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Farmers’ Market Wins an Award!e Fayetteville Farm-ers’ Market was voted the best large farmers market in America by the Amer-ican Farmland Trust.Full Story, Page 2

Get Bike-Savvy for Bikes, Blues and BBQLearn some motorcycle terminology for the up-coming festival.Full Story, Page 5

Soccer Team Earns Draw in Sunday Game!e Razorback soc-cer team faced ups and downs this weekend, resulting in a 3-2 win against Kentucky Friday and a 1-1 draw to South Carolina Sunday at Ra-zorback Field.Full Story, Page 7

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Members of Pi Beta Phi and UA o!cials gathered to dedi-cate the Pi Beta Phi Centennial Gate during a ceremony Friday a"ernoon.

“Wow, now that’s a gate,”

said Chancellor G. David Gearhart.

Gearhart spoke of how im-portant this gate will be for the UA campus.

“Many of the world’s best colleges and universities: Cam-bridge, Yale, Duke, Harvard, Princeton are known for the gorgeous processional gates

gracing their campuses,” Gear-hart said. “#e University of Arkansas now has its own sig-nature gate.”

#e gate project has been in the works since 2007 and fun-draising started in 2009, said Bruce Pontious, associate vice chancellor for University De-velopment.

Frankly, I think the end product and I think you will all agree, is nothing less than spectacular,” Pontious said.

Sarah Sabatino, this year’s Pi Beta Phi President, also spoke at the event.

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Emily Rhodes Photo EditorCrowds gather to hear Chancellor G. David Gearhart speak at the Pi Beta Phi Centennial Gate opening ceremony Friday. !e gate project began in 2007 and cost approximately $1 million.

Student and community enthusiasm for the Razorback football program has dwindled a"er three consecutive losses.

“#ere’s been a lot of people jumping o$ the bandwagon, and it’s my responsibility as a leader to keep everybody in this organization, in this team, in that locker room, together,” Tyler Wilson said to reporters a"er the shutout loss to Ala-bama.

#e outlook has not gotten any brighter since. #e Razor-backs lost to Rutgers on Satur-day 35-26.

“I think we’re going to win two games and lose the rest of them,” said Enoch Ofori, junior industrial engineering major. “I’ve looked at the rest of our games and it’s not going to get better.”

Many students have simply lost interest in supporting the Hogs.

“I probably won’t go to the LSU game where I might be disappointed,” said Virginia O’Conner, junior mechanical engineering major.

Students were excited for the %rst SEC game of the year, despite losing to the University of Louisiana Monroe the week before. However, the drilling combined with the rain led to empty stands in the second half.

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Aneeka Majid Sta" PhotographerStudents attend the Study Abroad Fair in the Union Connections Lounge, !ursday, Sept. 20. Various other opportunities to learn about studying abroad are available through the UA study abroad webpage.

Studying Around the World

Students living o$-cam-pus are %nding it harder to recycle than those that live on campus, students said.

As part of the Fayetteville recycling plan, the city pro-vides recycling bins and a free pick-up service for many local apartment complexes, said Paige Liles, Hill Place leasing manager. Each par-ticipating complex receives

one giant dumpster with in-dividual compartments for residents to recycle bottles, aluminum, paper and plas-tic, Liles said.

#e Links apartment complex, as well as #e Cli$s townhomes also participate in this plan, an o!cial said.

Although the opportunity to recycle is made available to some o$-campus students, the convenience and easy ac-cess to these recycling bins is not quite the same.

“It was easier to recycle in

the dorms because they had designated bins,” said Han-nah Fitch, a sophomore resi-dent at #e Grove.

Many dorms provide re-cycling bins on every &oor and have a custodial sta$ to regularly empty them.

“It was much easier to recycle on campus because there were several di$erent receptacles and they always kept them empty so they weren’t over&owing,” said

UA Recycling Expands Despite Fayetteville Program Problems

Increasing fuel costs and growing concerns about en-vironmental harm from fuel emissions has led Fayetteville city o!cials to seek more ef-%cient vehicle choices.

“A sluggish economy, stag-nant budget and rising fuel costs have forced us to think of innovative ways to save money,” said Mike Reynolds, deputy chief of the Fayetteville Police Department. “One such initiative we decided to try was to test and evaluate some hybrid-type vehicles to replace some older gas-powered se-dans.”

City departments col-laborate with the equipment committee to discuss vehicle purchases, Reynolds said. Sev-eral months ago, a member of the equipment committee asked the police department to explore alternative modes of transportation. #is sugges-tion in&uenced the decision to evaluate two hybrid vehicles.

#e city bought two hybrid cars as unmarked vehicles for the Fayetteville Police &eet, said Sgt. Craig Stout, of the Fayetteville Police Depart-ment. Additionally, &ex fuel Chevrolet Tahoes have been used as patrol vehicles, replac-ing older Ford Crown Victo-rias.

“It is a two-wheel drive Chevy Tahoe,” Stout said. “It is what we call pursuit rated, which means it can operate

safely at higher vehicle speeds, avoids tip-over. #e fuel cost was actually very comparable to a Crown Vic; it was actually a little bit better gas mileage than what we get on our cur-rent vehicles.”

City o!cials do not have a speci%c number for fuel econ-omy because of the variety of vehicles used by the depart-ment.

#e new patrol vehicles are not hybrid, because there are not any hybrid vehicles cur-rently available that meet the performance needs of a patrol car, Stout said.

#e hybrid vehicles pur-chased for the &eet will be used for travel, training and crimi-nal investigations — events that will not require traveling at high speeds, Stout added.

#e o!cers said they hope these vehicles will prove to be cost-e$ective while also help-ing the environment by reduc-ing carbon monoxide emis-sions.

“#e Fayetteville Police De-partment is committed to en-vironmental concerns where we can do our part, and we will continue to research alter-native modes of transportation where possible,” Reynolds said.

At the beginning of the year, the Fayetteville police dra"ed a fuel budget based on an average fuel price of $3.57 per gallon, Stout said.

#is year, FPD budgeted $25,202 for fuel, and by early September, the department al-

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Aneeka Majid Sta" PhotographerAn authentic Mariachi Band performs at the Greek !eater, Friday, Sept. 21. !e event took place in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

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#e Fayetteville Farm-ers’ Market was voted the best large farmers market in America by the American Farmland Trust.

#e purpose of the contest was to raise national aware-ness about local farmers mar-kets and how they support local economies and commu-nities, according to the Amer-ican Farmland Trust.

Fayetteville was ranked %"h on the list in last year’s competition.

Voting opened June 22 and was closed Sept. 3, according to the Trust. #e Fayetteville Farmers’ Market received 1,439 votes, winning by a margin of 583.

“I think the award is re-ally just validation for a really great market that we all knew was great. It’s the cherry on top,” said Judy Cavan, a local vendor at the farmers market.

#e setting is what makes

the Fayetteville Farmers’ Mar-ket stand out from the others, said Joe Can%eld, business manager of the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market.

“It takes vendors, custom-ers and the social atmosphere,” Can%eld said. “It’s all of these things working together.”

#e Fayetteville Farmers’ Market is located on the Fay-etteville Square, and it is open three days per week. It is open from 7 a.m-2 p.m. Saturday and from 7 a.m-1 p.m.

Tuesday and #ursday. Tuesday and #ursday mar-kets will remain open un-til October, and Saturday markets will continue until #anksgiving.

“I like going because it’s a fun Saturday outing. You get to experience the unique side of Fayetteville,” said Nicole Lusk, sophomore dietetics major. “I love seeing all the di$erent types of produce and baked goods.”

#e market has visitors from all over the county, as well as visitors from other

countries, Can%eld said. “It’s a social attraction,”

he said. “Not very many cit-ies gather together for a social event.”

Attendance has been higher this year despite the rainy weekends, Can%eld said. Although, he said it was too early to tell if high at-tendance was because of the award.

#e market has only been closed once this year because of rain.

“We have very loyal cus-tomers. A lot of customers come rain or shine,” Can%eld said.

Once school starts, atten-dance usually drops o$, Can-%eld said. However, Can%eld is still hoping the popularity carries over into the fall.

“People should appreci-ate it and take advantage of it,” Lusk said. “Being so close to the best farmers market is something we should be thankful for. It’s carefree, friendly, but most of all funky.”

Award WinningFarmers’ Market

Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerFresh #owers are sold at the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market Saturday morning. !e farmers mar-ket is in operation Saturdays through Nov. 17.

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Students Excited About Recent iPhone 5 Release

Apple, one of the most successful technology corpo-rations in the world, released the iPhone 5 in stores on Fri-day, giving the company an edge on Samsung Electronics right before the end-of-year holiday shopping season.

Some UA iPhone users are already preparing to trade in their iPhone 4S.

“I’m excited to see what Apple can accomplish with the iPhone 5,” said Blakely Sanders, senior kinesiology major. “It’s hard to imagine improvements on a phone that does everything. With all of the advancements in technology within the last few years, it will be truly astonishing to see all of the new features.”

What is the di$erence be-tween an iPhone 4S and the new iPhone 5?

#e new-er version has a larger screen, faster

wireless Internet speeds and a more powerful chip, as the company seeks to continue to prove that they are one of the technology industry’s predominant franchises. It is 18 percent thinner than the iPhone 4S as well as 20 per-cent lighter. It will have %ve rows of icons as opposed to four on earlier models, ac-cording to the company.

Also, its chip, the A6, will be twice as fast and apps will load about twice the speed, even apps with images and music, according to Apple.

#e price increases by $100 for each GB package available. It is $199 for the 16 GB, $299 for the 32 GB and $399 for the 64 GB.

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junior Erin Westphal. “#e bins that the city of Fayette-ville provides are way too small.”

On campus, recycling is much easier because there are recycling bins next to almost every trashcan, said Valeria Quiroga Trigo, a sophomore resident at Hill Place. #e recycling bins at the apartments are more dif-%cult to %nd because there is only one for the whole complex, and it is usually far away.

Although o$-campus students face inconvenienc-es when it comes to recy-cling at home, the university continues introduce new recycling systems and go-green initiatives in buildings across campus.

Widely used by students both on and o$-campus, the Union has come up with several new ideas to encour-age recycling.

If plans go as hoped, the Union will soon have two PepsiCo Dream Machines installed, said Sue Smith, Union associate director. With the arrival of these Dream Machines, when students recycle bottles and

aluminum cans they can re-deem points and win prizes, Smith said. PepsiCo sends the proceeds from this project to the Entrepreneur Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities.

In addition, during for Union Day last week, Pep-siCo made a statement on campus by installing brand new blue recycling bins in the Union Mall, Smith said. #ese bins are now being put into use and have been placed in scattered locations throughout the Union.

Besides student-focused projects, union employees on the sixth &oor recently implemented a trial system called desk-side recycling, Smith said. Each desk is provided with a recycling bin, rather than a trash can. A small trash bag is attached to every bin, although the smallness of this bag is meant to remind sta$ to re-cycle more than they throw away, Smith said.

A new recycling system with compartmental bins was placed in Peabody Hall a"er the renovations and reopening of the building in 2011, an o!cial said.

the Alabama game. At the be-ginning of the game everyone was pumped up and cheering, and then when we got down 24-0, everyone le",” said Lindsey Rasmussen, sopho-more chemistry and Spanish major.

Other fans have remained loyal. In fact, on #ursday a group of students organized around the tunnel where players entered practice to encourage the team.

“Of course I’ll still go to the games. We all go here, so I’ll support my team,” said Arlyn Brazell, freshman po-litical science major. “If there have been people jumping o$ the bandwagon, I haven’t seen it.”

Other students have taken up tailgating instead of wait-ing in line for hours to get a good seat.

“If I’ve got an opportunity to tailgate, I’ll go,” Rasmus-sen said. “If the games aren’t as good you’re not obsessed with getting into the games as early.”

Some students predict that away game attendance will also decrease.

“It’s hard to go to the away games when your team doesn’t have very good pros-pects,” Rasmussen said.

Students, the community and the media are also look-ing for someone to blame for the down season, further di-viding the fan base.

“I’m a little disappointed with the way the team has played,” Brazell said. “#ere has been some coaching sta$ issues, but it ultimately comes down to the players themselves. I’m disappointed I bought an access pass to watch them blow it a little bit.”

With the con&icting feel-ings, some have said the only solution is to look toward the future.

“I’ll still be supporting the team,” Rasmussen said. “#ose guys are out there still trying to win. It’s a great foot-ball program. #ey’re going to bounce back. It might just be a matter of time.”

UA students are celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, which started on Sept. 15 and ends Oct.15. #e month honors Hispanic and Latino histories, cultures and o$ers an opportunities for people to be aware of them.

“#e celebration started on Friday Sept 14 with the 1st Annual “Bailemos por sus Sueños” and “Let’s Dance for their Dreams” a scholarship fundraising event hosted by

the Latino Alumni Society and Univision Arkansas. Attendees enjoyed music by Calle Soul, Papa Rap and DJ armando, said Cecilia Grossberger, mar-keting and public relations specialist.

On #ursday Sept. 20, Plaza de las Americas and the Festival de las Manos Unidas took place.

#e main purpose of the event was to teach students about people from Latin American and Spanish speak-ing cultures through country booths, music, performances and Latin American food.

Also, at this event students, sta$, and faculty had the op-portunity to practice or learn a little Spanish at the conversa-tion club Cafe Tertulia.

“I really enjoyed the event because it was fascinating to see the diversity on our cam-pus,” said Mengjiao Liao, who works for the international students and scholars depart-ment. “I liked the arrange-ment of the cultural tables, the music and the decorations in the connections lounge. As an ISO member, I look forward to seeing more opportunities like Plaza de Las Americas for

the international students to present their culture and build friendships with the domestic students.”

Honorong diversity and cultures that comprise the UA was a main point of the pro-gram. #e committee has more events in the works to educate, entertain and inform our stu-dents, sta$ and faculty, said Grossberger.

“#is is a great opportunity for our university community to come together and celebrate with us the rich and varied cus-toms that are derived from our hispanic traditions,” she said.

Students Explore New Cultures For Hispanic Heritage Month

Rebekah Harvey Sta" PhotographerStudents visit booths showcasing Latin American countries by attending the Plaza de las Americas: Festival de Los Manos Unidos. !e convention took place in the Union in honor of National Hispanic Heriatge month Sept. 20.

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ready had used $18,083, put-ting them slightly over bud-get, Stout said.

“It’s always hard at the beginning of the year when you’re trying to do this bud-getary process of how much money do you allocate,” Stout said. “In certain years, we’ve shot high, thinking that gas could get up to this point, and we always want to shoot above.”

#is year, gas prices rose higher than what the depart-ment expected, Stout said.

“If we go a little over bud-get over here, we always have savings in other areas that we can adjust for, but usually we do a very good job about coming in pretty close,” Stout said.

#e police o!cers’ pa-trol and &eet cars are fueled at pumps designated for city vehicles, Stout said. At this pump, the fuel price is locked at a rate of $3.57 for the year. Traveling o!cers use a Fuelman &eet card, which is also set at $3.57, to purchase discounted gaso-line at standard gas stations outside of the city.

To conserve gasoline, police o!cials have imple-mented a policy limiting idling vehicles, Stout said.

“Obviously, this is a time when fuel consumption is a big issue, so anything that we can do to try to curve that down is going to be a big bene%t for us,” Stout said.

Of 65 vehicles used by Fayetteville police, 43 are motor pool vehicles, leased to FPD by the city, Stout said. Another 22 department-owned, non-motor pool ve-hicles, are used for criminal investigations, training or travel.

Ford Crown Victorias, Dodge Chargers, Chevro-let Tahoes and motorcycles are used as marked patrol vehicles, Reynolds said. Ad-ditionally, they use bicycles, a Segway, an ATV and a golf cart for patrolling trails and special events.

#e UAPD has a smaller &eet of eight vehicles, but they are still a$ected by ris-

ing fuel prices, said Lt. Gary Crain, UAPD spokesman.

#ey have a Dodge In-trepid, a Ford Fusion, a Chevrolet Impala, three Dodge Chargers, a Ford Explorer and a Chevrolet Tahoe, said Lt. Vance Rice, police services commander. #e UAPD also fuels the Ra-zorback Patrol golf carts.

“We haven’t really talked about hybrid vehicles yet, but the vehicles we’re getting already had better gas mile-age than the ones that we had,” Crain said. “We’re em-phasizing foot patrol, bicycle patrol — so there are a lot of things under consideration — even motorcycles, which would be better on gas con-sumption than a car.”

#ey might not be using hybrid vehicles, but UAPD o!cials are considering them for the future, Crain said.

#e UAPD o!cers incor-porate &eet purchase cards at local gas stations to use their $32,000 fuel budget, Rice said.

“I anticipate our &eet size to grow over the next few years,” Rice said. “As our population grows, so does our demand for services. #e additional vehicles are needed in emergency man-agement, administration, K9, patrol and training.”

Police departments na-tionwide also have been af-fected by fuel costs.

Four years ago, o!cers in the Suwanee, Ga., police de-partment were asked to walk for at least one hour during their shi", according to a 2008 New York Times arti-cle. At that same time, police departments in Houston and San Diego exceeded their gasoline budgets by millions, #e Times reported.

Since then, police depart-ments across the nation have switched to lower octane gasoline, installed naviga-tion systems in patrol cars, increased penalties for false alarms and implemented stationary patrolling to con-serve fuel, according to #e Times.

RECYCLE continued from page 1 GATE continued from page 1symbol of our close relation-ship with the university, our fraternity values and Pi Phi’s long lasting legacy here on campus,” Sabatino said. “It’s the accomplishment of every past, present and future member of Arkansas Alpha.”

Fellow Pi Beta Phi member and alumnus, Marilynn Porter spoke during the ceremony about why being in a sorority is important to her.

Living in the house taught

us to live and work with many di$erent people.

“If we were single, alone, we wouldn’t be standing here to-day,” Porter said.

At the end of the ceremony, the gate was opened by the es-pecially designed razorback key and Pi Beta Phi o!cers walked through the gate for the %rst time.

#e gate cost more than $1 million and was designed by Todd Furgason.

September 27Campus Day for High School Students Union 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

September 28Hispanic Heritage Day at Razorback Volleyball Barnhill Arena 7 p.m.

September 29

LULAC 754 of NWA: Annual Education Fund Gala & Silent Auction Embassy Suites, Rogers 6 p.m. - midnight

October 2Short Film: “Esposados” J.B. Hunt 216 6 p.m.

October 5Praise Songs: An Evening with Pat Mora Union 7 p.m.

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Opinion Editor: Joe Kieklak

A recent interview with John L. Smith started with him insisting that all the reporters smile, or else he wasn’t talking.

!ere is no hiding the fact that this season has been one of the most disappointing (prob-ably the most in my lifetime).

Wins had been increasing year by year since Petrino got here. In two years, our football program’s wealth increased by 59 percent, according to Forbes, easily the largest out of any program in the nation. !at was a jump from 17th to eighth in the richest programs list.

Bobby Petrino is gone. How did the Rutgers loss happen? !e nightmare is a reality, and it’s easy to try to "nd someone to blame.

We could blame Bobby Petrino for getting himself "red. We could blame Je# Long for "ring him. Mostly what I hear, though, is people blaming John L. Smith, the guy giving all the quirky interviews at the press conferences.

I have seen plenty of people wanting John L. "red a$er the loss to Louisiana-Monroe (who almost beat Baylor this week-end and Auburn last weekend, by the way). Some people go as far to say that we need to bring back Bobby Petrino.

Some of the critics are a tad harsh on John L. because we are losing these games or because of how he interviews. (!ey say it is embarrassing.) But is he the scapegoat of the year?

Let us consider a few things going on John L. Smith’s life.

For one, he is bankrupt. Smith declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Sept. 6, accord-ing to multiple sources. !is is no surprise, as the AP report-ed he planned on declaring bankruptcy in July. He is $25.6 million in debt and 63 years old. A Hu%ngton Post article claims that he has $1.2 million in retirement funds that he is claiming as protected along with some household furnish-ings.

He is claiming these as-sets should not be liquidated. !e bankruptcy "ling shows that he has $300 cash on hand

(“pocket money”) and $500 in his checking account. He lists his average monthly income as about $9,000 and his aver-age monthly expenses as about $27,000.

Smith is almost to retire-ment age (aka when your health starts declining). I can-not imagine my older fam-ily members retiring with $25 million in debt.

!ere’s more, though. Smith’s younger brother died Monday, according to ESPN. Smith caught a plane a day be-fore the Rutgers game on Sat-urday to attend the funeral in Idaho. His youngest brother, Bart, claimed following his brother’s football teams as one of his favorite pastimes, ac-cording to Idaho Falls’ Post Register. His plane le$ and returned Friday. !at’s pretty rough.

Now, I’m not asking you to excuse the head coach for the team’s losses.

Smith has taken full re-sponsibility for each of them (although Tyler Wilson says the team quit against Ala-bama).

When Je# Long hired Smith, he had in mind a long-term goal. !is coaching search was a mad dash brought on by unforeseeable circumstances.

!e players wanted Smith, and he knew (and knows) that he would probably only be here for a year.

No matter how ugly it gets this year, one season does not de"ne a program. With the wealth and status that this program has accrued in the last two years, the big names will come knocking, and at the right time.

Until then, though, John L. Smith is the coach. Asking for his head is not going to solve our problems. Some people are already turning John L. into the scapegoat of the year, which is not fair. !ings will get better, but maybe not this season.

However, if our coach can smile while such havoc is being wreaked on his personal life and while being scrutinized by the rest of us, we can certainly smile about a game.

Blake Mertens is a sta! columnist. He is a senior biochemistry major.

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Of course I’ll still go to the games. We all go here, so I’ll support my team.

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Blake MertensSta# Columnist

President Obama is not a popular "gure in Arkansas. !is is probably not news to you: !e most recently conducted statewide Talk Business-Hendrix College poll had the incumbent losing by a 24-point margin.

!ere might be a better chance of Mitt Romney (or Not Obama, as Arkansans may know him by) being replaced by a resuscitated Ronald Reagan on the Republican ticket than of Obama getting away with our six electoral votes.

Because of that obvious gap, it can be easy for an Arkansan to tune out this election. Regardless of what happens nationally, Romney has Arkansas in the bag.

Last Monday there "nally came a moment of clarity — maybe the "rst in this election cycle from either candidate. It was not only a rare showing of honesty; it was something that should make Arkansans especially snap themselves out of their apathetic, of-course-Obama-will-lose stupor.

A secretly captured video released by liberal magazine Mother Jones shows Romney at a private fundraiser in May, speaking o# the cu# to a table of donors. If you read one thing

Romney says this election, this should be it.

Romney’s quotation is already infamous: “!ere are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

“(!ey think) government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what,” he said.

So why is this important for Arkansans especially? !e closer you look at that initial number of 47 percent, the scarier the argument becomes.

Romney is accurate in that 47 percent of Americans did not pay income tax in 2011, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. It is important to look at is who makes up the group whom Romney calls “dependent on the government.”

Of that 47 percent, nearly half — 28.3 percent of all Americans — actually do get taxed on their wages, but in the form of a payroll tax instead of an income tax. !is group is made up of poor workers who hold a job but make a small enough annual income that, a$er standard deductions and exemptions, their e#ective income tax rate becomes 0 percent.

So that leaves about 18 percent who pay no payroll or income tax. Are these the “victims” Romney was talking about?

Of that 18 percent, 10.3 percent are many of the nation’s elderly, who get most, if not all, of their income from monthly tax-free Social Security checks.

!e next 6.9 percent are the poor, or those who make an annual income of under $20,000 per year. And it is not that the nation’s poorest pay no taxes. Note that regressive taxes like the sales tax hit the poorest harder, because they spend their money faster out of necessity.

!at leaves less than 1 percent of the population who make more than $20,000 a year and still pay no payroll or income tax, which includes members of the military who qualify for tax exemptions. Not quite as dramatic of a "gure as nearly half of the country.

In order to make up tax cuts for those making over $200,000 a year and a $1 trillion tax cut for corporations, the only way to keep the plan from adding to the de"cit — which Romney promised to do — is for middle-class families to end up paying an average of about $2,000 more annually, according to a report by the Tax Policy Center.

!e biggest story for voting Arkansans, though, comes in Romney’s last leaked sentence: “My job is not to worry about those people — I’ll never convince them that they should

take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

By Romney’s rationale, all of those who pay no income tax are government moochers not able to be convinced to take personal responsibility.

Unfortunately for its residents, Arkansas is ranked third in the country in tax-"lers who have no liability. Forty-one percent of Arkansans did not pay income tax in 2008, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

Romney says he plans to make it his job, as president, “not to worry about” 41 percent of residents in this state. Regardless of who you are voting for in November, Romney will always see 41 percent of our population — mostly the working poor and the elderly — as entitled victims.

!is election is not Obama vs. Not Obama. However disenfranchised voters are at Obama’s "rst term, they should be still aware of who the alternative is. In this case, it is someone who has written o# 4 of 10 residents in our state.

Are Arkansans comfortable with having that person in charge?

Conor Woody is a contributing columnist. He is a sophomore.

It’s Time to Move From Obama vs. ‘Nobama’

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Conor WoodyContributing Columnist

It was brought to my attention this week that although I will graduate in May, I still have to take one last French class this summer to complete my language requirement.

Upon hearing this news, I went through the emotions of panic that I wouldn’t graduate on time, anger at myself and then confusion about the policy.

Why should I, an English-creative writing major, be required to take French? And not just a little French, but three semesters?

Last fall, I studied abroad at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. During this time, my knowledge about college curricula was expanded, and the world of European education was pressed upon me.

In most European universities, students primarily take courses that are relevant to their area of study. So, if you were a chemistry student, you would not be taking many English, philosophy or art classes, but instead would be focused solely on your science classes.

What a novel idea: actually studying courses that pertain to my major.

I understand the logic behind the UA’s core curriculum. We want well-rounded, well-educated students.

However, in Fulbright, students are required to take eight hours of natural science and nine hours of social science, and, as an English major, I am required to complete up to Intermediate II in a foreign language.

!ose three subjects alone add up to 26-29 hours of coursework, depending on how many language classes you must complete to ful"ll the Intermediate II requirement. !at is nearly a year of classes that have nothing to do with English or creative writing.

I would much rather spend those college hours ingesting all of the English-related knowledge possible. Instead, I will have spent that year learning math I will rarely use or physics I passed through memorization.

Not only is that a lot of time spent in classes that will not increase my marketability as an English major, but it is also a lot of money. As we all know, dollars spent on tuition and books add up.

I feel that those courses, tuition dollars and hours spent learning would have been more e#ectively used had they been courses in my major.

!e same goes for any other major. Chemists do not need hours of essay writing, mathematicians do not need to slave over their history books and apparel studies majors do not need to memorize the periodic table in order to get a job in their "eld a$er graduation.

I feel our college courses should be more tailored to our needs during all four of our years here, rather than just the "nal two.

Imagine the possibilities if, instead of cramming for chemistry as an political science major or writing English papers as an economics major during our freshman and sophomore years, we spent those hours in our area of interest.

As graduates, we would be entering the workplace as experts in our "eld instead of average in a multitude of subjects. Sure, I understand the need to know how to read, write and understand basic math and science. But that is what K-12 education is for.

We need to allow those 12 years of education to do their job and then use the four years of our undergraduate career to become truly invested in the areas we are passionate about and will spend the rest of our lives working in.

Our time as students should be used to "gure out what we like and dislike. By taking out the core requirements and allowing students the freedom to take courses that interest us, in addition to our major requirements, American universities would produce more excited, active and engaged students.

!ere are still classes I would love to have the opportunity to take as a UA student, but because I spent the "rst two years "lling requirements for subjects I already knew I did not care for, I will "nish my degree with just what I needed to graduate. No more, no less.

I cannot imagine how much more knowledge I would be equipped with if I had those nearly 30 hours of credit in courses I could use toward my future profession as a writer, professor, editor or any number of English-related professions that await me in the real world.

Instead, I will be heading out into the world with subpar knowledge of science and forgotten math equations that I will probably not see again until my own children enter school.

Ashley Flippin is a sta! columnist. She is a senior English- creative writing major.

Courses !at Count: No More French for the English MajorAshley FlippinSta# Columnist

Correction:In the !ursday Sept. 20 issue of "e Arkansas Traveler, the

story, “Record-Breaking UA Enrollment,” incorrectly reported the number of students enrolled. !ere are 24,537 students

enrolled in the Fall 2012 semester.

!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperMonday, Sept. 24, 2012 Page 5

Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

If students want to show ap-preciation for UA faculty mem-bers, they can say “thank you” a!er class, be polite when they run into them — or cheer for them as they perform onstage at a bike rally.

Approximately 30 bands and musicians will be playing at the Bikes, Blues and BBQ rally Sept. 26 to 29, including the Boston Mountain Playboys, 4 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Main Stage.

UA faculty manager How-ard Lester is the Boston Moun-tain Playboys’ lead guitarist and vocalist. "e band wants to see bikes, blues, barbecue and danc-ing at this year’s BBBQ rally.

“We play what we call ‘road-house country,’” Lester said.

He said the band plays a mix of country, Southern rock and swing covers. Although Lester has written original songs in the past, the band only performs covers now. Lester said the band plays with the sound of the cov-ers, making them their own.

“You play it like you feel it, not necessarily like it came o# the record,” he said. “We do what we like. We play what keeps them jumping.”

"e band’s ultimate goal is to get people dancing and having fun at their shows, he said.

“We want to see people have a good time,” Lester said.

"e Boston Mountain Play-boys was originally Lester’s fa-ther’s band, when it was called Panhandle Playboys. Over the years, band members have come and gone. "ere are currently six members, including Chris Lynch, whom Lester has been playing music with for over 30 years.

Because his father and several other family members were mu-sicians, Lester grew up around music and has been dabbling in it since the age of 5, when he had his $rst performance at the Ava-lon Ballroom in Texas.

“I thought I was on top of

the world,” he said, laughing. “Of course, they won’t boo a 5-year-old kid.”

From that point on, Lester has been a performer. He has opened for several other bands and musicians, including Merle Haggard.

“We perform about 60 to 70 dates a year,” he said. “We’re pret-ty loose on stage.

“I can go four or $ve weeks without playing music, and then I have to play. You need that $x.”

“(Performing) isn’t really about being on stage. It’s just when you have a group of peo-ple,” he said, motioning his hands to show a group, “and it makes them happy and you happy, too. And I love the music.”

Lester is originally from a small town in Texas. Getting together to listen to music and dance was what the majority of people did on the weekends in the early 70s, he said.

“Dancing was a big deal … that’s what everyone did,” he said.

Lester said that lifestyle is fad-ing away because people have more entertainment options, and he would like to see it come back. He’d like to bring road-house country to Dickson Street, he said. Lester said Jose’s in Fay-etteville and Springdale are his favorite local venues.

“We push the tables back (at Jose’s) because I guarantee peo-ple will be dancing by the time we’re done,” he said. “If you’re a true musician, you’d rather play

for 100 people who are dancing for nothing than a 1,000 people who are just standing there hol-lering and watching you.”

Lester toured on the road in Texas for 17 months a!er a semester of college. He then de-cided he would prefer a more stable lifestyle and went back to Oklahoma State University, where he was pre-vet, he said. He said he continued to play locally as a solo artist and with various bands, which helped him pay his way through college.

Everyone in the Boston Mountain Playboys has an out-side career and plays to have a good time and put on a show, Lester said.

Lester has been employed by the UA for more than 35 years. As a farm manager, Lester over-sees all of the research projects in the poultry science department. He said they do pharmaceuti-cal company research and that one of the best parts of his job is working with graduate and un-dergraduate students.

Students o!en take home Boston Mountain Playboys CDs and come to shows, Lester said.

“I get to shape these kids a little bit,” he said. “It’s probably why I’ve stayed in my career for as long as I have.”

Lester said he has known Bikes, Blues and BBQ executive director Joe Giles for a long time and played at the rally last year.

“We had a great time,” he said. “It’s a great event.”

Alex GoldonSta! Writer It’s 5 o’clock tra%c in Fay-

etteville, and the only thing keeping drivers sane is their car radio. Students at the UA, how-ever, are tuning into something that goes beyond radio music entertainment: the Amateur Radio Club.

According to the RSO’s website, the United States gov-ernment began licensing radio stations in 1912, but the group was not formed into an organi-zation until about 50 years later by four men interested in radio.

“"e Amateur Radio Club of the University of Arkan-sas (ARCUA) was founded in 1958, through experimental radio was on campus as early as 1900,” said Matthew Barlow, president of the Amateur Radio Club and electrical engineering major.

"e Amateur Radio Club’s

station is currently in room 736 in the Science and Engineering building. "e RSO has satel-lites, VHF equipment and HF equipment to allow students to earn their FCC Amateur Radio Licenses.

"e licensing of a station requires the participant to pass an exam given by a team of vol-unteer examiners to determine the operation class, according to the Federal Communica-tions Commission’s website.

"e six classes available prepare novices with the skills needed to operate a station.

While many people are fa-miliar with the morning talk shows that play on local radio, the ARCUA is mainly about

educating its members on the technology behind radio.

“"e main goal of the Ama-teur Radio Club is community service through emergency communications, education of operating and electronics tech-niques, and to recruit new peo-ple to the hobby,” Barlow said.

Students, faculty and sta# at the UA can join the RSO by emailing [email protected] or attending meetings at 6:00 p.m. in the Science and Engineering building every $rst Monday of the month. "e dues are $5.00 per year, according to club’s website, and the o%cers also meet for lunch on "ursdays, where anyone can join.

“"e number of members ebbs and &ows over the years as the club was formed to pro-mote the hobby of amateur ra-dio,” Barlow said.

"e organization is in-volved in University Weath-erNet, which reports severe weather from the Washington

County area. "e club also pro-motes severe weather aware-ness in both the amateur radio community and the general public, according to the W5YM webpage.

University WeatherNet of-fers training to those that want to spot weather and gather re-ports.

Barlow said he would en-courage people to join the RSO if they want to learn new high-tech skills, but even if people have no radio experience, club members will be more than happy to teach anyone inter-ested in learning about radio.

Similarly to many special interest groups on campus that have a popular pursuit, the

Amateur Radio Club is cen-tered on the shared enjoyment of radio.

Barlow said his favorite thing about being a member is the fellowship of like-minded individuals.

In June of last year, the as-sociation competed in a contest utilizing their radio skills with an emergency power system. "e RSO also participates in disaster drills and fox hunting, which involves hunting for a hidden radio transmitter, ac-cording the RSO’s website.

Emmanuel Decrossas, UA alumnus and former treasurer of the Amateur Radio club, said his favorite club activity is the American Radio Relay League’s Field Day. He said it is a contest where the goal is to contact as many people as possible in a limited period of time.

"e RSO is keen in help-ing those intrigued learn more about the background of radio technology.

“We also try to organize a soldering workshop where stu-dents come to learn how to sol-der electronic components on a circuit board,” Decrossas said. “"is is completely free, and people can keep the electronic kit they have just soldered at the end.

“We’ll try to organize this event every semester as long as we have enough people to participate and RSO support us.”

With over thousands of radio stations worldwide, the club brings together technol-ogy skills and communication locally.

“"e Amateur Radio Club is fun,” Decrossas said. “Dur-ing our meetings, we discuss how we could build electronic components such as antennas by just recycling objects with-out spending a penny.

“Talking to alumni is really interesting because if you en-counter a problem, they have probably already solved it. "e radio amateur is a large com-munity, and we have contact with people all around the world.”

"e low rumbling you heard outside your window a few weeks ago has grown into a not-so-dull roar. Bikes, Blues and BBQ has come to town, bringing thousands and thousands of bikes. Even if you don’t have a leather jacket or skull tattooed on your fore-head, you can still enjoy the weekend’s festivities.

For those of us who prefer four wheels to two, the lingo can be daunting. So put your lid on, rev up the big twin and head out on a run through bike jargon.

Bike ManufacturersHarley-Davidson is the

most well-known motorcycle manufacturer, but several other brands will be cruising into Fayetteville.

According to motorcycle-gi!shop.com, most bikes are made by the big four: Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki and Yamaha. BMW makes bikes, too, which are known as “beemers.” "e foreign-made bikes are sometimes re-ferred to as metric bikes.

Junior Brian Nelson drives a 1986 Honda Shadow. He uses his motorcycle to get to campus as well as to work in Prairie Grove.

“It’s a cruiser, not something you’d necessarily take out to Bikes, Blues and BBQ, but it gets me to work,” Nelson said. “Most of the bikes there are Harleys or custom cruisers.”

Types of BikesMotorcycles can be broken

down into three large catego-ries, with several additional subsets in each category. Ac-cording to motorcyclegi!-shop.com, the groups are touring bikes, sport bikes and cruiser bikes.

Sport bikes are the fast motorcycles that zip by you on I-540. "ey’re built for speed, but bikes like this aren’t common at Bikes, Blues and BBQ. Models like the Kawa-saki Ninja are o!en painted bright colors.

Touring bikes are the big, stable bikes. "ey’re built al-most like cars and feature storage for long trips. "ere are some touring bikes at Bikes, Blues and BBQ, as they are popular with older bikers.

"e majority of motor-cycles rolling in to town are cruisers, which include most Harley-Davidson models. Cruisers are big bikes with big engines, Nelson said.

“It’s all about feeling free,” Nelson said. “It’s hard to ex-plain the feeling unless you’ve experienced it. It’s like you feel one with the road.”

Engine TermsUA students are familiar

with scooters, so the engine lingo isn’t much of a stretch. A “cc,” or cubic centimeter, measures engine size.

Nelson said most scooters are 50cc. Motorcycle engines run bigger. Nelson’s motor-cycle is 700cc.

“"ere’s more horsepower, and more control,” Nelson said. “You can travel further and on busier roads. "ere isn’t a restriction on your speed like a scooter, and you don’t get laughed at like on

a moped.”Nelson’s Honda is referred

to as a v-twin bike, meaning it has two cylinders. Most bikes have two cylinders. According to autoevolution.com, bikes with four or more are not un-common.

Custom BikesShows like Orange County

Choppers introduced us to ri-diculously tricked-out custom bikes. "ere will be more than a few of these incredible ma-chines rolling up and down Dickson Street this weekend.

“(A chopper) is a custom

motorcycle with a more de-clined fork system, fatter tires and bigger tires in the back,” Nelson said.

A crotch rocket is a low bike with a more aggressive riding posture, according to motorcyclegi!shop.com. "e handlebars are up higher than a normal bike, and they’re built for speed.

Sometimes, the fancy pol-ished ones are referred to as bar-hoppers, meaning they aren’t actually ridden except from bar to bar.

Poker RunsPoker runs are a popu-

lar event at bike rallies like BBBQ. "ese events require preregistration and a fee, and bikers ride to di#erent stops. At each stop, they pick up a card, and then they use the cards to form a poker hand. "e winning hand gets the pot of money, with the rest going to a good cause.

“Most people just do it for fun, and most of them are for charity,” Nelson said. “It’s about having a good time and donating some money for a good cause.”

If you brave the crowds at Bikes, Blues and BBQ, suit up with these terms to impress those hard-core biker dudes and biker babes.

With a basic knowledge of motorcycles, you could end up an honorary member of Hell’s Angels by the end of the weekend. So put on your leather skins, and go full throttle on all the event has to o#er.

PROFILE

Stephanie EhrlerSta! Writer

Alex MarchSta! Writer

RSO OF THE WEEK

Traveler Photo ArchiveBikes, Blues and BBQ brings a variety of bikes to Fayetteville. Whether its road bikes, choppers or sports bikes they come in di"er-ent engine sizes, manufacturers and colors.

Courtesy PhotoHoward Lester, UA farm manager, (front right) plays lead guitar with his band Boston Mountain Playboys. He will be playing at BBBBQ this weekend.

“!e main goal of the Amateur Radio Club is community service through emergency communications, education of operating and electronics techniques.”

Matthew BarlowPresident of the Amateur Radio Club/

electrical engineering major

Amateur Radio Club Transmits Skills and Education to PublicFarm Manager by Day,

Country Star by Night

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TENNIS

SOCCER

!e Razorbacks lost again Saturday night. It’s becom-ing a habit. But Tyler Wilson played. Wasn’t that supposed to mean Arkansas was going to hand out a 52-0 beatdown of their own?

!e o"ense de#nitely had it’s chances. A touchdown pass to Mekale McKay was slightly underthrown and slipped through his hands to fall incomplete. Another pass was thrown into the end zone and intercepted.

In saying this, I am long past feeling like a broken record, but the real problem was the defense. !e o"ense can only make plays if the defense can get the oppo-nents o"ense o" the #eld, and that hasn’t been happen-ing.

Rutgers time of posses-

sion Saturday night was 39:02, and as is o$en true, the team that controls the clock, controls the score.

In addition, the Scarlet Knights were 5 of 15 on third down conversions and 1 of 1 on fourth down conversions, which actually isn’t as bad as it seemed when I was sitting in the stands trying to will the defense to get a stop.

!e real killer is that all but one of these conversions led to a touchdown. !at lone exception came when the game clock #nally ticked down to zero and the drive was ended by the #nal sound of the referees whistle.

One Rutgers drive was ex-tended three times by three third down conversions. !e week before, an Ala-bama drive was extended by third down conversions four times. At one point, Alabama was in a third down and 14 situation, and rushed for 15 yards.

!e stated focus for the defense this year has been to stop the run. In the South-eastern Conference, being able to stop the run is de#-nitely important, but a team can’t just completely aban-don passing defense.

Before the game, I heard the playing style of Rutgers

being compared to that of Alabama, meaning that if the Scarlet Knights were going to beat the Razorbacks, they were supposed to do it on the ground, or at the least, with a balanced attack.

Sixteen of Rutgers’ 26 #rst downs were completed through the air. !e Scar-let Knights had 397 passing yards, three times as many as they managed on the ground.

It does not matter if Tyler Wilson throws a touchdown pass to Cobi Hamilton on every Arkansas drive if the defense can’t keep the other team from scoring. !e only way the Razorback defense has found to get o" the #eld is to give up points, and that will not win football games.

During the SEC’s run of six consecutive BCS national titles, the winning team has been ranked outside of the top seven in total defense only twice. If Arkansas ever wants to have a chance at a national title, a conference title or even a winning sea-son the defense must im-prove.

Haley Markle is the as-sistant sports editor for !e Arkansas Traveler. Her col-umn appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

Defense Has to Play if !ey Want to WinHaley MarkleAsst. Sports Editor

COMMENTARY

Arkansas’ women’s tennis team began their fall season this past weekend at the Country Club of Little Rock Invitational. Over the three day tournament, the Razorbacks brought home 10 singles wins and a doubles win.

!e team had three wins in singles on day one and one win in doubles.

Freshman Yang Pang led the way with an impressive vic-tory over 60th ranked Whitney Ritchie of Oklahoma (6-2, 6-2).

“Overall it was an excellent

#rst day for the whole squad,” said head coach Michael Hegar-ty. “Every player bene#ted great-ly from sti" competition.”

Claudine Paulson and Sarah McLean also recorded singles victories for the Hogs. Paul-son defeated Mia Lancaster and McLean defeated Hermon Brhane, both of Oklahoma.

Paulson and McLean also won a doubles match together on day one, defeating Caroline Starck and Elizabeth Ullathorne of Texas Tech.

On day two, the Hogs once again tallied up three singles victories, each at the hands of Texas Tech, a team that ended last season ranked No. 21 in the

country. McLean defeated Texas

Tech’s Sandra Dynka in her sin-gles match.

Kimberley-Ann Surin and Ana Lorena Belmar both earned their #rst victories as Razorbacks against Starck and Ullathorne respectively.

“!is young team is learn-ing fast, which is very exciting to see,” Hegarty said.

On the #nal day of competi-tion, the Razorbacks won four of six singles matches, but the dou-bles matches were rained out.

One of those wins came from freshman Kristen Mee. She beat Allie Robbins of Ole Miss (6-3, 6-3) for her #rst career win.

Women’s Tennis Gets Started in Little RockLiz BeadleSta! Writer

!e Razorback soccer team faced ups and downs this week-end, resulting in a 3-2 win against Kentucky Friday and a 1-1 draw to South Carolina Sunday at Razorback Field.

!e Razorbacks scored the #rst goal of the game in the #rst #ve minutes of the second half. Freshman forward Phyllis George crossed the ball from

the le$ of the #eld straight to sophomore forward Jeriann Okoro, who hammered the ball in right past the goalie to lead 1-0.

South Carolina tied it up 1-1 at 20:13 o" of a throw-in when mid#elder Danielle Au snuck over Arkansas defenders to deliver a shot past sophomore Razorback goalkeeper Kelly Roliard.

A$er 90 minutes of play, the score was still tied 1-1, sending the teams into a sudden death

overtime. At the end of both overtime periods neither team had scored, resulting in a draw.

!e #rst half brought near misses for each team on shots. !e Razorbacks had two shots on goal with one corner kick while the Gamecocks managed three shots on goal with four corners.

!e Gamecocks could have had two goals in the #rst half. With 30 minutes le$, South

Soccer Team Earns Draw in Sunday GameTamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

Kris Johnson Sta" Photographer!e Razorback soccer team tied with South Carolina after two overtimes Sunday afternoon.

Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerRazorback fans met mascots, women’s basketball head coach Tom Collen and student athletes at the Northwest Arkansas Mall in the fourth annual Rockin’ with the Razorbacks Friday.

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Razorback fans are less than content a$er the football team that was self-promoted as a national championship contender has fallen to 1-3, two of those losses coming from unranked teams in non-conference matchups.

“I know they’re disap-pointed, and they deserve better,” said John L. Smith, the interim head coach, a$er the game.

Since beating the Razor-backs 35-26, Rutgers was

ranked No. 23 and No. 25 in the AP Top 25 and the USA Today Poll, respectively. Ar-kansas, on the other hand, dropped from the AP Top 25 a$er losing to ULM and from the USA Today Poll a$er be-ing shutout by Alabama.

!ere are many places where the blame may fall, but there are just as many that are blameless.

One such blameless indi-vidual is senior wide receiver Cobi Hamilton, who broke the school record and the Southeastern Conference re-cord with 303 receiving yards Saturday. !ose 303 yards came on 10 catches with three touchdowns.

Another is senior quar-terback Tyler Wilson, who handles pressure in the pock-et much better than redshirt freshman Brandon Allen. !at is not to say that Allen is to blame; however, it does say that Wilson’s experience

helps him to make plays when the o"ensive line is unable to protect him fully.

Less to blame -- but not entirely blameless -- are the wide receivers. Junior Bran-don Mitchell couldn’t shake defenders and freshman Me-kale McKay dropped a pass in the end zone when the Razor-backs were second and goal and third and goal, respec-tively. Because of these two incompletions, the Razor-backs settled for a #eld goal by junior kicker Zach Hocker.

A little more blame falls on the defense. Rutgers con-trolled the ball for two-thirds of the ball game. No matter how well Wilson and Ham-ilton were connecting, they cannot do anything from the sidelines.

“!ere’s a number of things that you can point to, but they fought,” Smith said and added that he was “a little bit” surprised that Rutgers

won. !e players don’t deserve

most of the blame. !ey can’t control which plays are called, such as the choice to go for a two-point conversion a$er the third touchdown instead of the extra point by Zach Hocker.

But placing the blame on the coaches is confusing. Most fans automatically set their sights on Smith, because of his title.

Smith may not be the best place for blame, though. In April, he said that he has “al-ways let my coordinators co-ordinate,” according to an ar-ticle on ArkansasSports360.com.

If Smith is allowing the coordinators to call most of the shots – these are the same coordinators that were on the sidelines when the Razor-backs beat the Kansas State Wildcats in the Cotton Bowl – and taking a more passive

role as head coach, then the reasonable question is if the coordinators could have lost the Cotton Bowl if le$ to their own means.

!is is an unpopular statement, but maybe Smith should be more involved with the play calling. A$er all, Michigan State won games with him as head coach. !ey didn’t win many nearing the end of his time in East Lan-sing, Mich., but the Spartans never started the season 1-3 either.

A head coach is in place for a reason, and Smith should be given more control of the reins. Until then, he will serve as a #gurehead, trying to en-courage fans and the team as the Razorbacks continue sink into mediocrity.

“I’m asking that the fans don’t give up on them,” Smith said.

!e Blame Game: Where Does it Fall?Kristen CoppolaSports Editor

Ryan Miller Sta" PhotographerSenior wide receiver Cobi Hamilton broke the Southeastern Conference single-game receiving yards record with 303 against Rutgers. !e Razorbacks fell to Rutgers 35-26 Saturday.

Record Breaking Performance Marred by Loss

!e Razorbacks’ men’s ten-nis team competed in the Lou-isville Fall Invitational over the weekend, taking home two overall wins.

!e weekend started very promisingly with the Hogs go-ing 8-1 on the #rst day of play.

“We had a great day at the Louisville Invitational and I couldn’t be more pleased,” head coach Robert Cox said.

All four Razorbacks in ac-tion won their #rst matches of the day Friday. Freshman Santi-ago Munoz who was playing in

only his second college tourna-ment defeated Kentucky’s Mi-chael Binder and Youngstown State’s Rodrigo Campos before the day was over.

Sophomore Victor Hoang also accounted for two victories for Arkansas at the expense of Victor !eorin of Youngstown State and Eze Gils of Tennessee Tech.

Junior Pete !omason had a bye in the #rst round of play and defeated Murray State’s Dylan Gerlach later in the day.

Junior Mike Nott defeated Eastern Kentucky’s Joao Maio before accounting for the only loss on the day for the Hogs at the hands of Kentucky’s Maks

Gold.Both doubles teams also

won on day one with Nott and Hoang defeating a pair from Morehead State and Munoz and !omason defeating West Alabama.

“One thing that I feel helped us win those matches was our conditioning,” coach Cox said. “To be able to play two singles and a doubles match in one day really shows how much our conditioning has paid o".”

Saturday was also a success-ful day for the Razorbacks.

!omason defeated More-head State’s Hugo Almonte to advance to the #nals of Flight C. In the #nals, !omason beat

Honorio Fernandez of West Alabama to win overall.

Nott also collected another win for the Hogs with a victory over Youngstown State’s Silviu Mistreanu.

In doubles, Munoz and !omason defeated a pair from Youngstown State to advance to the semi#nals of %ight B. !ey went on to beat a pair from Morehead State to win the #-nals.

“We had a solid day to-day,” assistant coach Eduardo Rincon said of the second day of play. “We started very well, but didn’t #nish as strong as we would have hoped. But overall we played some quality tennis.”

!omason Collects Two WinsLiz BeadleSta! Writer

Photo courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsJunior Pete !omason advanced to the #nals after beating Hugo Almonte of Morehead State University. !omason beat Honorio Fernandez of West Alabama to win overall.

!e UA volleyball team swept the Georgia Bulldogs (25-16, 25-23, 25-18) Sunday a$ernoon in Athens, Ga.

!e Razorbacks improved to 11-3 overall and 2-1 in the SEC.

“It was a good win for us to-day,” head coach Robert Pulliza said. “Our players were focused all match and knew what need-ed to be done. It was a great match for them, and I’m very proud of the way they played today against Georgia. We had great balance throughout the match.”

Roslandy Acosta led the Ra-zorbacks with 12 kills. !e Ra-zorbacks held the Bulldogs to a .067 hitting percentage.

!e Hogs trailed by a point

early in the #rst set but came back and scored seven straight points to take a 9-3 lead. Acosta and Jasmine Norton led the run with three kills and an ace.

!e Razorbacks kept the momentum and took the lead 18-8. Acosta’s seventh kill of the game brought the team set point. Liz Fortado and Janeliss Torres-Lopez closed out the set with a block.

!e second set was close early and the score was tied seven times until Arkansas took o". Amanda Anderson’s kill to make the score 13-12 got the momentum going.

Ashley Vazquez’s ace and Acostsa’s kill extended the lead to 18-13. Norton and Torres-Lopez teed up for a block to give Arkansas set point. !e Bull-dogs won the next six points until Norton’s kill put the Hogs up 2-0.

Georgia took an early 6-4

lead in the third set, but Ar-kansas took back the lead, 8-7 a$er a block from Fortado and Torres-Lopez. !e Razorbacks maintained the lead the rest of the set.

Emily Helm had an ace to give the Hogs a 21-16 lead. Nor-ton scored three of the next four points on kills, including the match winner. Norton picked up seven of her nine kills in the third set.

“If you want to win champi-onships, you have to be able to win on the road,” Pulliza said. “!at’s a reality for any team. We want to win a champion-ship. !at is something we’ve talked about. It’s one of our goals and we’re working to get there.”

!e Hogs will return to Fayetteville next weekend for Southeastern Conference matchups with Auburn and LSU at Barnhill Arena.

Hogs Roll Over GeorgiaJessie McMullenSta! Writer

VOLLEYBALL

TENNISCarolina’s Courtney Angotti-Smith took a shot a$er Roliard had already dived for the ball. !e shot went in the net, but the referees called Angotti-Smith o"sides, so there was no score.

South Carolina’s second near-score came with one min-ute le$ of #rst-half play. Roliard went down on the play due to a foul by the Gamecocks, and the referees discounted the goal that was made.

Roliard had three saves in the #rst half alone and four saves altogether.

Arkansas had a scramble of chances around the 20 minute mark. When one shot went near Gamecock goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo, it slid o" her #ngers and went out, giving Arkansas their lone #rst half corner kick. !e kick was denied by Game-cock defenders.

Soon a$er, Okoro made a breakaway run and sent the ball over to junior mid#elder Taylor Green, who took a shot that landed on the le$ post of the goal and bounced out at six minutes remaining.

“Our #rst half was not good,” head coach Colby Hale said. “We didn’t compete, we didn’t #ght, we didn’t battle. We got completely outworked. We didn’t communicate. It was not good enough.”

At 41:15 in the second half, freshman forward Ashleigh Ellenwood sent the ball over to George, who crossed the ball to Okoro. Okoro shot the ball to the right side of the net and South Carolina’s D’Angelo pushed the ball out to the right, giving the Razorbacks a corner kick.

In the #nal 10 minutes of second-half play, George crossed multiple times from the le$ #eld to the inside, but to no avail. At 4:58 George broke away from defenders to take the ball up the line. Her shot was just over and to the right of the goal.

“!e positives are they re-

sponded well in the second half and overtimes,” said Hale. “We were good and we had plenty good chances to win. But this was an SEC Sunday a$ernoon. South Carolina is traditionally one of the best, hard-working, grinding teams in the country, and in the last 65 minutes we were every bit as good if not better.”

“We played two really good teams that we got results from,” sophomore defender Kaylyn Cooper said. “I think the team’s very happy with this weekend, but we need to learn some stu" from today and come out #ght-ing in the #rst half as well as the second half.”

!e Razorbacks’ next game is 6 p.m. Sept. 28 against Ten-nessee in Knoxville.

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