Nov. 10, 2011

World-class art museums rarely gain such a reputation overnight, but this weekend’s opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art dares to challenge that notion.

Crystal Bridges, a muse-um located in a wooded area within walking distance of the Bentonville Town Square, will open to the public Friday, Nov. 11. !e museum will fea-ture American art from the colonial era to modern day.

!e museum was built with an $800 million gi" from the Walton Family Founda-tion. Alice Walton, a daughter of Walmart founder Sam Wal-ton, is spearheading the mu-seum’s creation with the mis-sion of bringing high art to middle America. Walton has been an art collector for most of her life, but she began buy-ing pieces speci#cally for the museum only a few years ago.

In addition to a collec-tion worthy of world promi-nence, admission to the mu-seum will be of no cost to visi-tors. Walmart announced a $20 million grant on July 28 to cover admission fees for all visitors to Crystal Bridges. Before the grant, a $10 admis-sion fee was being considered for adults, according to a press release on the Crystal Bridges website.

“!e public opening cer-emony will take place on the Bentonville Town Square be-ginning at 11 a.m.,” said Alice Murphy, a representative for the museum. “!is is a free, unticketed, public event.”

!e swooping, glass-paned

pavilions, designed by Bos-ton architect Moshe Safdie, contour the formerly Walton-owned land on which the mu-seum is built. !e buildings are surrounded by two ponds, and 3.5 miles of trails wind through the grounds around streams, native plants and outdoor sculptures. !e mu-seum’s name, Crystal Bridges, was dubbed in honor of Crys-tal Spring that trickles nearby.

Some of the more notable works that will be on display include a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, purchased for $8 million, as well as Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of Washington, pur-chased for about $6 million; Dolly Parton by Andy War-hol, purchased for $914,500; and Rosie the Riveter by Nor-man Rockwell, purchased for $5 million.

In addition to the galleries and the trail system, the mu-seum will have a restaurant, called Eleven, a co$ee bar, a museum store and a library.

“Eleven will features mod-ern American comfort food,” Murphy said. “It will serve foods from the high South and low Midwest, prepared in a fresh, exciting way. Eleven holds to the principle of ‘ed-ible responsibility,’ promot-ing and celebrating local food culture.”

Students can reserve tick-ets to see the museum on the Crystal Bridges website, or they can call the ticketing of-#ce at 479-418-5700. Tickets for entry to the museum on opening day are already fully booked, Murphy said, but en-try tickets at certain times are still available for Nov. 12 and the following days.

Crystal Bridges CrazeSpreads As Museum’s

Opening Day Draws Closerby LAUREN LEATHERBY

Features Editor

By all measures, the eco-nomic impact of the Crystal Bridges Museum of Ameri-can Art will be substantial. By Crystal Bridge’s own es-timates, 250,000 visitors will come to Bentonville annually to admire the world-class art-work.

!is surge has fueled a new focus on Bentonville’s down-town restaurants and shops, that has sent ripples through the Northwest Arkansas econ-omy.

“We’re working on the baseline of 250,000 guests per year,” Development O%-cer Jamey McGaugh said. “If it’s even half that it will have a huge impact.”

McGaugh attributed those estimates to the museum’s marketing strategy and its re-sulting notoriety.

“[!e strategy] is multi-pronged. We’ve had national ad campaigns ranging from

the “New York Times” to other major newspapers and magazines,” he said. “And we’ve tried to bring bus tours through. We’ve had a lot of media tours both national and local. !ey’ll be a feature on “CBS Sunday Morning” af-ter we open.”

“!e art on display is go-ing to bring people in from all over the country,” said Mike Harvey of the Northwest Ar-kansas Council. “!ese peo-ple are coming from places they normally don’t. !e sec-ondary impact is that when people come you’ll be pleas-antly surprised and people’s thoughts of Northwest Arkan-sas will change.”

!e museum will employ more than 130 people and will have 800 volunteers, Mc-Gaugh said.

!e new workforce and increase in annual visitors has already made its pres-ence known downtown along with a new Walmart visitor’s center, said Daniel Hintz of

Downtown Bentonville Inc. “We have seven new res-

taurants that have opened or will be opening,” he said. “Many have opened in the past year. Mobile food ca-fes and food trucks have also come in town.”

Bentonville’s attendance at the 80 annual events it hosts has jumped from 27,000 a few years ago to more than 70,000 in 2010, Hintz said.

Hintz also talked about in-creased interest in the Fayette-ville Farmer’s Market that has provided local farmers an out-let to sell their produce.

“All of that combined in-terest in Bentonville is the catalyst for Crystal Bridges,” he said. “It’s all part of a big-ger soup that is Bentonville. Crystal Bridges brought that to light.”

For the Phat Tire Bike Shop, the 3.5 mile bike trail adjacent to Crystal Bridges with sculptures along the way will hopefully boost rentals, a store o%cial said.

“We anticipate possibly more rentals,” Manager Josh Milton said. “We’re going to use more of what we have in the store. If the demand is there we’ll buy more bikes for rental to the museum.”

!e the core businesses in Bentonville have kept the shop open and has allowed them to expand to Fayette-ville, Milton said.

“Large businesses have been able to keep people en-joying their hobbies even in a down economy,” he said.

In Fayetteville, the impact on the university will mainly be from a scholarly perspec-tive, McGaugh said.

“For those in art, architec-ture or engineering it’s just a terri#c opportunity for those departments in particular to have actual artwork, than have to look at a picture,” he said. “!ere’s a 50,000 volume library dedicated to the study of art, so it’s an asset to the UA and scholars from around the country.”

Visitors Expected to Flock to Crystal Bridgesby JACK SUNTRUP

Staff Writer

JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe Crystal Bridges Musuem of American Art offers a full array of art appreciation at no cost.

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Crystal Bridges Finds A Perfect Fit in Northwest Arkansas

From California to New York, the art world is abuzz as Crystal Bridg-es Museum of American Art, one of the largest American art museums in the country, prepares for its grand opening in Northwest Arkansas. ! is museum marks the " rst American art museum of its caliber opening in more than 50 years.

“! e location was chosen because that’s where Alice Walton wanted it,” said Jeri Dockery, a docent at Crystal Bridges.

! e museum was constructed on land that belonged to the Wal-ton family, and on which Alice Wal-

ton, the museum’s founder, played as a child. # It was important to Walton that the museum be built in her own "backyard" so that the community could bene" t from and enjoy the col-lection, according to Alice Murphy, marketing coordinator for Crystal Bridges.

! e museum sits atop 120 acres of land in Bentonville. ! ere are six trails surrounding the museum grounds that cover more than 3.5 miles and feature everything from outdoor art to lush dogwoods and tulips.

! e trails are pedestrian- and bike-friendly and will allow museum visi-tors to admire the beautiful landscape and foliage that Northwest Arkansas has to o$ er.

Although there has been some con-troversy about the museum’s hard-to-reach location, Crystal Bridges sup-porters believe that the museum is making art more accessible to more people.

“Right now if you were to go see some of the extraordinary art in this world, you would have to travel,” said Sandra K. Edward, deputy director of museum relations. “! is is now in our backyard. ! ere are built-in groups of people who want to come to the mu-seum. Especially Sunday morning af-ter an Arkansas game, there will be people who want to see some great art before driving back home. We feel like bringing the art to this part of the country would give people a chance

to see the art who won’t travel to big urban cities.”

Edwards said that people who are not from Arkansas or have never vis-ited the state might not understand why a museum of this magnitude would be built at this location.

“Right o$ the bat, when it was an-nounced that this museum was going to be in Arkansas, a lot of people hear-ing the news had not been to Arkan-sas, and they were intrigued about the location,” Edwards said. “! e Walton family has a vested interest in helping the university and keeping Northwest Arkansas really vibrant. We get it be-cause we live here, but they don’t un-derstand because they’ve never been to Northwest Arkansas.”

Jordan Lim, senior art major at the UA, said that she hopes critics will give the museum a chance and that a% er visiting Crystal Bridges, they will have a better understanding of the bene" ts associated with the museum’s unexpected location.

“! ere have been some mixed reactions in the art world about the location of Crystal Bridges, but I think that the attention it will gain nationally will help dispel a lot of negativity about Arkansas,” Lim said. “! e museum's walking trails will really showcase all of the natural beauty that the area has to o$ er, and the collection is a great example of all

by SHELBY GILLStaff Writer

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People from around the world will gather in Northwest Arkansas this week for the Nov. 11 open-ing of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. ! e museum will feature a variety of artwork exploring American history and culture spanning 400 years, a mu-seum curator said.

“! e installation is presented chronologically beginning with work from the 17th century and ending with objects created in the last few years,” said Kevin Mur-phy, curator of American art.

! e works range from con-troversial paintings that explore Darwin’s theory of evolution to works confronting the nation’s history of racism, and take note of key themes in American culture, Murphy said, including “art and nature, American art on the glob-al stage, artist as innovator, works by and about women, and the role of the artist in American society.”

“To me, part of art’s power is its ability to re& ect but also shape culture, and the meaning of what constitutes ‘culture’ is always slip-pery and contentious and can be messy or ugly,” Murphy said. “I hope people come to the museum

with an open mind.”! e collection started out as

focused on 18th- through early 20th-century painting but has grown to incorporate numerous other time periods and media, he said.

Currently, sculpture and pho-tography play a “modest role” in the museum, said Sandy Ed-wards, deputy director of muse-um relations for Crystal Bridges. Edwards said the primary focus for Crystal Bridges was “getting the art on the walls.”

“Always it was envisioned that it would span " ve centuries,” Ed-wards said. “We really wanted to show a chronological survey of American art and, in doing so, also teach the history of America through art.”

Photography is also important in telling the story of American culture, Murphy said.

“We realize the importance of photography to the story of the visual arts in America,” he said. “Our main mission is educating local, regional, national and inter-national audiences about the his-tory of American art.”

Photography on display during

Crystal Bridges Collection Spans American History

by BRITTANY NIMSStaff Writer

COURTESY PHOTOSRight: Charles Willson Peale, George Washington, 1780Left: Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2010

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Local artist George Dombek’s work has been displayed in 600 museum collections and more than 100 art exhibits throughout the world. Now, the Arkansas na-tive can add the renowned Crys-tal Bridges Museum of American Art to his impressive repertoire.

Dombek’s style of art, which is re& ective of the nature around him, falls in accordance with Crystal Bridges’ emphasis on the nature of Northwest Arkan-sas, which is highlighted by the trails on the museum grounds. Dombek is known for his use of color and isolating aspects of na-ture, focusing on the detail.

Dombek will showcase a wa-tercolor painting that was hand-picked by the museum’s founder, Alice Walton, and a sculpture that she commissioned him to create.

Walton visited Dombek’s stu-dio in Fayetteville, " ttingly named “! e Studio,” and pur-chased a painting called “A Few Waterdrops” for the museum. ! e painting is a detailed close-up of blades of grass covered in water drops.

Dombek is both a painter and an architect by cra% . He was a student at the UA and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in archi-tecture in 1974. A% er graduating, he immediately got his master’s degree in painting.

Dombek has taught architec-ture at universities throughout the country including at the UA, where he taught as a graduate as-sistant from 1974 to 1977.

A% er leaving Arkansas, he moved to San Francisco but re-turned brie& y to the natural state

Artist’s Work Adds Local Touch to Crystal Bridges

UA Professor Documents Crystal Bridges in Film

by CAITLIN MURADStaff Writer

COURTESY PHOTOGeorge Dombek’s sculpture, Tour de Apple Tree, is a life-size bronze sculp-ture that will be featured in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The sculpture was commissioned by the museum’s curators, who were im-pressed by Dombek’s Tour de Tree series of paintings.

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Some would say that Profes-sor Larry Foley was the obvious choice to direct a documentary about the construction, architec-ture and opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. His o' ce is " lled with Emmy Awards sitting on a shelf behind him, movie posters of his most popular documentaries and old VHS tapes with every " lm he has helped produce — symbols of his success and passion for " lm mak-ing.

“Working with an accom-plished professor like Foley is a

unique experience,” said Joe Del-nero, station manager of UATV. “He is still out in the " eld re-searching and bettering himself. He uses his documentaries in class and helps us learn from his current projects.”

Foley understands how to high-light the natural state’s unique characteristics. He has produced dozens of " lms about Arkansas, including Sacred Spaces — ! e Architecture of Fay Jones; Beacon of Hope — ! e Story of the Uni-versity of Arkansas; and Arkansas — A Special Place.

Foley’s a' nity for Arkansas grew naturally. He went to school at the UA and worked nine years

with Arkansas Educational Televi-sion Network. He has also worked as a reporter, news anchor, as-signment editor and producer for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock.

“My " rst hour-long program was a story about football in Ar-kansas,” Foley said. “It was my " rst opportunity to do something lon-ger than a couple of minutes and I’ve loved making documentaries ever since. ! ere’s more time to develop a story and more resourc-es to develop that story over time.”

His new documentary, ! e Art of Crystal Bridges, begins with Al-ice Walton’s initial inspiration to build the museum and continues all the way up until Crystal Bridg-es o' cial opening on Nov. 11.

Academy Award-winning ac-tress and Arkansas native Mary Steenburgen narrates the " lm.

“We interviewed architects, cu-rators, artists and Alice Walton herself,” Foley said.

Walton is one of the most in-teresting aspects of the " lm, Foley said.

“What comes across is a real passion for art,” he said. “When asked why she would build a bil-lion-dollar museum in Benton-ville, she just says, ‘Why not?’”

! e " lm was privately funded and will be completed this spring a% er 18 months of production.

“We’re still working on it,” Fol-ey said. “We began last fall, then started shooting heavily in the winter, spring and summer. We began editing in August. ! e dedication of the museum will be " lmed on opening day.”

! e " lm is not yet " nished be-cause Foley is waiting to include the public reaction to the mu-seum a% er the grand opening in November, he said.

“! e challenge in making this " lm is that it’s about a subject where all of the information isn’t readily available,” he said. “We’re " lming before the museum opens, so our access is limited because of time. We’re waiting for the galler-ies to open. We’re waiting for the re& ecting pools to " ll with water.”

“! ere’s a scene in this movie that I’m hoping will captivate people,” Foley said. “George Washington at Yorktown, as painted by Charles Wilson Peal, comes sliding out of a vault, is put on a cart, and put on the wall in

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JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERProfessor Larry Foley’s work on the Crystal Bridges Museum documentary will continue on after the museum’s opening.

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the hidden resources and knowledge that can be found in Arkansas.”

! e mission of Crystal Bridges is to welcome everyone to cel-ebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of landscape, Murphy said.

“We explore the unfolding sto-ry of America by actively collect-ing, exhibiting, interpreting and preserving outstanding works that illuminate our heritage and artistic possibilities,” she said.

True to that mission of wel-coming all, accessibility has been one of Crystal Bridges’ primary goals. One of the reasons Crystal Bridges came about was because Walton saw a lack of opportunity in northwest Arkansas for peo-ple to view, enjoy and become familiar with great works of art.

Crystal Bridges strongly sup-ports the view that “great art” is for everyone, Murphy said.

! e initial planning for the museum began in 2005, but the museum faced some challenges during construction.

“! e main challenges to con-struction of the Museum have been due to its unique location,” Murphy said. " “Water manage-ment is important and has pro-vided some engineering chal-lenges.” "

Crystal Bridges got its name from Crystal Springs, a natu-ral spring that # ows into sev-eral pounds on the museum’s grounds.

While constructing the mu-seum, nearly $ ve miles of drain-age systems were installed un-der the museum and its grounds to channel the large supply of ground water away from the buildings, Murphy said.

! ere was a two-year gap be-tween the museum’s intended 2009 opening and the actual opening date, Nov. 11, 2011.

“I don’t even know why we said that,” Edwards said. “We didn’t know how long it was go-ing to take. It is a very challeng-ing site. Building in that site was really di% erent and a main chal-

lenge is that we spent a year and a half stabilizing the soil.”

Rainwater was another con-cern; however, the museum's pond and weir design will allow the runo% water to pass through the ponds and down the natural streambed to prevent any # ood-ing, Murphy said.

! e design was built to ac-

commodate water levels over and above the 1,000-year-# ood stage — the water level at which a stream has risen to cause dam-age and be considered a # ood.

But despite the challenges as-sociated with constructing the museum, Crystal Bridges was able to ful$ ll its mission of bring-ing art to an untapped region.

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the opening of the museum will include a group of photogravures by Edward Curtis that document Native American life, Murphy said. A photogravure is an image produced from a photographic negative, transferred to a metal plate and etched in.

“We’re not very deep in photog-raphy yet,” Edwards said.

Building an extensive photography collection takes

time, according to Edwards.“[It] isn’t done overnight,” Mur-

phy said. “We also are conscious not to try to duplicate collections from institutions in our region.”

Crystal Bridges will bring atten-tion to northwest Arkansas, said David Poemoceah, a senior mar-keting major with an art minor. Poemoceah interned with Crys-tal Bridges during the summer of 2009.

“[It] will do a lot to improve the perceptions of Northwest Arkan-sas,” Poemoceah said. “It’s nice to

see something in Northwest Ar-kansas not piled on a bunch of cinder blocks. It’s making itself an icon for the region, other than Walmart. It’s nice to have some-thing sophisticated.”

Poemoceah is most excited to see the museum exhibit Kindred Spirits by Asher Brown Durand.

“It’s a huge deal that that paint-ing is coming to northwest Arkan-sas,” he said. “On one hand it’s very valuable, on another hand it’s just beautiful.”

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to visit his sick father. While in Arkansas, he was o% ered a visit-ing professor position at the UA to teach art and architecture class-es before returning back to San Francisco.

Dombek has travelled exten-sively, teaching classes in both Saudi Arabia and Italy. In Saudi Arabia he taught architecture and adult art classes.

A& er teaching in Saudi Arabia, Dombek relocated to Florence where he taught art classes.

“Being in Florence, Italy, for a year certainly had a big in# u-ence on my art,” Dombek said. “It would on anyone, unless you were blind. It is the center of Re-naissance art. It was a wonderful experience.”

Dombek currently lives a cou-ple miles outside of Fayetteville in a house he designed himself, where he can focus on his artwork at his nearby studio.

A few months a& er Walton $ rst

visited the studio and purchased his painting, the museum com-missioned him to make a bronze sculpture for the art trail on the museum grounds.

! e sculpture is called “Tour de Apple Tree” and is a bronze cast of an apple tree with what appears to be a bicycle made of twigs, hid-den in the leaves of the tree. ! e sculpture is based on a series of Dombek’s water color paintings called “Tour de Tree.”

“I originally started painting bicycles in Italy,” he said, “When I came back to the state I start-ed creating bicycles out of sticks, then I started painting the bicy-cles.”

! e Smithsonian Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portaiture saw a bicycle Dombek made out of sticks and commissioned him to do one cast out of bronze for their own proj-ect about a decade ago, Dombek said.

However, because of budget is-sues the project was cut. Dombek said that Crystal Bridges then-

commissioned him to do the very same sculpture of the bicycle in the tree, to which he agreed.

“From the time we signed the contract to the date of comple-tion, it was about a year before it was installed,” Dombek said. “It did take a long time. I supervised the work. I’m not a sculptor but I created the bicycle.”

Dombek said that people will have to really look for it in order to $ nd the bicycle in the leaves.

“! e way the tree was cast it looks like a petri$ ed tree from the outside,” Dombek explained. “It has every mark of the actual ap-ple tree”

Sandy Edwards, director of mu-seum relations for Crystal Bridg-es, said that Dombek’s work is re-# ective of the northwest Arkansas community.

“We see this [museum] to be a part of a vibrant region” Edwards said.

To learn more about Geoge Dombek’s work visit georgedo-mbek.com. Dombek will open his studio on Nov. 12 and 13.

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wall in Crystal Bridges. When people see George Washington, the father of our country, right here in Bentonville, people are going to take note of how special these galleries are.”

Although it won’t take much to make Crystal Bridges appear im-pressive to viewers, Foley said he’s still pinching himself in disbelief that he had the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the biggest

museum opening in Arkansas his-tory.

“Consider the magnitude of this museum,” Foley said. “! ere are two of the most famous George Washington paintings in existence [on display]. It’s the $ rst opening of a national art museum in the last century.”

Although Foley spends much of his time making documentaries, he wants to be known for his teach-ing as much as his $ lm making.

“I love teaching,” he said. “! is is a research university where teach-

ers are encouraged to be actively engaged in the $ eld that they teach. Producing documentaries keeps me fresh in the classroom. ! e challenges I face keep me up to date as a teacher.”

And his love for teaching has not gone unnoticed.

“Despite always having docu-mentaries on his mind, students come $ rst. He would set every-thing aside for a single student, and that’s what makes him such an as-set to UATV and the journalism department,” Delnero said.

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I can’t believe it’s already that time of the year. With the weather changing, those of us who have seasonal allegies are about to su% er again. Every year I promise myself I won’t fall into the trap, but more of-ten than not, I can’t help but give in to the cyclical think-ing and wanderlust that cold weather causes. It surprises me when I talk with others, and realize that many people are a% ected just the same.

In the summer months, winter doesn’t seem so bad. A! er just a few weeks of scorching heat, I think most yearn for cooler weather. " e past few weeks has been nice, but the colder weather is start-ing. Soon there will be bracing wind and those last optimistic hold outs for better weather will be right with me.

It doesn’t really seem like

a big deal, though. Winter shouldn’t be that bad. It doesn’t have to be a drag, does it? Cer-tainly fall and early winter hold the best holidays. Winter is the only time of year where school can be cancelled for days be-cause of snow or sleet. Even better, as a man who enjoys dressing well on occasion, it’s certainly a more fashionable time for everyone involved. Also coats. Man, I love coats.

But the positives seem to get lost when the heavy win-ter weather starts. Or, more likely, these things lose their novelty when you get into the deep months of January and February. With Christmas over, there’s simply nothing to look forward to but Spring and school ending.

Right now it’s not bad. Don’t think I’m pre-emptively feeling this, but the day I am writing this, the 8th of Novem-ber, was a day of such gloomi-ness that everyone I know just wanted to sleep forever. I woke up thinking my blinds were closed, when in fact they were wide open. Today I realized winter weather was coming, sooner than later.

Because it’s coming soon, but not here yet, I’d like to make some suggestions as we all go into it together.

" e most important thing to remember is to not forget your

friends and family. " e ones closest to you are the ones who can help relieve you of your funk. And odds are, they’re going through something similar themselves. Sometimes misery loves company, but that’s not to say it’s a bad thing. I think it’s easy to hole up by yourself when things get dark. " e internet, school and other responsibilities make it easy to do that. You need to be pulled out of the hole, even when it is uncomfortable, and friends and family can do that.

Speaking of being pulled out of that hole, whether a pys-chological hole or your apart-ment, this is the second thing you need to remember. Even though it’s easy to make a com-fort bubble in your warm home during the harsh environments going on around your shelter —the thought itself makes me want to hibernate— it’s cru-cial that you go out into the world and continue experienc-ing new things. Actually, it’s al-ways crucial, but it’s true that it’s hardest in the winter. While things seem dead outside, this is not always true. " ings are still going on around you. So-cial lives are still being made and friendships are being built. While existing friends should always be cherished, new friendships will help you feel that you aren’t stagnating.

Having the same friends for years is a great thing, but hav-ing only the same friends can make it feel like you’ve been in the same place in your life for far too long.

Of course, there is the phys-ical place you might have been for far too long as well. I get af-& icted with wanderlust o! en during the winter. Plans start forming for exciting summer trips but the wait can seem cruel and sometimes it’s easy to resent the time and place of your current existence. " is winter break, go some-where else. It doesn’t have to be warm, and if you’re trying to go on the cheap, it probably wont be. Unless Mexico seems ideal to you. Take a week and do something else. " is might help put o% the winter stagna-tion.

Basically, remember that all things pass. Funks come and go, and rarely is anybody ever in one mood forever, even if you think you will be. Try to be optimistic for as long as possi-ble, and if you can, please take me with you on any trips you go on. I can pay for gas.

Barrett Lewis is a Traveler columnist. His column appears bimonthly, every other ! urs-day.

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by Barrett Lewis Traveler Columnist

Don’t Be Alarmed: Winter Won’t Hurt You

“Right now if you were to go see some of the extraordinary art in this world, you would have to travel. This is now in our

backyard.”

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NEWS PAGE 5 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011 NEWS EDITOR: BOBBIE FOSTER ASST. NEWS EDITOR: CHAD WOODARD

An 18-year-old student made a complaint that she was raped by “an acquain-tance.”

! e alleged rape occurred sometime between 8 p.m. and 10:50 p.m. in Yocum hall, said Lt. Gary Crain for the UAPD said.

! is alleged rape is “the " rst one this year,” Crain said.

In 2008, 11 forcible sex of-fenses were reported. In 2009, nine forcible sex o# enses were reported and two were re-ported in 2010, according to UAPD Clery report.

A forcible sex o# ense is “any sexual act directed against another person, forc-ibly and/or against that per-son’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giv-ing consent,” according to the Medical College of Wiscon-sin.

“Eighty percent of the women who are raped are victimized by someone they know,” according to the Rape Treatment Center at the UCLA Medical Center.

More information will be available about this case a$ er it is closed.

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by SARAH DEROUENStaff Writer

Alan Helms sat on the ground, his back against a pile of dead trees, facing the rising sun at the edge of a clearing in the Wedington Wildlife Man-agement Area. Bow in hand and fully camou% aged—only his eyes uncovered—he waited.

! e sunlight glistened on the dewy grass and spider webs on the open " eld in front of him.

! e only sounds were the chatter of the birds, the wind in the trees and the occasional car in the distance.

Out here, Helms’ worries —unemployment, classes and separation from his son — dri$ ed away.

! e better part of an hour went by. ! e only real change was the sun climbing higher in the sky.

Finally, without making a sound, a buck came bound-ing across the grassy clearing from the northern tree line. It was a seven-point buck—three prongs on one antler, four on the other.

He stopped at a wooded ra-vine in the middle of the " eld, craning his antlered head from side to side.

Helms sat frozen in place, bow at the ready, eyes locked on the deer.

Moments later, the buck came closer, leaping through the " eld.

Helms is part of the record-breaking 4,400 freshmen at the University of Arkansas this fall.

But unlike most of the other 4,400 freshmen, Helms, 25, is a non-traditional student.

A non-traditional student is anyone over the age of 24, preg-nant, married, the primary pro-vider for one or more children, or an active-duty soldier or a veteran, according to the UA website.

Before Helms started classes at the UA this fall, he served in the U.S. Navy as part of an elite tactical team, volunteered as a " re" ghter and became a father.

“I have always had the per-sonality of being a protec-tor. Always,” he said. “If there’s something wrong, put me in the middle and I’ll " nd a way to " x it.”

Helms had planned to be-come a police o& cer a$ er leav-ing the military, but he’s learned that he can change more lives by moving into politics.

He is now working on a criminal justice degree. A$ er he graduates, he plans attend law school. From there, he plans to run for public o& ce.

“For me, politics is the num-ber one place to serve,” he said.

“Without politics you don’t have " re departments, you don’t have the military, you don’t have police departments.”

Helms is also an adrenaline junky—being part of a military tactical team and " ghting " res is a rush.

“! e more stressful, danger-ous stu# that gets piled on me, the better I perform,” he said. “It’s odd, but I really enjoy it. So " re" ghting, having to stand in front of someone with a weap-on—it just comes naturally for me.”

Helms has always been at-tracted to danger, said his mother, Tina.

Helms joined the Navy when he was 17, which Tina said worried her. But she was also incredibly proud of her son for wanting to serve in the mili-tary.

For the " rst three years of his service, Helms was part of an amphibious unit charged with clearing beaches in ad-vance of troop deployments.

“Like in Saving Private Ryan,” he said.

For the last year he was in the Navy, he searched cargo ships and oil freighters in the Mediterranean and the Gulf Coast with an elite tactical team looking for weapons, drugs, improper paperwork or other contraband.

He and his team pulled up next to a ship more than " ve stories high, Helms said, recall-ing one of his searches.

When Helms boarded the ship to begin the search, he heard what he thought were voices coming from a dark room down a hatch at the bow of the ship.

“Well, the hole that we had to go into was pitch-black

dark,” he said. “! ere was only one ladder in, one ladder out. I volunteered to be the " rst per-son down.”

He descended into the black abyss, gun at the ready.

“I absolutely love putting myself at risk to help someone else out,” he said. “I just get a thrill out of it.”

But it was nothing -- all was clear.

Helms misses his three-year-old son, Christopher, who he has seen only once, and for only 30 minutes.

In 2008, Helms' last year in the military, he met a girl named Cassandra Kruger while training at Virginia Beach.

“We got pretty hot and seri-ous,” he said.

Soon a$ er, they found out she was pregnant. While he was away in training school, she called him and said she was go-

ing to visit her aunt in Illinois for two weeks, Helms said.

Two days later she called and said she wasn't coming back.

Still in training school and bound for active duty, there was little Helms could do.

“She didn’t come back to get her stu# out of the apartment until I was on my last deploy-ment,” he said.

! e fact that Helms lives in one state and his son and ex-girlfriend live in another—combined with the how ex-pensive legal fees are—has only made the " asco more compli-cated.

Helms is dependent on the GI Bill to pay for college, rent, child support and any other ex-penses while he is unemployed, he said. He simply can't a# ord the thousands of dollars in le-gal fees it would take to " ght

for custody of his son, and he has not been able to " nd a law-yer willing to take his case pro bono.

“All I see are Facebook pic-tures,” he said. “It takes every bit of me to not be the warrior that I am and just go get my boy. I know that if I do, it will just mess stu# up.”

Helms' mother raised her children to always put others " rst, she said. She also said she is incredibly proud of how he has handled the situation with his son and ex-girlfriend.

When Helms is not on cam-pus or out in the woods, he spends a lot of time at his apart-ment in Fayetteville with his girlfriend, Tabitha Brundige, and their pets, which include a young Labrador-mix named Clove and a calico cat who goes by either Kitty Kitty Meow Meow or Little Miss.

On a recent evening at the couple's apartment, which is crowded with multiple " sh tanks and a " ve-foot tall cat tower, Helms took a break from playing Modern Warfare on his big-screen TV to help Brundige with her algebra homework.

“So basically what we're go-ing to do is break them down to where it's two times two times two, three times three times three,” he said, Modern War-fare's dramatic music playing in the background.

“I did that,” Brundige said, sitting on a couch in the living room of the apartment.

“Ok, you're going to " nd the highest one,” he said. “! e highest one.”

“On this one I've got three threes I could bring out,” she replied.

“Ok, that's right.” he said.A$ er helping Brundige with

her homework, Helms made himself a snack—taco meat with Doritos—and returned to Modern Warfare.

Helms dreams of starting his own hunting show one day. He takes a mini-HD camera with him when he hunts.

“Love hunting and " shing [and] just the outdoors period,” he said, browsing through vid-eos and pictures he has taken on dove, turkey and deer hunt-ing trips.

“When I get out there, all my stress leaves,” he said. “! ere's nobody yelling at you to pay the bills or make money or get your grades up or anything like that. It’s just you and the natu-ral world.”

! e buck never came within range of Helms' bow. As quick-ly and silently as it appeared, it was gone—vanishing into the southern edge of the clearing.

Helms—his heart still pounding with excitement—re-laxed a little.

! e same seven-point buck came back twice that morn-ing—but it never came within range. Helms did not let that get him down, though. He was happy just to have seen it, he said.

by EDDIE GREGGStaff Writer

BEN FLOWERS ASST. PHOTO EDITOR“I have always had the personality of being a protector. Always,” said Alan Helms, part of the 4400 freshmen class . “If there’s something wrong, put me in the middle and I’ll find a way to fix it.”

Editor’s Note: Faces of the 4,400 is an ongoing Traveler series pro! ling di" erent freshmen students.

Faces of the 4,400: Veteran Finds Fresh Start

Delays in Senior Walk etch-ings are soon to be resolved, UA Facilities Management of-" cials said.

“We at FAMA have been very concerned about the con-crete surface where the 2010 senior sidewalk names are to be installed. We are convinced that the design and construc-tion of the walk are very good. We are also not concerned about the hardness of the con-crete,” said Bob Beeler, UA di-rector of design and construc-tion services.

News about the delay in etching has reached recent graduates.

“I got a letter from the uni-versity telling me that they’re having problems with the con-crete and my name hasn’t been put down yet,” said Jared Del-aney, 2009 UA graduate.

! e fear is that senior walk may deteriorate soon a$ er the names are placed.

“! e problem has been the amount of chert in the concrete that has caused ‘pop outs’ at the surface,” Beeler said.

Chert is a sedimentary rock material used in concrete, ac-cording to the National Park Service.

UA Facilities Management personnel have tested the con-crete to determine whether or not the characteristics caused by the contaminants will cause the senior sidewalk surface to continue to deteriorate over time. ! ey have also been ex-perimenting with various re-pair methods and the durability

of these methods, Beeler said.“I believe we are at a point

where the supplier is going to go forward with a repair meth-od. We have tested the method for color and texture. We have tested the method by actually blasting some sample text, all with favorable results,” Beeler said.

! e supplier, Arkhola Com-pany, is expected to start those repairs this week.

“Our expectation is to see sta# from Arkhola Company doing those repairs in the next few days. I do not know exactly how long the process will take. A$ er this process is complete, adequate cure time is needed before the engraving process begins. ! e engraving process is weather dependant as you know, but we will be as diligent as we can be with the weather and try to " nish the process as soon as we can,” Beeler said.

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5 p.m. Saturday, ESPN 2Reynolds Razorback Stadium – Fayetteville, Ark.

4-5, 0-5 SEC 8-1, 4-1 SEC

Tennessee at No. 8 Arkansas

Cornerstone Careers Coming to CloseSenior class laid the foundation for program’s success.

! e members of Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino’s " rst re-cruiting class played on a team that struggled to be a top 10 squad in the Southeastern Con-ference their freshman year.

Four years later, a 17-man se-nior class is trying to lead the Ra-zorbacks to a second consecutive BCS bowl.

! e seniors started their Hog careers 8-11.

In its last 28 games Arkansas is 23-5.

Saturday, the seniors will suit up for their " nal game in Reyn-olds Razorback Stadium against Tennessee.

“I think it’s a special class for me because we all came in to-gether,” Petrino said. “We went through some hard times. We stuck together, kept battling.”

! ose hard times includ-ed struggles when facing lowly nonconference opponents and getting beat by a combined 139-31 against ranked foes Alabama, Texas and Florida in 2008, Petri-no’s " rst season..

! e Razorbacks " nished 5-7

that year, but had a 31-30 win against LSU in the season " nale.

! e Hogs went 8-5 in 2009, losing close road games at Flor-ida and LSU, but " nishing the season with an overtime Liberty Bowl over East Carolina.

! at springboarded into a 10-2 season last year, capped by a Sugar Bowl appearance, the pro-gram’s " rst BCS bowl.

“I always think back on that " rst year, when things weren’t going well, but these guys came to practice eager to learn, eager to work, eager to get better and we did that and we kept improv-ing as the year went on,” Petrino said. “! en built it a step further the following year, then went to a BCS bowl game last year. ! is class has done a lot for this foot-ball program.”

Arkansas (8-1, 4-1 SEC) is o# to its best start this fall in Petri-no’s four seasons.

! e Razorbacks are ranked No. 8 in the BCS, have beaten three top-15 teams and are in the top 10 for the sixth consecu-tive week, the program’s longest stretch since 1989.

! e Hogs enter Senior Day on a " ve-game winning streak,

including a 44-28 win Saturday over then-No. 9 South Carolina.

“I thought the game the other night was a big win for us,” Petri-no said. “It was a top-10 match-up. ! is group of seniors that will be playing their last game in this stadium has learned how to compete, how to win, how to stick together. Now that’s why this is an important game for us. we need to make sure that we send them out with a win in their last game in our stadium.”

! e game will be emotional for many of the players.

“It’s emotional,” senior re-ceiver Jarius Wright said . “My last game being in this stadium. My last game getting the chance to play in front of this crowd … My last chance to run through the ‘A’ stepping on this " eld. It’s going to be very emotional.”

Wright is one of the trio of seniors at the core of one of the most highly-touted receiving groups in the country.

He, Joe Adams and Greg Childs have combined for 423 catches, 6,849 yards and 51 re-ceiving touchdowns, helping Ar-kansas lead the SEC in passing o# ense the last three seasons.

“I’ve had a lot of really good receivers, but I can’t say enough about what those guys have done for our program,” o# ensive co-ordinator Garrick McGee said. “I$ remember going into those kids homes and when they came here on their o% cial visits and they walked onto the " eld for us the " rst day of practice their freshman year. Now we’re at the point where it’s the last point where it’s the last time they’re go-ing to run out on this " eld.

“It’s an important game for us because these seniors are the ones that set the foundation for what we’re trying to build here.”

All three rank in the top sev-en for receptions in school his-tory.

Adams and Wright are on the precipice of shattering Antho-ny Eubanks’ school record 153 catches. Adams has 151 catches entering the game against the Volunteers, while Wright is one catch behind.

“We’ve just got to keep push-ing each other and whoever ends up with the most at the end, more power to the guy,” Adams said.

! e list of impact seniors

goes on.Senior safety Tramain ! om-

as was a second-team All-SEC performer last season and has 10 career interceptions, seventh on the UA career list.

Senior Zach Stadther wasn’t o# ered by former Razor-backs coach Houston Nutt, but changed his commitment from Kansas to the Hogs once Petrino was hired and o# ered. He leads Arkansas’ active defensive tack-les with 122 career stops.

Cornerback Isaac Madison has started 25 games.

Outside linebacker Jerico Nelson was a preseason third-team All-SEC selection by media and has 245 career tackles and 30 starts.

Five seniors – including de-fensive end Jake Bequette and middle linebacker Jerry Franklin – were already on campus when Petrino was hired, redshirting in 2007, Nutt’s " nal season.

Bequette and Franklin have made as much an impact as any-one else in the class. Both have been named All-SEC perform-ers.

Franklin led Arkansas in tackles his " rst three seasons and

has a team-high 73 this year. His 354 career stops rank

seventh in program history. He’s on pace to " nish second all-time.

Bequette’s 18.5 sacks rank " & h on the UA career chart. ! at he’ll be playing his " nal home Fayetteville game Saturday hasn’t hit him.

“I’m not really the nostalgic type,” Bequette said. “I try to stay focused and just look one day at a time. I guess I’ll reminisce about that a& er the season, but for$now we’re just worried about Tennessee and getting the next win.”

He might not be dwelling on running through the Arkansas “A” onto Frank Broyles Field for the " nal time Saturday yet.

! e impact he and the other 16 seniors made on the program won’t soon be forgotten, though.

“I think it speaks for itself,” Bequette said. “We are building a reputation as a really solid team nationally and a team that be-longs in the top 10, top 15 week-in and week-out. Not that we’ve arrived, we’re always striving for more, but I think this class, these guys I’m about to graduate with, we’ve really turned it around.”

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

Hogs Want to Attack Vols’ DTennessee hasn’t won a

Southeastern Conference game, but No. 8 Arkansas isn’t over-looking the Volunteers.

Tennessee (4-5, 0-5 SEC) has struggled o# ensively, but has a defense ranked No. 28 in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 21.2 points per game.

“We’ve been really im-pressed with their personnel,” Arkansas o# ensive coordinator Garrick McGee said. “! ere’s no way their record speaks of the talent and type of personnel that they have.”

! e Volunteers use unique coverage packages and rank No. 5 in the SEC in pass defense, giving up an average of 186.8 yards. ! e Razorbacks lead the SEC in passing o# ense, led by junior quarterback Tyler Wil-son’s 2,626 yards and 15 touch-downs.

“! ey play some combo stu# ,” junior QB Tyler Wilson said. “We’ve got some stu# to at-tack it. We prepare every week and try to " nd something that we can see and take advantage of.”

! e Hogs’ o# ensive line will try to continue its solid play. Wilson was sacked once in the 44-28 win over then-No. 9 South Carolina, but had

arguably more time than against any other conference foe.

“! at’s the o# ensive line’s goal,” senior Grant Cook said. “I think we did a great job and we came in and really worked hard this week with the tech-nique issues that were apparent at Vanderbilt. We did a good job cleaning that up and com-ing in knowing the assignments and making sure we got the job done.”

Slowing down Volunteers defensive end Malik Jackson will be key for the o# ensive line Saturday.

Jackson was on preseason award watch list for the Lom-bardi, Outland and Nagurski awards. He is third on Tennes-see’s defense with 42 total tack-les, including 28 in the last " ve games.

“I think their defensive tack-le, (Jackson), has got to be one of the best in this conference,” o# ensive coordinator Gar-rick McGee said. “He’s big, he’s strong. You can tell he’s a veter-an as he continues to play hard throughout the game.”$

Arkansas will try to start fast for the second consecutive game.

! e Razorbacks scored " rst against the Gamecocks, the " rst time the Hogs had scored be-fore their opponent since Sept. 17 against Troy.

“We have a philosophy that

we really believe in,” McGee said. “We’re going to continue to execute and go about our business the way that we always have. ! en we have to " gure out what coverage they’re go-ing to play against us or what their plan is against us a& er the " rst quarter. ! en we’ll go from there to see what we need to do to get more points.”

$ One of the players helping Arkansas score more points in recent weeks has been junior running back Dennis Johnson.

! e 5-foot-9, 213-pound-er is averaging 189 all-purpose yards in the last three weeks, including earning SEC Special Teams Player of the Week hon-ors against South Carolina for his 98-yard kicko# return for a touchdown.

Johnson also had 86 yards rushing against the Gamecocks and ran for 160 yards and one touchdown on 15 carries two weeks before at Ole Miss.

He has never run for more than 100 yards or gotten more than 15 carries in consecutive weeks, though.

“He understands it’s late in November and we’ve still got a lot to play for,” McGee said. “Everybody has to pick it up be-cause these games are going to get really serious, really intense, because there’s a lot at stake. I expect him to come out and play well this weekend.”

by MARTHA SWEARINGENStaff Writer

Arkansas’ defense turned in its best performance in conference play last Satur-day against South Carolina and look to continue its ways against Tennessee this week.

The Razorbacks face a Tennessee offense that has averaged just 12.5 points and 247.8 yards.

The Hogs (8-1, 4-1 South-eastern Conference) got off to a faster start against the Gamecocks registering had a season-high five sacks and forcing two fumbles in the game.

“We changed things up,” Arkansas defensive coordina-tor Willy Robinson said. “Ob-viously we weren’t starting fast before that game and we wanted to let those guys go hunt so that is what we did.”

Arkansas faces a Volun-teers team in the final Fay-etteville home game of the season that ranks last in the SEC in rushing offense, aver-aging 86.8 yards per game.

“With their offensive line you scratch your head and wonder why their record is what it is,” Robinson said. “Their offensive line is huge.

They have good backs. Their starting back Poole gained over 1,000 yards last year.

“We are still trying to fig-ure out what the reason is to be honest with you. There

seems to be some inconsis-tencies at times.”

Tennessee (4-5, 0-5)

Defense on a Roll

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior line backer Jerry Franklin and the Razorbacks defense are coming off their best peformance of the season, holding South Carolina to 207 yards.

by ZACH TURNERAsst. Sports Editor

GARETH PATTERSON, CONTESSA SHEW and RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS Arkansas seniors Jerry Franklin, Joe Adams and Jake Bequette (left to right) will play in their fi nal Fayetteville home game Saturday against Tennessee. The trio is part of a 17-man class that took the program from fi ve wins in 2008 to competing for their second consecutive BCS bowl this season.

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! e game will be Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino’s " rst against Tennessee and Volunteers coach Derek Dooley’s " rst against the Razorbacks.

Petrino has turned the Hogs’ program around in his four years and is 23-5 in his last 28 games. Dooley is 10-12 in his second season at Tennessee. He was 17-20 in three seasons at Louisiana Tech before taking the Volunteers job.

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Arkansas special teams vs. Tennessee special teams

Arkansas passing offense vs. Tennessee pass defense

Arkansas is ranked first in the SEC in passing. Junior quar-terback Tyler Wilson completes 62 percent of his passes and has thrown for 2,626 yards and 15 touchdowns with just intercep-tions this season.

Senior receiver Jarius Wright leads the SEC in receptions and total receiving yards, getting open for 48receptions and 812 yards and nine touchdowns.

Tennessee has the No. 5 pass defense in the SEC, giving up 186.8 yard per game. They are No. 11 in the conference in sacks, averaging 1.44 per game. Defensive lineman Willie Bohannon and defensive back Prentiss Waggner lead the team with two sacks.

Advantage: Arkansas

Arkansas is ranked first in the SEC in passing. Junior quar-

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Arkansas run offense vs. Tennessee run defense

Arkansas is ranked No. 10 in the SEC in rushing, averaging 132.22 yards per game. Junior starting running back Dennis Johnson averages 58.7 rushing yards per game.

Junior Ronnie Wingo has alsocontributed heavily, averaging 41.1 rush-ing yards per game with three rushing touchdowns.

Tennessee’s rush defense is ranked No. 7 in conference, allowing 156.2 rushing yards. Senior defensiveend Malik Jackson has eight tackles-for-loss.

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Tennessee has struggled to throw the ball the last four weeks while sophomore quarterback Tyler Bray has recovered from a fractured collarbone.

Matt Simms and Justin Worley have both gotten shots at start-ing, but Worley has started the last two games. He has copleted 57 percent of his passes, whilethrowing one touchdown and two interceptions.

Arkansas has struggled in the secondary at times, but ha-rassed South Carolina quarter-back Connor Shaw last week.

Shaw threw for just 128 yards, threw an interception and was knocked out of the game with a concussion on the Razorbacks’ season-high " # h sack of the game.

Advantage: Arkansas

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Tennessee run offense vs. Arkansas run defense

Tennessee senior running back Tauren Poole has 513 yards and four rushing touchdowns, but the Volunteers struggle to run the ball, averaging just 86.8 yards per game.

Arkansas has had trouble stopping the run this season, but held South Carolina running back Brandon Wilds to 21 yards on 10 carries last week.

Advantage: Arkansas

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Arkansas’ return specialist Mar-quel Wade returns is done with his one-game suspension and will beback in action against the Volun-teers. He and junior running back Dennis Johnson both have kickoffreturns for touchdowns this season. Coupled with senior receiver Joe Adams’ two punt returns fortouchdowns, the Razorbacks lead the SEC with four special teams touchdowns this season.Tennessee is solid on special teams, but has no touchdown returns. Both teams’ kickers and punters aresolid

Advantage: Arkansas

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Tennessee passing offense vs. Arkansas pass defense

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ARKANSAS - TENNESSEE BREAKDOWN

enters the game winless in the SEC. The Volunteers are coming off a win however, a 24-0 shutout against Middle Tennessee State in their final nonconference game of the season.

“It stops the bleeding a lit-tle bit,” Robinson said about Tennessee coming in off a win. “They have confidence in what they are trying to do and everybody was on the same page.”

Tennessee has been plagued by injury at the quarterback position with starter Tyler Bray still recov-ering from a broken thumb suffered against Georgia in early October.

True freshman Justin Worley is expected to get the start for Bray and has played in three games this season, completing 33 of 58 passing for 396 yards with one touch-down and two interceptions.

“We feel like we have a pretty good handle on what he does and how he handles and manages the game,” Rob-inson said. “We got a couple more days of practice to get better at it.”

Bray has got his cast off

and the Razorbacks had been practicing as if he could make a possible return coach Robinson said.

“We prepared as if he was going to,” Robinson said. “That is a heck of an injury to try an overcome without a long period of time.”

Worley was named Gato-rade National High School Player of the Year during his senior season of high school in South Carolina, the first player in any sport to win the award in the state.

“It is the same offense if either one of them is in the game,” junior linebacker Alonzo Highsmith said. “But Tyler Bray was their starter so I expect their offense to click a little better when he does come back.”

Arkansas should get added depth back at defen-sive end as junior Tenarius Wright might return to ac-tion after a broken forearm injury suffered in the Ala-bama game.

“It is nice having Tank back now,” Robinson said. “He is fresh, but probably not quite game shape yet so we will keep rolling those guys, but he is a blur when he comes off the ball.”

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