At 1:45 Thursday afternoon, the theater in the Arkansas Union was empty except for Andy Gilbride.

Dressed in a full suit, Gilbride paced back and forth across the stage, perspiration beginning to build on his forehead.

A Union employee stepped onto the stage, bringing chairs and a table.

“How are you doing today?” Gilbride asked.

“Probably a lot better than you,” the man replied. “Are you expecting a lot of controversy here?”

Gilbride laughed nervously. “Yeah, yeah we are.”

After the huge outcry last spring against a policy that would require bicyclists to register their bikes and pay a one-time $15 fee, Transit and Parking Department members like Gilbride are struggling to find a way to implement their policy and still

keep the students happy. By 2:10 Thursday, the theater

was half full, and not just with UA students filling the seats – Fayetteville residents, young and old, showed up to voice their concerns about the TPD’s supposed lack of consideration of the community surrounding the campus. Even one of the City Council members, Matthew Petty, came to express concerns that the department is not considering the efforts that Fayetteville has made, such as adding bike trails, to improve the city for cyclists.

For the TPD to receive student opinion on the matter, the Associated Student Government arranged a one-hour forum Thursday with TPD Director Gary Smith to inform students of the details of the policy and hear their questions.

Smith and other parking officials were so concerned about the student outrage at the meeting that they had a police escort as they arrived. Whisperings of an “angry mob” floated through the

air as the parking officials took their seats before Smith’s initial presentation of the policy and its history.

“Basically, if you’re going to park your bike on campus, it needs to have a permit,” Smith said. “It’s as simple as that.”

During the two-day registration period for bicycles last month at the Arkansas Union, Billy Fleming, ASG director of sustainability, said he received more than 150 e-mails from concerned students who wanted to know what the ASG would do about the issue, as well as how they could get involved.

“Students just need to contact me so that we can start organizing groups,” Fleming said. “It’s great to protest and hold signs, but it’s more important to keep our seats on those committees that make decisions for us.”

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Chancellor G. David Gear-heart is pushing to increase UA enrollment to 25,000 stu-dents, but many university faculty and staff are question-ing the negative ramifications of that much growth at a time when the UA is already strug-gling to keep up with the larg-est student body it has seen.

With the biggest freshman class yet, class sizes have had to increase but the rooms have not grown accordingly, and there are resulting issues in both space and student-to-teacher ratios. There are not enough professors to go around, especially in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Increased enrollment pri-marily increases the revenue brought in by tuition and from the state. Models have shown the student population would be optimized at 25,000 – a 25 percent increase – for the current amount of space the university has. Despite the benefits, raising enrollment will consequently increase pressures on faculty, with Fulbright College feeling the strongest impact of the expan-sion.

Fulbright College is already feeling stress from the current student population and has been for 10 years, said Charles Adams, associate dean of the college. There will need to be adjustments made to handle a push for an enrollment in-crease, especially by adding more permanent faculty, he said.

“It’s not a crisis, but it is still a serious problem we need to face,” he said.

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Families to fly in to Fayetteville to celebrate UA traditions this weekend

Family Weekend this Friday and Saturday marks the 11th time the event has brought Ra-zorback families together with UA faculty and staff to rekindle Arkansas traditions and Razor-back pride.

The coordinators for the weekend event said they antici-pate another successful turn-out, as ticket sales continue to rise.

“Each year, more than 1,000 parents and guests attend the program. This will be another great year with more than 1,000 participating,” said Quincy Spencer, UA First Year Experi-ence associate director.

Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of entertainment, Spen-

cer said.“We offer two types of pack-

ages for the weekend: a Hog Wild package, which includes a football ticket for that week-end’s game, and a Pork Chop package, which does not in-clude a football ticket. Hog Wild packages usually sell out the first couple of days tickets are available online,” Spencer said.

Family Weekend enables students and parents to come together during the fall semes-ter to take part in family-ori-ented activities, allowing par-ents to support, encourage and build on the involvement that will become the foundation for their child’s life.

“This is a great way for par-ents to visit their students and see what types of things their student is doing on campus. It’s also a great way to showcase

the university campus and the Fayetteville area,” Spencer said.

Geribeth Burkett, a UA stu-dent and member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority, said her parents usually visit campus for Fam-ily Weekend and her sorority’s Dad’s Day.

“It’s a chance to expose them to the everyday experi-ence I have here on campus,” she said.

Friday’s festivities will begin at 4 p.m. with registration and check-in at the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge. The Par-ent Partnership Association Wine and Cheese Reception will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at The Inn at Carnall Hall.

Other attractions for Friday include the Razorback volley-ball team vs. Alabama at Barn-hill Arena, which will begin at 7 p.m., and the Residents’ In-

terhall Congress/Friday Night Live Casino Night at 9 p.m. in the Union.

Saturday will start early with the 4th Annual Family Weekend 5K race. Registration for the race begins at 7:30 a.m., and the race will start at 8 a.m.

“The race helps to not only get family involved on campus, but to integrate the community, as well,” said Maggie Biggs, Family Weekend 5K Race Chair.

The Pi Beta Phi Sorority and Sigma Nu Fraternity will be assisted by the Associated Stu-dent Government as they host the race. The entrance fee for the 5K run is $15 prior to the race date, or $20 on Saturday. All proceeds from the race will benefit Children’s Literacy ef-forts.

The Family Weekend Tail-gate and BBQ Party will start

three hours before the Au-burn vs. Arkansas kickoff at the Union Mall, which will be followed by the Arkansas Pre-Game Show at the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. A shuttle bus will run from the Union to Baum Stadium four hours prior to kickoff.

At halftime, the ASG will present the 15th Honorary Fam-ily award to the Chaney family of Cabot. The Honorary Family selection is not based on con-tributions to the university, but, rather, on the support the fam-ily provides to their student’s life regarding his or her success at the university.

After the game, a shuttle bus will run back to Baum Stadium Parking Gate 1 from the Razor-back Stadium.

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After a 47-19 victory over the Texas A&M Aggies last weekend at the inaugural Southwest Classic game, the Razorbacks rally and prepare to take on the Auburn Tigers Saturday during Family Weekend.

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ASG-sponsored parking forum allows room for debate

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One bicyclist shares her concerns with a member of the Transit and Parking Department who helped to register bikes during a two-day registration period last month.See BIKES on Page 6

UA officials from Informa-tion Technology Services have decided to not switch campus e-mail accounts from UA Mail to Google Apps for Education after a survey showed most students were indifferent to a change, the ITS director said.

The survey, which was sent in April to 3,500 random stu-dents from freshman to gradu-ate level, indicated most re-sponders either didn’t use their UA address as their primary account or were indifferent. About 13 percent of those stu-dents responded to the survey.

“The most compelling rea-son (to stay with UA Mail) was the seeming lack of interest based on a sampling of stu-dents,” ITS Director Susan Ad-

kins said. “These results really shocked me.”

The random sample of stu-dents meant some were not aware that ITS was considering a change. Senior Levi Brewer said he hadn’t heard anything about the survey.

“I just go to class, and cam-pus life just kind of goes on around me,” Brewer said.

ITS officials also were con-cerned about the security of Google, which would not guarantee that academic material would be stored in the United States – and it also would have cost more to pur-chase the Postini e-mail securi-ty service required with Google Apps, Adkins said.

Adkins said ITS can’t match the storage space of Google, but she added that students can always have a Google account, anyway.

“You’re not really without a Gmail account, if that makes any sense,” she said.

***While ITS is not making

changes to its current tech-nology, the UA Police Depart-ment is a dif-ferent story: Officers there have installed new computer hardware that will aid in po-lice searches

of computer hard drives and other electronic devices on the university’s network.

The Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device was installed

after UA police investigator Kimberly Bertschy completed a course of study at the Na-tional Computer Institute in Hoover, Ala. The $20,000 worth of computer equipment will aid officers in conducting electron-ic-crime investigations and re-sponding to network intrusion.

“I’m excited to have FRED in the office, and I can’t wait to put it to work,” Bertschy said, according to a UA press release.

Before Bertschy’s training, the UAPD would have trans-ferred investigations to the state crime lab or another agency.

The National Computer Forensics Institute was estab-lished in 2007 through a part-nership among the Department of Homeland Security, the Se-cret Service, the Alabama Dis-trict Attorneys Association, the state of Alabama and the city of Hoover.

CDC hosts practice interview, panel discus-sion

The UA Career Development Center will host a mock interview with the FedEx human relations manager 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Room 608 of the Arkansas Union; “Pathways to Possibilities,” which features a panel of company leaders, 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28, at the Hembree Alumni House; and Walmart 2009 Disability Mentoring Day 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the Walmart Home Office. For more information about these events and more, visit Career.uark.edu.

Auditions open for UATV’s Kung Fu Kara-oke

Love to sing? Kung Fu Karaoke is back. UATV 14 will host the student competition Tuesday, Oct. 13. The Asian-themed musical throwdown will pit wanna-be su-perstars against each other on live television. The event is sponsored by Danceenhance Entertainment. Auditions are required. E-mail uatvmain@gmail.com.

Be part of a field study in Egypt

UA students studying archaeology and/or anthropology may consider an opportunity to analyze skeletal mate-rial at the commoners’ cemetery at Tell Amarna, Egypt, the city built by Pharaoh Akhenaton. The monthlong program is tentatively set for May 9 to June 15. The application deadline is Thursday, Oct. 15, and early applications are encouraged. For an application or more information, contact the Office of Study Abroad at Studyabroad.uark.edu/Egypt or studyabroad@uark.edu.

Dance workshop to be hosted in HPER

Dance Coalition, a Northwest Arkansas nonprofit group of choreographers and dancers, has paired up with the THEA Foundation and Arkansas Dance Network to present “A Modern Dance Workshop with Broadway Star Bill Hastings” in Room 220 of the HPER Sunday, Oct. 18. Workshop classes begin at 12:30 p.m. and finish at 6 p.m. Tuition for the afternoon workshop is $20 and includes a snack and THEA Foundation T-shirt when participants register online at THEAfoundation.org. For more information, contact Sally Ashcraft, the executive director of Dance Coalition, at 479-422-6132 or info@dancecoalition.com

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Many students use the computers in the Arkansas Union Computer Lab to check their e-mail accounts, including both their UA Mail and personal accounts.

“The most compelling reason (to

stay with UA Mail) was the seeming lack of

interest of students.” — Susan Adkins

Ninety-six percent of UA residents would allow strang-ers to enter their residence halls, according to results of a recent UA Housing experi-ment. This could impact the safety of on-campus students, officials said.

Two weeks ago, four resi-dent assistants, who were not allowed to comment on the test, conducted the experiment at the entrances of Maple Hill and Reid Hall. The RAs waited by the residence halls and only entered when residents used their fob to gain access.

When just four of 100 resi-dents made an effort to stop the RAs from entering, Hous-ing officials knew they had a problem.

Referred to as “tailgaters,” intruders to residence halls could easily cause harm to students and their property, said Reggie Houser, assistant director of Facilities Manage-ment.

“The more people tailgate in, the more odds something will happen,” Houser said. “(Someone) could steal a $1,200 laptop in a matter of minutes and no one will no-tice.”

Since 2007, Housing has seen four forcible sex offens-es, 19 burglaries, 25 acts of larceny and one weapon pos-session reported in residence halls, according to the 2007 Clery Report.

And this is not the first time Housing has encountered tail-

gating issues. This same ex-periment has been conducted annually for the past three years, and each test has yielded simi-lar results, Houser said.

Even the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International – which acts

to “comment on the rule-making process for the Higher

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Act, which in-cluded many elements that pertain to housing, in-cluding … safety poli-cies,” accord-

ing to its Web site – has not found a definitive solution to

keep tailgaters from entering residence halls, said Hous-er, an active member of the group.

However, action is being taken by UA Housing officials to reduce the amount of tail-gating in residence halls, or to at least catch any tailgaters who have committed a crime.

RA desks are located at door entrances to watch en-tryways, navigational routes have been modified to make traffic flow visible and video cameras have been installed to monitor entryways.

Residents spotted on cam-era with tailgaters will be questioned by Housing – but by then, the crime has already been committed and the stu-dent can only “feel bad,” so no punitive actions are adminis-tered, Houser said.

Some students said they think relying on their peers to properly monitor residence hall entrances could be dan-gerous – but others don’t feel the need to stop anyone who enters a hall without a fob.

“I do what I can without saying, ‘Are you a resident here?’” said freshman Chris Houser, a resident of Hum-phreys Hall.

And though many on-cam-pus residents might not real-ize the gravity of this issue until it’s too late, Houser said all students “have a personal responsibility to everyone’s safety.”

“It’s like playing with matches if you haven’t started a fire,” he said.

Call it a family dinner: a group of students unwinding, talking and … smoking hoo-kahs?

For international student James Gieordano, whose family is half-the-world away in Austra-lia, it’s a welcome, if unconven-tional, approximation.

“Relax, smoke a hookah with people from all different places,” he said. “It doesn’t get much bet-ter than that.”

Gieordano is not the only international student to find a sense of camaraderie – and, yes, even family – in the internation-al community at the UA.

Students from China and Bo-livia, Kosovo and Japan, Armenia and Iran all arrive at the UA de-termined to make it home, and quickly meet each other through mutual friends, on campus, at parties or in Holcombe Hall, which has become the honorary international student dorm.

“It’s how we like it,” said Gieordano, a business marketing major. “I like people from Arkan-sas, but I want to meet people from everywhere.”

Gieordano plans to stay in the United States and gain job experience before going back to Perth, Australia.

“I’m friends with Saudis, Ni-gerians, Estonians, Indians … all kinds of people from crazy various cultures. It’s great,” he said.

Joelle Storet, a UA student from Belgium, agrees that shar-ing the variety of her experiences with others whose backgrounds are equally varied is rewarding.

“There are so many people from so many places around the world that it is always interest-ing,” she said.

Still, that doesn’t mean the U.S. feels like home, she said.

“I’ve lived here for years but I still feel like a bit of an out-sider,” Storet said. “I think a lot of us who aren’t from here feel that way so we all sort of stick together.”

Storet is half Belgian and half Congolese. She has lived in Austria, Morocco, Switzerland, Belgium and the Congo, and speaks six languages.

Storet’s boyfriend Jay is American.

“He never hung out with peo-ple from foreign countries until we got together and I brought him into the international scene. Now he’s really comfortable meeting people from anywhere,” she said. “I think a lot of Ameri-cans are missing out.”

Brittany Watson was born and raised in Fayetteville and attends the university. Her boyfriend is from Saudi Arabia. She lives with him and three other Saudis.

“I’ve been around Americans my whole life and I want to meet as many people from as many different cultures as I can. Now I have so many friends and only a few of them are American,” Wat-son said.

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In just a couple of days, the Hill will play host to the parents and siblings of those Razorbacks who were responsible enough to tell their families this weekend is “Family Weekend.” Unfortunately, I was not one of those students. But, last Saturday, I drove home to Edmond, Okla., for the first time since Labor Day. Even just 24 hours with my parents and brother reminded me why Americans find the definition of family so important.

No matter how many new realizations I reach, no matter how many experiences I neglect to share with my mom (it used to be none, but now it’s some), no matter how out of synch my mealless, sleepless schedule and my parents’ finely regulated routine might be, somewhere in my core I am still a Korbe – and, while that might mean nothing to you (it probably doesn’t!), it means something to me – just as, I suspect, your own name means something to you.

Managing editor Kimber Wenzelburger’s last name matters to her – as she’s realized in a very particular way in light of her recent engagement. When she marries her fiance, her name will change. (True, that’s not her only option, but Wenzelburger-Wallace sounds a little long and Sports Editor Matt Watson’s suggestion of Wallaceburger probably isn’t legal.) And that name change will sig-nify the start of a new family: With it, she and her husband will have the opportunity to create a new definition of that word.

Incidentally, despite the cool protestations against “young” mar-riages uttered by many college kids, they’ve picked an ideal time to do it. Teen marriages might be more likely to end in divorce, but peo-ple who marry after 27 tend to have less happy marriages – meaning the sweet spot is likely in the early to mid 20s.

As with marriage, too often, when it comes to family, the tempta-tion is to disparage sentimentality or to be skeptical, even cynical. But, truly, if anything is worth celebrating, it’s the idea of family.

That’s why we made family weekend our cover story this week, and why, in other pockets of the paper, you’ll find articles about how international students experience family while they’re in the U.S., how freshmen learn to cope with leaving their parents and how one Razorback football player relates to his family. What we’ve written is pretty realistic – we don’t deny the necessity of individuation, for example – but it also acknowledges that taking time out to tailgate with the folks is worth more than the gas money they give you.

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Director Roman Polanski was arrested last week in Zurich, on a 1977 charge of un-lawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The European media has, more or less, stood by Polanski over the decades he’s spent in exile.

Since his arrest, more than a hundred artists have signed a petition asking for Polanski to be released. The list includes re-spected names like Salman Rushdie, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Wong Kar Waï.

This has provoked an enormous amount of anger. I’ve read about a hundred op-eds that consist of little more than the phrase “Roman Polanski raped a girl” written over and over and over again, as though this were a point of debate. There’s no real discussion on this issue, just a bunch of angry ranting. It’s almost like the entire country has been turned into Nancy Grace.

If you’re just interested in this case so you have something to yell about, quit reading. Otherwise, I’d like to explain why so many people think prosecuting Polanski might not be the best option.

First, I want to make sure we’re clear. Nobody - not even the out-of-touch Hol-lywood types - is saying that Polanski should be freed because he’s famous or because he’s a great director. Nobody is making apolo-gies for rape or saying that it’s OK to drug a teenager. I don’t want to get any e-mails accusing me of either of these statements, because I’ve never said them, and neither has anyone else I’ve ever heard.

The petition that film dignitaries have been signing was set up by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques. It takes issue with the arrest because it took place at the Zurich Film Festival, where Polanski had traveled to receive an award.

“By their extraterritorial nature, film festivals the world over have always permit-ted works to be shown and for filmmakers

to present them freely and safely, even when certain States opposed this.”

The event had been understood as a sanctuary of sorts, and Polanski thought he was safe in attending. The fear is that if the sanctuary status of these festivals is taken away, politically controversial filmmakers won’t be able to share their art, lest they be arrested by a hostile host nation. If Swiss officials wanted to arrest Polanski, they should have done so during one of his many vacation trips there.

I’m not sure that even that would be a good idea.

Samantha Geimer, the victim in the case, has worked to try to have the charges dismissed. She maintains that the “courts did more harm than Polanski.”

“Every time this case is brought to the attention of the court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others. That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case,” she wrote.

Polanski’s arrest is destroying the life of the victim and the victim’s family. It seems very bizarre to pursue justice at the expense of the victim. It makes you wonder just who this prosecuting attorney is worried about.

Polanski is not a pedophile; putting him

behind bars isn’t protecting anyone. There’s not much of a deterrence factor here either, since the facts of the case are so unusual that they’re unlikely to be replicated. If Polanski wasn’t a celebrity, he could have avoided arrest forever. He probably would have just gotten the 30-days probation he was going to be sentenced for in the first place.

Rehabilitation seems pretty pointless be-cause he’s 76 years old. Polanski underwent as much trauma and personal tragedy as nearly anyone else in the 20th Century, and appears to have recovered from it. He’s not the libertine Roman Polanski of the 1970s. He has a wife and two children. Polanski already served more time in jail than the prosecutors originally recommended, and settled a civil lawsuit with the victim.

The real concern about letting Polanski go is that it might be seen as an endorse-ment of his actions. Americans are very adamant that no one is above the law, and that justice should be blind.

So we’re left with Inspector Javert’s co-nundrum. Fortunately, the American system provides a solution.

Prosecutorial discretion allows the state to decline to pursue a case when it’s not in the best interest of the victim or of society. This helps to ensure that the laws and the government serve the needs of the people, and not the other way around.

We’d all much rather see the victim recover than to see Polanski suffer.

You might disagree with a lot of what I’ve written. That’s perfectly fine. Polanski committed a terrible crime that is rightly condemned. But we can condemn it without hurting the victim yet again.

Adam Roberts is a columnist for The Arkansas Traveler. He also blogs regularly for UATrav.com.

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THE UA NEEDS TO INCENTIVIZE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION

Environmentally speak-ing, September was a banner month for the UA. After a yearlong effort by the UA Sus-tainability Council, the Cli-mate Action Plan (CAP) was approved by our Executive Committee and Chancellor David Gearhart for submit-tal to the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment.

The CAP outlines an ex-haustive list of solutions to reduce campus carbon diox-ide emissions. Thanks to the Green House Gas (GHG) In-ventory that was conducted in the early 2000s, the university will be able to monitor ac-tivities that constitute specific proportions of the campus carbon footprint, such as elec-tricity, water, natural gas and commuter travel. Of these, commuter travel is the larg-est controllable portion of our carbon footprint, representing 25 percent of the overall CO2 production on campus. As a whole, the university pro-duced 177,537 metric tons of CO2 in 2008. Conversely, the city of Fayetteville produced only 47,000.

The easy solutions are cur-

rently being enacted on cam-pus, in the form of efficiency and conservation upgrades on strategic building and physi-cal plant locations. The issue of alternative transit, however, requires creativity and leader-ship from the UA.

There are several factors working in the university’s favor. The city of Fayette-ville has one of the region’s best-planned and best-imple-mented trail networks, with 16 miles already built and well-used. Additionally, the recent economic downturn is forcing more students to uti-lize bicycles, mass transit, and pedestrian modes of transit to offset rising fuel prices.

The Transit and Parking Department did listen to pub-lic outcry about bicycle park-ing last spring by removing the $15 price tag and simpli-fying the registration process. The issue that still irks most students and community cy-clists, however, is the lack of alternative transit infrastruc-ture. But this isn’t any one person or group’s mistake; it’s all of ours. The communica-tion breakdown between the University of Arkansas’ Com-mittee structure and the Exec-utive Committee is the issue.

There has to be a way for

the committees at Facilities Management, Parking and Transit, Associated Student Government, Student Fees, etc. to collaborate on issues like a Transportation Master Plan that details bicycle in-frastructure, increased mass transit stops and routes, pri-ority lots for fuel-efficient ve-hicles, and other components of a well constructed planning document.

To incentivize alterna-tive and fuel-efficient trans-portation, TPD could look at pro-rating vehicular permits based on fuel-efficiency and proximity to campus. For ex-ample, a hybrid vehicle could pay less for a parking permit since they save the university CO2 emissions. Students who live within a pedestrian-shed, which is urban-planning lin-go for a 15 minute walking distance from campus, could be encouraged to ride bikes or walk to school by scaling up their vehicle permit costs. I’m not a business expert, but I do know that to create a market for alternative transit, there has to be a series of incentives to stimulate investment.

Precedence for rewarding students and faculty to use alternative modes of transit exists. Stanford University,

an institution with nearly 20,000 bikes on campus, give rebate checks of around $150 to students who do not drive to campus. They charge $15 for a bike permit, which still results in a $135 bonus for those who choose to bike to school. The City of Irvine even rewards carpoolers with front door parking alongside the reserved handicapped spots. Instead of focusing the University’s funding on parking decks, perhaps we could assign a relatively small amount of the budget from a variety of invested parties to cover the estimated $100,000 cost of installing the required bicycle infrastructure on cam-pus, thus easing the burden from any one department on campus.

Jon Johnson, Executive Di-rector of the Applied Sustain-ability Center, always states at the UA Sustainability Council meetings, “We’re a University for crying out loud”, when a recommendation is quashed due to risk or lack of prec-edent. He’s right, because if we can’t solve these problems, then who can?

Billy Fleming is the ASG Sustainability Director.

GUEST COLUMNBilly Fleming

Letter from the Editor

It’s all in the family

Although there are many issues when it comes to the law and what our government should and should not regulate, one of the most contro-versial is Hate Crime laws.

Most people would agree that people who would murder someone based purely on their race, color, religion or national origin are doing it out of hate. But what about their gender or gender identity? What about their sexual orientation?

Current federal hate crime legislation does not provide for these instances. So in cases like that of Matthew Shepard, who was brutally tor-tured and murdered by two men who said they targeted him specifically because he was gay, whatever punishment is attached to the crime – and, in this case, the perpetrators’ punishment of life in prison was commen-surate with it - seems hollow in the absence of any broader recognition of the discriminatory – and, yes, even hateful – attitude inherent in the crime itself.

When other horrific crimes have happened to young people in our country, we have responded more quickly as a nation to make the country safer for others who might be put in that same situation. Whether look-ing at the Cleary Act, which requires full disclosure of crime statistics by universities after a 19-year-old Lehigh University freshman was raped and murdered in her residence hall in 1986, or the Amber Alert system, which was developed after a nine-year-old from Arlington, Tex., was abducted while riding her bicycle, other malicious crimes have often created a national stir, and a change on the federal level.

But in the case of the Matthew Shepard Act, which would add more minority groups to the list of those that hate crimes can be attributed to, the legislation has yet to pass, although it has been before both houses of Congress five times.

On April 24, 2009, the House Judiciary Committee passed a new version of the Matthew Shepard Act. On April 29, 2009, the full House of Representatives voted 249-175 to pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. This bill has been added as an amend-ment in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010, and is awaiting passage in the Senate.

Hate crime legislation has always been tricky—how can we truly de-termine what was in someone’s mind when they committed a crime? Re-gardless of what they were thinking, they are still arrested for committing the crime and still face retribution. But since Matthew Shepard’s death, more than two dozen gay and lesbian individuals have been murdered specifically because of their sexual preference, according to the FBI.

If someone is prepared to murder, they will probably still do it regard-less of whether they will be charged with a hate crime. But if changing the legislation prevents one crime from happening—one person from being abused, one student from being beaten up, one life from being ruined—it is probably worth the change.

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Across campus, hand sanitizer dispensers have been made available for students who want to avoid germs.

Fulbright College feels the brunt of any increase because it teaches 85 percent of all courses to freshmen and 78 percent to sophomores.

“With 58 percent of the u n i v e r s i t y ’ s overall course e n r o l l m e n t , any increase in enrollment will have a p r o f o u n d impact on us,” said Bill Schwab, dean of the Fulbright College.

The student-to-teacher ra-tio has been inching up slowly over the last few years, as well as the number of teachers who are not tenure-track profes-sors. Schwab said 60 percent of classes are taught by grad-uate assistants or instructors rather than full professors, which is higher than the na-tional average of 48 to 50 per-cent. He said these figures are a concern.

In 2000, there were 290 tenure-track professors in Fulbright College compared with 300 today, but there are also 4,000 more students than there were then.

With fewer faculty to teach sections, the average size of core classes has increased slightly. Adams said class size can definitely affect the qual-ity of education, although he is still pleased with UA class sizes compared to other major U.S. universities. Relative to classes in Texas or Wisconsin that hold as many as 900 stu-dents, classes at the UA remain small, with the largest sections having around 300, he said.

The most popular major in the Fulbright College is biol-ogy, and the biological sci-ences department is currently “busting at the seams,” said Fred Spiegel, chair of the de-partment. Taking into account the students who have not declared officially, the depart-ment has about 1,000 majors and has grown 10 percent since just last year. Addition-

ally, many students from each college take biology classes to fulfill their science require-ments, forcing the sections to be larger.

“When we reach the break-ing point we will just have to serve our majors first,” Spiegel said. “I can see it happening already, and we will just get to the point where we can’t take

more stu-dents.”

The UA b i o l o g i c a l sciences de-p a r t m e n t has a larger s t u d e n t - t o -professor ra-tio than that

of any other Southeastern Conference uni-versity, he said. There are only 23 tenure-track professors – fewer than there were 20 years ago when there were less than half as many students. Hav-ing so few professors limits the number of graduate assis-tants, who have to work under professors, the department can support.

“Our goal is to get back to 30 tenure-track profes-sors, which is how many we had when the d e p a r t m e n t opened, but that won’t do us much good,” Spie-gel said. “We need to have 50 to be back where we were in the size of sections.”

Additionally, Fulbright Col-lege has received $21 million in external grants to expand the research mission of the professors. This has shifted the attention and responsibil-ity of the tenure-track profes-sors from teaching to research. Spiegel said he has seen this issue in the biological scienc-es department especially.

Faculty are also concerned about where that many more students will fit. The class-rooms on campus were built for smaller class sizes and there is a need for more space, Schwab said. Without room for more sections, there are already courses being offered

Friday nights and Saturday mornings, with classes in gen-eral having to be offered at unpopular times. Spiegel said labs are now offered back-to-back, a situation that is less than ideal for running experi-ments.

Even though they don’t cre-ate more space, renovations are essential to prepare for more students, Spiegel said.

“Our labs are an embar-rassment compared to those of other universities in the state,” he said. “They are in better shape because we have a tendency to build things and not maintain them.”

However, he is reassured that the chancellor is taking these things seriously. Gear-heart said the university has deferred maintenance way too long, Adams said.

Already, renovations on the three largest auditoriums in the college are scheduled to occur in the next two or three years, Adams said.

Five thousand additional students will create an obvi-ous need for more professors, but the budget for Fulbright College is static at $42 mil-lion.

“Really, a flat budget in the current economy is a blessing,” Schwab said. “We haven’t had to fire or furlough any-body.”

U n d e r normal con-

ditions the budget usually in-creases about 3 percent a year, he said. Without that growth, finding the money to hire more professors is difficult.

Both Schwab and Adams said they have faith the UA ad-ministration will provide the resources they need to make it work in the next five years.

“Growth is great for rev-enue. There are economies of scale in education like in ev-erything,” Adams said. “How-ever, an enrollment increase of this size still deserves seri-ous attention, and the key is to plan rather than react to the growth.”

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“The key is to plan rather than react to

the growth.”— Charles Adams

“We will just get to the point where we

can’t take more students.”

— Fred Spiegel

Students have chance to get lucky

at Casino NightMore than 323 cases of the

H1N1 flu have been reported to the Pat Walker Health Center, according to the Oct. 3 update given by the health center.

Nurse Manager Lyn Eding-ton said most swine flu cases reported were mild. The health center has added additional doctors to help with the increase in patients at the facility.

To help combat the swine flu, members of University Housing took preventive measures, in-cluding increased cleaning and more hand sanitizers in resi-dence halls. They recommended students who are experiencing systems of the H1N1 flu not go to school or work, drink plenty of fluids and pick up a “flu-like illness” sheet from the front desk. They also designated iso-lation rooms for sick students in Maple Hill South and Gregson.

Housing has sent out sick tray request forms for students living on campus. Students who have the swine flu fill out the form with their name, ID num-ber and preferred foods.

“University Housing staff members have participated in a number of department and cam-pus planning discussions,” said Timothy Burkhalter, director of Residence Education. “We will continue these conversations and regular communications to make sure we are responding as promptly and as appropriately as we can.”

Kaitlin Bell, an RA in Hum-phreys Hall, said their staff had been given instructions on what to do if someone gets sick and were told to put posters up in the hallways about the swine flu.

“We’re supposed to get them a mask and tell them to self-isolate themselves,” Bell said. She said they were also recom-mending people go home if they became ill.

Officials continue H1N1 precautionary measures as students learn to cope with swine flu

Jordain CarneyContributing Writer

It may be that the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk. But at the UA’s Casino Night, students won’t need either.

The UA is hosting the 43rd annual Casino Night, spon-sored by the Residents’ Inter-hall Congress. Casino Night is the second-oldest student program at the UA. Last year, close to 1,000 people came to RIC Casino Night to play their favorite casino games and earn enough casino money to bid for the prizes awarded at the end of the night.

This year’s event, which is saloon-themed, will take place 9 p.m. to midnight Friday, Oct. 9, in the Arkansas Union Ballroom. Casino games will include poker, blackjack and roulette. There will also be drawings for an opportunity to go into the “money machine” and play Western-style games and Wheel of Fortune.

All the money raised throughout the evening will go toward benefit-ing the United Way. This event h i s t o r i c a l l y provides the largest dona-tion by any student group to the United Way, and makes for the largest percentage of the student donation.

While all students will be given their first round of chips just for arriving at Ca-sino Night, they will be asked to make a small donation to continue receiving chips once they have run out. Even if the donation is $1, the event’s

coordinators said it still goes a long way toward a good cause.

After the event, there will be a prize auction from midnight to 1 a.m. Prizes will include a free housing voucher, gift cer-tificates, games, an Xbox 360 and more.

“We plan to see a good turnout this year,” said Meghan Ness, RIC vice presi-dent. “This is a great event be-cause students can win some awesome prizes at the end of the night while donating to a good cause.”

There will also be an oxy-gen bar, airbrush tattoos, make-your-own-music-videos, crafts, a picture opportunity in front of the Welcome to Vegas Sign and free food and T-shirts.

Since FNL has been at the UA, coordinators have paired with the RIC to put on Casino Night, which has proved to be one of the most popular an-nual events on campus. With

FNL’s help, thousands of dollars have been donated to the United Way over the past few years.

C a s i n o Night is being hosted at the same time as

the First Year Experience Fam-ily Weekend. It provides an opportunity for students and parents to go out and have fun at a casino, without losing all their money and while spend-ing time meeting other stu-dents and families.

News Editor Bailey Elise McBride contributed to the reporting of this article.

Sam LetchworthStaff Writer

Bell said she is hoping no one on her floor gets the swine flu, and is reminding residents to wash their hands.

Students who have room-mates with the swine flu can still go to school and work, but are advised to monitor their health and wash their hands often.

Sophomore Jacklyn Frost, a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority, said her president had been helpful by making sick members leave the house. She said they take Vitamin C sup-plements regularly and have a bottle of Germ-X in their room, and yet she and one roommate were diagnosed with the swine flu on the same day.

Another roommate had symptoms but began taking medicine and did not get sick, and the fourth went home to avoid becoming sick.

“After I found out I had swine flu, I told my roommate, and she started looking for somewhere else to live right then,” said Jor-dan Hanson, a UA student living in Reid Hall.

She said she washed her

bedding and used Lysol wipes to clean every surface in her room.

“I wanted to get all the germs that I could out of the room,” Hanson said.

She said it was her RAs, not other Housing staff, who helped her: “If I needed something, they would go down and get it for me.” She said it was also her RAs who picked up most of her meals.

Like Frost, Hanson said that being alone was one of the worst parts about having the swine flu.

“Not having someone to talk to or be there for you all the time sucked,” she said.

Her family lives almost six hours away, and she said she did not want them coming to see her because “there would be a good chance that they would get swine flu, too.”

Both girls said they think university officials were han-dling the swine flu situation well. But Hanson said she thinks the university should shut down if too many students get sick, so

they can disinfect the residence halls.

The university has set up an emergency H1N1 Web site at Emergency.uark.edu/15497.php. On the site, Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the university would cancel all class-es and essentially shut down if the virus became widespread or if the Arkansas Department of Health or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made that recommendation.

She also asked that depart-mental academic continuity plans be developed and include: eliminating a final exam and teaching course material during the final exam period, eliminat-ing a maximum of 13 percent of the course and requiring course assignments on Blackboard.

“It was pretty much the worst experience of my life,” Hanson said of her time with swine flu. “Your lungs feel like they have been through a paper shredder because when you cough it is vi-olent and you feel everything.”

“This is a great event because students can win

some awesome prizes while donating to a good

cause.”— Meghan Ness

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him so they can stay updated on the issue, he said.

The first question posed at the Thursday forum came from senior Jacob Holloway, an agricultural economics major. He asked Smith if the policy was going to be a “red herring,” and requested a guarantee that the department would not change its mind about charging for bike permits after students begin to comply with the policy.

“I’ve been on campus 22 years in the department, so I know better than to guarantee you we’re never going to charge,” Smith said in response.

He also added, however, that he does not foresee a charge in the next five years.

One of the biggest problems for the TPD, Smith said, is that there is no estimate of how many bicycles are on campus on a given day; therefore, there is no way to accurately measure whether the 527 parking spots currently available are sufficient.

Another problem is the lack of money for more bike racks, which cost nearly $300 a piece.

Students have voiced numerous concerns about the policy, some regarding how it would affect the aesthetics of their bikes to some concerned with the university’s commitment to sustainability.

“No offense, but I paid way too much money for my bike to want to put some registration sticker on it,” junior Abbie Weaver said.

Her statement is reflective of the views of many students: Affixing a permanent sticker to a bike would devalue its expensive frame.

Some students have been critical of the policy because they believe it goes against the Climate Action Plan of the UA, supported by Chancellor G. David Gearhart, which urges a less pro-vehicle stance and even suggests that money the UA saves through energy conservation could go toward promoting bicycle transportation and boosting the Razorbikes program, which allows students access to nearly 50 free bikes across campus.

“Some people can’t afford to pay for a parking permit that costs almost $500, and in some cases can’t even afford a car,” sophomore Katie Rowan said. “This policy is punishing people for using a cheaper and more Earth-friendly alternative to driving.”

On the 30-member TPD Committee, usually two students are involved at most. Fleming said that though he understands the benefits to bike registration, he doesn’t “appreciate the way (the policy) played out and the lack of student input in the process.”

Another concern of some students is the policy’s ban on removing parts of their bicycles when they go into class. Many students remove either a wheel or the seat from their bicycle to prevent it from being stolen when they leave it on campus.

According to the new policy, however, abandoned bicycles – meaning bikes that are habitually left unsecured or missing major components such as handlebars or pedals – will be impounded for 60 days and disposed, if not retrieved by their owners.

Many students spoke out against the policy when the first draft was released in the spring, and more than 1,100 people have joined the Facebook group, “U of A Students Against Bicycle Parking Fees On Campus.”

“They tried to charge students who ride bikes $15 for a permit when they only charge $6 for scooters,” Rowan said. “That doesn’t make any sense – scooters are way bigger and go against the whole sustainability mission of the university.”

The policy originated last spring after numerous departments, including Housing, complained that bikes were parked in unacceptable locations and were blocking handicapped ramps and killing trees.

The policy has since gone through five drafts, and the final policy was written and approved this summer while many students were away from campus.

“The point is, like it or not, they’re going to run it like a business,” Fleming said. “The biggest thing is for us not to let the TPD do this again – the students have a right to be mad.”

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Forget laundry: Students today send their homework home to their parents.

Twenty percent of college students have e-mailed papers home for their parents to re-view – and most call or e-mail their parents an average of 13 times a week, according to a study by Middlebury College psychology professor Barbara Hofer.

And parents not only help their children to decide where to go to school – they con-tinue to deal with college of-ficials on behalf of their chil-dren even after their kids have moved to campus.

Parental involvement in education has been shown to improve student performance in eighth-graders – but does that hold true for 18-year-olds?

Some experts say no.“When parents intervene

in their children’s college life and decision-making, students may not necessarily develop their own problem-solving skills, which may limit developmental gains in their learning experiences,” said John H. Pryor, co-author of a

University of California at Los Angeles report about parental involvement at the collegiate level.

Karen Levin Coburn, the co-author of “Letting Go: A Parents’ Guide to Understand-ing the College Years,” also believes parents can commu-nicate too much with their college-aged students.

Students are deprived “of developing a sense of confi-dence and competence and of taking ownership of their college experience,” Coburn said.

Some UA students said they agree that it’s counterintuitive to ask parents for homework help at this point.

“I don’t think I’d be able to stop falling to the ground laughing hysterically if they tried (to check my home-work),” said Adam Douglas, a graduate student in playwrit-ing.

Accounting student Ryan Reynolds and photography student Josh Rutherford agree that their parents are other-wise qualified.

Reynolds explained that his mom’s education was un-related to accounting, so there was no reason to ask her for help.

Rutherford’s mom worked

as a medical transcriptionist before going through nuclear medicine school.

“I guess if I were in pre-med I would ask my mom for help,” Rutherford said.

Another surprising aspect of parental involvement in education is the recent social validation of cheating: Statis-tics from National Public Ra-dio found that two-thirds of parents think cheating is no big deal and say that all stu-dents do it.

The problem is so wide-spread that the percentage of college students cheating has increased more than four times in the past 70 years to a total of 75 to 98 percent of college students, according to the No Cheating Web site.

A solution might include an improved transition in the amount of high school and college essential study hours, a developed knowledge of re-liable research sources online and simply taking the advice of university staff, such as writing center specialists and tutors, instead of solely rely-ing on parents.

The difference in the sug-gested amount of study time needed for students progress-es on a straightforward scale: limited homework until the

fifth grade, 90 minutes daily for middle school students and a limit of two hours daily for high school students, ac-cording to Harris Cooper’s Duke University study “The Sheet.”

The difficulty in workload from high school to college is the decrease in classroom hours versus necessary per-sonal study hours, according to the University of Central Arkansas Web site. A common rule suggests two hours of studying for each hour of col-lege credit, bringing the stu-dent’s study-workload to ap-proximately 30 hours a week, at least triple that of the high school student.

The fairly modern resourc-es of Internet databases and writing centers have changed the process of doing home-work, as well as the technol-ogy for turning it in.

“Students’ frequent use of the Internet shows a pref-erence for information that is easily accessible, but that information is not necessar-ily reliable or accurate,” said Sylvia Hurtado, a co-author of the UCLA report. “Learning how to evaluate knowledge claims is an essential part of a liberal education.”

April RobertsonStaff Writer

Some college students still turn to Mom and Dad for homework help

STEPHEN IRONSIDE Staff Photographer

A surprising number of college freshmen send their homework home to parents or relatives for help.

The weekend event will con-clude with a Sunday brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Northwest Quad and Pom-fret dining halls. The Sunday brunch will be one of only a few meals available in the North-west Quad: The dining hall will be closed Saturday. For those

who wish to spend their Sunday afternoon in Fayetteville, the Razorback volleyball team will be playing Mississippi State at Barnhill Arena, starting at 1:30 p.m.

Other family-oriented events will occur around campus this weekend, as well. The sorori-ties of Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Delta Pi and Kappa Kappa Gamma will host their annual Dad’s Day.

“Before the game on Satur-

day, we’ll have breakfast and a raffle that will provide proceeds to our philanthropy, Make-A-Wish Foundation,” said Rachel Gibbons, Chi Omega Sisterhood Chair.

The University Theatre will perform “Death of a Salesman” at the Walton Arts Center 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday night and the Fayetteville Farmer’s Mar-ket will enliven the Downtown Square Plaza Saturday.

Other attractions include

Mount Sequoyah, The Arkansas Air Museum, The Tommy Boyer Hall of Champions and The Jerry Jones/Jim Lindsey Hall of Champions.

Accommodation assistance for Family Weekend can be found via the Fayetteville Visi-tors’ Bureau when looking to reserve a hotel room. Registra-tion for Family Weekend opened on Aug. 8 for all PPA Members and on Aug. 25 for the general public.

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Check Traveler Top 5 next week for the top 5 reasons we’re high

on the Hill.

Most Memorable Football Moments

Miracle at markham 1 & 2 and '07 upset of #1 LSU1.

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Because when we bring the wood, we get the boot.

Beating ut in the 2000 cotton bowl

espn game day wITNESSING hogs destroy vols in 2006

Lee Corso dons the Hog hat on the Razor-backs’ way to 10 straight wins in 2006.

Seven overtime wins against ole miss in 2001 and kentucky in 2003

D!mac rushing for an sec record, tying 321 yards in 2007 against sc

Because Matt Jones can get it done in any span of time. Take that, Eli Manning.

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Game day is a day of cel-ebration. Whether the Ra-zorbacks win or lose, there is an air of devotion and thrill that bonds the city of Fayetteville together. Fans, whether they’re students, alumni or just die-hard Hog enthusiasts, come together to celebrate tradition in the stands and on the streets.

And tailgating is an event in and of itself. Many ele-ments blend together to cre-ate a sort of mobile party full of food, drinks, friends and giant TVs. Some students have been tailgating for years, while others picked up the habit at the UA – and many plan to keep up the tradition this Saturday at the Auburn game.

“My mom has lived up here for about four or five years now, and I’ve been tailgating for at least three years,” freshman Dylan Da-vis said. “I usually just go hang out wherever I know people… I don’t really have a specific place I go.”

Sophomore Kyle Fought said he’s been tailgating for four years with his mom and step-dad, a veteran tailgater.

“It’s important to have variety to have a good tail-gate,” Fought said. “My step-dad cooks all different kinds of food and he switches it up every time. Food is a big deal.”

Food does seem to be a

staple of the tailgating ex-perience, and many students look forward to both original and traditional tailgating foods.

“I really like the dogs. I like them plain, with a side of lemonade,” sophomore Kim Nguyen said. “I tailgate with my friend’s brother, who is a UA alum.”

Senior Georgia Lackey also said she enjoys the tra-ditional food.

“The dips are the best. I love spinach dip. Fried chick-en is pretty awesome, too,” she said. “Tailgating also has to have good company.”

And good company isn’t hard to come by. Whether it’s close friends or just fel-low fans, it’s not difficult to find a place to party on game day.

“I love tailgating. I get to spend time with people I don’t really know, but we all have one thing in common: love for the Razorbacks,” ju-nior Sylvia Tran said.

At Fought’s tailgate, there is company of all ages, he said.

“We’ll have anywhere from two to 10 college kids, 15 to 20 adults and three to 15 little kids,” Fought said.

Tailgating is also about location. And because Hog games bring out such a large crowd, it’s often a good idea for students to head out early.

“If it’s a night game, we usually get out there around noon,” Fought said. “For early games, though, we of-ten times will just tailgate after the game is over. But ultimately, it doesn’t matter where you are – it’s who you are with and the atmosphere you create.

“Great friends, great food and great drinks; that’s what makes for a great tailgate.”

Hot dogs and HogsTailgating on the Hill

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Before each home game, Razorback fans fill the campus with their tents, grills, TVs and tables of food, and the perim-eter of the UA campus becomes a sea of red and white.

Trish ByronStaff Writer

Pig out with these

tailgate treats

Pig Sooie Spinach Dip

Ingredients: 1 pkg. frozen spinach (thaw and drain before using) 1 small yellow onion, diced 1 can Rotel tomatoes, drained 1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese 2 cups shredded monterrey jack (mozzerella also works well) Splash of milk Garlic salt, salt, and black pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place the first five ingredients in a baking dish, with the spinach on the bottom. Cover. Bake for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven, stir to combine ingredients and distribute cream cheese. Add splash of milk, garlic, salt and pepper and stir until well blended. Bake for an additional 15 minutes uncovered.

Serve warm with tortilla chips, pita chips or crackers.

Cow Patties

Ingredients: 5 pounds ground beef 1 pound Chorizo (Mexican sausage) 14 Ritz type snack crackers, broken into small crumbs 3 large eggs 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped (optional)

Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Mix well, using your hands to knead the ingredients together. Once all ingredients are mixed together, form into hamburger patties. Prepare as you would any other hamburger. Makes 10-13 patties, depending how big you make them. This recipe can easily be doubled.

Tailgate

Tips– All college students know

how it feels to be tight on cash. Ask your friends to help out by organizing a BYO (Bring Your Own) event. For example, tell girls to bring snacks and guys to bring drinks.

– Choose foods that can be easily transported and don’t re-quire a lot of maintenance. Any-thing that you can cook at home and put in some Tupperware containers is a good idea, as well as foods that you can just throw on the grill as soon as you get to your location. But be aware of the temperature of food – it’s important to keep cold foods cold and hot foods hot to avoid food poisoning.

– Pack up those paper plates and napkins to avoid having to do dishes later that night.

– Clean up after yourself and keep Arkansas beautiful.

– Sticky fingers might help you hold on to your beer, but no one wants to give high-fives to the guy with nasty hands. Pack some wet naps and sanitizer to keep clean.

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The first semester of college is a whirlwind of emotion.

For some, moving away from home and out from under the protective shelter of the parental wingspan is the first major step toward reaching adulthood.

That, coupled with the strange surroundings of a col-lege campus, the stress of living with an unfamiliar roommate and the throngs of other equal-ly-as-lost classmates, can make for a situation wrought with tension. Additionally, students are required to make decisions to solidify their life path at a

time when they are only begin-ning to understand who they truly are.

This responsibility is a heavy burden, but it is one of the first indicators that college students are in control of their own des-tiny.

Nate Williams, associate professor of psychology and li-

censed clinical psychologist, has conducted research at the UA with current students regard-ing the “big three” mental dis-orders: anxiety disorders, mood disorders and substance-use disorders.

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major classes of disorders, you could conservatively estimate that about 40 percent of the American population is at life-time risk, with college age be-ing the prime period of onset,” he said.

With those statistics in mind, it is easy to point out one of the many factors leading to angst among freshmen – namely, the separation anxiety associated with leaving home.

Independence is a heavy re-sponsibility, the consequences of which are not always fully understood. The feeling of hopeless homesickness can prey upon students and strike with a vengeance. Yet for some, leaving home has been a long-awaited privilege.

“Arriving at college, for me, was not a source of anxiety, but rather of liberation,” said soph-omore Andrew Van Genderen, who came to the UA from St. Louis. “I had waited all through high school to get away… It was freeing, exciting and ex-hilarating.”

Freshman Ben Lambert, who’s from Iowa, also said he hasn’t felt anxious about being away from his family.

“I just wanted to get out, I guess,” Lambert said. “I like be-ing in different places, so I’m not really experiencing any separation anxiety because I like new things and new expe-riences, and I know everything will be OK so I don’t need to worry about it.”

However, not all new college students are as ready to let go of their past and run headlong into the future, nor are all en-tirely prepared for such an emo-tionally shaking life change.

Junior Allie Groves remem-bered her first semester as a freshman at the University of Missouri as extremely difficult. Not only was she far away – “like four and a half hours” – but it was the longest she had ever been away from her family.

“I didn’t know anyone, and I was always feeling like I was alone,” Groves said. “My mom would call and those were one of the only times I felt OK, but when she’d hang up it would be like it never even happened.”

Never having dealt with de-pression before, Groves stopped eating, caring about going to class or making friends.

“All I wanted to do was go home,” she said.

But after transferring to the UA, she was closer to her fam-ily and altogether a happier student.

“I was fixed,” Groves said, “and finding a group of people who care, who can tell if you’re down, it helps. I think that’s the thing that saved me from going crazy, is coming to a place where I could find a connection.”

A freshman at the University of Central Arkansas, however, was not so fortunate. Always surrounded by loving par-ents and a supportive group of friends, he found it difficult to cope socially without the con-stant presence of his security net. A family member said this about his struggles:

“For the first time, he felt like he was facing the respon-sibilities of ‘real life’ – meeting new people, hard classes, lack of constant family presence, etc. – and felt ill-equipped to deal with these new changes. Without the confidence and assurance to face these changes, he felt to-tally out of control and basically started having panic attacks and a sense of social phobia… While all college students face anxiety,

he simply felt he couldn’t handle this anxiety and was ‘the only one feeling this way’…a feeling that left him feeling alone and a feeling that triggered the panic attacks.”

This student withdrew from classes for the remainder of the semester, and is currently go-ing through counseling to take healing steps toward returning to college with confidence.

“A major concern from my perspective is that there is a lengthy time lag between the on-set of psychological disorders of these types and when individu-als seek treatment (often five to 10 or more years, depending on the disorder),” Williams said.

Others students, however, meet the challenge head-on. Jake Ehrenreich, a freshman from Dallas, recognized that his stress originated more from discomfort rather than direct anxiety.

“It’s natural to resist change even when you know that col-lege is supposed to be one of the most exciting aspects of life,” Ehrenreich said. “I’m actually doing much better than I would have thought. I knew I would need to step up to the plate and bear these new responsibilities, but it came much more natural-ly than I could have hoped.”

Ehrenreich recently returned home for the first time since the start of the semester. He spoke from his kitchen table where comfort and familiarity reigned supreme.

“I realize that the reason college is considered full of possibilities isn’t just that you can pursue any given hobby or passion or career, so much as that you can totally succeed or fail based much, much more on your own work,” Ehrenreich said. “Never before have you had so much responsibility for your success – or for your failure.”

A customer to Geraldi’s Italian restaurant is greeted by the warm scent of fresh pizza dough and the silky voice of Dean Martin. Founder Albert Geraldi, 72, welcomes every-one with friendly service, ready to meet the anticipation of a meal with culinary finesse and tradition.

Geraldi is a first-generation American born to Italian-immi-grant parents in Brooklyn, N.Y. A smiling and humble white-haired man, he speaks with kindness and familiarity when retelling the story of his success.

The inspiration to open an Ital-ian restaurant came secondary to Geraldi’s original entrepreneurial pursuit: winemaking.

“I started a winery in Or-egon about 30 years ago. I grew the grapes, processed the grapes, bottled the wine, sold the wine – and in about five years I lost every penny I had,” Geraldi said.

Yet the misfortune turned into an unexpectedly successful ven-ture through the reinvention of his wine-tasting room in Portland.

“We added sandwiches to help us through these very tough times of being broke. One day, a custom-er came in and suggested we serve meatball sandwiches. So we put in a few meatballs and our business doubled overnight,” Geraldi said.

Soon after, the same customer came in and suggested they add his mother’s recipe for Chicago beef, and the business doubled again. They added the customer’s own recipe for a pesto veggie sandwich, and the business tripled.

“And you know what,” Geraldi said, “we never saw that guy again after that.”

Geraldi opened about 15 suc-cessful restaurants throughout Or-egon. Since the transformation of his wine-tasting store, Geraldi has expanded his venture and opened 20 to 30 “Geraldi’s” Italian restau-rants across the country.

“I think I’ve lost count,” Geraldi said. “It’s never been that serious.”

Contrary to those words, it is evident that creating high-quality meals and pleasing customers is something very dear to Geraldi’s heart. Every item on the menu is homemade and inspired by family recipes, from the fresh tomato sauce to the cannolis and everything else in between. Sides such as the anti-pasto salad with Genoa salami and feta vinaigrette or the hot, crusty,

buttery garlic bread are a perfect accompaniment to a thick serving of lasagna, made fresh daily, or the pesto spaghetti, a delightfully green plate of basil-y goodness.

Geraldi spoke optimistically of the new menu due to go into cir-culation within the next week or so. He plans to expand the menu to offer more specialty items and high-end dinner dishes, such as grilled salmon, sirloin steak or grilled garlic shrimp alfredo. This addition will accompany the Friday and Saturday night prime rib spe-cial already in place.

The gourmet items aside, the crowning glory of Geraldi’s is its gorgeous rendering of pizza. What has been diminished to a frozen, cop-out of a meal for the college population is truly an art form in this restaurant.

My companions and I ordered the “Mama Mia” pizza, with red onion, black olives, pepperoni, pork sausage, mushrooms and homemade meatballs. It was a masterpiece. The thin, flexible crust gleamed a golden yellow, and as I took a bite into the thick layer of cheese, the sweet liquid sauce pooled underneath, giving an overall taste sensation of hot, sa-vory spice. All of the flavors melded into a symphony of delight in my mouth. Chased with an icy Coke, it

was a perfect evening meal. Not only is the food delicious,

it is reasonably priced. One large pizza easily fed three with leftovers, and with three Cokes, our tab ended up to be around $20. The prices alone make it a great place to visit with friends, but it is the atmosphere of Geraldi’s that truly solidifies its position as a classy restaurant.

Geraldi’s is open and airy, but maintains a feeling of intimacy with its mellow lighting. The atmo-sphere is also lighthearted, as the low hum of voices bubbles up into frequent bursts of laughter from customers and employees alike.

Geraldi’s has been in Fayette-ville for less than a year, but already it has received ample praise from the community for its fine selection of Italian food.

According to the iPhone ‘Urban Spoon’ application, “Geraldi’s” is ranked as the second best Italian restaurant in the area, and even more noteworthy was their award for “Best Pizza in Arkansas” from the Arkansas Times.

Inspired by a homemade meat-ball, this restaurant is definitely worth a visit. Located at 20 S. Uni-versity Ave., Geraldi’s operates 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

“The Invention of Lying” is, appropriately enough, not en-tirely what you’ve been told.

The trailers present “Lying” as your average romantic com-edy, maybe with an interesting twist. One ticket-buyer I talked to said she thought the movie

“looks cute.” In reality, the film is a harsh,

brutal satire of society with reli-gion and romance as the central targets. It may be the meanest movie of the year. You can tell that Ricky Gervais, the film’s writer, director and star, has a deep-seated hatred for humanity and a lot of resentment toward people better-looking than he is.

I loved it.Satire is risky for Hollywood,

and so the major studios rarely try it. Last year, several advocacy groups for intellectual disabili-ties completely misread certain scenes in “Tropic Thunder” and took to the streets in protest.

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This is probably why none of the advertisements mention the blasphemous plot line.

Gervais lives in a world where humans have never evolved the capacity to lie. One day, he dis-covers the secret, and begins to say things that aren’t so.

This is so revolutionary that he has trouble convincing other people that it’s even possible. He uses his powers to get a promo-tion, date Jennifer Garner and console his dying mother.

The last bit creates a mess, as the orderlies overhear his lies about “a place you go when you die” and he has to develop an entire theology to keep up with his fibs.

“Lying” turns out to be closer

to Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” than Gervais’ tame rom-com, “Ghost Town.” I was afraid this bait-and-switch might result in some walk-outs, but everyone in my theater was laughing.

Even if you disagree with Gervais and think that religion isn’t a lie or that people aren’t shallow idiots, the humor is so spot-on that you’ll love it, any-way.

Most of the good bits come

from Gervais interacting with the innocents in the world.

Because they have no concep-tion of truth or falsity, his prelap-sarian dupes believe anything he says. Gervais tells both good lies (“Things will get better; don’t kill yourself”) and bad (“The world is going to end unless we have sex right now”).

I kept waiting for the gim-mick to wear thin, but Gervais and co-writer Matthew Robinson

are too talented for that. The script avoids both Twi-

light Zone cheese and Hollywood plastic. Unlike “Year One,” which abandoned its Biblical critique 30 minutes in, “Lying” doesn’t sell out, despite some of the rom-com conventions.

And, of course, there are the cameos. I could probably fill up the entire column space with a list. Many worked best as surpris-es, but Tina Fey and Rob Lowe

shine, and Edward Norton has my favorite cameo of the year.

“The Invention of Lying” runs 100 minutes long. It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for language, including some sexual material and a drug reference.

It’s probably a good date movie, particularly if you are an unattractive man trying to guilt a Jennifer Garner look-alike into seeing past your short stature and pug nose.

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On a cold October night 11 years ago, a 21-year-old Uni-versity of Wyoming student was robbed, pistol whipped, tortured and left to die tied to a fence post outside of Laramie, Wyo., by two men who targeted him because of his sexual pref-erence.

When he was discovered 18 hours later by a passing bi-cyclist, his body was so badly beaten it was mistaken for a scarecrow, and his face was covered in blood except for the spots that had been washed off by his tears. His injuries were so severe doctors were unable to operate, and he died four days later.

Lives across the United States have been touched by Matthew Shepard’s story, and as the 11th anniversary of his death approaches, his mother and many others continue to push for equal rights for all people and a reform in hate crime legislation to include sexual preference.

Because of the lack of leg-islation for hate crimes based on sexual orientation, the two men who murdered Shepard were never charged with a hate crime.

However, they are both

serving two consecutive life sentences for the murder.

Aaron McKinney and his ac-complice, Russell Henderson, targeted Matthew at a bar in Laramie because they assumed he was gay.

“Well, he was overly friend-ly. And he was obviously gay,” McKinney is quoted as saying in an interview with writer Greg Pierotti. “That played a part ... his weakness. His frail-ty.”

Both parties have yet to ex-press serious remorse for their crime.

“Yeah, I got remorse. But probably not the way people want me to,” McKinney said in the same interview. “I got re-morse that I didn’t live the way my dad taught me to live.”

Current federal hate crimes law permits prosecution of a hate crime only if the crime was motivated by bias based on race, color, religion or na-tional origin and the assailant intends to prevent the victim from exercising a “federally protected right” such as the right to vote or attend school.

The Matthew Shepard Act would revise the law to include hate crimes against individu-als based on sexual orienta-tion, gender, gender identity and disability.

The Matthew Shepard Foun-

dation, formed by Shepard’s parents two months after his death, was created to “honor Matthew in a manner that was appropriate to his dreams, be-liefs and aspirations” as they encourage others to “replace hate with understanding, com-passion and acceptance,” ac-cording to the organization’s Web site.

On Monday, Oct. 12, the 11th anniversary of Shepard’s death, more than 100 theaters in all 50 states and 15 inter-national theaters will present readings of the sequel to the play about Shepard’s murder.

“The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later” is based on new interviews with McKinney and residents of Laramie. The show will also be webcast to more than 150 theaters, with a preshow including commen-tary from Judy Shepard (his mother), Glenn Close and NPR Radio Arts and Culture corre-spondent Neda Ulabay.

The only showing in Arkan-sas will be at Hendrix College in Conway – however, there is also a showing in Tulsa, Okla.

On the national level, Shep-ard’s mother continues to push for the Matthew Shepard Act to pass through both the Senate and the House of Representa-tives, but has been unsuccess-ful so far in the five times the

act has gone before Congress. Sen. Ted Kennedy was one of the main proponents of the legislation, and lobbied for its passage in 2007.

Since Shepard’s death, more than 25 hate-related crimes against gays and lesbians have been committed, according to the FBI.

Judy Shepard also has two national speaking programs,

“Legacy of Matthew Shepard” and “Erasing Hate: A Com-munity Discussion,” to foster this discussion of hate crime legislation reform, and since the foundation began she has given more than 500 speeches to more than a million people in colleges, high schools, uni-versities, corporations and churches around the country.

She also began a tour this

last month to promote her book, “The Meaning of Mat-thew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Trans-formed.”

This Sunday is also Nation-al “Coming Out” Day in the LGBTQ community. On Oct. 12, there will be a memorial in Shepard’s honor hosted by the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality.

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It’s been quite a journey for Arkansas fresh-man running back Ronnie Wingo.

It was only a year ago that Wingo was using his speed to create plays for his team at St. Louis University High School.

But now the 6-3, 218-pound running back al-ready has memories of the first collegiate touch-down when he ran 62 yards to score against the Texas A&M Aggies at Cowboys Stadium.

And he said the touchdown run couldn’t have been more close to what he thought it would be.

“It’s really been a dream come true for me,” Wingo said. “The Dallas Cowboys have been my favorite football team since I was about knee high. I was really energetic when I scored.”

Wingo said it was a great run because it took a team effort to create the running room to finish off a 47-19 win.

“With the offensive line, receivers and tight end blocking, it started with them,” Wingo said. “They had to hold the blocks for the play to de-velop. It was about patience and cutting back and then cutting back out again.”

Wingo said he didn’t know he was going to score until he only saw one defender left. But he showed why he’s averaging 9.1 yards per carry this season with a quick burst and juke.

“It was speed and determination,” Wingo said. “That’s what it came down to. I was trying to get my first collegiate touchdown. From about 5 yards out, I was smiling and had an unbeliev-able feeling.”

And although Wingo looked forward to seeing a replay of the score on the largest high-defini-tion television in the world, he didn’t get that opportunity. But he’s not complaining.

“My teammates were beating me up on the sideline,” Wingo said laughing. “I didn’t even get a chance to see it.”

Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino said it was nice to see Wingo, who finished with a team-high 86 rushing yards, and the other running backs end the game strong.

“We fin-ished the game up the way I would like to finish the game up,” Petrino said. “And that’s being able to run the ball in the late third quarter and fourth quarter. That really helped us.”

A second-half surge allowed the Razorbacks to finish with a season-high 163 rushing yards, despite just 15 yards on 14 carries in the first two quarters.

Petrino said the problems in the running game early were a mixture of missing blocks and not finding room for yards.

“Some of it was the blocking and some of it was not hitting the holes,” Petrino said. “There was some space there we didn’t see and hit. We have to do a better job of finding where the hole is at and staying behind the push. We don’t need to bounce out on our own.”

Petrino said game film evaluation will sort

out the crowded backfield for touches as the season progresses, but he has been already im-pressed this year with Wingo and his ability to gain yards after being hit.

“With defenses being so fast and physical, you have to be able to get the bull yards,” Wingo said. “I have to keep working at practice and keeping learning. I’m still just a freshman and there are things to learn with just seeing the defenses. I need to take this as a starting ground and take it from here.”

Petrino said the running backs are doing more than just running the ball. The Arkansas backfield finished the Southwest Classic with a combined eight catches for 107 yards and three touchdowns.

Petrino said sophomore Broderick Green was able to show his strength during an 8-yard touchdown run.

“He did some good things,” Petrino said. “He is getting better by practicing harder. He is showing that he can run more physical.”

But Green did fail to score while in the red zone and only finished with 28 yards on 11 car-ries.

“I was upset at him because he didn’t get the ball in the end zone on the 1-yard line,” Petrino said. “What I really think is he relaxed on (the run). He saw the blocking scheme and thought he would trot in.”

Petrino said a safety was able to come around the line of scrimmage and tackle Green before reaching across for a score.

“We tell him all the time to run to the back of the end zone,” Petrino said. “And I think maybe he learned why.”

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FOOTBALL

There you have it fellas.Next time your wife says you can’t

afford a trip to the country club, next time your girlfriend tells you minia-ture golf is a dumb idea for a date, or the next time your boss calls you to come in while you’re at the driving range – tell them you’re just working on becoming a billionaire.

Forbes announced last week that by its estimates, Tiger Woods has be-come the first-ever billionaire athlete. His career earnings, coupled with nu-merous lucrative endorsement deals, have pushed him past the 10-figure mark. That’s a one followed by nine zeroes. The world’s best golfer is a millionaire a thousand times over.

We talked about Jerry Jones in this space last week, an oil man who turned millions into billions by in-vesting in a professional sports fran-chise. But Tiger has made his money by being the best in the universe at a sport, which is hit a small white ball with a steel club farther and more ac-

curately than anyone else in the his-tory of the world.

He’s so good at what he does and so good at selling himself that he’s earned one billion dollars just hitting the ball and smiling on TV.

According to Forbes, Tiger had accumulated $895 million in tourna-ment prize money, PGA Tour bonuses, appearance fees, advertising deals and his golf course design company. A lot of that money came from Nike, which launched a golf line based solely on Woods’ endorsement, and Gatorade, which for some reason

thought people would want to drink something called “Tiger” that tastes like jello.

Only two athletes have come any-where near Tiger’s earning power, one a guy named Mike who couldn’t even make his varsity basketball team in high school, and another Mi-chael who drove cars in circles for a living. Michael Jordan has made an estimated $800 million and counting off his basketball talent and Air Jor-dan sales, while former Formula One racer Michael Schumacher eclipsed the $700 million mark.

One billion dollars. With that chunk of change, Woods could af-ford 20 million copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’10 for Xbox 360, or 40 mil-lion fitted hats with his “TW” logo on them. Or he could go to ebay and find a flag from the 1997 Masters (the first of his 14 Major victories) autographed by Mr. Woods himself, which is going for $25,000 right now, and buy it 40,000 times.

If he came to Fayetteville, Tiger could play 200 million rounds of Ga-tor Golf and rent Caddyshack a bil-lion times at Redbox. He could pay the tuition, fees and housing for all 20,000 students to attend the Univer-sity of Arkansas – for four years.

Had Woods had a 10-digit fortune a little earlier, he could’ve been in on the $900 million sale of the Chi-cago Cubs that was approved by MLB owners today. Had he had a billion dollars way, way earlier, he could’ve made the Louisiana Purchase – 67 times.

Once Tiger doubles his fortune, he could buy the African nation of Zim-babwe, whose gross domestic product is $1.9 billion. He could’ve financed two-thirds of the construction of Cowboys Stadium, and he could put a tiny dent in the United States federal deficit – a billion-dollar donation would knock off about a hundredth of a percent of the United States’ esti-mated $11.7 trillion-dollar debt.

The point is, a man with a stick made a billion dollars playing a game. Only a portion of that actu-ally came from winning golf tourna-ments, but his prowess on the links has vaulted Tiger Woods to a presti-gious list made mostly of the greatest businessmen on the planet. The irony thing is Tiger made his millions upon millions doing what many of those men do on vacation.

So next time you slice a ball into the woods, roll up your pants to fetch your ball from a water hazard or want to snap your club in half, just remember that there are billions to be made if you do it right. Anyone can “drive for the show,” and some can “putt for the dough,” but you’ve got to put it all together and do a few commercials here and there if you want to take 10 figures to the bank.

Matt Watson is the sports editor of The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday.

Swinging for the Fences

MATT WATSONmrwatson@uark.edu

Minus All-American Dorian Ulrey, the Arkan-sas men’s cross country team finished fourth in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational, the Hogs’ first big meet of the season.

Arkansas finished with 174 points behind meet winner Syracuse (41 points), 10th-ranked Georgetown (60) and No. 4 Wisconsin (94). The Razorbacks were undermanned without Ulrey and sophomore Eric Fernandez, but coach Chris Bucknam said the team’s ex-citement for its first real test of the season may have done more harm than good.

“They were excited, they wanted to get out there (and race),” coach Chris Bucknam said. “Part of it was me, too. I’ve got to do a better job of conveying to them – like we do on the track – if you feel good at the 3K mark of an 8K race, you don’t need to push it that early in the race. It’s good to feel good and do a little bit better job with our race tactics and conserve our energy.

“That’s a smart group of guys. We just need to apply our grade point (average) to how we run. Brawns and brains, we showed a little bit more brawn than brains, but that shows that they feel confident about what’s going on with their training and probably ran ahead of their training a little bit.”

The Hogs hope to have Ulrey – a four-time All-American – and Fernandez in the lineup when they host the Chile Pepper Invitational on Oct. 17, Bucknam said. Ulrey has been held back after running at the World Champion-ships in August, while Fernandez was held out of the Wisconsin Invitational due to a sore leg after also missing the MSSU Stampede.

“It hurt us a little bit not having Dorian and Fernandez, two of your top five guys,” Bucknam said. “We didn’t dwell on that. Those things happen to other teams as well. We need to adjust to it and rely on some of our depth. We need to work on (depth) as well. You’re toeing a fine line when you get a shortage of your top five athletes, and on top of that, we didn’t run the smartest race.

“The margin of error is very small. It’s not the athletes’ fault as much as it’s my fault as well. We just have to tone down that first half of the race and be a little bit more conserva-tive.”

Freshman Solomon Haile was a bright spot for the Hogs, finishing 17th overall and earn-ing SEC Freshman of the Week honors for the second time this season. Bucknam said Haile will continue to progress as he adjusts to col-legiate competition.

“No matter how good you are in high school, there’s a big Division I cross country adjustment, and (Haile’s) in that adjustment period from high school to college,” Bucknam said. “He’s not where we think he’s going to be. We think he’ll improve as the season goes along. He’s making that adjustment, but do-ing a good job and shows signs of being an outstanding collegiate runner.”

Bucknam said the Hogs will benefit from the big-meet experience they gained in Madison, Wisc.

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“I’m still a freshman...I need to take this as a

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why we chose to run in that meet,” Bucknam said. “Because it was a deeper meet for us, there were a lot of teams there from around the country. We needed to toe the line to see where we’re at, no question about that.”

Women’s XC earns seventh place in Wisconsin

Arkansas women’s cross country coach Lance Harter said the Razorbacks would testing its young players “by fire” at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational. The flu-ridden Razorbacks managed a seventh place finish with a freshman and two sophomores placing in the team’s scoring five.

The Razorbacks scored 174 points, 96 points behind meet winner Duke, and were paced by junior Miranda Walker’s 20th-place finish.

“We were the victims of a perfect storm (at Wisconsin), but fortunately for us, unlike the movie, we did live to be able to tell another day,” Harter said. “It was wet, it was cold, it was soggy. We were unfortunately belabored with flu that just knocked the socks out of our crew.

“We got a chance to see a great course and a great op-portunity to compete against some of the best in the United States. Unfortunately we were

probably at about 60 percent of ourselves compared to everybody else.”

Walker and sophomore Kristen Gillespie battled flu-like symptoms and were taken to the Fayetteville Diagnostic Clinic before leaving Fayette-ville. Harter said the duo’s per-formance was affected as they struggled with illness.

“When you have two of your top kids go to the doctor on the way to the airport to make sure that they’re going to be OK – they got multiple injections to try and fend off all the diseases they were carrying – it was kind of an omen before we even got off the ground here in Fayetteville that this was going to be a tough weekend.”

Freshman Alyssa Allison finished second in the Ra-zorbacks scoring five – 34th overall – while sophomore Gillespie and fellow-sopho-more Samantha Learch were the team’s No. 4 and 5 run-ners. Sophomore Cali George finished sixth, just outside the scoring five and six seconds behind Learch.

“The young (runners) are doing a great job,” Harter said. “I hope the idea of asking them to rise to a new level…doesn’t deter their expecta-tions for the future. They gave it mentally all they were ca-pable of. Unfortunately, physi-cally they weren’t capable of holding on to (the lead).”

The Razorbacks were again

without freshman Stephanie Brown and junior Jillian Rosen. Brown has struggled to recover from mononucleo-sis and Rosen is nursing a torn MCL and stress fracture. Neither runner has competed in a meet this season, and Harter said the coaching staff is now considering redshirting the pair.

“I posed (to Brown), and the reason I didn’t run her at Wisconsin, was ‘you’re still not at 100 percent; you’re going to be a great one, are you going to be better this season or are you going to be better four years from now?’” Harter said. “I think that’s a pretty easy answer. I’m leaning very strongly to the idea of red-shirting her. Jillian Rosen is in the same boat.

“Everything that possibly could go wrong has gone wrong.”

Arkansas hosts the Chile Pepper Invitational on Oct. 17, and Harter said the team will concentrate on getting healthy during its off week.

“We flew home Saturday night, we gave them Sunday off,” Harter said. “Yester-day was a very low-key day. They’re actually starting to perk up again. The last effects of this virus are a real severe cough and a couple of them almost have bronchitis. They’ll continue to lay low until they feel 100 percent, and then we’ll go back into our training mode.”

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Passing Offense:Led by 6-4, 210-pound first year starter senior Chris Todd, the Auburn Tigers have begun the 2009 sea-son with a surprising 5-0 start (2-0 in conference) and top 25 ranking in the AP poll after the team’s most recent victory over Tennessee last weekend. Todd has calmly directed the offense to the tune of 1,230 yards passing on 81 completions (58.7 completion percentage) with 12 touchdowns and only one interception while averaging 246 yards per game. Thus far, Todd’s main targets have been sophomore Darvin Adams and juniors Mario Fan-nin and Terrell Zachary. Zachary and Adams have each caught over 300 yards receiving and Fannin remains close by with 247 yards. Adams leads the pack with five touchdowns followed by Zachary with four and Fannin with two. The only other players to have caught a touchdown are freshman Philip Lutzenkirchen and senior Tommy Trott. Overall in the SEC, the Tigers stand in second place behind the Razorbacks in passing yards per game.

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Rushing Offense:With the second best rushing game in the SEC be-hind Florida, the Tigers average 253.8 yards per game on 5.4 yards per carry with ten touchdowns. Senior running back Ben Tate averages over 100 yards per game on 5.6 yards per carry (97 carries overall) to pace the way for 556 yards in the 2009 season. Substituting for Tate are 5-10, 164-pound freshman speedster Onterio McCalebb and 6-2, 208-pound bruiser Kodi Burns in the short game. McCalebb has rushed for 430 yards on 67 carries and three touchdowns while Burns has bullied his way for four touchdowns on 30 carries for 93 yards (2.8 yards a carry). The balanced attack for the Ti-gers makes for a lethal combination on the defense and has proven to be a major asset to the offense game plan of the Auburn squad.

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Rushing Defense: Known as the pride of the Auburn football team for years after several tough linemen and linebackers have made their marks in the school’s history, the rushing defense in 2009 has been mediocre. Ranked 10th overall in the SEC ahead of only Vanderbilt and Kentucky, the rushing defense has underperformed in the current season. The team allows 153.4 yards a game on 4.1 yards a carry and seven touchdowns --- which are only behind Missis-sippi St. (10) for worst in the SEC. Tennessee raked up 224 yards on the ground against the Tigers last week and West Virginia had over 200 two weeks ago. Junior linebackers Josh Bynes and Craig Ste-vens lead the team in tackles with an identical 23 solo tackles and 16 assists for 43 overall. Stevens’

career high of seven tackles in one game came in Auburn’s loss to Arkansas last season. Senior de-fensive end Antonio Coleman and 6-4, 288-pound junior defensive lineman Mike Blanc lead the team in sacks with 2.5 apiece.

GRADE:

Passing Defense:The passing defense has fared slightly better than the rushing defense, but has also underperformed. After allowing nearly 200 yards in the air through the team’s first five games, the Tigers rank 9th in the SEC ahead of LSU, Georgia, and Arkansas. The Tigers have allowed 954 yards on 5.6 yards per at-tempt with 6 touchdowns. The team, however, has snagged eight interceptions to tie the team with LSU and Vanderbilt for the lead in the SEC. Sopho-more defensive back Neiko Thorpe leads the sec-ondary in tackles with 30. Thorpe also had an in-terception last season against Arkansas. Thorpe is followed by junior safety Zac Etheridge and fresh-man cornerback Daren Bates in stops with 28 and 24 tackles, respectably.

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Special Teams:McCalebb uses his speed to be the team’s number one kickoff return man with 10 returns for 253 yards (25.3 yards a return) with a long of 52 yards. Freshman Anthony Gulley returns the punts, but he has contributed to the team being second worst in the SEC in punt returns ahead of Arkansas. Nei-ther player has returned anything for a touchdown in 2009. Junior kicker Wes Byrum leads the team in points with 55 after going 10-11 on FGs with a long of 49 yards and after converting all 25 of his PAT opportunities. His ten field goals ties him with South Carolina for first in the SEC.

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Head Coach: After coaching Iowa State in the Big 12 for the past two years, head coach Gene Chizik agreed to move to the SEC to coach the Tigers for $1.9 million dollars per season. He led the Cyclones to an abysmal 2-10 overall record and an appalling 0-8 in conference in 2008, but has thus far been perfect in Auburn, Ala., in 2009. Helped by notable offensive coordinator and former Arkansas coach Gus Malzahn, Chizik has put together a balanced offensive attack that has sparked his team’s fast start.

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Arkansas returned from its road trip to Alabama still without a victory in Southeastern Confer-ence action. The Razorbacks (6-3-3, 0-3-1 SEC) dropped a tough 2-1 decision at Auburn before battling Alabama to a 0-0 tie in Tuscaloosa.

The Razorbacks recorded just one goal on the weekend, despite taking 18 shots against the Tigers and 16 against the Crimson Tide. Eight of the shots against Auburn were on goal, while the team fired 10 shots on goal at Alabama.

“Absolutely, we’re close (to winning),” coach Erin Aubry said. “I think we really handed the game over to Auburn on Friday night. Our style of play should al-low for us to be able to make mis-takes and overcome them. Part of that is taking responsibility for our chances on goal.

“A little bit of it is, later in the game we are having little confi-dence issues with scoring; but earlier in the game, we’re maybe not taking our chances on goal seriously enough, because we know there’s going to be so many

more quality opportunities to come.”

The Razorbacks entered SEC play after going 6-0-2 in noncon-ference action, and Aubry said the winless conference start has affected the team’s morale.

“The thing that’s affecting us most right now is the frustration level,” Aubry said. “Always with frustration comes a tremendous amount of negativity. We’re really trying to guide our players and our team into how to respond the right way, how to deal with that frustration. We have to learn to respond to that in the right way.”

Aubry said the Razorbacks’ focus will be on the team’s men-tality leading up to the team’s second consecutive weekend road trip. Arkansas will travel to take on Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday before heading to Lex-ington, Ky., to face Kentucky on Sunday.

“We’re playing some good soccer and we’ve got some out-standing players,” Aubry said. “As much as I would like to be able to say its X’s and O’s, its really not at this point. Being frustrated is OK, you just have to deal with

it in the right ways. That’s what we’re going to spend our time on this week.”

Volleyball splits weekend

The Arkansas volleyball team split its weekend Southeastern Conference road trip, earning a 3-0 win at Georgia before drop-ping a close 3-2 match at Au-burn. The young team showed improvement away from home over the weekend, coach Robert Pulliza said.

“(It was a) split weekend, split feelings,” Pulliza said. “Offensive-ly we delivered (against Auburn). We just didn’t deliver in the de-fensive end and the detail end, so we couldn’t close it out. When we get in those type of battles, we’ve just got to be a little bit tougher down the stretch and close it out.

“We did some very, very good things this weekend. Now we’ve just got to maintain (leads) and close matches out.”

The Razorbacks (8-9, 2-4 SEC) return to action Friday night at Barnhill Arena against Alabama, before hosting Mississippi State on Sunday.

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COMMENTARY

Malzahn hurries up Auburn rebuilding process

When Gus Malzahn made the jump from Springdale High School head coach to Arkansas offensive coordinator in 2006, it was debated whether his spread offense would be successful in the Southeastern Conference.

Turns out, the question would initially go unanswered as the Razorbacks didn’t run Malzahn’s patented hurry-up, no-huddle system in his lone season with the Hogs.

As Tulsa’s co-offensive coordinator in 2007 and 2008, Malzahn’s offenses ranked in the top 10 nationally in numerous categories. Still, that was in Conference USA.

New Auburn coach Gene Chizik named Malzahn the Auburn offensive coordinator on Dec. 28, 2008, giving Malzahn the freedom to unleash his high-octane offensive attack on the rest of the SEC.

Prognosticators predicted it would take Malzahn time to stockpile enough offensive weapons to successfully implement his style of offense after the Tigers’ offense ranked near the bottom of both the SEC and the country in scoring offense and passing offense. The general prognosis was that Auburn would struggle mightily on offense until Malzahn got his personnel in place.

That assumption couldn’t have been further from the truth. Malzahn and the Tigers have showcased a high-scoring offense on their way to a 5-0 start and a No. 17 ranking in this week’s AP poll. The Tigers rank fifth in the country – second in the SEC only to Florida – averaging 41.4 points per contest.

“Auburn’s playing well,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said. “They’re offense has been scoring a lot of points, running the ball real well. They’re doing an excellent job of running the ball. We have to be able to stop the run, put some pressure on their quarterback to win the game.”

Unlike stereotypical spread offenses, the Auburn offense is run-oriented. The Tigers average 253.8 yards per game on the ground. That’s good for fifth in the country and again ranks second to the Gators in the conference.

“This week we’ll find out how we are stopping the run,” Petrino said. “(Auburn is) running the ball, they’re doing a good job of utilizing their strengths. They’ve got two real good running backs (Ben Tate and Onterio McCalebb). They’re calling (Mario Fannin) a fullback, but he’s another running back that

can catch the ball and played wide receiver some last year. He’s a real good player. They utilize those guys, they run reverses, they run misdirections.”

Malzahn has successfully molded Auburn senior quarterback Chris Todd into a solid sig-nal-caller in the spread offense. Todd struggled mightily in 2008, throwing for 903 yards with five touchdowns and six interceptions while splitting time at Arkansas native Kodi Burns.

Burns was moved to receiver and Todd has excelled under Malzahn’s tutelage in the Tigers’ dash to national notoriety. Through the five wins, Todd has totaled 1,230 passing yards and thrown 12 touchdowns against just one interception.

“(Todd’s) done a great job of executing their offense,” Petrino said. “He’s taking care of the ball, he’s distributing where they want him to distribute it and he’s had very good time. They’re doing a nice job with their protections schemes and not getting guys on him. We’ve got to try to get some pressure on him and him, see if we can get him in some 3rd-and-long situations.

While Malzahn’s offenses at Tulsa featured an aggressive vertical passing attack, the Auburn offense has relied on the short and intermediate passing game so far this season. Auburn running backs have combined for 44 percent of the team’s receptions as Todd has limited the Tigers’ offensive mishaps.

“At Tulsa (Malzahn) had a quarterback that really threw the ball down the field and they would take three or four deep shots a quarter,” Petrino said. “They seem to be more into the controlled (offense), getting lots of completions and not throwing interceptions this year.”

Malzahn has also shown that he can successfully recruit the state of Arkansas since

taking the job at Tulsa. In the 2007 class, Malzahn snared standouts Charles Clay and A.J. Whitmore from Arkansas as the Hur-ricanes’ lead recruiter for the state. Clay is an all-conference fullback for the Hurricane, posting 1,024 receiving yards and eight total touchdowns as a freshman. He and Whitmore are both in the top three in receptions for the Hurricanes this season.

In his two seasons at Tulsa, Malzahn signed seven players from Arkansas and had a verbal commitment from Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson before Wilson flipped to the Hogs. Malzahn has continued the trend of actively re-cruiting the state since being hired at Auburn.

Little Rock Christian running back Michael Dyer is a consensus top-30 player nationally in the 2010 class, and is leaning toward the Tigers. Dyer cited his relationship with the Auburn coaching staff as one of the main reasons for his strong interest in the program. His teammate, senior tight end Dakota Mosley, has also been offered by Auburn.

Two Shiloh Christian junior standouts, quarterback Kiehl Frazier and defensive tackle Samuel Harvill, have interest in the Tigers. Frazier, one of the more highly-touted quarter-backs in the country in the 2011 class, has an offer from both the Hogs and Tigers. He and Harvill attended camp at Auburn during the summer. The Tigers have also offered Spring-dale Har-Ber junior offensive lineman Brey Cook, after he excelled at their summer camp.

Malzahn’s connections in Arkansas high school football ensure the three-time state champion coach while at Springdale and Shiloh Christian will continue to successfully delve into the Natural State for recruiting in the future.

Meanwhile, Auburn has yet to play a ranked opponent this season this season, so the verdict is to an extent still out on the team’s legitimacy. The Tigers still have to face LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia and Alabama.

It will probably take a few seasons before the Tigers are ready to seriously contend for the SEC Western Division crown. We know with Malzahn calling the plays on offense, Auburn’s resurgence will be sooner rather than later.

Don’t be surprised if Malzahn rakes in the awards and head coaching offers after shatter-ing Auburn school records this season.

He’s earned them.

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The Arkansas kickoff specialist took some time to kick it with Traveler assistant sports editor Jimmy Carter and talk about his penchant for making tackles in kick coverage and the similarities be-tween him and Brad Pitt. The redshirt freshman is second on the team in special teams tackles through the first four games of the 2009 season.

You’ve got three tackles this season, one be-hind David Gordon for the special teams lead. What’s your secret?I go out every day, every kickoff, I’m just like ‘I know I’m going to make this tackle.’ I know that I’ve got the best form on the special teams prob-ably and I’m probably one of the most aggressive ones on the special teams squad. So I go out there and I’m pretty confident that I’m going to be the guy that’s going to make that tackle.

Have the coaches talked to you about starting at safety?They joke around with me playing receiver or cor-ner, but they don’t really mean it. They just want to see my reaction mainly. I just played kicker (in high school).

How much strategy goes into the placement of kickoffs and how that plays into your cov-erage?Actually, a lot of strategy goes into it. In fact, that’s what we stress mainly in practices, like directional kicking, and directional punting for that matter.

But as far as kickoffs go, we generally try to put (the ball) in places where it’ll be really tough for the returner to return them and where we can get our coverage guys down there fast enough to keep them inside the 20, 25 (yard-line), pin them inside there.

What was it like kicking off in Cowboys Sta-dium? It was unbelievable. I’m a huge Cowboys fan, big Troy Aikman fan, grew up watching the Dallas Cowboys. It was like a dream come true. I never thought in my wildest dreams I’d ever kick in Dal-las’ stadium.

Do you ever get a hard time from your team-mates for being a kicker?A lot of people are like, ‘Boy, I wish I was a kicker, what do you guys do in practice?’ and stuff like that. I was like ‘It’s not that easy.’ I mean, it’s hard to not do things for a lot of time and still keep yourself interested. I don’t think (kicking) is nec-essarily that easy to do. We get injuries, we get in the cold tub or something like that, (teammates) don’t know why we get in the cold tub, because ‘we don’t do anything.’ We’ve got to keep our legs fresh for games and stuff. We do get a lot of jokes about like, ‘What do you guys even do in practice’ kind of stuff.

What’s the reaction from your teammates when you make a tackle on special teams?A look of ‘What just happened?’ mainly. Mainly from the specialists, they’re a little confused that that just happened. Alex made a tackle too, he was really excited because we’re both now two spe-cialists – two kickers – that ‘don’t do anything in practice’ made tackles. A lot of the (specialists) were hitting the helmet, what we’re supposed to do right after someone makes a tackle, and (they were) pretty proud. It made me feel pretty good.

What kind of car do you drive?I drive a Toyota Camry, it was just something my dad got me in high school. I never got to really choose my car. It gets me from point A to point B.

Are you listening to a particular band or art-ist right now?I really listen to everything. I know that’s really ge-neric. I listen to a lot of country. I’m an Eric Church fan, I went to the concert a little while ago.

If you’re pulling an all-nighter, what

snack do you have to have in your study ses-sion?I got a big package of Oreos from my aunt, so I’ve been eating a lot of Oreos lately. Not Double-Stuffed, because my aunt’s a little cheap, I guess.

Which actor would play Cameron Bryan in a movie?Probably Brad Pitt. We both are pretty decently good-looking guys, I mean let’s be honest with each other here. The movie would be called “The Life and Times of Cameron Bryan” probably.

Who’s your favorite super hero?That’s a good question. I think I like Captain America. He’s all about America. He’s got probably the coolest suit I know of. I’m just a big fan of Cap-tain America.

Who’s your dream date?Most likely Jessica Alba. She’s gorgeous.

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cameron bryanOklahoma City, Okla.5’10” 176 lbs2009: 63.1 yards per kickoff