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!esis Showcases Student WorkStudent art exhibition are being displayed throughout Fayetteville this month. Full Story, Page 2

AMPed Up for Spring BandsComing soon in April and early May, the AMP will be hosting the country act Little Big Town and the bluegrass exemplars, Old Crow Medicine Show.Full Story, Page 5

Hogs Drop 2 SEC Matches on Road !e Razorback women’s tennis team lost two conference matches this weekend. Full Story, Page 7

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Child advocacy groups in northwest Arkansas are orga-nizing events throughout the month of April to commemo-rate childhood abuse month.

!e Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter in Benton-ville is organizing the annual Starlight Gala on April 27, which will include a silent auc-

tion and a concert by !e Band Perry.

!e Department of Hu-man Services is o"ering child abuse training sessions and participating in a day of silence on social media on April 17 to remember those a"ected by child abuse. Up until that event, they will be posting sta-tuses and pictures related to child abuse.

Law enforcement agencies and local businesses will also have pinwheels in their lawns

representing children who have su"ered from abuse.

Helen Ward, outreach advocate for Peace at Home Family Shelter, said she en-courages students majoring in social work to volunteer at some of the local nonpro#t child advocacy groups such as the women’s shelter in Rogers and the Child Safety Center in Springdale.

“Any student, no matter where you work and what you do in your spare time, needs to

research signs and symptoms of child abuse because it makes it easier to report,” Ward said. “Being able to volunteer and work with kids one on one can teach them how to talk to a child who is being abused and how to help that child.”

More than 6,700 children are abused or neglected in Arkansas each year, accord-ing to the Northwest Arkansas Children’s Shelter report. On a

Northwest Arkansas Fights Child Abuse

Residents’ Interhall Con-gress swore in new o$cers and voted on bill proposed last week —all three passed.

RIC voted for new o$cers last week. Onnissia Harries remains as president, while three new o$cers were elect-ed. Elizabeth Reynolds was sworn in as vice president, Cody Rader was sworn in as secretary-treasurer and Kath-erine Petit was sworn in as programs director.

Cabinet con#rmation in-volved the swearing in of Sh-antell Mathis as director of leadership development, Ra-chel Knight as national com-munications coordinator, Adrian Ordorica as director of advertising and public re-lations and Lauren Hake as director of sustainability.

!e three bills proposed last week included allocating funds to purchase new sound equipment, funds to assist with the People Respecting Individual Di"erences and Equality (PRIDE) talent show and funds to assist Holcombe Hall purchase a pool table.

!e bill to allocate funds to purchase new sound equipment passed. !is will give $1,413 for the purchase of speaker cables, a sound-board, microphones and mis-cellaneous items.

“We only own two mi-crophones, which have proved not su$cient to the needs of the university com-munity, and while we own enough speaker cords for all the speakers, many of them are very short, fairly old and newer and longer cords would be much more useful and practical,” according to the bill.

!e bill to allocate funds to assist with the PRIDE tal-ent show passed. !is will provide $800 for food, drinks and advertising for the event.

“!e goal of this event is to provide a safe and en-couraging environment for any student to share what they love doing with other students, faculty and sta", include playing music, read-ing poetry, exhibiting art, etc. and through this, we

RIC Senate Swears in New O!cers

Journalism Days (J-Days) is a weeklong event orga-nized by the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism to highlight the journalism de-partment. This year’s event is marked by many speakers and a scholarship reception.

The speakers for J-Days include a former Supreme Court reporter, a senior producer of KNWA and a former editor of the Phila-delphia Inquirer, according to the J-Days website.

The highlight of J-Days is on Wednesday. At 4 p.m., there will be a scholarship reception at the Alumni House for students in the journalism department. More than 30 students

will receive scholarships, although in amounts un-known to them.

After the scholarship re-ception, there will be a short reception for Roy Reed, one of the speakers featured. Reed, a former UA profes-sor and writer for the New York Times, will be speaking with Gene Foreman, former editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, on the subject of ethics. This lecture begins at

7 p.m.Other exciting events in-

clude an ice cream social for graduating seniors. From 12-2 p.m. on Tuesday out-side of Kimpel, ice cream will be given out as a fare-well to all seniors, but espe-cially those in the journal-ism department.

There will also be a free seminar held on Friday to

Events Highlight Journalism Department

Caroline Potts Sta" PhotographerAshley Saldana, Reina Ruiz, and Julie Petty speak at the Diversity Panel in the Multicultural Center, Monday, April 8. !e event was hosted by the Journalism department’s J-Days class, and was the kicko" of the J-Days week.

Megan SmithSta! Writer

Jaime DunawaySenior Sta! Writer

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Kris Johnson Sta" PhotographerNichole Howard’s exhibit “Cycle” began Monday, April 8 at the Fine Arts Center Gallery in the art department. !e exhibit will run throughout the week, with a reception scheduled for Friday, April 12.

Bringing the Outside Inside

!e Pat Walker Health Center is creating a new program to further assist students in quick and easy on-campus health services.

Surrounding campuses such as the University of Ar-kansas Medical School and the University of Arkansas in Fort Smith (UAFS) have had dental hygiene clinics present on campus for sev-eral years. While students and sta" at the Fayetteville campus have been persis-tent on acquiring these ser-vices, nothing has been put into e"ect until recently.

!e planning for on-campus dental services be-

gins this spring, and servic-es will hopefully be in place within the next two years, according to Mary Alice Sera#ni, director of the Pat Walker Health Center.

“Dental services on cam-pus are helpful because I can use my on-campus health insurance and create an appointment in between classes that is convenient for me,” said Carson Lane, UAFS junior.

Services available for the UAFS campus include peri-odontal scaling and root planing, dental prophylaxis (cleaning), dental radio-graphs (X-rays), examina-tion by dentist, topical %uo-ride treatment, oral hygiene instruction, and dental seal-

Dental Services Coming to CampusStephanie CarlsonSta! Writer

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Student art exhibition are being displayed throughout Fayetteville during the month of April.

!e two exhibit receptions showcase the works of cur-rent M.F.A. and honors B.F.A. advanced sculpture and ad-vanced painting students in the department of art.

!e #rst group honors thesis exhibition started the event with “Cra&ed Identi-ties,” featuring the works of graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts honors students Em-

ily Chase, Melissa Love and Jeanne Vockroth. !e exhibi-tion will be on display until April 25 at East Square Plaza, located on the Fayetteville Square.

!e second group exhibi-tion will close the reception April 26 with BYO.

BYO will showcase the works by #rst- and second-year graduate students as well as advanced sculpture, advanced painting and ad-vanced drawing students.

A variety of exhibits will be showcased throughout the month of April, including the works of advanced painting, sculpture and drawing stu-dents.

Eight advanced sculp-ture students will design and build installations for speci#c spaces, and the resulting proj-ects will range from three-dimensional works integrat-ing sound and light to video installations, according to the Arkansas Newswire.

!e #rst exhibit presented by Dilenia Garcia entitled “Toile” opened April 1-5 in the Fine Arts Center Gallery, featuring a painting series that explored material culture in constructions of taste in manufactured fabrics.

From April 8-12 in the Fine Arts Center Gallery, Nichole Howard presents the works of “Cycle,” featuring

ceramic pieces subsidiary to the yearlong experiments the artist tended to in growing her own food and medicinal herbs.

An assortment of art exhibits will be presented throughout the month of April as graduate students’ thesis projects are put on dis-play.

Facilities Management and the department of art at the UA have generously support-ed these projects, according to the Arkansas Newswire.

All events are free and open to the public at the de-partment of art’s Fine Arts Center Gallery and at East Square Plaza.

!esis Showcases Student Work

Kathleen Pait Sta" PhotographerMelissa Love speaks with guests about her thesis work on exhibit at East Square Plaza, !ursday, April 4. Love, along with two other art students, Emily Chase and Jeanne Vockroth, hosted an opening reception event !ursday to begin their thesis exhibit.

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Two UA alumni will be receiving honorary degree during the spring 2013 grad-

uation ceremony. Ricardo Martinelli,

president of Panama, and Lee Bodenhamer, Arkan-sas businessman and phi-lanthropist, will receive honorary degrees for “their achievements in politics and business and for their strong support for education,” ac-cording to a news release.

Martinelli, who will re-ceive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, credits the skills he learned at the UA “as the best preparation he received to become a busi-ness leader and the leader of his country,” according to release.

Martinelli graduated from the UA in 1973 and won the presidential elec-tion in 2009 to become the

Panama. Bodenhamer was born in

El Dorado Ark. and gradu-ated from the UA in 1957.

Later in 1986, he created the Bodenhamer Founda-tion that provides #nancial support for organizations including the University of Arkansas for Medical Sci-ences, the Washington Re-gional Foundation, the Bap-tist Health Foundation and the St. Vincent Medical Cen-ter Foundation, according to a news release.

Martinelli and Boden-hamer will receive their degrees during the All Uni-versity Commencement cer-emony at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, May 11, and they will also both address the graduating class of 2013.

“I’m very pleased that we are able to recognize two such distinguished Univer-sity of Arkansas alumni in this way,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart in a news release.

ants.!e UAFS campus is a

model for talks and planning of what will be provided by the clinic on the Fayetteville campus.

A main di"erence between the two clinics, however, will

be how they are run. At the UAFS clinic, students who are majoring in dental hygiene run the clinic, and services are also provided to the pub-lic. Services at the Fayetteville clinic will strictly be provid-ed to students and sta", and

planning shows that the ser-vices are to be carried out by professionals only.

Currently, students with health insurance through the UA are not provided with dental insurance, and many have to get supplemental in-

surance.!e new clinic will cut

down on the amount of stu-dents who must get supple-mental insurance and en-courage many students to opt into the UA health care plan rather than use private plans.

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Scott Strazzante Chicago Tribune/MCTDr. Phillip S. Finkel removes a dental amalgam from the mouth of Veronica Spino at Dental Professionals inSkokie, Illinois on !ursday, March 28, 2013.

ASG Legislation on Second Reading:Resolution No. 47 – A Resolution for Clinical Depression GPA ForgivenessBill No. 22 – !e Information Accessibility ActBill No. 24 – A Bill to Fund a Safe Ride Expansion Pilot ProgramBill No. 25 – !e ASG MacBookPro Bill of 2013Resolution No. 49 – A Resolution to Implement Razorbucks at Sporting EventsResolution No. 50 – A Resolution to Support Soft Closing of Dickson Street EstablishmentsBill No. 27 – An Act Calling for the Creation for a Traditions CouncilResolution No. 51 – A Resolution for Student Representation on the Board of TrusteesResolution No. 52 – A Resolution for Course Change Email Noti#cation through ISISResolution No. 53 – A Resolution for a Varied ROTC Parking Plan

ASG Legislation on First Reading:Bill No. 23 – A Bill to Allocate Funds for the De-velopment of a Safe Ride and “Blue Light” AppResolution No. 54 – A Resolution to Alleviate De-lays and Improve Pedestrian Safety at the Harmon Avenue Parking FacilityResolution No. 55 – A Resolution to Remove Discretion from Hiring Requirements for Supple-mental Instruction LeadersResolution No. 56 – A Resolution to Support the Installation of a Crosswalk Signal at the Intersec-tion of Leverett and MapleResolution No. 57 – !e Arkansas Flagship Cam-pus Brand Preservation Resolution of 2013Resolution No. 58 – A Resolution in Support of the University System World CampusResolution No. 59 – A Resolution to Support the Establishment of Safe Smoking on CampusBill No. 28 – !e Fresh HOGS Codi#cation Bill of 2013Resolution No. 60 – A Resolution in Support of an OnlineNo. 60 – A Resolution in Support of an Online Syllabus BankResolution No. 61 – A Resolution to Universalize Grading in the Fay Jones School of ArchitectureResolution No. 62 – A Resolution to Support Interlibrary Loan Use for Graduate Students in Obtaining Books Required by Syllabi

Students can make their opinion heard during the ASG meetings 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Graduate Education Building. !ere is a public comment section during each meeting where students can speak for two minutes before the legislation starts, said Mike Norton, ASG Chair of Senate.

Results of these legislations will be published a"er they are voted on.

national level, 1 in 5 children are abused on a regular basis, Ward said.

Child abuse can include physical, sexual and psycho-

logical maltreatment, but the most common type of child abuse is neglect, Ward said.

Most women who come into Peace at Home lack par-enting techniques and strate-gies because they have been preoccupied with protecting themselves or their children from an abuser, Ward said. By the time children get to a shelter, they have already been neglected, and it be-comes harder for a mother to parent, she said.

Children who su"er from child abuse are more likely to

be involved in teen pregnan-cy, substance abuse and crim-inal activity, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. About

30 percent of children who are abused will later abuse their own children, continu-ing the cycle of child abuse, according to the department.

“I think child abuse ex-ists on a level a lot of people in the community can’t com-prehend,” Ward said. “It’s everywhere. Raising com-munity awareness is impor-tant because it makes people look for child abuse, and if people are looking for abuse, it’s easier to help victims. It’s important because it can save a child’s life.”

help local journalists with business stories. !e semi-nar lasts all day and covers topics such as uncovering small-business stories, how to make government budgets into an interesting story and how to successfully incorpo-rate data into a story.

Many speakers will be speaking to a particular class, but everyone is invited to sit in and listen. On Tuesday, Gina Shelton, former Su-preme Court reporter, will be speaking at 11 a.m. to a Media Law class. At the same time, Christina Spencer, se-nior producer of KNWA, will be speaking to a Broadcast Reporting I class.

!ursday is full of speak-ers. Lisa Brence Mendenhall, assistant news director of KNWA, will be speaking to the same Broadcast Report-

ing I class. Also at 11 a.m. will be a 40/29 News Panel at the UATV studio. At 12:30 p.m., a discussion panel on how to get hired will be held at Kimpel 312.

!e #nal event on !urs-day is a reception to honor those involved in the Lemke Journalism Project.

!e Lemke Journalism Project is a newspaper pro-gram for high school students interested in writing about diversity issues in northwest Arkansas, sponsored by the Walter J. Lemke department of journalism, Tyson Foods Inc. and Northwest Arkansas Newspapers Inc., according to the project’s website.

J-Days is full of events for not only journalism students, but every student on campus. !e full event calendar can be found at jdays.uark.edu.

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“I think child abuse exists on a level a lot of people in the community can’t comprehend.”

Helen WardOutreach Advocate for Peace at Home Family Shelter

Student created schedule-making tool is now being used throughout the country.

Tyler McCarley created My-WorkShi& a program that is now being used by about 5,000 organization, companies and educational institutions across

the country. He came up with this idea for the program a&er working at a pizza parlor in Little Rock, according to a news release.

“I began thinking that there has to be a better way to do this,” he said. “ You could create a scheduling program that was online and could save compa-nies money by saving managers’ time. And if it would facilitate communication in the work-place by allowing employees to easily check their schedules

and request changes, then that would be a big bene#t,” he said in a release.

!is program helps manag-ers to create schedules for their employees.

“Right now we’re in start-up mode,” he said in a news release. “We’re trying to bring together the team. I’m a college student; there are a lot of other college students I think would like to

be involved.”McCarley will be graduating

from the UA with a marketing degree from the Sam M. Wal-ton College of Business and is working to build a team to help support the new version of his program.

“!e updated version fea-tures a re-designed user in-terface, manager dashboard, auto-scheduling feature, as well as timesheets that export into QuickBooks for payroll,” ac-cording to a release.

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“I began thinking that there has to be a better way to do this.”

Tyler McCarleyMyWorkShift Creator

hope to build con#dence in these students as well as to provide the chance to forge a network of supportive and open-minded individuals,” according to the bill.

!e #nal bill to assist Hol-combe Hall in the purchase of a pool table passed. !is

would have allocated to give the hall $200 for the pur-chase.

!is purchase will make “an investment in the hall’s appeal,” according to the bill.

Next week, RIC will vote on a resolution to create a constitutional convention.

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Traveler Quote of the Day

“Any student, no matter where you work and what you do in

your spare time, needs to research signs and symptoms of child

abuse because it makes it easier to report.”

Helen Ward, Peace at Home Family Shelter“Northwest Arkansas Fights Child Abuse” Page 1

It’s just what’s on my mind. Every day, I’m inching toward graduation, so every single day, I’m looking at job and graduation prospects. Every-thing I read is more promis-ing. Economy is on the rise. KNWA News reported Wash-ington County has one of the fastest-growing local econo-mies in the nation. !ere are jobs available for college graduates.

I’ve heard all the success stories. My sister gradu-ated with a communications degree and is now running fundraising for a Catholic organization from Colorado west. A close friend of mine is headed to Dubai for a while with her job. One friend is working with Nike. And quite a few of my friends have jobs at KNWA and 40/29 right here in Fayetteville.

It only gets me more ex-cited for life and the endless opportunities a"er school. However, a recent article in the Wall Street Journal is bringing me back to earth.

College graduates, even with the rising economy, are accepting non-specialty jobs at minimum wage.

!e WSJ reported this trend may continue regard-less of how quickly the econ-omy grows. Just last year,

284,000 college graduates were in these low-skilled jobs, according to the WSJ. While these numbers are down from the 327,000 graduates in low-skilled jobs in 2007, it’s still a double the number from 2007.

!e labor force with col-lege degrees has been rising over this same period, so a large percentage of graduates are not at the “bottom of the earnings ladder,” according to the WSJ.

However, this should be a reality check for seniors who haven’t looked at the job op-portunities available to them. A minimum-wage job may be the only glamorous o#ering you get right a"er school.

How long can you hold o# without a job? In the case of emergency, if you need mon-ey, as most of us do, you will accept the $rst job you come across, regardless of wage. If nothing else, it will buy some time through a few months of rent while you look for the more specialized job.

It isn’t what any of us want — minimum wage with a degree from a top-rate uni-versity like the UA. However, seniors who aren’t already looking for jobs and contact-ing potential employers, pre-pare yourself for all options, including a minimum-wage, low-skilled job.

Don’t take the rising econ-omy as a sure thing. Include a grain of salt. Understand there is still a lot of work to do and the job market is still competitive. If you aren’t get-ting the $50,000 job o#er, you aren’t the only one.

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

Don’t Aim for the Minimum

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To a certain degree, ev-erybody likes to act. At one time or another, we all pre-tend like we know what’s go-ing on or what we’re doing with our lives because we don’t like to show we are vul-nerable. It’s scary.

People overlook their weaknesses and focus on things they can excel at, be-cause being vulnerable is bad … right? Most of us don’t want to claim our %aws. We hide them. We only present the most polished versions of ourselves, instead of the less-than-pristine-but-far-more-accurate versions.

However, during the re-$ning process, we can get a little too overzealous in our polishing. While we’re busy hiding our weaknesses, we bu#er out a little bit of our-selves, too.

Without embracing our-selves — %aws and all — it’s di&cult to be truly happy.

In order to take chances, it’s important to learn to live with this vulnerability. When we come to terms with it, then we can look to better things.

In a TED video from 2010, Brene Brown, a research pro-fessor at the University of Houston, interviewed people who thought of themselves as individuals worthy of belonging. !ey had a few characteristics in common, including an acceptance of personal vulnerability.

“!ey believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful,” Brown said. In their interviews, they talked about the necessity of vulnerability.

“If it’s not broke, don’t $x it,” seems to be the reigning philosophy. It’s tough to leave the safety and assurance of what you currently have to seek something better. If the outcome isn’t a certainty, it’s even more di&cult to make that choice.

It’s impossible to regu-late every aspect of your life. You can’t predict, let alone control, what other people do. No matter how hard you $ght, there are going to be times when you are vulner-

able. Relinquishing control is

necessary for growth. Some-times you have to take chanc-es. You have to make a blind decision and see how it plays out, hoping that it works the way you want. !e larger chances you take, the greater your potential growth is.

Being vulnerable can be scary, but it’s worth it.

Careers, relationships, involvement in organiza-tions or teams — these may require you to take a step out of your comfort zone.

When you take chances, you open yourself up for op-portunities that you wouldn’t have if you never strayed from the “safe path.”

!ere isn’t a guarantee things will work out how you want. You may not get the job. You might have set your-self up for heartbreak. You might get cut from a team tryout.

You can only plan things out for so long before act-ing on them. !ere comes a point when you have to make a decision. No matter how elaborate the dream, it just can’t compare to the real thing.

When you let fear of fail-ure rule your life, there are several other implications. Anxiety can lead to regret,

strained relationships or sensitivity to feeling judged, according to a Pat Walker Health Center pamphlet on anxiety.

A"er you face your fears and decide to step outside of your comfort zone, the way things turn out is completely out of your control. You are going to be vulnerable.

If things work out how you want, go celebrate.

However, if they don’t work out the way you planned, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate. Either keep working to get what you want, or it may be time to di-rect your e#orts in a di#erent direction.

Without that moment of vulnerability, however, you can’t move on with your life.

Being vulnerable won’t always be easy, nor will it be a pleasant experience. How-ever, if you want your life to move forward, it’s essential.

It may be frightening, but the only way to reach your dreams is to accept your vul-nerability and put yourself on the line.

Shawnya Wethington is a sophomore journalism, Eng-lish major and marketing mi-nor and a sta! writer for the Arkansas Traveler.

!e Upside to Being Vulnerable

Shawnya WethingtonSta# Columnist

TV Shows Re#ect Cultural Attitude

As followers of “!e Walk-ing Dead” know, season three ended a while back. So many college students love the show and, as a non-fan, I wondered why something so gruesome and disturbing could be so popular. !en I realized as a culture we’ve been getting darker and darker over the last 20 years, and this show is only an extension of that. !e show business is becoming more extreme in order to shock and scare our desensitized genera-tion.

If you listen for it, every few days on campus you’ll hear a “zombie apocalypse” joke. It seems to be a normal college game: What would you do, what would you not do and how would you prepare for a zombie apocalypse? And my question always is: Of all our problems, why in the world are “zombie apocalypses” on the list?

!en I realize all “apoca-lypses” are on the list, real and unreal. We are the generation of kids in 9/11. We’ve grown up in a culture infused with doubt. Doubt of our power and, in the a"ere#ects, doubt

of our government. We were shown we were not invincible, bad things happen and some-times nothing can stop them. We’ve grown up in a time when science rapidly changed and, in turn, changed our beliefs. More countries developed the ability to create nuclear weap-ons. !e biggest topic for years in our current-events essays and assignments was “weap-ons of mass destruction.” Of course our generation is going to be talking about “apocalyps-es” — we have been exposed to that way of thinking our entire lives.

Look back at some of the most successful movies of all time. “Gone with the Wind,” a sentimental depiction of the Civil War; “Star Wars,” a Hol-lywood space western; “E.T.,” a story of friendship with an alien; and now the current top movie, “Avatar,” a story of domination by a lying govern-ment that has depleted Earth of all its resources with plans of depleting another planet of theirs. !at might be a slight overstatement, but you get the idea.

Our dark state of mind is not limited to television and movies. It’s in our literature, if not more so. !e Pulitzer Prize-winning book “!e

Road” by Cormac McCarthy could be considered the best post-9/11 novel. It isn’t even about how the world ends, but about the time a"er the world has ended. For younger read-ers, “!e Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a not-so-far-future depiction of a govern-ment forcing children to $ght and kill each other every year in a publicized event. Compare that to 1993 when “!e Giver” by Lois Lowry came out. We were too young to read it at the time, but it was a popular young-adult book that created a stir because of its use of euth-anization by the government. !at’s nothing compared to “!e Hunger Games” and the controversy that has arisen from it. Imagine 40 years ago coming out with a book about children killing each other. It just wouldn’t have blown up into a huge success like the novels today.

Even our children’s movies are starting to re%ect our dark-ening culture. Take “Wall-E,” for example. A cute love story between two cute robots, un-til you realize humans have gotten fat, are out of control and have destroyed the earth, so they are %oating around in space in a world of mind-less food and entertainment.

Again, that might be a slight overstatement, but you get the idea.

Our entertainment re%ects our culture, which re%ects our values and beliefs, which re-%ect where our thoughts and priorities are. At this time we seem to be pessimistic of what the future holds. We’re disillu-sioned with the government. Job prospects do not look good. And we realize we’re not safe from the world. Instead of escaping into better places of the imagination, we’re escap-ing into apocalypses.

But everything travels in cycles. One day, it will turn around. Movies, books, shows and even media have all gone back and forth in the positive and negative portrayal of the world. !ere will be a time when we look back on our col-lege years and wonder why we talked about zombies, death and destruction all the time. We’ll think, “Wow, we were pessimistic back in those days.”

Well, maybe we will. !at is to say if we live that long and the world doesn’t end before we get a chance to.

Hebron Chester is a sta! cartoonist and writer for the Arkansas Traveler.

Hebron ChesterSta# Columnist

Joe DelNeroOpinion Editor

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“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

!inking about walking onto the weight "oor at the gym can be an intimidating thought. Whether it is intimidating because of the “gym rats” that are always there, the bulkiness you are afraid you might pack on or that you simply would have no idea what to do once you got there. Contrary to what you might think, starting a weight-training program does not take much more than a basic knowl-edge of it.

First things #rst: Learning some gym lingo will help you understand how to set up your program. For each weight exercise you do you have a number of sets to complete which each encompass a number of reps (short for rep-etitions). For example, say you are doing bicep curls. One complete motion for your bicep curl, meaning down to your side and li$ing back up, would be one rep. So one bicep curl equals one rep. Say you did 12 reps and then put the weights down and rested for about a minute. You have completed one set by doing your 12, and a$er your rest when you start and complete

another 12 reps, you will have completed two sets.

Next, an easy way for a be-ginner to start out is by break-ing up their muscle groups by upper body and lower body. Upper body de#nes the up-per half of the body, which includes primary muscles such as biceps, triceps, shoulders, chest and back. Lower body is the lower portion of the body,

which includes primary muscles such as legs and glutes. !is is not the only way to split up your muscle groups, but it is a great place to start.

Over one week, al-ternate doing upper body and lower body from one day to the next. For ex-ample, on Monday do upper body, on Tues-day do lower body, on Wednesday rest your

muscles, on !ursday do up-per body again, on Friday do lower body again and then rest on Saturday and Sunday. It is essential to avoid doing the same muscle group two consecu-tive days because this does not give the muscle group enough

time to recover. Our bodies need to rest in order to rebuild.

At the gym there is typically a free weight area and

a ma-

chine weight area. !e weight area con-

tains dumbbells, bar-bells, benches, etc. and

the machine weight area contains many machines, which mimic free weight exercises.

It is up to individual preference whether free weights or machine weights are used and there is no reason that they cannot be inter-

mingled. Using both free weights and machine weights gives your body the variety that it needs.

A few important things to keep in mind is to always start with a light

weight to warm-up and then in-crease weight slowly to ensure

safety. Another important thing is that form is much more im-

portant than weight. Main-taining the correct form

guarantees results while pushing a heavy weight that prevents you from maintaining the correct form is not advanta-geous and also dan-gerous.

Lastly, I am speaking speci#cally

to women. A lot of females think that by adding weight training to their workout they will become bulky. Ladies, let me tell you, this is a myth. !e results you want to achieve can be easily manipulated when using weights. If you want to tone your body without the bulk, then do a high number of reps (some-where between 12-20) and a light weight. Alter-natively, if you are trying to build muscle, then do a low number of reps (6-10) and a heavy weight.

My hope is that you #nd this helpful because adding weight training has many bene#ts. Along with building muscle, you are also building con-#dence to make that weight room a whole lot less intimidating.

With winter days and warm sunny days in our future, spring has finally sprung and it is time to do some much needed spring cleaning.

Spring cleaning is all about making those hard decisions everybody already knows the answers to, but nobody wants to say. Procras-tination is any spring-cleaners worst enemy and the sooner you start the sooner you’ll be done. There are only a few words you need to say when deciding what stays and goes. Here it is: “I don't need this!” It's as simple as that.

The first and most important step in spring cleaning is organization. I'm a firm believer in the mantra, "How you start is how you'll finish," so spring cleaning should be no exception from the rule. A good structural foundation of organization within your clos-ets, dressers, etc. should be the ultimate end goal you want to achieve by spring cleaning.

When I spring clean my ultimate goal usu-ally is a combination of several desired end results. My top goal is always first and fore-most to have more space. With more closet space you find clothes quicker and easier and if you’re a proclaimed shop-a-holic like me, space makes room for more clothes. I also have a goal to donate at least two large garbage bags of clothes to the Goodwill Do-

nation Center. Although two is a small num-ber, with goals like these you definitely have quite a bit of work ahead of you.

The most efficient way to start organiz-ing your closet is to go through your closet from the most recent season that ended and start clearing things out from there. So let's start with winter, the season that seemed like it would never end.

Go through your closet and sort through all the items that you did not wear this year.

Next, evaluate why you didn't wear those items. The most apparent reason why a lot of people don’t wear items from year to year is because of trend-worthiness. Sometimes an item that was popular last year will not be

popular this year. Before throwing the item out I challenge you to try and find some use for it, or even put a modern twist on it to infuse some utility and life back into the gar-ment.

Another top reason why items are dis-carded is sizing. Fit is a major reason why

clothing items aren’t worn from year to year. Whether it is that the item has been stretched from its original shape or that it is no longer flattering to your body. An additional rea-son why some might opt to keep a piece of clothing may be weight goals. The only note to take heed of will be that you should give yourself a realistic and attainable timeframe to be able to reach the weight necessary to have the clothing item fit better.

Diving deeper into the topic of evaluat-ing your clothes, blunt honesty is absolutely necessary to successfully make the transition from one year to the next. Spring cleaning is just like dieting, moving, or doing any task that requires will of self and the determina-

tion to get rid of excess baggage. One thing I always try to tell myself is that letting go of a piece of clothing makes room for one more new item that can change your wardrobe.

If the items you're going through were weather appropriate and they fit, you must ask yourself the question of why you didn't wear it. Following that, you must also evalu-ate why you still want to keep it. Sentimental value is not a label that can be put on every item you don't want to throw away or else its meaning is null in void.

To help alleviate this transition from old items to new, or in other words moving from one year to the next, I suggest you get some practice using the skill of organizing the items you plan on donating or giving away to family, friends, or donation centers.

Spring cleaning is an art of give and take, and is a constant tug-of-war battle between who you were, who you are, and who you want to be. This purging process is tedious and taxing. The last tip I will give you is to take your time sorting and break your closet into small more manageable chunks. If you stay dedicated to spring cleaning before you know it summer will be here and you’ll have room in your closet for a brand new style definition of you.

Fans of country, bluegrass and folk should be happy with the Arkansas Music Pavilion’s upcom-ing spring lineup. Northwest Arkansas' largest outdoor concert space, located at the Washington County Fairgrounds, is featuring two bands this spring: Little Big Town and Old Crow Medicine Show.

Upbeat country-pop group Little Big Town comes to the AMP April 19 at 8 p.m. !e four-piece band, two of whom come from Arkansas, have been making music since the '90s and are known for their melodious harmonies. !ey are touring in support of their newest album, "Tor-nado," which was released in September 2011 on Capitol Records.

Opening for Little Big Town is David Nail, a polished and gentlemanly type country rocker. Born in Missouri, Nail has released two albums so far and is best known for singles "Turning Home," "Red Light" and "Let It Rain," all of which made it into the Billboard Top 20 country chart.

Later in the spring, longtime folk-fusion band Old Crow Medicine Show will grace the AMP stage. On May 4, the day a$er dead day, at 7 p.m., the band will bring their part-folk, part-bluegrass, part-alt-country sound to Fayetteville. Lauded for their four well-received studio albums to date, Old Crow Medicine show has opened for Dolly Parton at the Grand Ole Opry and is a regular guest on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion."

Tickets for both shows are available in advance at the Walton Arts Center box o%ce, at 479-443-5600 or at waltonartscenter.com. !e tickets that are le$ will be available at the AMP box o%ce at noon the day of the show. Gates for both shows open at 6 p.m.

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With only four events !n-ished at Sunday’s portion of the John McDonnell Com-bined Events, the Hog wom-en’s track team managed an early lead over other competi-tors in the heptathlon.

Senior Makeba Alcide ended the !rst day of com-petition in !rst place in the heptathlon and never lost the lead a"er that, ending with a score of 5,882 points to take the lead in the NCAA.

Alcide did not begin with such a lead, as she !nished second in the !rst event of the day, the 100-meter hurdles. Alcide’s time of 13.81 sec-onds gave her 1,005 points to kick o# her momentum. $e 100-meter hurdles was the only event Alcide didn’t win Sunday.

$e next event saw Alcide break the school record in the high jump. Alcide’s !nal clearance of 1.88 meters/6-2 topped the previous record from 2003 of 6-1 1/4. $e

jump added 1,080 points to her score and earned Alcide the Arkansas indoor and out-door school records in the high jump.

$e jump also set Alcide at No. 2 in the high jump in the NCAA and at a tie for No. 1 in the Southeastern Conference.

Alcide continued her high scoring in the shot put, tak-ing the title with a !nal mea-sure of 12.89 meters/42-3 1/2. $e !rst-place !nish and new personal best gave Alcide 720 more points.

$e !nal Sunday event, the 200-meter race, was again led by Alcide, who !nished at 24.61 seconds.

At the end of day one, Alcide had collected 3,728 points with the addition of her 200-meter score of 923 points.

Monday concluded the meet with the !nal three events: the long jump, javelin and 800-meter run.

Alcide’s second long jump of the day landed at 5.64 meters/18-6, earning her a

Hog Takes Lead in NCAA With Heptathalon Finish

With the rest of the Ar-kansas track team taking the week o# a"er celebrating an indoor National Champion-ship, only the decathletes competed for the Hogs in the John McDonnell Combined Events in Fayetteville.

$ree Hogs competed in the event, along with two Wichita State runners and a handful of unattached ath-letes.

A"er day one of the event, Matt Kirbos led the Hogs with 3,644 points a"er com-pleting half of the decathlon.

$e senior !nished day one in !"h place overall.

In the 100-meter, he !n-ished third with a time of 10.97 seconds, the !rst time in his career running a sub-11 second time.

Kirbos put up another third-place !nish in the next event, the long jump, where he jumped 7.06 meters/23-2.

In the shot put, Kirbos had a personal best of 12.72

meters/41-8 3/4 to add 650 points to to make his total score 2,345.

All three of his throws during the shot put would have been personal bests for him.

In the last two events of the day, he !nished the high

jump with a height of 1.82 meters/5-11 1/2 to give him another 644 points, and he capped his day o# with a time of 53.64 in the 400-meter.

Only a couple spots back in seventh place was Na-thanael Franks who !nished day one with 3,044 points.

He had respective !"h and sixth-place !nishes in the 100-meter and the long jump for a total of 1,579 points.

His runner-up !nish in the shot put was the top in-

Decathletes Compete at Home

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

COMMENTARY

$is week marks the begin-ning of golf season for many people. Some people will be-gin to drag their clubs out and shake the dust gathered over the winter.

Not only is the weather getting close to perfect here in northwest Arkansas, many golf enthusiasts will gather in a town in Georgia by the name of Augusta.

$at’s right, the Masters has arrived and marks a point where golf bursts back onto the scene again. Golf has cap-tured a lot of attention this year in large part because of three victories by Tiger Woods.

Despite his past and his ability to come o# very arro-gant, he wins and we all watch and awe at what he has been able to accomplish not only recently, but his whole career.

Augusta National was

opened in 1933 by co-found-ers Bobby Jones and Cli#ord Roberts. It only took one year before the !rst Masters was held and won by Horton Smith.

$e famous green jacket that every winner now puts on was not introduced until 1937, however. I have been calling the tournament the Masters thus far, but actually it was not given this formal name until 1939 when Sam Snead put on the green jacket.

$e Masters is full of a very rich history. Essentially all of the best players ever have won or at least played in this tour-nament.

Arnold Palmer, Gary Play-

er, Snead and Woods all !t into this category. Many play-ers play with every ounce of passion just to qualify for the !eld. $e !rst major of the year brings about its share of talent and drama to kick o# a stretch that the professionals prepare for every o#season.

$e par-3 contest has also been a major part of this his-toric venue. $is event is held on the eve of the regular event as a stress relief and dates back more than half a century. $e inaugural event was held in 1960 and was won by Sam Snead, who won again in 1974.

$e !eld contains tourna-ment participants, past cham-pions and honorary invitees.

$e holes vary in length from 70 to 140 yards and play over DeSoto Springs and Ike’s pond. $ere have been a col-lective 75 hole-in-ones in the event, including !ve in 2002 to mark the best all-time.

$e par-3 event is both a stress reliever and a curse, in some ways. No participant who has won the par-3 event has ever gone on to win the ac-tual Masters in the same year.

Many participants can just play for leisure and not post a score to enjoy the young cad-dies and family friendly feel-ing this event brings every year.

Many people feel that Ti-ger Woods is a favorite to slip

the green jacket on once again this year, which would make his !"h. Woods is chasing the mark at Augusta set by Jack Nicklaus’ heralded six victo-ries.

Last year’s champion Bubba Watson provided the gallery with plenty of drama Sunday last year to earn his !rst ma-jor. Another dark horse could emerge this year and snatch the jacket away from Woods or any other big name player that fans may expect to win.

Zack Wheeler is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

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Zach WheelerSta! Writer

TENNIS

$e Razorback women’s tennis team dropped two Southeastern Conference matches at Tennessee and Georgia over the weekend, but beat Kennesaw State to bring their record to 11-14 and 3-9 in conference play.

$e weekend began Friday at No. 28 Tennessee, where the Razorbacks got o# to a good start in doubles play. Claudine Paulson and Segou Jonker dropped the !rst set to the Lady Vols No. 3 doubles team in the nation, Brynn Boern and Kata Szekely 8-4.

$e next two Razorback doubles teams rallied back to clinch the doubles point with

victories. Kimberley-Ann Su-rin and Ana Lorena Belmar Hernandez won their doubles set 8-6, as did Yang Pang and Brittany Huxley by the same score, giving the Hogs a cru-cial doubles point.

“We got o# to a good start in doubles,” head coach Mi-chael Hegarty said.

Arkansas struggled in sin-gles play, but did earn a win

from Paulson over a ranked player for the third time this year. Paulson beat No. 38 Szekely in three sets, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Surin was the only other player to win a set against the Lady Vols, but ended up los-ing against Tennessee’s Cayt-lin Williams, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.

Arkansas ended up drop-ping the match against Ten-

nessee for the !rst leg of their SEC weekend trip by a score of 4-2.

$e Razorbacks next traveled to Georgia Sunday to face the Lady Bulldogs, ranked as the No. 3 team in the country by the Intercolle-giate Tennis Association, and Kennesaw State University as

Hogs Drop 2 SEC Matches on Road

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsSegou Jonker returns the ball at the Arkansas v. Georgia tennis match, Sunday, April 7.

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see DROP page 8TRACK & FIELD

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerNathanael Franks participates in the pole vault competition at the John McDon-nell Combined Events, Monday.

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$e No. 14 Arkansas men’s golf team !nished in fourth place at the Aggie Invitational over the weekend.

Sophomore $omas So-rensen posted a 4-under-par 68 in the !nal round Sunday a"ernoon at Traditions Club in Bryan, Texas.

Arkansas entered Sun-day in sixth place, but a team score of 6-under-par moved them up two places for the !nish. $e round was the sec-ond lowest round of the event, with a !eld including nine top-25 teams in the nation.

No. 2 Alabama posted an 18-under-par to secure the victory in front of No. 21 Kent State (even par), No. 4 Wash-ington (+4), Arkansas (+5) and the home team, No. 23 Texas A&M, and No. 5 UCLA at a tie at 6-over par.

“We had a great day today,” head coach Brad McMakin said. “$omas was on target all day and as a team I could not have asked for a better !-nal round. $is was perhaps the toughest !eld that we have played against all year and to come back in the !nal round and pass some very good teams tells me that we are playing our best golf at the right time of year.”

Hogs Take 4th Place at Invite

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TRACK & FIELD

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well.Arkansas dominated Ken-

nesaw State in the morning match with a 7-0 victory. No. 47-ranked Pang won in three sets, as did Huxley and Jonker.

No. 97 Paulson, Flavia Araujo and Sarah McLean all won in two sets against the Owls. $e three doubles teams that played against Kennesaw State also won eas-ily by scores of 8-2, 8-2 and 8-1.

Georgia was the second top-three team the Razor-backs have faced in the past two weeks, a"er playing No. 2 Florida in Fayetteville March 31. $e Lady Bulldogs swept

Arkansas in the a"ernoon match 7-0.

Pang was the only Ra-zorback to win a set against Georgia, but fell to No. 8-ranked Lauren Herring 4-6, 6-3, 1-0.

In doubles, the Araujo/McLean combination were tied with Georgia’s Lilly Kim-bell and Ayaka Okuno, 4-4, but the match was suspend-ed. $e Paulson/Jonker and Pang/Huxley duos fell in 8-3 and 8-2 sets, respectively.

“I thought they played the best doubles we have seen this year,” Hegarty said.

$e Razorbacks play their next match against LSU in Fayetteville Saturday.

DROP continued from page 7INVITE continued from page 7

Freshman Taylor Moore led the Hogs throughout the tournament as he tied for eighth overall with a score of 2-under-par.

Moore was six strokes be-hind the leader of the tourna-ment, and posted his second consecutive sub-par tourna-ment score and third straight top-20 !nish. Moore birdied his !rst hole and was 3-under through !ve a"er posting his !rst career eagle.

He !nished the round with only one bogey and played par golf to polish o# his 2-un-der round.

Junior Sebastian Cappel-en’s 3-over-par tournament performance earned him a spot in a tie for 18th individu-ally and Arkansas’ second best score. Cappelen posted his best round Sunday with 2-under par with three bird-ies and a lone bogey on the round.

Cappelen’s birdie on 18 was enough to move Arkan-sas into the solo fourth-place !nish to avoid a three-way tie.

Sorensen’s round of 4-un-der propelled him from a tie for 46th into a tie for 23rd individually. His season-low

round of 68 was highlighted by a bogey-free and four-birdie performance.

Sorensen jumped out early with three birdies on the !rst eight holes and remained steady with his !nal birdie on hole No. 12.

Senior Austin Cook shot 2-over-par Sunday, following his round of 4-over-par satur-day to !nish 32nd overall.

Cook bogeyed three of his !nal !ve holes to erase the 1-under-par he had put together the !rst 13 holes of the a"ernoon. Junior Joe Doramus !nished in a tie for

38th individually with a !nal round score of 2-over-par.

Freshman Nicolas Echa-varria competed as an indi-vidual in the event and moved up 10 spots a"er shooting even par Sunday. Echavarria jumped out with two bird-ies in the !rst six holes but a couple of late bogeys put his score back to even to !nish the round.

Arkansas will return to the !eld April 19-21 when they compete at the Southeastern Conference Championships at Sea Island Golf Club in St. Simons Island, Ga.

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media RelationsTaylor Moore swings at the Aggie Invitational in Bryan, Texas, Saturday, April 6.

dividual event !nish for the Hogs all day and earned him 732 points.

Franks added 723 points with a third-place !nish in the high jump with a jump of 1.91 meters/6-3 3/4, but a"er crossing !rst in the 400-me-ter, he was disquali!ed to drop him into seventh in the overall standings.

$e !nal Razorback in the event was Julius Sommer, who competed in his !rst collegiate decathlon.

A"er day one, Sommer landed right behind Franks in eighth place with 2,855 points.

His two best !nishes came in the 100 and the high jump, where he !nished sixth in both events.

He also put up two sev-enth-place !nishes in the shot put and the 400.

Former Razorback All-American Terry Prentice led the decathlon a"er day one a"er winning the 100-me-ters, long jump and high jump.

A"er this, Arkansas will remain at home and run the John McDonnell Invitational before heading to Eugene, Ore., for a dual meet against the Oregon Ducks.

DECA continued from page 7

NCAA continued from page 7fourth-place !nish and tack-ing on 741 points.

A javelin throw of 34.03 meters/111-8 proved that Al-cide had not lost her momen-tum overnight, and boosted her score again by 553 points. Alcide’s total score put her in a 34- point lead, with Wichita State’s Tanya Friesen trailing behind her.

$e !nal event of the day was the 800-meter run,

in which Alcide gained her fourth !rst-place !nish of the meet. Her time of 2:17.35 placed her !ve seconds ahead of the next fastest run-ner, and gave Alcide the 860 points she needed to win the overall event.

$e John McDonnell Invi-tational will be the next event for the Hogs. $e meet will begin Saturday, April 13, in Fayetteville.