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Filling the Vacancy Long Searching for Next Basketball Coach

On-court struggles, declin-ing revenue and waning fan support revenue outweighed the promise of a highly-touted re-cruiting class for Arkansas’ bas-ketball program.

Coach John Pelphrey was !red Sunday a"ernoon by Vice

Chancellor and Director of Ath-letics Je# Long, a"er compiling a 69-59 record and one NCAA Tournament appearance in four seasons.

$e Razorbacks went 18-13 this season, !nishing fourth in the Southeastern Conference West Division and missing postseason play for the third

consecutive year.Now the search begins to

!nd the Hogs’ new head man.Long has a short list of can-

didates and would like to make a hire around the April 2-4 Final Four, he said.

“I certainly have some people in my mind that I think would be a great !t for us, but that process

is just beginning,” Long said. “It’s di%cult to assess a timetable.”

Missouri coach Mike An-derson, Marquette coach Buzz Williams and Minnesota coach Tubby Smith are among hot names identi!ed by national

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by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

UA Adds December Graduation OptionUA officials have decided

to add a December all-uni-versity graduation ceremony for students who graduate in August or December, a uni-versity official said.

“We know that student enrollment is growing and we wanted to provide an opportunity for students to graduate at different times,” said Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor for aca-demic affairs.

There will be an estimat-ed 23,000 students enrolled in the fall semester, she said.

This decision also comes in response to student de-mands voiced in an Associ-ated Student Government student poll.

More than 70 percent of students polled supported a fall commencement cer-emony, while approximately 28 percent said they did not, according to the ASG poll. There were 2,276 respon-dents.

“This reinforces the great relationship that we in ASG have with administrators that we can go to them with results like this and know that they will take them se-riously,” said ASG President Billy Fleming. “It allows us to bring them data to show what students, en masse, want.”

Students also responded, however, that they did not want to pay additional fees for the graduation ceremony.

Out of 1,633 respondents, less than 5 percent said they would definitely pay ad-ditional fees, 23.76 percent said “probably yes”, 44.27 said “probably no”, and 27.01 percent said “definitely no”, according to the poll.

Money to pay for the fall commencement will not come out of student fees, Gaber said.

There is a certain amount of money allotted for a graduation budget, which includes costs of the stage and lighting, she said. Mon-ey from that budget will be used toward the December graduation.

Before making this deci-sion, UA officials ran num-bers to estimate how many students would participate in this ceremony using last year’s numbers.

“Last year, there were 1,600 students who gradu-ated during the August and May dates. By our estimates, even if half of them decided to walk, we would have 800 students,” she said.

The December com-mencement will be an all-university ceremony. Vari-

by SABA NASEEMStaff Writer

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Greek Life Promotes Service, Prepares for ROW Week

A"er some disciplinary problems in the 2009-2010 school year, leaders in Greek Life pushed a more positive image to the rest of the UA.

“People think we party a lot, but we also do a lot of good that people don’t see. With ROW Week, which is really the only big social event we have le" this semester, we are really working to make it a safer place, as cliche as that sounds,” said Daniel Kle-ine, president of Interfraternity Council. “We want to work to make crowd control better this

year, and not necessarily limit the amount of people that can come to the parties, but just make the number more manageable. We also want to work with UAPD more this year, just to make sure we are on the same page and make sure the alcohol situation is under control as well.”

Maintaining safety, especially during the hectic atmosphere of ROW Week, has been a focal point for Greek life this semes-ter. Originally short for “Recruit Orientation Week,” ROW Week is now a multi-day social event o"en featuring big-name con-certs for students.

“Our risk management of-!cer, Derek Moore, has been busy leading risk management e#orts this semester and spread-ing risk management and safety tips to organizations in prepara-tion for ROW Week. Co-Public Relations o%cers Shawn Merriss and Garrett Johanssen are in the process of creating risk man-agement posters to market the prohibited items, behavior and guests at IFC functions,” said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life.

“$is was an initiative the of-!cers proposed as a way to com-municate to people who may be

entering the houses for a func-tion who are not members of the fraternity what is expected of them as guests. $e posters will be displayed soon, in time for ROW Week events. “

However, parties are not the only thing IFC members have been focusing on this school year.

“We have been trying this year to collaborate more with the di#erent chapters if one chapter has a really good idea for a phil-anthropic event,” Kleine said. GARETH PATTERSON Sta! Photographer

Two members of the Chi Omega sorority reenact a famous Saturday Night Live skit from the 1990s. They performed during the 2011 Kappa Delta Shamrock Talent Show in the Verizon Ballroom of the Arkansas Union on Wednesday, March 9.

by MATTIE QUINNStaff Writer

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Students Feel Impact of EarthquakeAn 8.9 magnitude earth-

quake hit Japan Friday, fol-lowed by a massive tsunami, leaving more than 10,000 peo-ple dead or missing, thousands homeless and millions without water, power, heat or transpor-tation, according to reports in $e New York Times.

Miles away, a"ershocks of the earthquake could be felt in the hearts of international Japanese students at the UA.

“I still can’t believe it,” said Yuta Yoshida, an international student from Hyogo, Japan.

He saw the news online around 2 a.m., and his !rst reaction was that it wasn’t se-rious.

“Japan has many earth-quakes that are more than a 6.0 magnitude,” he said. “So I didn’t think much of it until, a"er a couple hours, I saw the tsunami wipe out many towns.”

His family and friends live far from the disaster area and are safe, he said.

$e epicenter of the earth-quake was near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. It was fol-lowed by more than 50 a"er-shocks, many of them greater than a 6.0 magnitude on the

Richter scale. “It was the biggest earth-

quake I’ve experienced. I was really scared,” said Asato Seki-moto from Tokyo, in an email interview.

$e next day she “passed a di%cult night,” she said. “I could not sleep because of the a"ershocks.”

$e earthquake triggered the “formation of 30-foot walls of water that swept across rice !elds, engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways, and tossed cars and boats like toys,” according to CNN re-ports.

UA international student Hiroyuki Sonoda, an inter-national relations major from Shizuoka, Japan, said he imme-diately called his family a"er hearing the news and learned they were safe, but could not get in contact with his friends.

“$ey (his friends) live in the Tohoku region, which was the pinpoint area of the earth-quake,” he said. “I !nally talked to them and they are safe. $ey said there was a lot of furniture broken in their homes.”

$ree UA students are studying abroad in Japan, but all of them far from the af-fected areas, said DeDe Long, director of the O%ce of Study

Abroad and International Ex-change.

“Two of the students are in Osaka, Japan, and one student is in Matsue, Japan, and they are all safe,” she said. “Rou-tinely, when there is any kind of event like this, we will email the students or get on Face-book to check with them to con!rm that they are safe.”

A UA journalism student, Yukiko Morikubo, had recent-ly returned to Japan to look for a job. She was in Tokyo at the

time the earthquake hit, and reported Friday that she and her family were safe, according to her Facebook page.

$is is the most powerful earthquake recorded in Japan’s history, according to media re-ports.

Figures for recovery are an estimated $180 billion, ac-cording to initial estimates by European banks Credit Suisse

by SABA NASEEMStaff Writer

MCT CAMPUSThere were 16,000 inhabitants of the village of Minami-Sanriku before the tsunami hit. Now, more than half of them are still missing.

JOHN PELPHREY by the Numbers

Record in 4 Seasons 69-59Record against SEC Opponents 16-35NCAA Tournament Appearance 1 (2008)ESPN Rank for 2011 Recruiting Class 4Scholarship Players Suspended in 3 years 10Pelphrey’s Buyout over 3 years 1.8 Million

Buzz Williams, Marquette Mark Turgeon, Texas A&M Mike Anderson, Missouri

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PROFILES FROM THE HILLA Conversation with Kaleb CoxKaleb Cox became the new

president of Resident’s Interhall Congress a! er the president and vice president stepped down from their positions in January. With politically active mind, Cox is tackling a quadruple major, dou-ble minor course load. He recently returned from a trip with the Eco-nomics special topics class to the nation’s capital, and he cannot come close to deciding which sport he likes better — soccer or tennis.

Q: How did you choose the

UA?

A: I’m from Missouri, so I applied to a lot of the schools in this region and in the Midwest. Financially, it was the best deci-sion. I’m an Honors College Fel-low. When I came down here for the fellowship interview week-end and I saw all of the oppor-tunities that were available here – opportunities for study abroad, research, and student govern-ment – it just really sold me.

Q: How did you end up be-

ing promoted to president?

A: I was the president pro-tempore, so I was the head of the Senate. Constitutionally, if both the president and the vice president vacate their seats at the same time, my position moves up to president.

Q: How did you feel when you became president?

A: At ! rst I was really sur-prised. When you’re third in line for the presidency, it’s really sur-prising if it ever happens. I’m re-ally excited. I’m so glad I got the opportunity to do it.

Q: What initiated your in-

terest in RIC?

A: I got involved in RIC my freshman year. When I got to college, I just really wanted to be involved in student govern-ment. It was something I wasn’t involved in during high school, but I had always thought ‘when I get to college, I want to be in-volved in this.’ I got involved in my hall senate, and then from there, I got involved in RIC. At the end of my freshman year I ran for the position of president pro-tempore and held that posi-tion for a year and a half until I moved up to president.

Q: How has your role in RIC

changed now that you’re the president?

A: Before, as president pro-tempore, I was head of the Sen-ate, so I was in charge of legisla-tion, creating agendas and in the executive meetings I spoke as the voice of the Senate body. Now that I’m the president, I’m coordinating everyone’s roles, checking in on everyone, plus

the extra responsibilities of being the president. [I attend] lots of university committee meetings and have increased contact with the advisors.

Q: What is something you

particularly like about being in-volved in student government?

A: I really like it when people have these programs that they’re really passionate about, have planned out and really want to put on, but ! nancially they don’t have the means to do that. Being in an organization that has the ability to help these people do what they really want to do and make a di" erence in their lives is really awesome. Being in this kind of politics has always been really intriguing to me.

Q: What did you do while in

Washington D.C.?

A: # e UA sent a delegation to the ! rst model Asian Paci! c Cooperation Conference. It’s by the same people who run the Model United Nations. It was an awesome experience. We ended up winning distinguished del-egation. We represented Japan and in the simulation each of us was broken up into di" erent committees. In each of our com-mittees, we tried to dra$ these resolution working papers in order to address a lot of the prob-lems in the Asian Paci! c region. # en at the end, a$ er we’d passed

all of these reports, we developed it into a comprehensive report, and then we read it before the entire conference body at large.

Q: Does your major involve

politics?

A: Yes, I’m majoring in his-tory, Spanish, international relations and European stud-ies. I have minors in political science and economics.

Q: Are you interested in

getting involved with politics a! er you’re done with your degrees?

A: Maybe eventually. I worked on a congressional campaign this summer. I was the o% ce manager. My can-didate ended up losing, but it was an awesome experience. A$ er I graduate, I want to get my law degree and hopefully practice law for a few years. When I’m older or middle aged, I would love to get in-volved in politics.

Q: Have you always had

high ambitions for your fu-ture?

A: I never really thought about it before. I didn’t think that was a high ambition. I just thought that I was supposed to keep going and go as high as I could until I ! nish what I want to accomplish.

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“# e week of ROW Week we are going to have an IFC cookout and all of the proceeds will ben-e! t di" erent philanthropies. We want everyone to have fun, but in a safe way.”

Collaboration was a com-mon theme with the di" erent councils of Greek life.

“We’ve been trying to com-municate more with the di" er-ent councils, IFC, National Pan-hellenic Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council, and also communicate more with the di" erent chapters within NPC,” said Sarah Gibson, president of NPC. “We are expecting record-breaking numbers of girls for rush this fall, even more than this past year, so communica-tion within the di" erent chap-ters is key. We need to make sure we are all on the same page in dealing with numbers this large,”

she said. “I like to think of NPC as

the federal government, and the di" erent chapters within NPC are like the state government. We want to be there for them in making sure they have every-thing they need to function.”

National Panhellenic mem-bers also decided to focus on a di" erent kind of goal for the school year that Gibson hopes will be helpful for girls in Greek Life.

“Girl empowerment has been a big goal for the school year, and learning how to just say ‘no’ to things. Girls these days run themselves so thin, and they never have any time for them-selves,” Gibson said. “Girls take on so much responsibility, and if you think about it, in the course of a day when do you ever have time for yourself? “We want to promote that it’s okay to stand up for yourself and take time out for yourself. When I brought up

the idea of having a goal be girl empowerment, I thought people would shut down the idea, but I got a really good response from it.”

National Pan-Hellenic Council, UA’s historically black council of sororities and fra-ternities, also looked to change things up this year.

“For our alumni week we typically have a step show, but we decided this year to have a fashion show instead just to try something new and because we were tired of doing a step show every single year” said Cla-rice Montgomery, president of NPHC. “We got clothes donated from Belle Boutique, Maude, Something Urban and other clothing stores around Fayette-ville. We had participants from IFC and NPC, and we raised about $3,000, so it was a success.”

Montgomery also wanted the focus of the school year to be about improving grades.

“We have an ‘A’ jar, where if you get an A on a test or paper you can put your name in a jar. We have drawings sporadically and the winner gets a gi$ cer-ti! cate to di" erent places around town, like Walmart. We thought this would be a good way to re-ward chapters and keep striving for excellence,” Montgomery said. “Even though we are the smallest council, we do a lot of work on campus, be it through programs, scholarships or com-munity service.”

Even though Greek Life is seen as a fun activity on cam-pus, Kleine wants to make sure students don’t get carried away, so disciplinary issues don’t arise again.

“We want to above all push Greek Life, especially IFC, in a new light. We have a lot of fun and that’s great and to be expect-ed, but we really want to make sure that we keep our priorities in order,” Kleine said.

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ous colleges and schools will not be holding individ-ual ceremonies as they do in May.

The first fall-semester commencement ceremony will be at 9 a.m. on Dec. 17 in Barnhill Arena.

This ceremony is for un-dergraduate, graduate and law students who receive their degrees in August or December.

“I think this is great for the university and for stu-dents because students shouldn’t have to wait to re-ceive their diplomas,” Gaber said. “Most of our peer insti-tutions have more than one graduation and this better meets the needs of our grow-ing student population.”

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media as early possibilities for the vacancy, although Smith said he plans to return to Minnesota on his weekly radio show Mon-day night.

“We’ll be going a! er high-quality candidates and many of those candidates will be in-volved in the NCAA Tourna-ment,” Long said. “We won’t talk to those folks until a! er they’re done with NCAA play. " e typi-cal timeline is sometime around the Final Four. If a candidate became identi# ed and we could move quicker, we certainly would.”

" e new coach will be the # ! h in the last decade, including Dana Altman’s one-day stint as coach. " e program struggled in former coach Nolan Richard-son’s # nal seasons and has made just three NCAA Tournament appearances since Richardson was # red in 2002.

“I think Arkansas, to me, is one of the top-tier jobs,” for-mer Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said. “To me, it’s a major, major college job. What other people see it as now, I

don’t know.”Anderson was an assistant

at Arkansas for 17 years under Richardson, helping lead the Hogs to a national title and three Final Fours from 1990-95. He was hired at UAB in 2002 a! er Richardson was # red.

Anderson is now at Missouri and has led the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three seasons, including the Elite Eight in 2009.

“I would not give him any advice,” Richardson said about Anderson’s coaching future. “Mike’s a man and he can make his own decisions. All I would tell him, ‘Whatever you want to do, I’m on your team. You’re my guy. Do what you think your family deserves and needs.’”

Anderson is coaching former college roommate Paul Pressey’s two sons, Matt and Phil. Matt is a junior and Phil is a freshman.

“I’m sure that will be very important in his decision-mak-ing,” Richardson said. “He’s very loyal person, so there’s no ques-tion that will play an important role in his decision.”

Smith is 467-198 in 20 sea-sons as a head coach and won a national championship at Ken-

tucky in 1998. He has coached at Minnesota the last four seasons, compiling an 80-53 record and two NCAA Tournament ap-pearances.

" e Golden Gophers started strong this season, but lost 10 of their # nal 11 games to # nish the season 17-14 and miss the post-season. Smith responded “Yes, I do” when asked Monday on his radio show if he expected to re-turn to Minnesota.

Williams is 65-32 in three seasons at Marquette with NCAA Tournament appear-ances each season.

Money will be an issue in the hire.

“Money is an object — any-one who says it isn’t would be irresponsible,” Long said. “As the athletic director, I have analysis on what we can a$ ord to pay. I think we’ve built a program that is going to be more desirable to the next coach than maybe it was when coach Pelphrey took over. We know that we can have a great basketball program and win at a high level here.

“We understand that to go out in that marketplace, we have to be prepared to meet the mar-ketplace demands for a coach

that has the background to fore-cast success here at Arkansas.”

Long won’t use a search com-mittee, he said.

“I will involve those that I trust and that have opinions I appreciate,” Long said. “I’ll seek those people out, but we’re not going to have a formal commit-tee, except for myself and my in-ternal sta$ . As I go through the search, if I feel like I need some-one to assist me, I won’t hesitate to do that.”

" e new coach’s top task will be trying to keep the consensus top-10 recruiting class Pelphrey signed intact. " ree of the # ve commitments are in-state pros-pects.

“You very much want to ap-proach this in two di$ erent po-sitions,” said Dave Telep, ESPN national recruiting editor. “You want to hire the best coach pos-sible — then do it in a timely fashion so he can have an op-portunity to reclaim this class. Every day that goes by that you don’t have a head coach is anoth-er person recruiting these guys.”

" e class is ranked No. 4 in the nation by Scout.com, No. 5 by Rivals.com and No. 7 by ESPN.com.

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and Barclays. " is number is more than 50 percent higher than the total cost of the earth-quake in Kobe, Japan, in 1995.

Countries around the world are helping with relief e$ orts.

“" ey are sending money and o$ ering words of encour-agement to the people,” Yoshi-da said. “I think the Japanese people are reacting very calm-ly to this situation. " e crime has not increased dramatically and people are respecting each other. " ey are even making lines in food stores and are try-ing to keep order and peace.”

He is impressed and proud of the Japanese people, he said.

" e UA community has reached out to students, of-fering their condolences and

words of comfort.“Many Japanese students

are feeling helpless because they are so far from their country, so they need the sup-port of their fellow classmates,” said Tatsuya Fukushima, as-sociate professor of Japanese. His family is from Yokohama, Japan, and they emailed him to let him know that they were safe, he said.

“I have received so much support and I can’t tell you how much the Japanese community here appreciates the thoughts, condolences and prayers of the city of Fayetteville and the UA students, faculty and sta$ ,” he said. “" ey have been wonder-ful to us.”

Students on campus are also working to raise money. ASG Senator Raven Cook is working to create a new Regis-tered Student Organization for

the purpose of collecting do-nations for the tsunami relief, she said.

Ideally, Cook would like to collaborate with other groups and put cans all around cam-pus to collect money, she said.

“I believe it is important because there is such a large amount of devastation and people have lost so much,” Cook said. “Compassion, en-couragement, and love are what is needed right now and I will work tirelessly to let people know that that the UA is a part of the e$ orts to help Japan.”

" e Japanese Student As-sociation and Holcombe Hall Senate are also organizing a food sale for 5 p.m. on March 30. All donations will be sent to the Red Cross to support emergency relief and recovery e$ orts.

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Sponsor of Bible Bill Goes Too Far

Children Should be the Priority

FROM THE BOARD

With spring break only a few days away, students are scrambling to finish homework and pack for warm weather excursions.

It’s no different here at the Traveler. From the Vegas Strip to the South by Southwest festival in Austin, many of our edi-tors and staff members are gearing up for a week of stress-free fun, filled with good food, music, shopping and outdoor activities.

But for some of us, it’s not all about self-indulgence. Man-aging Editor for New Media Lana Hazel, is traveling to Belize with her church as a translator.

Throughout the trip, they will be working at a clinic and helping to build local infrastructure.

The UA’s Alternative Spring Break is hosting several trips this year that give students an opportunity to take an active role in serving our state. They will be traveling to Southwest Arkansas to work with community groups and area youth and Helena, Ark., to train high school seniors to build computers.

They will even host a three-day camp that focuses on “girl empowerment,” in which students will assist in developing curriculum, leading lessons, playing games and leading team building activities.

Other editors, such as Nick DeMoss and Mille Appleton, will spend their Spring Break week slaving away on their the-ses, as will many other honors students on our campus as they prepare for their thesis defense in the coming months.

One thing we find ourselves disappointed in is the closing of Mullins Library during the break. Although library staff obviously deserve a break too and the university has stated that the closing is due to a planned power outage, this clos-ing comes at an extremely inconvenient time for many of our students, who will now have to decide between the pitfalls of trying to study at home or the issues of finding another loca-tion to study.

Regardless of what your Spring Break plans might entail, make sure to stay safe and try to do something worthwhile, be it academic- or service-oriented.

While we’re not knocking sunbathing on the beach or catching up on some much needed sleep, we would like to encourage you to use your Spring Break to get involved in your community and give back in some way.

Whether it be volunteering at a local homeless shelter or lending your elderly neighbor a hand, there’s always a way to get involved.

And for those of you working on your thesis, stay strong— in the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

In 2008, President Barack Obama wasn’t the only one to score a monumental victory — 57 percent of Arkansans also won when they voted in favor of the controversial “Unmarried Couple Adoption Ban,” despite widespread opposition.

" e ban makes it is illegal for any individuals cohabiting out-side of a valid marriage to adopt or provide foster care to minors.

In April 2010, Pulaski Coun-ty Circuit Court Judge Chris Pi-azza overturned the bill, arguing that it “infringes upon the fun-damental right to privacy guar-anteed to all citizens of Arkan-sas.”

He said that the bill spe-ci! cally targets an “unpopular” group and that a desire to harm that group was no basis for a le-gitimate governmental interest.

On March 17, the Arkansas Supreme Court will begin hear-ing oral arguments for an ap-peal to Piazza’s ruling and the eyes of the nation will surely be upon us.

I think it is unlikely the ban will survive because it is well set-tled in Arkansas that public mo-rality is not a valid reason to in-fringe upon the personal liber-ties of the individual citizen. If a law were to infringe upon these liberties, it must advance a com-pelling state interest such as the welfare of children.

Opponents and supporters alike have agreed that the measure appears to target homosexuals. " e Family Council Action Committee even released a # yer saying that the bill “blunts the gay agenda.”

" e FCAC’s website claims that “common sense” says the best place for a child is with a married moth-er and father, while opponents ar-gue that the policy de! es common sense to exclude a cohabitating couple from adopting.

Research and studies o$ ered by both sides of the aisle o$ er little help in explaining what our “com-mon sense” should be in this con-text. Both have accused one anoth-er of distorting and misrepresent-ing valuable information.

What may be most unnerving is that opponents and supporters of the bill claim to serve the same goal — the best interest of the child.

Despite the con# icting re-search, common sense tells me that children in need should be placed in suitable homes, and reducing possible homes for those children is illogical.

According to " e Children of Arkansas Loved for a Lifetime, a non-pro! t Christian organization that focuses on foster care initia-tives, there are about 3,500 children in Arkansas’ foster care system at any given time.

Additionally, " e C.A.L.L. es-timates that there are about 7,000 children in foster care in Arkansas within a year, with only about 950 foster families available to care for these children.

" e exclusion of an entire group of people should immedi-ately signal potential injustice. By prohibiting adoption by unmar-ried cohabitating people, an irre-futable presumption is set in place that it is in the best interest of a child to live with married parents.

Uniform discrimination is a generalization that most likely con-tains many exceptions.

For example, one of the plain-ti$ s involved in the case was the biological grandmother of a two-month-old child in foster care. She was prohibited from adopting her grandchild because she resided with her partner of 11 years.

While the legislation claims it does not a$ ect guardianships, plainti$ s include married couples that desire to place their children with trusted family members in the event of their deaths.

However, plainti$ s say the bill would preclude those family mem-bers who happen to be in a cohabi-tating relationship with someone of the same or opposite sex from adopting.

Glaring inconsistencies should also serve as a warning. It is puz-zling that the ban continues to al-low single individuals to adopt when it advocates that children are best served in a family with mar-ried parents.

Arguably, cohabitating hetero-sexual couples are not what the policy is trying to avoid, because why would two otherwise quali-! ed adoptive parents be worse than one?

It is hard to ! nd a justi! cation for this when the supporters of the ban have continuously emphasized the importance of a two-parent home.

It might be helpful to know that before the “Unmarried Cou-ple Adoption Ban” was dra% ed, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a broader regulation that prohibited anyone from serving as a foster parent if any adult mem-ber of the household was a homo-sexual.

Supporters of the ban say that unlike the previous proposed reg-ulation, the new policy “eliminates the element of singling out gays and lesbians because of their sexu-ality” because it includes both het-erosexuals and homosexuals.

" at might be the case, but in Arkansas heterosexual couples have the option of marriage while homosexual couples do not.

Focusing solely on the sexual orientation of potential adopters is not an e$ ective way to address the startling number of foster children in our state.

While sexual orientation and marital status should be taken into account, factors like income, edu-cation, mental health, religion, and family structure should be equally important when considering an adoption decision.

During a detailed evaluation process, a cohabitating relationship should not preclude an otherwise quali! ed couple from adopting — especially when the alternative is adoption by no one.

What do you get when you mix Christianity, America’s founding fathers and an Ar-kansas legislator that doesn’t be-lieve in the separation of church and state? A new bill that would allow Bible classes in public schools, that’s what.

Rep. Denny Altes, R- Fort Smith, is the sponsor of House Bill 1032, which would permit public schools to o$ er “nonsec-tarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible and its in# u-ence on literature, art, music, culture and politics.”

On March 9 he was sched-uled to present the legislation on the House # oor but opted to send the bill back to the House Education Committee, which has already endorsed the mea-sure, to clarify that new curric-ulum standards would not be required by the state Board of Education if the bill passes.

Instead, schools would ! nd curricula that are already available and if they choose to adopt one they would subsequently submit it to the state Board of Education and have it approved.

Proponents of educational Bible classes point out that some school districts already o$ er simi-lar courses and abide by the proce-dures proposed by Altes. " is bill would simply make the policy law.

" e rebuttal, o$ ered by organi-zations like the Arkansas Civil Lib-erties Union, is that while the bill’s stated intentions are to encourage the teaching of religion, Altes’ mo-tives appear to be to the contrary.

" e legislation, they argue, doesn’t say anything about study-ing other sacred books outside of Christianity.

“" e Bible is the oldest, the most popular, the most accurate history book on the face of the earth,” Altes said.

Many Americans agree with Altes’ assumption, but there are also many Americans who do not agree that the Bible should be taught as a history book.

“" ey say — not me, but oth-er people — say we need a sepa-ration of church and state,” Altes said. “" is nation was found-ed on Christian principles and most of the founding fathers

were Christians.”Beside the startling revelation

that one of our elected o& cials does not agree that there should be a separation of church and state — a core principle of American de-mocracy — it is all too apparent that Altes’ strong convictions are seeping into policies that could af-fect thousands of Arkansas school children and disrupt the founda-tion of our nation.

His statement that the U.S. was founded on Christian principles is troubling and used far too o% en as a way to legislate religious doctrine to further one’s agenda.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of re-ligion, or prohibiting the free exer-cise thereof,” is explicitly written in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

" e words “In God We Trust” were not adopted as the o& cial motto of the U.S. until 1956, nor was the phrase “one nation under God” added to the Pledge of Alle-giance until 1955.

While arguably several of the founding fathers practiced some form of Christianity, many were deists or, like " omas Je$ erson, opposed organized religion.

Having # ed from oppressive regimes that used religion as a tool to control the public, the founding

fathers knew that it was impera-tive that religion be entirely sepa-rate from government.

While Altes might be correct in his belief that Christian princi-ples have driven our nation since its inception, this is no reason to completely demolish the constitu-tional liberties guaranteed to us by the First Amendment.

I agree with Altes that religion should be taught in schools. How-ever, it should be taught as a way to help students understand the his-torical implications resulting from various world religions, not just Christianity.

It is nonsensical to only of-fer classes that focus on the Bible while totally dismissing all other religions of equal importance in the global community.

Some will argue that these Bi-ble-based courses are optional, but that is not the issue. " e issue is that students should be receiving a well-rounded education that is not grounded in religious doctrine or personal, spiritual beliefs.

Altes’ view that the Bible should be regarded as both a lit-erary work and a historical text is perfectly acceptable, but it should remain just that — a personal be-lief. It should not be used to un-dermine the real principles of our nation, which is religious freedom.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

As members of the Associated Student Government Park-ing and Transit Committee, we often hear students complain about seeing non-UA-students riding on Razorback Transit buses, especially if the riders exhibit a lack of hygiene or ab-normal behavior.

What many students do not realize is that Razorback Tran-sit only receives about 25 percent of its funding from student fees. The remaining 75 percent of funding comes from state and federal tax dollars.

In a sense, the general public has just as much right to use the bus system as we do. As long as individuals are non-hos-tile and non-threatening, all students should demonstrate a hospitable attitude to all other riders, regardless of what pro-file they represent. Many who are considered “homeless” are simply utilizing the bus system to get to work, run errands or visit friends and family like the rest of us.

With the United States recovering from the recession, the job market still amok, and oil prices continually rising from the democratic uprisings in the Middle East that have threat-ened oil supplies, the Razorback Transit bus system is a sav-ior for many of these individuals who either lack a car or lack the funds to use their car on a continual basis.

It is imperative that University of Arkansas students re-flect a welcoming mind-set to these individuals. Next time you’re on the bus, ignore that text or email, lay down the newspaper and reach out to these fellow riders. Interact with them. You could quite easily brighten their day, relate to their situation and gain a new appreciation for the blessing that is higher education.

MIKE NORTONWritten on behalf

of the Associated Student Government Transit and Parking Committee

by Sarah CreasmanGuest Writer

Samantha WilliamsOpinion Editor

Across the Aisle

A! er three straight wins, Ar-kansas’ gymnastics team " nished the regular season with a loss at No. 18 Denver.

# e Razorbacks were edged out 195.725-195.70, breaking their hot streak prior to competing in the Southeastern Conference championships.

Denver got a break early when Arkansas had two falls on bars to open the meet and took the mo-mentum to post a 49.45 on the $ oor, the third highest score in the country. Arkansas took the lead late, but the early stumbles kept them from holding on to the win.

“Having a fall on bars kept us tentative early,” Arkansas co-coach Rene Cook said. “Contrary to that, we got aggressive and " nished the meet strong. I was happy with the way we " nished the meet.”

Junior Jamie Pisani and fresh-man Katherine Grable performed

well, but fresh faces grabbed some spotlight for Arkansas in the meet. Pisani won the all-around for the fourth consecutive week, while Grable won beam and tied for the vault title. In just her " rst vault event of the season, sophomore Amy Borsellino scored a 9.8 and set a career high 9.875 on $ oor.

Two other underclassmen, freshman Shelby Salmon and sophomore Jordan Salsberg also performed well. Salmon had a ca-reer high 9.8 on beam and Sals-berg tied her career highs in beam and $ oor.

“We came back pretty strong in the meet,” Cook said. “With the Southeastern Conference Cham-pionships coming up, I don’t see any residual e% ects from this loss.”

Arkansas (7-4, 5-1 SEC) tied for the regular season SEC Cham-pionship. # e team will travel to Birmingham, Ala., Saturday for the SEC Championship. # ere are " ve top 25 teams in the SEC, with three in the top 10, but Arkansas has faced a tough schedule.

Arkansas will have faced 16 opponents ranked in the top 30 by the end of the SEC Champion-ships.

“I look forward to getting out there,” Cook said. “It’s going to be a big meet for not just our confer-ence, but for our national ranking for the national championships. I’m ready to get started.”

Men’s Track Struggles at NCAAs

Arkansas’ men’s track team didn’t get expected results at the NCAA Indoor Championships, struggling to " nish 22nd.

# e Razorbacks " nished strong when they hosted the Southeastern Conference Cham-pionships, but couldn’t carry that momentum onto the road. # e Hogs started the meet o% with a " ! h-place " nish Friday, but strug-gled the rest of the weekend.


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Je% Long thinks Arkansas will attract a top-tier coach to replace John Pelphrey.

He better be right, for his sake.Arkansas has been Exhibit A of

how not to handle a basketball pro-gram for the last decade.

Long has a chance to change that streak of ineptitude, during

which the program slipped from one of the nation’s elite to an also-ran in a bad conference.

Pelphrey didn’t get it done on the court the last three seasons. I won’t argue that he did and neither will anyone else.

Missing the postseason three consecutive years doesn’t $ y at a program that made the NCAA Tournament 22 times in 28 years under Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson, including four Final Fours and one national champion-ship.

# ere’s a good chance Pel-phrey was about to turn the corner, though.

He had inked a consensus top-" ve recruiting class in November, one he hoped would catapult Ar-kansas back into contention on a

national level.# e incoming recruits would

have put the Hogs back into com-petition with Kentucky at the top of the SEC. Long " red him before he got a chance to coach them.

Arkansas hasn’t had a lot of in-state talent the last decade. # is year Pelphrey signed top-100 in-state recruits Rashad Madden, Aaron Ross and Hunter Mickel-son to go along with " ve-star B.J. Young and highly-touted Dallas forward Devonta Abron.

A lot of people say Pelphrey wouldn’t have had success with the class based on his track record.

He took the only talented team he had at Arkansas — his " rst — to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2008, the only time the Razorbacks have advanced

past the " rst round in the last 12 years. # e incoming class meshed with Rotnei Clarke and the Hogs’ other returnees would have made that Arkansas roster more talented than any since Nolan Richardson le! .

# e in$ ux of talent could have started a run of success. # ere’s a good chance that roster will never take shape now.

Pelphrey did struggle. # e Ra-zorbacks played hard this season, but they just weren’t a very talented team.

Turn on the TV and watch Kansas or Duke. # e talent dispar-ity between a top program and the Hogs will amaze you.

# at was about to change.Arkansas has settled for mid-

major coaches with its last two

hires and if Long can’t get a name coach or keep the recruits, Razor-back fans will be grumbling in two years when they see B.J. Young tearing it up somewhere else.

# is has all the makings of an-other instance where Hog fans end up saying, “What if?”

# e onus is on Long to make a good hire.

# e job is more attractive than when Pelphrey took it. # ere aren’t any glaring personnel problems or a cumulative team GPA less than 2.0.

Long is a competent athletic director to work under. Arkansas was in the process of Frank Broyles stepping down as AD when Pel-phrey was hired.

Chancellor David Gearheart is unquestionably better than former

chancellor John White. If Bill Self or a coach like him wanted to take the job now, Long and Gearheart would be smart enough to accept.

# e situation has been im-proved. # e new coach will get an opportunity to try to keep the stud recruiting class.

If Long strikes out, hires an-other Pelphrey and the Hogs lose their recruiting class, it will be just the latest setback in a decade-long march toward insigni" cance.

Not that Long won’t make a good hire.

A! er all, he’s the one who want-ed Jim Grobe and Tommy Bowden before Bobby Petrino fell in his lap.

Jimmy Carter is the sports editor for # e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every other Wednesday.

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Arkansas’ new head coach will have the chance to inherit a talented team his " rst season.

Much of that will hinge on the new coach’s ability to keep John Pelphrey’s consensus top-10 recruiting class intact.

# e " ve commitments signed letters of intent in November and the Razorbacks’ new coach will have an opportunity to convince the signees to honor their com-mitments. # e class is ranked No. 4 in the nation by Scout.com, No. 5 by Rivals.com and No. 7 by ESPN.com.

“I guarantee you the new coach will leave his press confer-ence, get on the Hog jet and go see every one of those guys that day,” said Dave Telep, ESPN Na-tional Recruiting Editor. “# ose guys are the most important fac-ets of the Arkansas program and they will be addressed immedi-ately following the introductory press conference.”

# ree of the commitments are in-state prospects — Little Rock forward Aaron Ross, Lep-anto guard Rashad Madden and Jonesboro forward Hunter Mick-elson. # e trio played AAU bas-ketball together for the Arkansas Wings the last three summers.

# e class headliner, " ve-star St. Louis point guard B.J. Young, has family ties to the Little Rock area.

“# e rules are a little bit dif-ferent with this speci" c class at Arkansas,” Telep said. “It’s very much an in-state class. You’ve got a group of kids (Ross, Mad-den and Mickelson) that won an AAU national championship to-gether. # ere’s some natural ties binding this class together that will work in Arkansas’ favor.

“# ey’re obviously good with each other because they’re coming to the same school, so I would have to say that this is an

advantage in trying to keep this recruiting class intact.”

# e three in-state commit-ments will wait to see who the

new coach is.

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

Recruits Take Wait-and-See Approach

A! er " nishing an up-and-down nonconference season that included a surprising upset of then-No.1 UCLA, the Arkansas so! ball team returned to Fayette-ville to begin Southeastern Con-ference play with high expecta-tions.

# e Razorbacks were swept by No. 24 Auburn in their " rst SEC series last weekend, getting out-scored 16-2 by the Tigers.

“Right now we are in a little bit of a funk,” Arkansas coach Mike Larabee said. “# e only thing you can try to do is try to stay as pos-itive as possible and work hard and hope it all clicks. I don’t have a magic formula, but we can’t be negative. We have to make sure we aren’t " nger pointing and blaming people. We just have to come to-gether as a team.

“I know what we are capable of doing, we just aren’t getting it done at that level right now.”

Arkansas (9-15, 0-3 SEC) was on the road for 21 games be-fore opening SEC play, " nishing its nonconference season 9-12. # e Razorbacks had tough losses

against ranked opponents Oregon, Michigan and Louisiana-Lafayette.

Arkansas has nine newcom-ers Larabee is trying to mesh with the returnees. Sophomore transfer Linnea Ketcher and " ve true fresh-

men start.“We are a young team,” Lara-

bee said “# is is going to be a year

Softball Struggles in SECSOFTBALL

by MEGAN HUCKABYStaff Writer

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Hope McLemore and Arkansas beat No. 1 UCLA, but were swept by Auburn

to start SEC play.

Arkansas has holes to " ll as spring practice starts this week.

Quarterback Ryan Mallett le! early for the NFL Dra! , but junior Tyler Wilson showed he could lead the team in stellar perfor-mances against Auburn and Ole Miss last season.

# e o% ensive line is another area the Razorbacks have holes to " ll. # ree starting linemen that protected Mallett last season grad-uated.

“Obviously it is a concern,” Ar-kansas o% ensive coordinator Gar-rick McGee said about the o% en-sive line. “We are losing two kids who were seniors and played a lot

of ball for us, but I think we have recruited well.”

Arkansas returns its starting center in 6-foot-5, 305-pound sophomore Travis Swanson, as well as starting strong guard Al-vin Bailey. Both Swanson and Bai-ley started all 13 games last season for the Razorbacks, who " nished 10-3 with a loss to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl.

# e biggest question mark heading into spring practice is “no question the o% ensive front,” coach Bobby Petrino said.

“Our huge challenge is who is going to be our starting " ve on the o% ensive front,” Petrino said.

by ZACH TURNERAssistant Sports Editor

OLYMPIC SPORTS

Gymnastics StumblesEntering SEC Meet

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Offensive Line Questions Abound

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Replacing three graduated starters on the offensive line is one of coach

Bobby Petrino’s main goals in the spring.

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Mike AndersonCurrent Job: Missouri2010-11 Record/Postseason: 23-10, No. 11 seed in NCAA TournamentRecord at Current Job: 111-56 (.665) in 5 years, 3 NCAA Tournament appearancesCareer Record: 200-97 (.673) in 9 years (UAB, Missouri)Notable: Arkansas fans’ top choice for job...assistant coach at Arkansas under Nolan Richardson for 17 seasons...led Mis-souri to 31 wins and Elite Eight in 2009...employs up-tempo, pressing system dubbed “Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball”

Buzz WilliamsCurrent Job: Marquette2010-11 Record/Postseason: 20-13, No. 11 seed in NCAA TournamentRecord at Current Job: 65-32 (.670) in 3 years, 3 NCAA Tour-nament appearancesCareer Record: 79-49 (.617) in 4 years (New Orleans, Mar-quette)Notable: Known as a strong recruiter...signed highly-ranked class in two seasons as Billy Gillispie’s recruiting coordinator at Texas A&M...signed the No. 1 class in the nation in 2009, according to HoopScoopOnline.com...the Golden Eagles have been competitive in the rugged Big East

Tubby SmithCurrent Job: Minnesota2010-11 Record/Postseason: 17-14, no postseasonRecord at Current Job: 80-53 (.602) in 4 years, 2 NCAA Tournament appearancesCareer Record: 467-198 (.702) in 20 seasons (Tulsa, Geor-gia, Kentucky, Minnesota)Notable: Said he plans to stay at Minnesota on his Monday radio show...Won a national championship in 1998 at Ken-tucky...17 of 20 teams have won 20 or more games...Golden Gophers lost 10 of " nal 11 games this season to miss postsea-son for " rst time in Smith’s four years

Gregg MarshallCurrent Job: Wichita State2010-11 Record/Postseason: 24-7, No. 4 seed in NITRecord at Current Job: 77-54 (.588) in 4 years, 0 NCAA Tournament appearancesCareer Record: 271-137 (.664) in 13 years (Winthrop, Wichita State)Notable: Led Wichita State to two NITs and one CBI appear-ance in four years... led Winthrop to seven NCAA Tourna-ment appearances in nine years, including the second round in 2007

Mark TurgeonCurrent Job: Texas A&M2010-11 Record/Postseason: 24-8, No. 7 seed in NCAA TournamentRecord at Current Job: 97-39 (.713) in 4 years, 4 NCAA Tournament appearancesCareer Record: 250-158 (.613) in 13 seasons (Jackson-ville State, Wichita State, Texas A&M)Notable: Has gone to the second round of the NCAA Tournament " rst three seasons at Texas A&M...led Wichita State to the 2006 Sweet Sixteen...only Larry Brown and Roy Williams, both at Kansas, won more games their " rst three seasons in the Big 12

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by BRANDON HOWARDStaff Writer

COMMENTARY

FOOTBALLBASKETBALL

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011 PAGE 6

that we can get experience.”! e win against UCLA has

been the high point of the season.“! ey were the No. 1 team in

the nation and I think we went into that game with a very strong desire to win,” Larabee said, “We made plays that we needed to make and got some timely hits.

Layne McGuirt and Kim Jones played at a very high level.”

! e Razorbacks " nished sec-ond in the Holiday Inn Emerald Beach Islanders Classic a# er top-ping the Bruins in the " rst game of the tournament.

“For a lot of us it was a great honor it was fun playing the defending national champi-ons,” sophomore pitcher Hope McLemore said. “! at win gave us

con" dence that we could do any-thing.”

Larabee is in his second season with the Razorbacks. He led the team to a 28-29 record last season.

A# er a double-header Wednesday against Kentucky, Ar-kansas will hit the road again for a nine-game stretch that includes a series at Alabama and the Bor-der War with Tulsa and Oklahoma State.

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True freshman Brey Cook and junior college transfer Ja-son Peacock are listed as co-starters at o$ ensive tackle on the pre-spring depth chart. Cook was heralded as the Razorbacks most-prized recruit for the 2011 class. Cook, a Springdale native, attended Har-Ber High School was ranked the No. 5 o$ ensive lineman, according to ESPN.com.

“He is a really quick learn-er,” Petrino said. “I think that is the thing that stands out. He is physically ready to go and men-tally very sharp so it will be a unique situation for me because I have never had a guy that came

in during January and is a true freshman and line up with the 1’s (starters).”

Cook graduated one semes-ter early from high school, en-rolled at Arkansas and will par-ticipate in spring practice.

Peacock, who transferred to Arkansas from Citrus County Community College in Califor-nia, is also an early enrollee for spring practice.

“! e one thing that stands out about Jason is his eagerness to learn,” Petrino said. “He is very very coachable and tries to do the things the coaches are tell-ing him.”

Senior tackle Grant Free-man, senior guard Grant Cook and sophomore tackle Anthony Oden will also compete for play-ing time on the o$ ensive line.

Last season, Freeman played sparingly at tackle. Cook rotated o# en at guard with starter Bai-ley. Oden le# school last fall due to mononucleosis but enrolled back into school in January and was reinstated on the team.

! e Hogs also need to re-place Love and Dominguez’ leadership.

“I don’t feel like anyone has really taken over the O-Line yet,” Petrino said. “Maybe that is be-cause there are so many ques-tions, but I would like to see more from guys like Swanson and Bailey, guys that have played a lot of football around here.”

Arkansas’ spring practice started Tuesday and will culmi-nate with the ESPN-televised spring game April 16.

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“Us three are on the same page, we’re going to wait and see,” Mickelson said. “It’s not a decision about whether I need to up and leave or anything like that. It’s more to see the new coach they get it, how he runs stu$ and his style of play. It’s probably more of that than any-thing.

“I don’t know about B.J. and the out-of-state guys. I prob-ably will listen if other coaches call, but there’s obviously real-ly no point in anybody calling because it’s not really about me leaving, it’s about me seeing who the new coach is.”

Messages le# for Young and Dallas forward Devonta Abron were not returned.

! e lure of the in-state play-ers staying together is still big, Mickelson said.

“! at’s one of the big fac-tors that got us to commit under Pelphrey, to play on the same team” Mickelson said. “We al-ready know how each other plays, the ins and outs. ! ere wouldn’t been an adjustment

period. Speaking for me, I think it’s pretty attractive.”

Hiring a coach by the time the Final Four ends is a reason-able timetable, Telep said.

“If I were the athletic direc-tor, I would reach out to those kids and stress the timetable of the decision-making process,” Telep said. “As di% cult as this is for fans to understand, the goal is not to retain every single one of those recruits. ! at would be an amazing byproduct. ! e goal is to hire the best name coach for Arkansas.”

Long will keep the recruits up to date during the hiring pro-cess, he said.

“I will follow up with them in the very near future,” Long said Sunday. “We’re concerned about those young men. We hope that they will remain com-mitted to us. ! at will be the job of the new coach to meet with the student athletes when he’s hired. Our process will just be to try and keep them informed, let them know they’re still very much wanted here at the Uni-versity of Arkansas.

“We will reach out, be in communication with them and answer any questions they have.”

Madden, Young and Ross led their high school teams to state championships Saturday, while Mickelson’s Jonesboro squad lost in the state title game. Pelphrey was " red the next day.

“It was a real surprise to me,” Mickelson said. “! ere had been rumors about it for a little while, but I brushed them o$ as rumors. ! en he called me yes-terday and I found out he had been let go. It was pretty tough. I was really hoping for him to be able to stay on and be the coach for the four years I was going to stay there.”

Pelphrey called the recruits a# er he met with Long and was dismissed Sunday a# ernoon.

“I’ve told them the Universi-ty of Arkansas was the best place for them for however long and I still believe that,” Pelphrey said.

Retaining all " ve commit-ments would be an impressive accomplishment for the new coach, Telep said.

“! ere’s a realistic chance that the class could fall apart,” Telep said. “Right now, college coaches are hitting up the peo-ple around the inner circle of these recruits. ! at’s the canni-balism of college basketball.”

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“I’m certainly disappointed with our " nish,” Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam said. “We had much higher expectations than that. I thought our No. 3 ranking and how well we competed at the SEC championships was legit, but it just wasn’t our weekend.”

Despite the tough " nish, there was some positive news an-nounced a# er the meet. Arkan-sas produced 18 All-Americans, many for athletes competing in multiple events. Some notable " rst-team members are Tarik Batchelor, Chris Bilbrew, Neil Braddy, Marek Nitt, and Ben Skid-more. Batchelor, a junior, achieved All-American status in the long-jump and triple-jump, " nishing " # h overall in the long jump at the NCAAs.

Bilbrew, a senior, led the way for the 4x400 meter All-Ameri-can team comprised of teammates Braddy, Nitt and Skidmore to " n-ish third.

“We have the horses,” Buck-

nam said. “We’re proud of all those individual honors. But the kids will tell you as well that we went down there to win as a team.”

Arkansas has a quick turn-around with the outdoor season starting on March 25 with a meet at Austin. ! e Razorbacks will be in a head-to-head meet between them and Texas and UCLA.

“We have a meet in less than two weeks,” Bucknam said. “But the kids will get a much needed rest to catch up on classes and sleep o$ the last meet.”

Women’s Track Shows Out

! e Arkansas women’s track team only took All-Americans to the 2011 NCAA Indoor Cham-pionships and brought back a fourth-place " nish.

! e Razorbacks missed a few points early and had some prob-lems with o% cials, but exceeded their point expectation.

“Stephanie Brown had big problems with her spikes,” Arkan-sas coach Lance Harter said. “She had been approved from the out-set by an NCAA o% cial, but a lo-

cal o% cial questioned her spikes right before the meet, and it totally interrupted her mental concentra-tion.”

! e sophomore was stopped just before her race started because of an issue about her spikes dam-aging the track surface. However, there should not have been any question because she had the em-blem of approval already given to her by NCAA o% cials.

Brown was noticeably dis-traught a# erwards and Harter brought the issue back up with the head o% cials.

“We ended up going back to the original o% cial,” Harter said. “She had already approved them and we needed to let her know that a local o% cial had over-stepped his bounds. What’s worse is the BYU athlete who won the event had the same spikes imple-mented and was never bothered a# er being checked-in.”

Arkansas had a positive " nish heading into the Stanford Invi-tational March 25-26, which will kick-o$ the outdoor season.

“We had a great meet and did a great job,” Harter said.

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Meneria Morrison never knew how big her family busi-ness would grow when she ! rst started cooking for crowds.

“I started in my kitch-en and things got too big, and I’ve been here ever since.”

Mama Dean’s is run by Mor-rison and her family who jointly founded the restaurant in May 2007. Since then, they have be-come a staple of the Fayetteville community, serving up hearty, generous portions of down-home soul food to hungry locals.

Mama Dean’s serves not only paying customers — all of whom get a lavish home-style meal for

less than $10 – but also those who can not pay. Every Sunday at 3:30 p.m., Mama Dean’s opens its doors and feeds the hungry and homeless, free of charge.

“We put the poster out-side, and they know they can come right on in,” Morri-son said. “Be good to every-body, that’s all anyone can do.”

Morrison’s passion is not just making food, but serving people. She ! nds great reward in serving others in such a tan-gible way, and has built her en-tire life around that vision. She has lived a remarkable life — she is one of 16 children, a foster mother and a restaurant owner.

“If I ever win the lottery,” she said, “I’m gonna build a

soup kitchen, if they let me.” Recently, however, the res-

taurant has had serious con-" icts with the Internal Revenue Service for not ! ling statements correctly and making payments on time. It was shut down by the IRS in 2010 for outstand-ing taxes. # e situation looked bleak — the company’s ! nances were a wreck, their building was falling apart and an entire fam-ily was facing bankruptcy. It ap-peared that this family, devoted as they were to meeting the needs of the impoverished, might join the ranks of the homeless.

But a drive today down south School Avenue, where the res-taurant is located, reveals it now to be alive and vibrant. # e rea-

son for this lies primarily in the ambition of UA junior Bri-anna Turner, director of spe-cial competitions for Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE.

Turner’s leadership is a ma-jor part of the reason that Mama Dean’s is now back on its feet and prospering – this time for the long run.

“We reached out to Mama Dean’s in the past to promote healthy business practices,” Turner said. “We went in and paid their bills. We made a desk system, o$ ce system, way of paying bills. We showed them how to pay their waitresses, how to account for tips, how to keep accurate records. Everything.”

Reaching out this time meant more than cleaning up the fam-ily’s ! nancial records. # e build-ing itself had its own share of problems as well. SIFE volun-teers took on extensive electrical, roo! ng, plumbing and lighting problems and were able to repair or replace much of the outdated or faulty equipment. All this took place during mid- to late-Febru-ary, amid the chaos of the post-ice storm scheduling issues. As a result, a project that was initially scheduled to take a month had to be completed in less than two weeks, leading to the endeavour’s nickname, “# e Mama Dean’s 10-day project.” Sta% worked 12-hour days during snow days, and 8-hour days most others.

“Boy, they were great,” said Morrison. “I appreciate what they’ve done for us. People don’t help each other anymore. You’ve got to help from the heart.”

“We still have ‘Mama Mon-days,’” Turner said. She and oth-er SIFE students check on Mama Dean’s each week to make sure

SIFE Rebuilds Mama Dean’s Two Students TransformSafety into Style

Two UA students have found a way to make sur-vival gear trendy and even profitable.

Andrew Gibbs-Dabney and Sarah Noland, the cre-ators of Ozark Survival Bands, have established a small but growing company that makes custom-fitted, hand-crafted parachute cord accessories right here in Fayetteville.

“I started out shopping for one. I had seen them on the Internet, and read about them in survival magazines. My girlfriend saw them and said she could just make one; so she made one for me. I got a lot of comments from friends and family, and they started asking for ones of their own. We’ve mainly sold them to friends and family, but then we had about five or six people that had requested them online through our Facebook page. That’s the way it started,” Gibbs said.

Stylish accessory or life saving survival tool?

Why not both? The stan-dard bracelet is made with 10 feet of 550 paracord. “The test breaking strength is 550 pounds, meaning that tiny little rope can support up to 550 pounds,” Gibbs said. “Whatever application you may have, the paracord is there for you.”

First and foremost, Gibbs said, paracord is a survival tool.

“When you’re camping, or in a survival situation, the two most important things you could have is fire and rope. A buddy of mine was kayaking and he got stuck, so he had to jump out and he used his unwound sur-vival band to pull it back to shore,” Gibbs said.

An interesting feature of

the paracord is that it has eight intertwining strings on the inside that give it a high level of tension resis-tance.

“There’s eight intertwin-ing strings, and I’ve heard of people taking the inner strings out and using them to latch things to a back-pack, like tourniquets or even fishing line,” Gibbs said.

The cords also come in a variety of colors. Bracelets are $12 for a single colored band or duel toned band. “Double colors look amaz-ing,” Gibbs said.

The bands can also be cus-tomized in length.

“Most of the bracelets are generally 10 feet in length, but we can special order a 15-foot one on request,” No-land said. “Someone that’s survival conscious could want more rope.”

And if you’re looking for something other than bracelets, Gibbs said that’s also available.

“It’s a rapidly growing en-deavor, so we’re consider-ing expanding into doing leashes, collars and key ring lanyards.”

The prices have yet to be decided, but, Gibbs added, “If someone wants a collar or leash, all they have to do is ask and we’ll make it.”

The business couple takes one dollar from each sale and contributes it to charity.

“That was one of our main ideas on how to give back to the community, and to Ar-kansas. If we’re gonna be in a position to help, we defi-nitely want to take advan-tage of that opportunity,” Gibbs said.

“The possibilities are end-less,” Gibbs said.

To purchase an Ozark Survival Band, or for more information, visit the Ozark Survival Bands Facebook fan page.

by ALEKSANDR HALLContributing Writer

Contessa Shew STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sarah Noland makes Ozark Survival Bands, handmade bracelets that can act as a safe-ty measure while out in the wilderness. They are $10 each and can be ordered through the Ozark Survival Bands facebook page.

Andrew Hagood STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Students Take Advantage of Spring Weather

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David Noudaranouyong and Michael Miller hang a metal Razorback sign as they work on renovations at the restaurant Monday night. The two members of the UA SIFE committee are working with fellow members to help improve the restaurant’s business.

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by ANDREW VAN GENDERENStaff Writer

Students gather with friends on the grass near the Greek Theater to enjoy the warm weather. Popular activities include napping in self-strung up hammocks, studying, picnicking an d hanging out.

Subtlety is not a hall-mark of modern country mu-sic, but don’t tell American Aquarium. # e Raleigh, N.C., band smuggles vengeance and black humor into other-wise formulaic country songs.

# e sextet has released about an album a year since 2006, and in that time they’ve accumulated glowing re-views and many more tour dates, including March 25, at George’s Majestic Lounge.

# e band dabbles in iro-ny. It’s no coincidence that band leader BJ Barham sings about the inner turmoil of an alcoholic over the sunny, lop-ing chords of “Ain’t Going to the Bar Tonight.” Convention-al country songs like these, with clunking honky-tonk pi-ano and warm organ swells, are ideal for sardonic lyricists.

But more o& en, Barham is passionately sincere. A vid-eo posted to the band’s Face-book page ! nds the singer stunned and giddy when his voice is drowned in the mass of people singing his words. He embraces it, steps back from the mic and continues. “Mo-ments like the one at 5:14 are why I love what Im doing,” the band wrote above the video.

In another live video, Bar-ham prefaces a song with a vit-riolic account of a high-school romance that went south. # e three-minute episode ends with Barham grinning, saying, “thanks to her, I write ****ing songs and drink a lot. # is song’s for her, she can go **** herself.”

It wouldn’t be country music without binge drink-ing and scornful women, and that certainly is the case with this group, except that Bar-ham’s drinking songs are re-ally about women, too.

“I ain’t going to the bar to-night, ‘cuz I heard you were back in town,” goes the song’s punch line. # at sort of subtle despair echoes throughout most American Aquarium songs.

Barham tells bitter love sto-ries in one-liners: “She come up through like a hurricane at mid-night,” and “She ! ghts ! re with gasoline,” and, channeling Bob Dylan, “She ****s like a woman, but she loves like a little girl.”

# e women in these songs aren’t just mean; they’re “rat-tlesnakes,” “wasps” and “hur-ricanes.” Barham, in a nasally Southern drawl, peppers the songs with intense profan-ity. # is leaves the group in an interesting dilemma – too coarse for the Country Music Channel, but too commercial for fans of Mumford & Sons.

At some point, the band will have to choose. For now, they are a fascinating and of-ten thrilling contradiction.

American Aquarium will play George’s Majestic Lounge at 9 p.m. on Friday, March 25. Brody Buster and Kory Montgomery Band will also per-form. Tickets are $7.

American Aquarium Introduces Fayetteville to Modern Country Musicby Brady Tackett

Staff Writer

see SIFEon page 10

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UA students who want a toned, summer-vacation- ready body can get into shape with simple diet and exercise before the end of the semester.

Rather than starting a crash diet or participating in daylong gym visits, a few simple tips and tricks can give students the results they want just in time for this year’s summer fun.

Students can get motivated to perfect their bodies natu-rally through simple exercise and safe dieting.

Kate Brown, community director and International Sports Sciences certified fit-ness trainer for DailyBurn.com, gave UA students a few easy ways to get into shape before pulling out this year’s summer wardrobe.

“Getting into shape in the spring is a great way to start a healthy lifestyle makeover,” Brown said. “It’s a great time to ditch the bad habits of overeating and hibernation that we accumulate over the winter.”

Rather than waiting un-til finals week to begin a workout plan, starting in the spring allows students to lose weight and tone their bodies slowly and safely and can motivate students to keep a year-round regulated workout plan.

Instead of viewing getting in shape as a once-a-year commitment, students can use the workout plans by Brown year-round to main-tain a healthy body and mind.

Exercise will help students in the classroom, too.

“Getting in shape for sum-mer is not only good for your body — it is also great for

your mind. Exercising will help you concentrate more during class and eating nu-tritious foods like almonds, salmon, cocoa powder and berries can lift your mood and improve your memory,” Brown said.

Brown’s easy workout plans found on DailyBurn.com can be done in a gym or a dorm room, so students have no excuse to skip the quick and easy 15-minute work-out.

“Three exercises that are excellent for a quick work-out are body weight squats and walking lunges for butt and thigh toning, side plank pushups for shoulders and arms and Russian twists for toning the stomach,” Brown said.

Through working out five days a week and cutting out processed foods such as sug-ar, students can lose several pounds before heading into the summer sun, Brown said.

Students not only have to keep a regimented workout to tone up before summer, but also need to consider cutting back on fast food consumption to get maxi-mum results.

“Diet and exercise go hand in hand. Exercising for hours a day will not compensate for eating junk. Eating nu-tritious foods will not only make you feel better during the day, but you’ll have more energy to workout harder,” Brown said.

So instead of giving in to weight loss pills and cutting enojoyable foods out of your diet for the next few months, Brown suggests a simple so-lution.

“Cut the crap out of your diet, work out and increase your intake of fresh foods to lose weight safely and quick-ly.”

Summer Break Motivates Students To Get Fitby Emily Potts

Contributing Writer Side Plank Push Up

Body Weight Squats

Walking Lunges

Russian Twists

Secure your feet either by plac-ing them under something that won’t move or by having a part-ner hold them. Start in the posi-tion shown above, leaning slight-ly back and clasping your hands in front of you. Moving only at the trunk, rotate to one side. At the end of your range of motion, quickly reverse the movement and rotate to the opposite side. Repeat in a rapid fashion for the full number of reps. You can also hold a weight or medicine ball to increase the difficulty.

Hold a dumbbell in each hand and lift your chest up and look straight ahead. Position your right leg forward in a long stride. Your foot should be far enough in front of you so that when you bend your right knee, your thigh and lower leg form a right angle. Slowly bend your knees, lowering your hips so your rear knee just clears the fl oor. Pause briefl y in this position, then slowly straighten your legs and raise your body back up to a standing position.

Stand with your feet hip width apart. Cross your arms in front of your body. Keeping your weight on your heels bend your knees and lower your hips down. Keep a neutral back and do not let your knees go past your toes.

Assume a pushup position, and keep your arms straight. Bend your elbows and low-er your body until your chest nearly touch-es the floor. As you push yourself back up, lift your right hand and rotate the right

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side of your body as you raise your hand straight up over your shoulder until your body forms a T. Return to plank position. Reverse the move and repeat, this time rotating your left side.


‘A Genesis Found’ Indie Film Is Homegrown Moviemaking

Lee Fanning of Wonder Mill Films will be hosting a showing of the film “A Gen-esis Found” at the UA cam-pus Thursday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m.

Fanning is an Alabama-based independent filmmak-er and a founder of Wonder Mill Films, which he began in 2006 with his partner Benjamin Stark, according to a press release. “A Genesis Found” is their first feature.

The story, which inter-twines history and prehis-toric Alabama, centers on the discovery of a skeleton which is neither human nor animal, found and then buried by Ci-vilian Conservation Corps Cadet John Patton Jr. in 1938. Decades later, his grandson Gardner must come to terms with certain remnants of his grandfather’s life, including the skeleton, which he con-siders to be a possible link between God and man.

The film, which is billed as “Do-It-Yourself ” Indie, is a “fresh and exciting example of Southern homegrown

moviemaking,” according to the press release. Wonder Mill Films has opted to avoid the traditional festival re-lease of the film in hopes that the more personal approach of a tour and the regional fla-vor of the film will encour-age more people to become interested in the DIY Indie filmmaking model.

“The industry is definitely growing in the South,” Fan-ning said. “So there’s al-ready support for making films here. What we hope to encourage, though, is the perspective that films can be more than just a product of an ‘industry’; each is a care-fully constructed expression, and as such are colored by where they are made. Just as others advocate foreign films, we advocate regional films as a viable alternative to studio or bigger ‘indie’ films.

“Even a domestic film from an under-sung region can be as culturally enlightening and provide as fresh a per-spective as a film from an-other hemisphere,” he said.

Fanning, who travels around showing the film,

hopes that even non-genre viewers will be attracted by the traditional but unique management of the adven-ture/mystery plot and the regional appeal. His accounts of the tour can be found on his blog, http://sonofarkie.com. The tour has visited more than a dozen universi-ties since last fall, according to the film website, including other members of the South Eastern Conference such as the University of South Car-olina and Auburn University.

The film will be shown in the viewing room in the basement of Mullins Library, room 104, and will be open to the public. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and a question and answer ses-sion will follow the showing of the film. The showing is free and, the first 50 people in the door will receive a free promotional DVD, but seat-ing will be limited. Copies of the DVD of the film itself will be available for sale after the showing.

More information, includ-ing a trailer of the film, can be found at the film website, www.agenesisfound.com.

by CARA TURBYFILLStaff Writer

everything is going well. “We talk to them about their goals and what they want to do with the money they save,” said Turner.

And SIFE is not planning to rest on laurels of the great ef-forts they devoted to Mama Dean’s. “Ultimately, we have a three-year plan with them,” Turner said. “We are an orga-nization that thrives on sus-tainable projects. We do not get into projects just to accom-plish them and say we are done.”

SIFE is an international or-ganization that works with stu-dents to develop sustainable practices and business solu-tions. ! ey received two $1000 grants from Sam’s Interna-tional this past year to under-take this project, and the results

have exceeded expectations.“You wouldn’t believe all

the things that happened,” Turner said. “It was amazing.”

Brian McCaster, junior in-ternational business major, did physical labor. “I think that, if not now, then de" nitely in the future, they will be able to func-tion better,” McCaster said.

When asked wheth-er she thinks Mama Dean’s will " nd long-term suc-cess, Turner is con" dent.

“I know they will. Anyone that talks to them realizes that it is tear jerking. ! ey are thankful for anyone that helps them,” she said.

And the reward goes both ways. “It’s really humbling to help,” Turner said. “! ey’re help-ing me. ! ey think that we are helping them, but they don’t realize how many hearts they touch just from being there.”

Contessa Shew STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Judges Deliberate on Science Fair

The 2011 Northwest Arkansas Regional Science and Engineering Fair and Northwest Arkansas Regional Junior Academy of Science took place in the Union on March 11. Judges deliberate as they view the numerous entries for the fair.

from SIFEon page 8

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