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Legendary Arkansas Journalist Speaks TodayRoy Reed will read today from his new memoir “Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent’s Adventures with the New York Times.” Full Story, Page 3

!e Age of the Millennial Millennials have grown up with technology, more education and are more open to change, according to the Pew Center. Full Story, Page 5

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he cold has set in, and everybody on campus is feeling the squeeze that comes with the end of the semester. !is weekend, seize the opportu-nity to blow o" some steam, catch up on your

Christmas shopping and kick back to live music. Block Street businesses are organizing a “Block Street Bizarre” for Sunday. Live music will be all over Fayetteville, and Razor-back basketball is playing No. 6 Syracuse Friday night in Bud Walton. !e game is a white out, with the #rst 10,000 fans in attendance receiving a free white T-shirt. Music, sports and a local business showcase — what more could you want for the weekend?

Block Street businesses are organizing the Block Street “Bizarre” (an intentional misspelling), a holiday coun-terpart to the wildly popular Block Street Block Party in May. It takes place this Sunday from 12-4 p.m. Businesses all along the street will be having special sales and events for the Bizarre. Several businesses will have alternative Santas. !e Grinch will be visiting Little Bread Company, and Pierre Noel, direct from France/the North Pole, will be visiting French Quarters. Other activities include free marshmallow toasting, a gumbo potluck with live music at Tables n’ Ale and make-your-own stockings at IM Spa.

!e Moustache will have a trunk show for local jew-elry maker Lauren Embree, and Flying Possum is having a Birkenstock trunk show. Sound Warehouse plans to have a vinyl record auction, and Ri"ra" will o"er up holiday munchies. Many other local businesses are hav-ing sales that will be hard to pass up, including: Hound-stooth, F-Town Longboards, Fayetteville Underground and World Treasures. If you get too cold scooping up the incredible deals, the Himalayan Mountain Shop will have Lama Tinley’s homemade chai tea. If you stick around an extra hour until a$er sunset, the lights on the square are a Christmas staple in northwest Arkansas.

Block Street Block Party is one of Fayetteville’s coolest events, and there is no reason to think the Christmas version won’t be every bit as fun. Fayetteville’s local businesses are what keep this town, to borrow a phrase, funky. Instead of getting angry and having to shove your way through Walmart or the mall, spend the a$ernoon wandering around downtown with friends. With all the

sales, the excuse that you can’t a"ord local products %ies out the window. Sure, you can’t get a %at-screen TV at the Block Street Bizarre. !e products for sale, however, represent and take pride in this special place. You can’t buy that at Best Buy. More information can be found on the Block Street Bizarre Facebook event page.

Like always, Fayetteville will be crawling with music acts. Keller Williams is playing George’s on !ursday night, and Tab Benoit is coming there on Sunday. Keller Williams has been on the jam-band circuit since his 1994 debut album “Freek.” His most well-known song is “Freeker by the Speaker,” but Williams is more than the bouncy, silly song. Williams has a 1999 collaboration album “Breathe” with String Cheese Incident, and 2007’s “Dream” is one of his better albums. Just based on the fact that he has been around the jam-band scene for nearly two decades, he must have an exciting live act.

Tab Benoit is a Cajun blues guitarist from outside of New Orleans. According to his allmusic.com biography, Benoit has been hailed as a rising star in modern blues. Benoit is an old-school blues guy, and he sounds more like Stevie Ray Vaughn than more popular blues-rock groups like !e Black Keys. Even a$er listening to his music for just a few minutes, it becomes clear that this guy knows his blues.

Smoke and Barrel Tavern has video game enthusiast/comic/music act Brental%oss Friday night with !e One-Ups. On Saturday night, the bar will put up bluegrass band Fast Food Junkies and blues/country act Old Country Death. O" of Dickson, south Fayetteville has a few music options on 15th Street for Friday. Bear’s Place will have !e E"ron White Band, and Tanglewood Branch Beer Com-pany is housing Dave Baer and Friends for happy hour.

Netherfriends, an ethereal pop band out of Chicago, will be at JR’s Lightbulb Club on Block Street with Fay-etteville’s own Messy Sparkles on Saturday night. For something a little more exotic, Teatro Scarpino has salsa dancing with Latin band Calle Soul on Friday night, and on Saturday night, local improv group Portable Zoo will be at Scarpino. From the bigger names at George’s to the local sound elsewhere, it’s going to be hard to pick just a couple.

Alex MarchSta! Writer

!ursdaySmoke & Barrel Tavern

Fork & Knife

George's Keller Williams 9:30 p.m.

FridaySmoke & Barrel Tavern

Brental Floss, Lucio!, !e One-Ups

George's Backroad Anthem and Broken Okies 10 p.m.

SaturdayFayetteville Town Center

!e Little Cra$ Show: Handmade Holiday Market 10 to 6 p.m.

Smoke & Barrel Tavern Fast Food Junkies and Old Country Death Band

George's 80's Hairband Tribute- Hot Lix 10:00 p.m.

SundayBlock Avenue

Holiday Bizarre 11 a.m. To 5 p.m.

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Whitney Green Sta" PhotographerTeachers at Westwood Elementary are eager to encourage students to attend college and hoped that a tour of campus wouldinspire them to prepare for what is still a decade away, teachers said. Many students in Ann Fowler’s third grade class are planning to attend the UA and were fascinated by the tour, they said. “My favorite part was the bathrooms because they’re so fancy,” !ird-grader Julian Francis said. His classmate agreed. “Yeah they were huge and so fancy,” Jonathan Estridge said. Both students plan to attend the University of Arkansas in 2022, they said.

Future Razorbacks: Kids Get a Sneak Peek

A former Fayetteville resi-dent wrote and produced his !rst feature length !lm, "e Gordon Family Tree, !lming the movie close to home.

“I grew up there and it is just such a beautiful place,” said Ryan Schwartzman, writer, actor and producer. “I wanted to !lm the beautiful landscape.”

Ryan Schwartzman and his wife, Jennica, worked with the Seedling Film As-sociation, Purpose Picture Productions and several local sponsors in creating this !lm.

"is !lm tells the story of a man who struggles to live up to the standards of his highly successful family. An archi-tect, Freemont Gordon enjoys using his hands and decides to take a road trip across the country, building anonymous tree houses along the way.

“We wanted to make a !lm that anyone could watch and enjoy,” Schwartzman said. "is is a family !lm, but one that adults can enjoy too, Schwartzman said.

It was a dream come true to shoot this !lm in Fayette-ville, said Cassie Self, a UA graduate, !lm producer and programming chair for Seed-ling Film Association.

“Ryan Schwartzman was fabulous to work with,” Self said. "ey really did a great job in utilizing the local tal-ent for this production, Self said.

“We really want to see more production here,” Self said. “We want to retain the talent that is already here in Arkansas.”

Auditions for the !lm took place in Fayetteville, with the intention of incorporating as many locals as possible, Schwartzman said.

“"ere was an education-al aspect to our !lming as well,” Schwartzman said. Stu-dents from Fayetteville High School, John Brown Univer-sity and the UA received roles in this !lm, and Jennica went to speak to students at the high school, Schwartzman said.

Although the !lm is not wholly based on a true story, Schwartzman said there was some real-life inspiration that went into constructing some of the characters for this sto-ry.

Along the way, the main character meets a contractor who builds homes in Arkan-sas and basically teaches Gor-don to be proud of who he is and what he does, Schwartz-man said.

“"e character of the con-tractor was inspired in large part by my dad,” Schwartz-man said.

“Hopefully this will be the !rst of many !lms to be shot in Fayetteville,” Schwartzman said.

“I think it will be received very well,” Schwartzman said. “Everyone will be seeing lo-cations that they know and it will hopefully shed a positive light on Arkansas in general.”

So far this !lm has been welcomed with open arms both by Fayetteville sponsors and local residents, Schwartz-man said.

“When this !lm comes out, Arkansas would be crazy not to embrace it wholeheart-edly,” Self said.

"e cast !nished !lm-ing in Fayetteville in Octo-ber. "ey raise funds for the production from pledges by people through the website

kickstarter, local sponsors and money from the writers and cast themselves.

Sponsors for the !lm include Charlie’s Famous Cheesecakes, Natural State Treehouses, Penguin Ed’s, Greenhouse Grille, Jammin Java, Rick’s Bakery, Mama Carmen’s, Arsaga’s, Marvin’s IGA, Grey Dog Vintage Bou-tique, "e Mustache, Presi-dential Conversions and Pot-ter’s House "ri#.

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Associated Student Gov-ernment passed proposals Tuesday night to change ISIS hours, install two additional crosswalks at the Union ga-rage intersection and increase and provide supplemental in-struction for survey of calcu-lus, among others.

Senators read nearly 26 pieces of legislation during Tuesday’s time consuming meeting that lasted almost four hours.

"e lengthy agenda was a result of this year’s new ASG policy requiring senators to write at least one piece of leg-islation each semester. Tues-day was the last day to submit a proposal to senate.

As a result of not submit-ting legislation, seven sena-tors will possibly have to vacate their seats at the end of the semester, said senate chairman, Mike Norton.

By the end of the meeting, only 34 of nearly 50 senators

remained by the end of the meeting to vote on legislation.

Senators passed a resolu-tion to push back ISIS opera-tions one hour, which would mean ISIS would now operate from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. instead of 6 a.m. to 12 a.m.

While the intent was to make ISIS operations 24/7, the current technology used by the website requires ISIS to go o$ine for six hours a day, said ASG members.

“I think this is just ripe for the picking for a great resolu-tion idea next year to try and see what we can do to have a 24 hour ISIS, because it is a website,” said Sen. Will Han-sen, who argued in support of the proposal.

A proposal to combine fall and thanksgiving break failed, with senators arguing that it was nice to have a small break near the middle of the semes-ter versus all at the end.

“Last year was the !rst year that we had fall break and in the 15 years that I’ve been here, "anksgiving has never been the whole week,” said Dr. Judd Harbin, Asso-

ciate Dean of Students. "e reason that it (fall break) was put in October was for the students—so that if you were falling behind in your classes there was a break early enough in the semester that you can catch up.”

Senate also passed a pro-posal to install two additional crosswalks at the Union ga-rage intersection.

Senators proposed adding supplemental instruction, a series of weekly review ses-sions for students taking his-torically di%cult courses, to survey of calculus because it is required by many degrees and has a high failing rate, ac-cording to the proposal.

Among other passed leg-islation were proposals to in-crease the use of eco-friendly products on campus, increase fob access for engineering students to the northwest corner of Bell Engineering, expand online campus appli-cations and a proposal to en-courage UA administrators to explore options to implement no-cost uno%cial transcripts to be generated through ISIS.

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UA assistant professor, Gregory Benton, will study the reenactment of the Battle of Prairie Grove for the 150th year anniversary of the Civil War to determine the motivations for and bene!ts of the activity.

"e reenactment, which will take place Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, will be hosted by the Prairie Grove Battle!eld State Park and will charge $5 for parking with free admission to the public.

“During the weekend, there will be many lead and self-guid-ed activities including tours through the Union, Confeder-ate and civilian camps,” said Holly Houser, superintendent and historical park interpreter for the Prairie Grove Battle!eld State Park. “Also, there will be presentations of various mili-tary drills, cooking, spinning, lace making and other living history programs.”

"e battle demonstration will begin at 1 p.m. each day and will feature charges and

counterattacks and will occur on the battle!eld near the his-toric Borden House.

“"e original battle was fought on Dec. 7, 1862 and we saw about 22,000 soldiers !ght-ing most of the day with about 2,700 killed, wounded or miss-ing,” Houser said.

Before Benton was sched-uled to go to Prairie Grove, he made his way to a national conference in Hampton, Va., to present his !ndings from recent research at the National Association for Interpretation. Benton, who is an assistant pro-fessor in recreation and sports management, has presented research for several years at both national and international meetings for the association. He has interviewed reenact-ment participants as well as observed other reenactment events in northwest Arkansas.

“Civil War reenactors con-duct the work of trained in-terpreters, connecting audi-ences to historical, cultural and natural resources,” Benton said. “While most of these reenac-tors and living history practi-

tioners participate as a form of leisure or hobby, they also serve as a vital role in the overall in-terpretive programing at many historic sites and battle!elds.”

However, there is a di&er-ence between reenactors and living history practitioners, Benton said.

Reenactors participate in staged battles while liv-ing history practitioners give non-battle demonstrations of life during the Civil War era including meetings, cooking, sewing, music, dances and camp life. Benton’s research presentation in Virginia cov-ered a case study, which he conducted both phone and in-person interviews with reenac-tors and living history practi-tioners, according to a news release.

He found that reenactors are keenly interested in history in general —the Civil War in particular — and that their in-terest was o#en strengthened by family involvement in the war. He also found a high level of intrinsic motivation shared by reenactors. "at could help

explain why there is little bu-reaucratic control of reenact-ments and few interpretive standards of practice for them, according to a news release.

“Reenactors were highly in-'uenced by the social aspect of the activity,” Benton said. “"e camaraderie of fellow reenac-tors during overnight camps and battle sequences was very important. "e general public is not usually allowed into re-enactor campus and is o#en at considerable distance from the battles themselves.”

A#er the December battle reenactment at Prairie Grove, Benton will interview visitors at the event regarding the ben-e!ts of this historical reenact-ment at an Arkansas state park.

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Miranda CampbellSta! Writer UA journalism professor

emeritus and reporter Roy Reed will visit campus to lec-ture and read some segments of his new memoir “Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Corre-spondent’s Adventures with the New York Times” today in Kimpel Hall 305 at 2 p.m.

Roy Reed, a native Arkan-san, was born in 1930 in Hot Springs. Reed was brought up in Piney, a suburb of Hot Springs. A#er spending a year at Ouachita Baptist Col-

lege, now called Ouachita Baptist University, Reed transferred to the University of Missouri. Reed obtained a bachelor’s degree in jour-nalism and then a master’s degree in 1951 and 1954, re-spectively.

Being a Nieman fellow, Reed studied at Harvard in 1963.

Growing up in Piney — an area where people of di&erent races cohabitated during the 1950s — sparked Reed’s in-terest in civil rights.

He went on to work for “"e New York Times” with an emphasis on reporting on the South. During the 1960s, Reed covered the civil rights movement. Relocated to New Orleans, the Reed covered what issues the South was facing.

“He was excellent in covering civil rights in the 1960s,” said Charlie Alison, a professor and former student of his. “Because he was raised in the South, he had a more authoritative voice.

“His writing spoke for it-self,” Alison said.

In 1978, Reed returned to Arkansas and started lectur-ing in the UA journalism de-partment. He retired a#er 16

years teaching here. “He wanted accuracy,

fairness, insight,” Alison said. “He wanted stories to read well. He inspired a lot of jour-nalists to go far.”

His published books in-clude “Looking for Hogeye in 1986 and Faubus: "e Life and Times of an American Prodigal” in 1997. His mem-oir “Beware of Limbo Danc-ers: A Correspondent’s Ad-ventures with the New York

Times” was published by the University of Arkansas Press. "e book chronicles Reed’s life and covers many impor-tant events that happened throughout his career.

"e event is free and open to the public.

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Reed

“He wanted stories to read well. He inspired a lot of journalists to go far.”

Charlie AlisonUA Relations

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!e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student classi"cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri"cation. Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

When this "lm comes out, Arkansas would be crazy not to embrace it wholeheartedly. Cassie Self, Film Producer and Programming Chair for Seedling Film AssociationRed Carpet Unrolls in the Ozarks, Page 2

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Marcus Ferreira Sta# Cartoonist

You’re responsible about conserving energy. You turn off the television when you’re not watching it and the lights when you leave a room. But don’t feel too smug. Your home electron-ics may be working against your green instincts.

Many of today’s appli-ances draw considerable electricity — known as phantom power or standby power — even when you’ve shut them down. The typi-cal American home has dozens of these devices, and they increase the aver-age household electric bill by 5 percent to 10 percent.

In some cases this power provides value to consumers. For example, a microwave oven might power the kitchen’s only clock, and a cordless phone needs to stand ready to receive a phone call. But such examples are the ex-ception. Most phantom power is simply to make life a bit more convenient. Your television, say, may come on more quickly than it otherwise would, and it remains ready, even

when off, to respond to a remote control. This sort of standby power could be eliminated without losing functionality, and doing so could reduce electricity usage nationwide by 4 per-cent or more.

Eliminating standby power might mean you have to wait extra seconds for your television to come to life, but it would also save you money. And the costs of phantom power can be significant. For ex-ample, the converter box for cable or satellite TV is likely to cost you hundreds of dollars over its lifetime.

Consumers can take steps to exorcise some phantom power, and it’s worth the effort. If you have a television or VCR, say, in a rarely used guest room, unplug it. Also con-sider plugging your televi-sion and its related devices into a power strip, and flipping it off at night or when you go on vacation. And unplug chargers when they’re not being used to charge a device.

But exorcising phantom power can’t be entirely left up to consumers. For one thing, they have no way of knowing which devices

draw the most power. Few consumers would know-ingly choose devices that will cost them hundreds of dollars when turned off, but manufacturers aren’t required to alert consum-ers to how much standby power a device consumes. This leaves appliance companies free to design devices that waste lots of electricity.

Consumers need access to more information, and there are models for pro-viding that. Today’s refrig-erators, for example, are required by law to come with energy ratings that tell purchasers how much power they are likely to use. Consumers can use those estimates to choose between one brand and another, which has given manufacturers a strong incentive to design ener-gy-efficient refrigerators. Similarly, if manufactur-ers were required to list how much phantom power a device is likely to draw, consumers could make better-informed decisions, which would in turn put pressure on manufacturers to address the issue.

But even a labeling sys-tem for phantom power

can only go so far. With some devices —cable con-verter boxes, for example —consumers don’t neces-sarily have a choice. In such cases, the companies sup-plying the devices should be required to inform con-sumers about the expected costs of phantom power when they order service. If consumers could compare power usage before choos-ing, say, between cable and satellite TV, providers would have incentives to distribute energy-efficient boxes.

A number of other countries have gone even further and now regulate standby power. The Eu-ropean Commission has limited new appliances to drawing no more than 1 watt of power in standby mode, and South Korea requires warning labels on devices that draw substan-tial phantom power. It’s time for the United States to catch up with the pack.

David I. Levine is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He wrote this for the Los Ange-les Times.

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Short of an epidemic or a war occurring, de-veloped countries almost never experience a dra-matic drop in life expec-tancy among a significant segment of its popula-tion. But that’s happened in for women living in one-fifth of American counties between 1999 and 2009, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs.

The trend is both alarming and — on some levels — unsurprising. It tells a terribly sad tale how uneven is the ac-cess to American health care, but also provides a visceral reminder of how important it is to imple-ment the Affordable Care Act — aka “Obamacare”

— so women can get the preventive care that could lengthen and save their lives.

The study showed that in the space of a de-cade between 1999-2009, many white women lack-ing a high school diploma saw a five-year decline in the number of years they can expect to live in certain counties, located mostly in the South, the lower Midwest, and Ap-palachia. These areas in-clude areas with some of the highest percentage of the population that are uninsured. In Connecti-cut, a far lower propor-tion of the population is uninsured. Women here didn’t experience the same huge drop in life expectancy.

Researchers theorize that the women in these counties are losing years

off their lives because of rising rates of obesity, high blood pressure and smoking. Yet there are other factors, too. Wom-en in this educational category have low-paying jobs that, far too often, come with no health in-surance. More women in this population are also single mothers, a situa-tion of high stress that challenges them finan-cially and psychological-ly. And the United States, unlike most other devel-oped countries, provides few supports for child care or paid maternity leave would lower the stress of child rearing.

Obamacare will help women starting in 2014 because it will provide to millions more women medical services they need to stay healthy, par-ticularly during their re-

productive years. Need-ed preventive care will include interventions for smoking and obe-sity, and testing for high blood pressure, which frequently has no symp-toms and can result in disability and death. The new law will probably not cover everyone who needs it and it remains to be seen whether states will continue to resist implementation for their citizens. But for many of the uninsured, including millions of women, it will be a step toward healthi-er lives, and perhaps even longer ones.

The following editorial appeared in the Hartford Courant on Monday, Nov. 26

Could Health Care Reverse Drop in Life Expectancy?

Four years ago, I would have never imagined my-self where I am now. Four years ago, I came to the University of Arkansas as a lost freshman. I knew what I wanted for my gen-eral area of concentration, but I had no idea where it would take me. I was ready for the adventure and the challenge.

I had never imagined that in my years in college, I would be able to travel around the world, to work with the editors of the newspaper where I dream to someday work, or even to be the editor of the Ar-kansas Traveler.

In fact, when I first came, I didn’t even know how to write a news story. I applied to work as a staff writer at this paper, but to be honest, I avoided pick-ing up a story for the first couple of weeks because I thought I’d do it wrong.

I think, as students who are trying to figure out what we want in life, sometimes we are scared to try new things because we think we aren’t good enough or that we’ll do it wrong. If there’s one thing I’ve learned dur-ing my time at the UA, it’s to believe in yourself and just take a plunge when there’s something worth trying.

It’s that time of year when deadlines are ap-proaching, especially dead-lines for study abroad. If there is one thing that I regret in college, it is not going abroad for a year or even for a semester. I did,

however, go abroad dur-ing the summers and those were probably the most beneficial months of my life.

According to an article online, here are five rea-sons why you should study abroad:

1. Experience a Foreign Culture

It’s fun. You never know what you’ll discover.

2. Improve Your Second Language Skills

Trust me. This is the best way to learn a foreign language. You will be com-pletely immersed in the country and will have no choice, but to speak that language. It can be frustrat-ing at times, but it’s worth it.

3. Explore Your Own Heritage

Perhaps you can go to the country where your ancestors came from. It’s always cool to learn family history while abroad.

4. Pursue an Activity You Wouldn’t at Home

I’ve done so many things abroad that I haven’t done at home, the most ex-citing being scuba diving. I know others who have gone sky diving, climbed mountains, or ridden el-ephants.

5. Learn How to Com-municate Across Cultures

This is such an impor-tant skill. This is much more than understanding the language, this is about learning the culture and customs and interacting with locals. This will not only teach you about their culture, but it give you an opportunity to teach others about your own.

As deadlines for schol-arships and programs ap-proach, be sure to think about what opportunities you have. Don’t be scared to try something new. You never know where your ad-ventures will take you.

Saba Naseem is the opin-ion editor. She is a journal-ism, French and Middle Eastern Studies major.

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While home for !anksgiving break, UA students ate their "ll, caught up on sleep and heard at least one older relative explain what is wrong with this generation. It’s a topic that comes up o#en at family dinners, and for good reason.

Millennials, or those born a#er 1980, are di$erent. Millennials grew up with technol-ogy, are more educated and are more open to change, according to the Pew Center. It’s also no coincidence that minutes a#er your grand-father berated this generation for their work ethic, he asked you to "x his computer.

Junior economics major Cory King said the di$erence between this generation and previous ones is a hot topic at almost all fam-ily gatherings. King said older members of his family think our generation is too content to simply accept handouts instead of working harder, but King sees Millennials in a more positive light.

“We’re more aware of problems, domesti-cally and globally,” King said.

King said previous generations have had a lack of critical thinking on important issues, and that bothers him.

“!ey do things and say, ‘that’s the way we’ve always done it,’” he said.

!e attitudes in King’s family align with Pew Research Center’s report on the new gen-eration, “Millennials: Con"dent. Connected. Open to Change.” Compared to predecessors, young adults are now more positive, are more liberal and have a stronger self-identity thanks to social media.

It’s no secret Barack Obama was the more popular candidate among young voters in 2008 and again in 2012. Millennials supported Obama by a 2-to-1 margin in 2008, and that support helped carry Obama to re-election earlier this month. !is generation is also far less supportive of America’s aggressive foreign policy than previous generations, perhaps due to growing up in a post-Soviet world. Millen-nials also are more likely to support a more progressive domestic agenda, according to Pew.

King doesn’t necessarily agree that people are more liberal. He thinks that attitudes on certain issues are changing and that people are slightly more liberal. Looking at young adults in the 1960s and 1970s, though, younger peo-ple in general are less conservative than their parents. According to a Pew survey, Millenni-als are perceived to be more tolerant of other races, more open to immigrants and more ac-cepting of nontraditional families.

A#er childhoods o#en spent in subdivi-

sions and crowded schools, Millennials like to di$erentiate themselves from the crowd. !e self-expression of Millennials doesn’t limit it-self to websites like Facebook and Twitter, ei-ther. According to Pew, 40 percent of Millen-nials have one or more tattoo, 25 percent have a body piercing in someplace other than the ear and 20 percent have posted videos online.

Even coming of age during a harsh reces-sion, Millennials have remained upbeat. !ir-ty-seven percent of 18- to 29-year-olds are un-employed or have given up looking for work, according to Pew. One out of eight Millienni-als have even moved back in with a parent. Many are using the slow economy to further their education, with nearly 40 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college.

!e new generation also re%ects the chang-ing demographics of the United States. A full 25 percent do not identify with a religion, which is signi"cantly more than previous gen-erations at the same point, according to Pew. Forty-percent grew up in single-parent house-holds. Only around 20 percent of Millennials are married, which is much lower than previ-

ous generations. Around 34 percent of Millen-nials are parents, with many unmarried moth-ers and fathers.

It may be technology use that marks the biggest di$erence between generations, though. Seventy-"ve percent of Millennials have a social media presence. Only 50 per-cent of Generation X has one, compared to 30 percent of Baby Boomers and 6 percent of the Silent Generation. According to Pew, there are also large gaps in wireless technology use, vid-eo game use and online video posting. Millen-nials are comfortable using gadgets that could only have existed in science "ction novels a few decades ago.

Generations each have a unique identity, and the new one is still forging its own. As expected with generations, the di$erences are very broad generalizations. It’s hard not to be di$erent, though. Now, those now coming of age have grown up looking at YouTube vid-eos and checking Facebook. Many of us have grown up with the idea that everybody gets a trophy, even for participation. Contrary to the thoughts of Boomers and the Silent Genera-tion, however, everything is not going to hell. People grow up in certain times and under certain circumstances. Kids these days are just di$erent.

The Age of the MillennialFree-!inking, Secular, Technologically Obsessed?

Aneeka Majid Sta" PhotographerSaba Kouchehbagh (left) and Lana Sheikha (right) study at the Multicultural Center in the Union, Tuesday, Nov. 29. Kouchehbagh and Sheikha are using di"erent kinds of technology while studying for upcoming #nals.

While Frank Ocean, Grizzly Bear, !e Shins and Beach House will be topping music critics' and col-lege kids' best-of lists alike, there are bound to be albums that everyone missed, albums that were great but didn't get as much attention as they should have. With that in mind, here are some of the best albums of 2012 that are neither from major labels nor larger indie labels.

Mac DeMarco2

One listen to "2" and you'll be convinced: Mac DeMarco is one funny dude. Yet within that oddity is a sort of sonic magnetism, and a songwriting ability that recalls Lou Reed — that is, Lou Reed if he were younger, more unknown and more akin to creating what is best de-scribed as garage pop. Making use of jangly guitars, melodic bass lines and slightly out-of-tune everything, De-Marco manages to cra# undeniably catchy tunes while still maintaining his eccentric persona. Check out "Freaking Out the Neighborhood" or "Ode to Viceroy."

Ty Segall/White Fence Hair

Out of Ty Segall's three — yes, three — full-length releases this year, "Hair" is the most rambunctious, surreal and downright fun. Ty Segall teamed up with garage group the Strange Boys' Timothy Presley (under the moniker White Fence) to create this 29-minute, eight-track album. Some of the tracks get a little jammy, but more than any-thing, the feeling that these two guys are having a lot of fun together per-vades. Segall's punk tendencies and Presley's psychedelic in%uences marry in a amalgam of garage-rock goodness that's better than the sum of its parts. Jam out to the fuzz of either of "Scissor People" or "I Am Not a Game."

OddiseePeople Hear What !ey See

Admittedly, I am no hip-hop a"cio-nado, but Oddisee has been one of my

favorite new artists since last year's in-strumental "Rock Creek Park." Having just evolved from full-time producer/beatmaker to full-%edged rap artist, Oddisee's vocal delivery is still a little sti$, but what he lacks in rhymes he more than makes up for in production and beats. !e "rst time I heard the opening of standout track "Let It Go," I assumed he was sampling from Isaac Hayes, only to "nd that "People Hear What !ey See" features very little sampling from other artists. Oddisee's lyrics are a welcome breath of fresh air from the usual rap repertoire, musing on social inequality, work ethic and the American dream. With this album, Oddisee injects a lot more creativity into a genre o#en plagued with imita-tion and provides a visual, thoughtful and delightfully upbeat listening expe-rience. I recommend "Let it Go" and "Do It All."

Lotus Plaza

Spooky Action at a Distance !e success of Deerhunter has

catapulted the band's quirky frontman, Bradford Cox, to indie stardom. What's o#en forgotten, however, is the other half of what makes Deerhunter such a fantastic band: Lockett Pundt, co-songwriter and penner of Deerhunter classics like "Desire Lines" and "Ago-

raphobia." Lotus Plaza is Pundt's solo moniker, and "Spooky Action at a Dis-tance" contends with the best that either Cox or Pundt has released. !e songs on the album are melody-driven but still retain much of the noise and exper-imental tendencies expected from both Pundt and his label, Kranky. Structured yet atmospheric, "Spooky Action" is the more grounded and introspective side of Deerhunter. Get lost in "Monoliths" or "White Galactic One."

Tame ImpalaLonerism

Tame Impala broke into the indie scene in 2010 with their blissed-out debut "InnerSpeaker," and expecta-tions were high for their second full-length, "Lonerism," which came out in October. Fortunately, the Perth-based band exceeded all expectations on this album; the only complaint that could be made is that this new set of songs is a less guitar-heavy and more electronic than the "rst one. But regardless of the medium frontman Kevin Parker uses, Tame Impala's music always sounds part '60s throwback, part modern innova-tion, as if John Lennon were born in 1980 rather than 1940. "Lonerism" is thick and dense, without sacri"cing any breathing room, and celebrates

the joy and complexity of inner life. Channel your inner Black Sabbath with "Elephant" or get lost in the lay-ered "Apocalypse Dreams."

Julia HolterEkstasis

!ere are a lot of ways in which bedroom pop can go wrong, which ex-plains why much of it never leaves the 4-track in the bedroom. Julia Holter's sophomore release "Ekstasis," however, showcases a true composer and her cra#. Combining lush, atmospheric noise with carefully cra#ed classical ele-ments, "Ekstasis" is easily the year's best experimental electronic album. Fans the avant-garde should check out "In the Same Room" or "Goddess Eyes I."

Honorable Mentions: Sweetheart twee pop darlings Allo

Darlin's sophomore release, "Europe"; Lord Huron's folksy, Fleet Foxes-esque "Lonesome Dreams"; Cloud Nothings' energetic, punk-driven "Attack on Memory"; Wild Noth-ing's rich, reverb-"lled dream-pop standout "Nocturne"; Cult of Youth's layered, genre-bending "Love Will Prevail"; Melody's Echo Chamber's psych-tinged and lush self-titled al-bum; Weird Dreams' shoegaze tour de force "Choreography."

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

FOOTBALL COMMENTARY

Arkansas will play No. 6 Syracuse Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Bud Walton Arena. Arkan-sas enters the game with 3-2 record while Syracuse enters with a 4-0 record.

Arkansas is coming o! a disappointing visit to the Las Vegas Invitational last week. "e Hogs fell to Arizona State in their #rst game and Wisconsin in the consola-tion game. "is was viewed as a measuring stick for this team, and they still have a lot to work on.

Syracuse has looked very tough both o!ensively and defensively this year. "ey have not allowed over 60 points in a game thus far, and have beaten previously-ranked No. 20 San Diego State.

Syracuse is lead by top

scorers Brandon Triche and James Southerland. Along with these scorers, they are in the top-30 teams in the na-tion in rebounding. Arkansas has lost the rebounding battle in both of their losses, which is an area they must correct against Syracuse.

Arkansas is being led in scoring by sophomore B.J. Young again this year. Mar-shawn Powell has been in-consistent thus far, as he is coming o! of ACL surgery that cut his year short last season.

Coty Clarke has been a matchup problem for the Hogs. He grabbed 11 re-bounds last game, and he must continue to do so all year.

Arkansas has been forcing opponents into turnovers, but they need to create more for easy basket opportunities against an athletic Syracuse team. Syracuse possesses a

lot of talent at the guard po-sition, so not giving up easy points while pressing will be key.

One of the guards for Syr-acuse is sophomore Michael Carter-Williams. Carter-Williams is averaging eight assists per game and his assist to turnover ratio is 2.4. Along with veteran guard Triche, they have the ability to break down opposing defenses and limit turnovers.

Arkansas’ guards will be equally as important. Young is averaging six assists for ev-ery turnover committed and Rashad Madden is second on the team with 2.2 assists per game. Rickey Scott and Mardracus Wade will also need to be cognitive of tak-ing care of the ball and create easy scores.

"e game will come down to who rebounds and protects the ball better than the other. Both teams have players who

can score, but those two areas could be the deciding factor to who wins the game.

Arkansas experienced a setback in dropping two games in Las Vegas, while Syracuse looks to continue their winning ways Friday night. Syracuse is led by a vet-eran coach Jim Boeheim, and they will be ready for Arkan-sas’ “Fastest 40.”

"is game is part of the Big East-Southeastern Con-ference challenge that has become a staple over the past few years. Arkansas faced UConn last year in this chal-lenge and lost 75-62 and Syracuse will be equally as tough.

Arkansas looks to be more consistent o!ensively and use the home crowd to their advantage in this game. "is game could come to the last few possessions and who re-bounds and takes care of the ball the best.

Arkansas Takes on Syracuse Friday

Since their #rst o$cial sea-son in 1900-1901, the Syra-cuse Orange mens basketball team has grown into a national power.

"eir 1,844 wins at the end of last season is the #%h most in NCAA Division I history, be-hind Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas and Duke.

Syracuse enjoyed some suc-cess in their early history with future NBA Hall of Famer Dave Bing. Bing led the Orange to an Elite Eight appearance as a se-nior in 1966.

From 1973 to 1976, they appeared in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments includ-ing a Final Four in 1975, led by head coach Roy Danforth. Danforth’s success caught the attention of Tulane and he was

eventually hired to be their head coach.

Following Danforth’s depar-ture, the Orange hired a young assistant coach named Jim Boeheim. Since Boeheim’s #rst season in 1976-77, they have not had a losing record and have made 29 NCAA Tourna-ments.

"ey have failed to win 20 games in a season only twice during Boeheim’s tenure and #ve times they have won 30 or more games.

A%er falling short in the 1987 and 1996 National Cham-pionship games, losing to Indi-ana and Kentucky, respectively, Syracuse #nally won a title in 2003. "ey were led by star freshmen Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara and sophomore Hakim Warrick.

Now, Anthony is an All-Star in the NBA with the New York Knicks and Warrick is a mem-

ber of the Charlotte Bobcats. McNamara is currently an as-sistant for the Orange.

Since their championship, Syracuse has continued to have success. "ey won their fourth and #%h Big East Tournament

Championships in 2005 and 2006.

Last year, they #nished the regular season with an impres-sive 30-1 overall record, but

Telling Syracuse’s Storied History

A couple weeks into the college basketball season, there are not many surpris-es coming from the top 25 teams.

Standing at the No. 1 spot are the 6-0 Indiana Hoosiers. "e Hoosiers had a close call against Georgetown, but pulled out the 82-72 win in overtime. Indiana has beaten each of their other opponents by an average of almost 35 points.

"e team is led by Cody Zeller and Christian Wat-ford. Zeller is arguably the best player in the nation, av-eraging 15 points and seven rebounds a game this season. "e Hoosiers are returning four starters from a team that won 27 games last season.

Duke has earned the No. 2 spot in the polls. Duke is coming o! a disappoint-ing #rst-round loss to 16th-seeded Lehigh in the NCAA tournament last season. Duke has started o! the season 6-0 with big wins over ranked opponents Kentucky and Louisville. Duke is led by se-nior Mason Plumlee, who is averaging 19 points and 10 rebounds.

Michigan is the No. 3 team in the rankings. "e Wolver-ines are 5-0 to start the season and are led by Tim Hardaway Jr. "e son of NBA all-star Tim Hardaway is averaging 18 points and six boards. "e Wolverines should be a dan-

gerous team this season, for the #rst time in a while.

Ohio State takes the No. 4 spot in the rankings. "e Buckeyes are 4-0 so far this season. "ey are led by De-shaun "omas. "omas is averaging 24 points and seven rebounds. Ohio State is look-ing to seek revenge this sea-son a%er falling in the Final

Four last season. "e Buck-eyes are a young team this year but will look to junior Aaron Kra% for leadership.

"e Louisville Cardinals are ranked #%h this season with a 5-1 record. "e Car-dinals are coming o! a dis-appointing loss to Duke. "e Cardinals are led by Russ Smith, who is averaging 19

points per game this season. Louisville, who made it to the #nal four last season but fell short, will be looking to make it again this season in hopes of winning a national title.

Syracuse, Florida, Ken-tucky, Arizona and Kansas round out the rest of the top

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"is year, Arkansas will play in the Southeastern Con-ference-Big East Challenge for the third time in challenge history, taking on Syracuse in Bud Walton Arena on Friday, Nov. 30.

Started in 2007, the SEC-Big East Challenge has fea-tured four teams from each conference in a basketball matchup before conference play begins. Twelve teams be-came featured beginning in 2011. Arkansas has appeared each year in the challenge since 2010.

In 2010, ESPN announced that the challenge would begin the "ursday a%er "anksgiving and each con-ference would host six of the games at on-campus sites.

Overall in the series, the SEC is 12-16.

Arkansas played its #rst SEC-Big East Challenge game against the Seton Hall Pirates in Louisville, Ky., in 2010 and won 71-62 under head coach John Pelphrey in his #nal sea-son.

Rickey Scott led the team in assists with four and steals with two.

"e SEC lead that year of the challenge when Kentucky and Tennessee also pulled out wins against Notre Dame and

Pittsburgh, respectively."e next season, Arkan-

sas faced then-No. 10 Con-necticut in front of a crowd of 14,333 in the ninth game of the challenge.

Arkansas led the game for the #rst seven minutes, get-ting o! to a good start. "e Razorbacks did not win, but held their own, with a #nal score of 75-62. B.J. Young led Arkansas in scoring with 28 points, #ve rebounds and a steal.

Unranked Georgetown earned an upset over then-No. 12 Alabama, 57-55. "e only SEC wins in the challenge in 2011 came from Kentucky, Ole Miss, LSU and Mississippi State.

"e Big East took the se-ries that year, earning eight wins to the SEC’s four.

In the 2012 SEC-Big East Challenge, newcomers Texas A&M and Missouri will sit out for the SEC, and Louis-ville, Connecticut and Pitts-burgh will not be participat-ing for the Big East.

Representing the SEC is No. 3 Kentucky, South Caro-lina, No. 12 Florida, LSU, Ten-nessee, Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Vanderbilt, Missis-sippi State and Mississippi.

"e tournament will begin "ursday at 7 p.m. with No. 3 Kentucky at No. 19 Notre Dame.

All 12 games this week will be televised by ESPN.

Tamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

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You’ve heard of him? Yeah, I hadn’t either until late Monday night. Pete Rous-sel, the recognized authority on college coaching changes, wrote Monday that several people close to Steve Sarki-sian’s current program say he is de#nitely a candidate at Arkansas.

So, let’s take a look at him. Sarkisian is in his fourth sea-son as the head coach at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Sarkisian is only 38 years old and was born in Torrance, Calif. He played quarter-back at Brigham Young and then had a short stint play-ing in the Canadian Football League.

He started his coaching career as the quarterbacks coach at El Camino College, then went on to be the quar-terbacks coach at the Univer-sity of Southern California.

Sarkisian le% USC for a year to coach quarterbacks for the Oakland Raiders but quickly returned to his old job under Pete Carroll at USC.

He took over Lane Ki$n’s o!ensive coordinator du-ties at USC in 2007 and held that position for two years. In

2009, Sarkisian was named head coach at the University of Washington.

Sarkisian is under a con-tract with an increasing sal-ary and is currently getting paid $2.25 million per year.

"e Huskies under Sarki-sian have had a winning re-cord in three of his four sea-sons, going 5-7 in his #rst year in Seattle. However, that year is marked by a 16-13 Husky victory over No. 3 USC.

Sarkisian’s all-time record as a head coach is 26-24 but it should be noted that he in-herited a tough situation at Washington and took a team that had not been bowl eli-gible since 2002 to two bowl games in his #rst three years.

Sarkisian is married and has three children. He is of Armenian and Irish mixed heritage and despite attend-ing BYU, he is a Catholic.

Here’s a fun fact. Nick Holt is in charge of on-cam-pus recruiting at Arkansas, and his previous job was as the defensive coordinator at the University of Washington under Sarkisian.

Holt’s not the only recent Southeastern Conference import from Seattle. In Janu-ary of 2012, Alabama hired former Washington o!ensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier to be the o!ensive coordina-tor in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Sarkisian has been cru-cial to recent major renova-tions to Husky Stadium and he claims it will now be one of the best stadiums in the country.

Sarkisian is known as a great o!ensive mind and a superb recruiter. He is young and energetic and di!erent from what the SEC is gener-ally accustomed to. I think he would be a great hire and would truly revitalize the Ar-kansas program.

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

And the Nominees Are In: University of Washington’s Sarkisian

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10. Defending national cham-pions Kentucky will be a threat once again this season, but are also a very young, inexperi-enced team.

Syracuse and Florida are two experienced, tough teams looking to make a run. Ari-zona is going to be a team to watch for. Kansas is looking to win it all, a%er falling to Ken-tucky in the #nals last season.

Creighton, Gonzaga, Mich-igan State, North Carolina and Oklahoma State hold the 11-15 spots. Creighton and Doug McDermott will be a dan-gerous team this season and may surprise a lot of people. Gonzaga is o! to a 6-0 start, dominating each game they have played. Michigan State’s depth and quickness will be a key ingredient to their success. North Carolina took a hard fall

out of the top 10 a%er losing to Butler and Indiana. Oklahoma State is undefeated so far with a win over North Carolina State to help boost them in the polls.

Missouri, Cincinnati, North Carolina State, Colo-rado and Georgetown take the 16-20 spots. Minnesota, Illi-nois, San Diego State, UNLV and New Mexico round out the rest of the top 25.

"ese are all teams looking for some upsets this season. Watch out, they may pull out some surprises.

"ese top-25 teams will de#nitely be teams that will go to the tournament and pos-sibly go all the way. But with basketball, you never know what will happen. Upsets are what college basketball is all about.

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they fell to Cincinnati in the semi#nals of the Big East Tour-nament. Entering the NCAA Tournament as the No. 2 overall seed, they won their #rst three games, before losing to Ohio State in the Elite Eight.

In this year’s dra%, two Syra-cuse players were selected in the #rst round. Guard Dion Wait-ers was the fourth overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers and center Fab Melo was the 22nd overall pick by the Boston Celt-ics.

Forward Kris Joseph was also dra%ed by the Celtics in the second round as the 51st overall pick.

Despite losing nearly half of their scoring players from last

year, the Orange came into the season as the No. 9 team in the AP Preseason poll. "eir re-cruiting class was ranked No. 15 in the country by Scout.com and included #ve-star center DaJuan Coleman and four-star forward Jerami Grant.

So far this season, the Or-ange are 4-0, averaging 77.5 points per game. Senior Bran-don Triche is tied for the team lead in scoring, with 15.3 points per game. He also averages 3.5 rebounds per game and three assists per game.

"ey will put their No. 6 ranking in the AP poll on the line tomorrow night against the Razorbacks at 7:30 p.m. in Bud Walton Arena.

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