sullivan and Dolly remain con$dential, however.

“Dolly worked all the crime scenes ... searching for evidence,” was about all he could say.

An explosives expert in his own right, O’Sullivan is trained in identifying post-blast evidence.

“We know what to look for. We know the di%erence be-tween a car part and an explo-sive device,” he said. “You can waste a lot of time if you don’t know what you’re looking for.”

#e two were among ATF resources sent to Boston, trav-eling aboard the local bureau’s National Response Team Bomb Truck. “We were acti-vated within hours of the inci-dent,” said Frank Christiano, special agent in charge of the Bu%alo $eld o"ce.

O’Sullivan said they ar-rived at 4 a.m. and attended a brie$ng three hours later. From that point on, work days averaged 16 hours -- at least for O’Sullivan.

“Nobody minded,” O’Sullivan said. “Nobody wanted to leave.”

But for Dolly, trained to detect up to 19,000 di%er-ent types of explosive com-pounds, her time on the job is environmentally driven; she can work up to an hour at a time.

“#e weather in Boston was absolutely perfect ... for deploying the canines,” O’Sullivan said.

A product of the Puppies Behind Bars Foundation, Dolly was raised by inmates in a minimum-security fed-eral prison in Connecticut before spending 16 weeks training at the ATF’s National Canine Academy in Virginia. O’Sullivan also trained with her before they began work-ing together in the summer of 2009.

#e ATF uses Labrador retrievers, exclusively, largely because of their docile de-meanor.

“We don’t want an ag-gressive dog by a ... possible explosive device for obvious reasons,” O’Sullivan said. Labs are hardy, adaptable to the en-vironment and easy to train, he added.

Dolly also is part of his family, which includes 13-year-old Cli%, another yel-low lab who was O’Sullivan’s K-9 partner when the agent $rst became a handler in 2002.

While Cli% is free to sim-ply be a pampered pet in his retirement, O’Sullivan and Dolly train together daily, year-round. “It keeps the dog sharp,” O’Sullivan explained.

Training is food-driven, so that when Dolly detects an explosive compound -- signaling O’Sullivan by sud-denly sitting upright -- she’s rewarded with a piece of dry dog food. Her daily diet -- two cups of dry food -- is meted out as she responds to spent shell casings and other mate-rials that O’Sullivan uses.

And Dolly faces an annual recerti$cation process that will, coincidentally, be held in Boston this year.

O’Sullivan re&ected on visiting the stricken city in its darkest hours.

“#e citizens of Boston were just outstanding,” he said, describing how residents dropped o% food and drinks for law enforcement o"cers guarding the perimeters of the crime scene.

“#ey were very, very sup-portive. #at whole city came together,” O’Sullivan said.

Local Canine Response Team Aided Boston Bombing Probe

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Caroline Potts Sta" Photographer!e Society of Women Engineers attend the Appreciation Banquet at Carnell Hall, !ursday, April 25.

a keynote address from Dr. Kim Needy, the department head of industrial engineer-ing and current president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. #e speech was focused on leadership, spe-ci$cally leading by serving.

“In its simplest form, leading is love — as in a verb, not a noun,” Needy said.

A!er the address, an overview of SWE’s year was

presented by Dr. Julie Car-rier, SWE faculty advisor and biological engineering professor. Mentioned in the overview were events SWE held throughout the year, several projects the group worked on and the chapter’s growth from 24 to 44 mem-bers in the last year.

Awards were then given out by Powless to members who had volunteered their

time attending events and had been heavily active in SWE.

“Another purpose of the banquet was to recognize everyone who supported or was involved in SWE throughout the past year,” Powless said. “It’s important to honor those who have dedicated so much time to-wards improving our SWE section.”

#e night came to a close with the announcements of next year’s SWE o"cers by Powless. #e new o"cers were given some advice from Carrier on their role within the organization.

“Freedom and responsi-bility come hand in hand,” Carrier said. “#e responsi-bility to the new o"cers is to keep our organization grow-ing.”

was staying a!erward to relax. It was not until his phone started ringing o% the hook that he turned on the news to $nd that two bombs had exploded at the marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260.

“I had ran by that, that same side of the street, and I had no idea that something was going to explode there an hour or two later ... I’m de$nitely grateful that I wasn’t still down there,” Moutos said.

Moutos had another close call three days later. He ate din-ner that evening near where po-lice would have a shootout with the suspects about two hours later, he said.

#e next day, he turned on the news to see that the suspect had been found in nearby Wa-tertown, Mass.

“#e $rst thing I did was pull up Google Maps,” Mou-tos said. He wanted to see how close he was to the scene.

“It’s heartbreaking that it happened, but the way people reacted could not have been better ... Some people who ran the race went straight to the hospital to donate blood. Every-one was doing what they could,” he said.

Moutos said that he, like many people in Boston that day, was in disbelief that someone would do something like this.

“Not just that it happened at the marathon or in the U.S.,” he said, “just on a larger scale. Nothing like that should hap-pen.”

He went to a memorial ser-vice to show support for the victims, an emotional experi-ence, he said. Several runners le! their running shoes at the memorial and even medals they had won at the marathon.

#is was Moutos’ second time to complete the marathon. Before the bombs went o%, he said, the race was phenomenal. #e atmosphere and the crowd is unlike that of any other race, he said. Although the tragedy put a horri$c light on an other-wise positive event, Moutos in-tends on returning to run again.

“Not going back would be furthering whatever the bomb-ers’ goal was,” he said.

In addition to Moutos’ fam-ily and friends who contacted him to make sure he was safe, people he was not close with and several news stations and newspapers got in touch with him, he said.

“#e whole thing made me appreciate the people around me checking on me — the fact that they were worried,” Moutos said.

He commented that it was nice to see that the community cared.

“#at’s the way Arkansans are,” he said.

Moutos said that every-where he went in Boston fol-lowing the explosions had tight security, which was reassuring, and that every conversation he heard was about the bombing and its a!ermath.

Moutos made it back to Arkansas the night of April 21. A!er an unpredictable and overwhelming week, he said he is relieved to be back in Fayette-ville.

have ful$lled graduation re-quirements and paperwork, to create and proofread the rubber stencil used during the process, and to allow for weather conditions necessary, according to a release.

#e graduates of the class of 2013 who will graduate May 11 and those who $n-ished their degree require-

ments during the summer and fall terms of 2012 will have their names added dur-ing the spring and summer of 2014, Dawson said in a news release.

Senior Walk features more than 140,000 names, starting with the graduating class of 1876.

A!er Little Chief ’s perfor-mance, headliner Matt Wertz performed. Wertz is a Nash-ville, Tenn., singer who plays acoustic rock and has toured with Hanson, Jason Mraz and Gavin DeGraw.

“I’m so glad that Matt

Wertz came to our campus,” said Alex Irvin, a UA junior who attended the party. “His music is really soothing. Sometimes the simple things are the most beautiful.”

BYX’s Island Party is heavily funded by Lifesource

International, a group that “helps children, individuals and families struggling with poverty and hunger,” accord-ing to their website. BYX uses this event to publicize Lifesource and to try and rally more support for it.

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Kris Johnson Sta" PhotographerFayetteville locals attend the BYO show art exhibit, Friday April 26 at the East Square Plaza. Works displayed were projects created by Lindsey Barquist.

Art Student Displays ‘Master’ Pieces

Photographer’s Name Sta" PhotographerLittle Chief performs at BYX Island Party at University Baptist Church, Friday, April 26.

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“It’s heartbreaking that it happened, but the way people

reacted could not have been better.”Christopher Moutos, Senior

“Student Close Call in Boston” Page 1

My !nancial trouble start-ed at the age of 10. I may have been young, but my mother was "at and honest. I was go-ing to pay for college. Every penny earned would be for my tuition.

I don’t know if she was serious or simply trying to teach me a lesson in !nancial responsibility. Regardless, days later, instead of playing basketball, my neighbor was running to the grocery store, so I babysat her year-old son Ben for a few minutes and earned !ve dollars.

#at short gig later earned me some higher-paying baby-sitting gigs, and thus babysit-ting, in addition to mowing lawns, bought me my fresh-man year of college.

In my experience, it seems money is the limiting factor. It’s what holds people back. We are always saving money, then spending in bulk on room and board, tuition, and bills. Almost eight years of my work went into my fresh-man year.

A$er that year, I wisened up. Babysitting and a mini-mum-wage job weren’t going to pay these bills.

#ere are a few of us with some !nancial backers who are kind enough to give us wiggle room. Some of us are too proud to ask. Others don’t have that option at all. For the proud students, or the one’s looking for an Easy Street to ease the !nancial stress, there isn’t one.

#at’s why last year the

New York Times reported the 2011 college class’ debt rose about 5 percent, to $26,500. #at’s why close to two-thirds of students graduating with bachelor’s degrees had stu-dent loans.

At the UA, we are lucky. On the Kiplinger list of best-value public colleges, we are in the top 100, ranked 65 for in-state deals. However, on the Kiplinger list, the average debt at graduation is $23,111. Mowing lawns and babysit-ting can’t pay that o% in a timely manner — if it can, show me that manor you’re working at.

Over the course of the past four years, I’ve found that working within the UA is the best way to maintain !scal re-sponsibility and grow within my major. Being a resident assistant and working with student media have given me chances to befriend many of my peers and professors while earning a pretty penny to pay for school.

I’m not saying it’s the only route to take, because I have had friends who could turn a few hundred dollars in tips on any given night working expensive steakhouses. How-ever, if money is the limiting factor, look around your de-partment for paid jobs. If it’s better-paying than your cur-rent place of work, apply for the promotion.

Money is the worst. It’s been one of my largest fears throughout college, and just two weeks from graduation, I am simply content to say I’ve paid every penny using my own two feet. I was successful using our university and the opportunities I found within the journalism department. If you are a younger student looking, you have to knock on opportunity’s door — it doesn’t always come to you.

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

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Life is good. #at is a popular motto here in Fay-etteville; however, more students than many real-ize experience depression in college, at the UA and around the nation.

A$er talking to Vice Pro-vost for Academic A%airs Ro Di Brezzo, I learned 80 percent of students will face episodic depression — many students won’t even know they’re depressed.

When we see our friends depressed, we have a natural tendency to ignore the nega-tivity to avoid the awkward conversations.

Students need to real-ize they could save a life by reaching out to a friend.

If you know someone who can’t go a day without drinking, has serious mood swings or whose personal-ity has completely changed, they could be facing depres-sion.

If you aren’t sure how to approach a friend you think

is depressed, there are vari-ous help websites and servic-es like Counselling and Psy-chological Services, CAPS, to help.

While many students just go through a short depres-sion stint, I’ve personally had friends experience lon-ger depression periods.

A close friend of mine graduated at the top of her high school class and was ac-cepted into the UA Honors College. She was a member of the National Honor Soci-ety, on student council and was an extremely bright stu-dent. However, she dropped out because of low grades when she fell into a deep state of depression.

Since then, she moved home and is recovering. However, she’s still trying to rebuild her low GPA.

Even the brightest and most involved students can have their lives ruined by de-pression. It’s a serious issue that needs more attention on our campus.

As a member of ASG Senate, I wrote legislation

pushing for more grade for-giveness for those diagnosed with clinical depression.

Depression ruins college students’ lives. Rather than letting these students suf-fer, we need to help them heal, starting with increased awareness and ensuring the clinically depressed are not facing GPA despair because of one semester.

I am pushing for a Mental Health Awareness Week for the upcoming fall semester. If students are more aware of the resources available on campus, I believe poor men-tal health will decrease.

CAPS, through the Pat Walker Health Center, has a 24-hour emergency service for students who need help right away.

#ere are also therapy groups, ways to manage stress and mental-health links for students to explore.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, many college students don’t get the help they need be-cause they don’t know where to go for help or believe the

treatment won’t work. Some believe the depression is simply caused by the stresses of college life.

A nationwide survey of college students by the American College Health Association “found that about 30 percent of college students reported feeling so depressed that it was di&cult to function.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, the most common signs of depression are “feel-ings of unhappiness, frustra-tion and irritability, insom-nia or excessive sleeping, loss of energy and feelings of worthlessness or guilt.”

Whether you are per-sonally experiencing these symptoms or know of a friend going through depres-sion, do not hesitate to get help. #e UA has resources. We need to use them and continue to expand them to serve our growing student body.

Hayley Noga is a sopho-more and a sta! columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

Students Need to Increase Depression AwarenessHayley NogaSta# Columnist

Cameras in the Classroom? Sure!Finally, somebody is

touting reality television that I would willingly watch, and it could be bigger than “Swamp Kardashians” or “Mirandizing with the Stars.” Call it “Cameras in the Classrooms.”

#e idea of putting cam-eras in every public school classroom in the United States is reportedly going to get a big boost when Bill Gates proposes it in an edu-cation special airing May 7 on PBS. #e Gates Founda-tion has been quietly "oating the idea since 2011.

And I have some good news for Gates.

Although supporters of cameras in classrooms have come up with a price of $5 billion, I say they’re wrong. I think we’ve !nally found a way to turn schools into pro!t centers.

Virtually every parent I know would gladly pay $10.95 per month to see what’s going on in his or her kid’s classes, for reasons far beyond wondering how pithily her teachers explain the Pythagorean theorem.

We are fascinated by the lives of our children, and mostly face information blackouts.

For all I know, my 11-year-old daughter spends her time outside the house running an organized crime family. I recently asked what she does at lunch and she said, “I sit with my people, at our table, taking care of business.” I’m not say-ing she’s de!nitely running numbers and loaning out money, I’m just saying I have no idea what happens in her life on weekdays from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. and she always has more cash than me.

If the schools would throw in a “Playground Cam” and a “Cafeteria Cam,” they could name their own price. #e biggest problem would be in families with multiple o%spring:

Dad: “Turn the channel back to Jenny. I think that se-nior is trying to smooch her.”

Mom: “Are you crazy? Timmy is about to get in a shoving match with a guy the size of Shrek. Besides, I’ve seen this Jenny episode before. She turns her head and all he gets is cheek.”

So the fact that the cam-eras would cost $5 billion

isn’t a bar to the plan. But I do sometimes wonder if the whole “what’s wrong with our failing schools” mantra isn’t out of hand.

In #e New York Times last week, William Reese, a professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin, wrote an enlightening piece about the birth of education-al standards and standard-ized testing in Boston, about 160 years ago. #e problems were the same then: low scores on the new tests, stu-dents seemingly woefully ignorant, and huge achieve-ment gaps between rich and poor, black and white. #e response: Blame the teach-ers.

We think of schools as factories, and we demand they turn out well-educated students. When they don’t, we tend to blame the teach-ers, but we don’t talk about what teachers have to work with. A linen factory forced to use rough cotton can’t make comfy sheets. A knife factory sent shoddy steel can’t make great blades.

And schools sent stu-dents with a tiny vocabulary, no self-discipline, poor nu-

trition, terrible sleep habits, unstable home lives, and emotional, behavioral and developmental problems can’t, generally, produce great scholars.

We love to believe great teachers make great schools, and there’s some truth to that. But there’s a lot more truth to this: Great students make great schools, and a lot of what goes into being a great student has little to do with teachers.

I believe we need to eval-uate teachers with measur-able results and observation. I have no problem with put-ting cameras in classrooms. But if you want to !nd out what’s causing bad educa-tional outcomes, particularly in the poor communities and schools we’re having the least success with, put the cameras in these kids’ homes, and on the streets they walk. #at’s where most of the problem is. And that’s the reality show no one wants to look at.

Lane Filler is a member of the Newsday editorial board. His email address is lane."[email protected]. #is was retrieved from MCT Campus.

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

As this semester comes to an end, more and more students are buck-ling down and preparing to study for their looming finals. At this point, many students that have been study-ing all semester are getting worn out from studying in Mullins or they are looking for other places to go, in case Mullins gets too crowded dur-ing the weeks before finals. Luckily, the UA campus and the City of Fay-etteville have numerous spots that are great for studying.

The Fayetteville Public Library, located close to the Fayetteville Square at 401 W. Mountain St., is a new Fayetteville landmark ideal for studying. Monday-Thursday, the library is open from 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, the library is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and on Sunday you can visit the library

from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. This location has a free parking garage, so there is no need to worry about paying to park or having to park in the street.

Throughout the library there are little spots to study at. There is also a large reading room upstairs. This room has tons of natural light, two outlets at every seat, computers to use, and lamps on all the tables. There is also an Arsaga’s in the lobby at the Fayetteville Public Library for when you need a caffeine fix or a snack.

Common Grounds, located on Dickson Street, is another location in town that provides a good study-ing environment.

“I like to study at Common Grounds when I am studying in groups. They have big tables that can fit everyone” said Jordan Col-lins, a sophomore computer science major from Fayetteville.

Common Grounds boasts a huge menu of drinks and food to keep you full and alert.

“Coffee keeps me going so this place is pretty convenient” said Col-lins. “They have a great deal where you can get unlimited refills for only $3 while you are there.”

Although it is located on Dick-son Street, Common Grounds can be a quiet, comfortable study spot on weekdays. The back room is usu-ally less busy than the front of the house and they have tables for those who like to study more formally and couches for those who like to snug-

gle up with their laptop and notes.Some people prefer to study in

the great outdoors. Fayetteville is a gorgeous city and outdoor spots can be found quite easily. The Greek Theater is always a great option on warm days. Gulley Park, located off of Township, is a 27 acre park and has picnic tables and a gazebo to study at. They also have large stretches of grassland, allowing stu-dents wanting to study outside to spread out a blanket and work on their studies.

“I like studying outside because I feel more alert in the sunlight” said Junior Luke Hankins, who often studies at Wilson Park, located close to campus on Gregg Avenue.

The University is home to many other libraries and study spots that are not Mullins. The Young Law Li-brary is primarily meant for law stu-dents, but is open to all. This library, like the Public Library, is also home to an Arsaga’s. The study hours for this library are slightly more limited than the hours at Mullins and can be found on the Young Law Library’s webpage. Some buildings are home to departmental libraries. These li-braries are less publicized and are smaller than Mullins. The Fine Arts library, located within the Fine Arts building has a few tables to use and also has printers and scanners avail-able to use. This is just one of many departmental libraries. Many stu-dents take advantage of buildings that are open late and study in emp-ty classrooms at night. These build-ings are much less populated than they are during the day and can pro-vide the ideal quiet study spot. The Walton Business building is home to a 24-hour study room, on the third floor.

Finding a good spot to study is all about finding a place that you are comfortable in. One with few dis-tractions is ideal for most studying situations. Also, take into account the things you will need during your study session. If you are running low on sleep or will be in the study spot for a while, make sure to pick a place where you will be able to buy food or coffee. If you are taking your laptop, then a coffeehouse or library is your best bet because they have many outlets to keep your comput-er charged. A little bit of searching can result in you finding the perfect study spot for you.

Caddies, polos and clubs are the norms when playing golf, but many people forget how important the ac-tual ground is to the sport. Students at the UA are studying how to im-prove turfgrass while studying hor-ticulture in the Turf Club.

"It shall be the purpose of Turf Club to give students in the horti-culture department, especially those in Turfgrass Science, opportunities to meet fellow classmates, become more involved in networking, and to become active in turfgrass events and activities within the state and surrounding communities," accord-ing to the RSO website.

“We have several encounters with industry professionals throughout the year,” said William Mears, Turf Club president/senior horticulture, landscape and turfgrass sciences major. It usually includes talking one on one with them about what is going on in the industry, where we can go and what we can do in our career, internship opportunities and career opportunities. Most of the meetings with professionals occur over dinner.

!e Turf Club was founded in the spring of 2000 and there are cur-rently nine active members. Mem-bership is open to any student who is enrolled in at least a one credit class and is/has been enrolled in any horticulture class.

“My favorite thing about being involved with Turf Club is the ability to share work or intern stories with other students in Turf Club; every golf course has a di"erent way of do-ing things, so it's fun to hear how a course in Dallas operates compared to a course in Fayetteville,” said Nathan Tompkins, Turf Club Vice President/senior horticulture, land-scape, and turf sciences major. Any student who is even slightly interest-ed in the turf industry should join Turf Club. It allows many hands-on projects with golf courses which can help with experience for the future.

All of the Turf Club members grad-uating have found full time jobs.

Every year the Turf Club com-petes in the annual Turf Bowl com-petition, at the Golf Industry Show, where they have been the reigning SEC champion for the past three years.

“!e Turf Bowl competition is a Collegiate Competition between Colleges and Universities across the entire country,” Mears said. It is sponsored by the Golf Course Su-perintendents Association of Amer-ica (GCSAA) and John Deere Turf. !is year there were 68 teams com-peting. !e bowl consist of a test that comprises of turfgrass physi-

ology, mathematics, cultural prac-tices, weeds, entomology (insects), pathology (diseases), business practices, management, leadership, communication, and environmental stewardship. A hands on sections allows teams to identify soil types and any turfgrasses, weeds, irriga-tion and mower parts, diseases and seeds.

Last December the RSO was in-vited to the Alotian Golf Club in Roland, AR where they networked with professionals at the prestigious golf course.

!e mission of the RSO is to provide its members with the best possible learning experience in all

activities and events in which it par-ticipates, which includes moments for just enjoying college life.

!e Turf Club also has time for fun too, Mears said. At the Turf Bowl competitions, which in the past have been in Las Vegas, Orlando and San Diego, members have a day or two to relax and make lifelong friends. Back in Fayetteville, the Turf club attends sporting events together and hosts an annual bowling event. It’s a great opportunity to just enjoy and meet new friends in the club.

!e RSO is constantly striving to improve the momentum of the club and the department, as they compete against other better-known

schools to continue to make a name for the UA in the #eld of horticul-ture. As they are driven profession-ally, the Turf Club also is driven to help each other in academic and personal life.

Turf Club has been a platform for great education, networking op-portunities and strong friendships, Mears said. While the club is small it allows the members to be closer knit than other larger honors orga-nizations. !e group spends a lot of time together allowing us to re-ally get to know each other well. !e friendships help everyone grow as a person and a professional for the future.

Georgia CarterSta! Writer

“I like studying outside because I feel more alert in the sunlight.”

Luke HankinsUA Junior

Fayetteville Public LibraryMonday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Common GroundsEvery day: 7 a.m. - Midnight

The Young Law LibraryMonday - Thursday: 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Friday: 6:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Sunday: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

The Greek Theater

Golf Course Design Club Provides Professional NetworkRSO OF THE WEEK

Stephanie ErhlerSta! Writer

Courtesy PhotoMembers of the !e Arkansas Turf Club RSO pose with their 2nd place award in February 2013. !e Turf Club competed at the Turf Bowl Competition and was awarded $2,000 for 2nd place in competition.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

BASEBALL TRACK & FIELD

COMMENTARY

Even though a lot of fans probably wouldn’t say so, it’s actually been a pretty good year to be a fan of the Razor-backs.

!e football team went 4-8,

so that wasn’t very fun. But the Hogs now have a new head coach who has put together a top notch sta".

!e basketball team didn’t make the NIT much less the NCAA tournament and now Marshawn Powell, BJ Young and Hunter Mickelson are all gone. But some young guys got some good playing time and incoming freshmen Bob-by Portis and Moses Kingsley could help immediately.

!e two most popular sports de#nitely had down years and that le$ a bad taste in a lot of Arkansas fans.

However, despite not earn-ing either points for these two sports, the Razorbacks are still in 28th out of 248 schools in

the Director’s Cup Standings, which rewards an athletic department that has success across a broad range of pro-grams.

Arkansas is behind only four other Southeastern Con-ference programs a$er the conclusion of fall and winter sports.

!e top SEC program is Florida at No. 4 followed by No. 9 Georgia, No. 11 Texas A&M and Kentucky at 20.

!e only two conferences with more teams in the top 30 than the #ve that the SEC has are the Big Ten and the Pac 12.

!e Big Ten, which has eight schools in the top 30, sponsors two more women’s sports and #ve more men’s

sports than the SEC.Right behind the Big Ten

is the Pac 12 with six schools in the top 30. !ey sponsor the same number of women’s sports as the SEC, but sponsor two more men’s sports.

!is gives the members of these conferences an advantage in the Director’s Cup because they have more opportunities for a team to #nish ranked or win a championship, which is how the points are earned.

Arkansas picked up 100 points for the men’s indoor track and #eld National Cham-pionship. !e Gym‘Backs con-tributed 68.25 points for their #nish at the gymnastics NCAA championships.

Swimming and women’s

track and #eld are the other two programs that contributed out of the winter sports, earn-ing 48 and 80 points, respec-tively.

!e three fall sports that added to Arkansas’ total were men’s and women’s cross country and volleyball which earned a combined 148.5 points.

!e spring sports that will factor in for the Hogs are men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s outdoor track and #eld, so$ball and baseball.

!e Razorbacks have a his-tory of earning more points during the spring season than either of the other two. Both the men and women’s track teams are very good and will

likely contribute.Add to that the very good

baseball team and a so$ball team that continues to impress and Razorback fans can expect a very good spring showing in the Director’s Cup.

!ere is always room for improvement and I’m sure Arkansas fans are ready to see some in some of the most prominent programs, but this year hasn’t been quite the di-saster for Razorback fans as it seems at #rst glance.

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

Athletics Successful Despite Football, Basketball Woes

Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor

!e Arkansas baseball team won a pair of low-scor-ing games in Athens, Ga., before the #nal game of the series was cancelled because of rain.

Arkansas won Friday’s game with a 2-0 pitcher’s duel between junior Barrett Astin and Georgia junior Patrick Boling.

Astin won the duel, last-ing eight innings, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out eight batters on 100 pitches. Boling only threw six innings and gave up one earned run on three hits and a walk. He also collected four strikeouts.

A$er giving up a pair of hits and a walk in the #rst in-ning, Astin settled in and got out of the bases loaded jam on a %y out. From the second in-ning on, Georgia did not ad-vance a runner past #rst base until junior Colby Suggs came in to close out the game in the ninth.

“I thought Barrett was outstanding,” head coach Dave Van Horn said. “Once he got through the (#rst) in-ning, he kind of came in and regrouped. We were worried that we’d have to take him out in the second inning, but we never had to talk to him again.”

Suggs picked up the save by getting Georgia freshman Jess Posey to strike out with run-ners on second and third.

!e Razorbacks picked up

their runs in the third and eighth innings.

Sophomore Brian Ander-son had two of Arkansas’ three hits of the game, including an RBI-single in the third inning. Junior Jake Wise had their other hit, as well as an RBI in the eighth, when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Game two of the series was another pitcher’s duel, featuring junior Ryne Stanek and Georgia freshman Sean McLaughlin. Arkansas won 2-1.

It was scoreless through six innings before the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard with a sacri#ce %y by senior Kyle

Farmer in the seventh.!e Razorbacks respond-

ed with a pair of runs in the eighth.

Senior Jacob Mahan led o" the inning with a double and Wise followed him with an RBI-single. A$er a sacri#ce bunt advanced Wise to sec-ond, sophomore Joe Serrano knocked him in with a single to center.

Stanek tossed 6.2 innings, allowing one earned run on seven hits, followed by 2.1 one-hit innings by three Razor-back relievers. Suggs earned his seventh save of the season, while sophomore Jalen Beeks picked up his #$h win. Stanek

received a no-decision.“I can’t remember the last

time we’ve come back and won a game a$er being behind in the sixth inning,” Van Horn said. “!e pitching sta" got us home from there.”

Georgia got their #rst complete game of the season, as McLaughlin went the dis-tance, allowing two earned runs on #ve hits and striking out #ve.

!ese were the #rst South-eastern Conference games of the season in which Arkansas has not committed an error, as well.

“!e defense was great,” Van Horn said. “!e defense

has really stepped it up. We made a lot of nice plays in the out#eld.”

Sunday’s game was can-celled because of inclement weather.

“We’re disappointed that we didn’t get to play, but the positive from the weekend is that we won two games and helped ourselves in the stand-ings,” Van Horn said.

!e Razorbacks improved their record to 29-15 overall and 13-7 in the SEC, which is second in the SEC West, be-hind LSU.

!e Hogs will return to action Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. against Missouri State.

Hogs Sweep Rain-Shortened SeriesAndrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

!e No. 3-ranked Arkan-sas men’s outdoor track and #eld team won four events at the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville Saturday.

It was a cold and rainy day for track, but the men’s team responded well, facing tough competition against nation-ally ranked teams. !e meet served as a chance to help the Razorbacks reach NCAA regional-worthy times and measurements.

Some of the best teams in the country were in Fay-etteville to compete in the seven-team event, including No. 1 Florida, No. 22 Okla-homa and No. 23 Ohio State, among others. Despite the less than ideal conditions, teams were able to perform well and reached qualifying NCAA times.

Sprinter Akheem Gaunt-lett took the 400-meter run with a time of 46.13 seconds in a photo #nish as the top four in that race #nished within .08 seconds of each other.

!e senior’s time stands as the 15th-best time in the NCAA this season. Gauntlett didn’t participate in his best races, the 100 and 200 at the Arkansas Invitational.

Hogs Win 4 Events at InvitationalCameron McCauleySta! Writer

see EVENTS page 8

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations Sta" PhotographerBarrett Astin pitches at the Arkansas v. Georgia baseball game in Athens, Ga., Friday, April 26. Sunday’s game was cancelled because of rain at Foley Field in Georgia.

SOFTBALL TRACK & FIELD

!e No. 25 Razorback so$ball team (31-17, 9-10) took game one of from the No. 2 Volunteers in Knoxville, Tenn., Friday before the #nal two games of the series were rained out.

!e Razorbacks won 2-1 Friday, marking Arkansas’ #$h win in the last six games. !is also means the Hogs have won three conference series in a row, all coming against ranked teams.

!e Arkansas win Friday snapped a 19-game Volunteer winning streak. Kimmy Bea-sley pitched a complete game and gave up just one run on four hits.

“I am so proud of our team,” head coach Mike Lara-bee said. “Kimmy Beasley settled down and pitched a great ballgame. Two years ago

we came here and got humili-ated. I am so proud of how far this program has come in two years.”

Jennifer Rambo and Jayme Gee led on o"ense for the Hogs, accounting for an RBI each. Rambo was two for three

in the game.“Sierra Bronkey, Jennifer

Rambo and Jayme Gee came up huge,” Larabee said. “We kept putting the ball in play and it manufactured runs.”

Razorbacks Win Only Meeting with Tennessee

!e No. 5 Razorbacks earned two #rst place #nishes in the Arkansas Invitational

Saturday.!e #rst came in the 1,500

meters and the second came in the 4x400-meter relay.

Jessica Kamilos, who was coming o" a personal best in the 3,000-meter steeplechase

last weekend, #nished the 1,500 meters with a lifetime best and #rst-place time of 4 minutes, 24.55 seconds.

Kamilos, a redshirt fresh-

2 Wins for Razorbacks at the Arkansas InvitationalLiz BeadleSta! WriterLiz Beadle

Sta! Writer

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsKimmy Beasley competes at the Arkansas v Tennes-see softball game, Friday, April 26.

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerMakeba Alcide competes at the Arkansas Invitational, Saturday, April 27, in Fay-etteville. see TENN page 8

see WINS page 8

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Marek Niit #nished #$h despite #nishing with a time of 46.49, only .36 seconds behind #rst.

!e men’s team started o" Saturday on a high note, winning the #rst track event of the day, the 4x100.

!e team of Gauntlett, Neil Braddy, Jarrion Lawson and Niit #nished with a time of 39.52, which was .01 sec-onds o" of their season-best time set at the McDonnell Invitational two weekends ago.

!e Razorbacks also had little trouble fending o"

competitors in the vertical jumps.

Indoor NCAA champion Andrew Irwin easily won the pole vault with a height of 5.16 meters, or 16 feet 11 inches. No reason to take any chances in the bad con-ditions, as Irwin’s winning vault was almost a foot and a half less than his season best.

Two Arkansas high jump-ers, Brede Ellingsen and Noah Kittelson, #nished tied for #rst with a jump of 2.02 meters, or 6 feet, 7.5 inches.

Senior Caleb Cross came in second in the 110-meter

hurdles with a time of 14.19, #nishing just behind Flori-da’s Eddie Lovett, who ran a 13.72.

Je" Woods took second place in the javelin throw, #nishing with a personal record distance of 63.34 me-ters.

“Despite the weather, we got some things done. We were hoping for some sunny skies but we still got some things done,” head coach Chris Bucknam said.

!e Razorbacks will hit the track again May 3 at the Arkansas Twilight.

EVENTS continued from page 7

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerJarrion Lawson competes in the long jump at the Arkansas Invitational, Saturday, April 27.

TENN continued from page 7

WINS continued from page 7

!e game was scoreless un-til the #$h inning. Arkansas scored one run in the #$h and one in the sixth. Tennessee re-mained scoreless until the sev-enth, when they scored one run in an attempt at a comeback.

Bronkey started of the #$h inning with a single for Arkan-sas, then Ashley Martindale pinch-ran and advanced to sec-ond as Rambo reached on an in#eld single.

Nicole Schroeder then advanced both runners on a groundout to short. Martindale was the runner to make it home and give the Razorbacks their #rst run of the game.

!e second Arkansas run came in the sixth inning. Chloe Oprzedek got things started with a base hit.

She then stole second and later advanced to third on a groundout by Bronkey. Rambo then hit one up the middle on a two-out, eight-pitch at bat.

In the seventh the Volun-teers scored as Lexi Overstreet hit a one-out triple.

Tory Lewis followed with a sacri#ce %y that got Tennessee on the scoreboard, but it wasn’t enough and the game ended in a 2-1 Razorback win.

Arkansas is set to close out its regular season against Au-burn in Fayetteville in a three-game series starting this Friday.

man, won the event by two seconds.

!e 4x400-meter relay was the #nal event of the day. !e team consisted of Makeba Al-cide, Chrishuna Williams, Iva-nique Kemp and Gwendolyn Flowers, and their time was 3:43.75.

Besides the two #rst-place #nishes, the Hogs also had six second-place #nishes includ-ing Rebecca Gorden on the javelin, Makeba Alcide on the shot put, Danielle Nowell on the pole vault, Tamara Myers on the triple jump, Ivanique Kemp on the 100-meter hur-dles and Valerie Reina on the 3,000-meter.

Other teams competing in the meet included Central Florida, Florida, Oklahoma, Tulsa and Oklahoma State.

Regina George and Sparkle McKnight were absent from the Arkansas Invitational as they were competing at Penn Relays in Philadelphia. George was representing Nigeria and McKnight was representing her native Trinidad and To-bago.

George competed in both the 4x100 and the 4x400 relay for the Nigerian team. !e Ra-zorback senior came up with the fastest split of the day with a 49.5 on the third leg of the 4x400 relay.

McKnight participated in the 4x100 relay for Trinidad and Tobago and helped her nation to an eighth-place #n-ish in Philadelphia.

Next up for the Hogs is the Arkansas Twilight Friday in Fayetteville.