University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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BIKES, BLUES BBQ Famous for the barbecue, the Bikes, Blues BBQ festival boasts several types and holds competitions each year for the best. The 2008 competition included 31 teams with the team Pit 4 A King as the winner. Fayetteville is host to the annual Bike, Blues BBQ rally every fall. Each year the festival brought more than 325,000 people to Dickson Street.

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STUDENT LIFE Students find another side to Bikes, Blues BBQ besides THE BIKERS, BOOZE AND FUNNEL CAKES THE SIZE OF HUBCAPS. One thousand or more Harley Davidsons. Five hundred Goldwings. Four hundred Yamahas. Two thousand or more empty plastic bottles. Where there is a festival, there is trash, but like every year, the UA stepped in to help the city of Fayetteville deal with that problem at the annual Bikes, Blues and BBQ event. Hundreds of students signed up, either on their own, through an RSO or with their sorority or fraternity to work the event in whatever way possible. Senior Rachel Pierce signed up to work a few hours through her organization, Beta Alpha Psi. “I think it’s the most fun opportunity in service hours you can get,” Pierce said. ‘‘It’s really interesting to see what people wear.” Juniors Sarah Burrow and Briana Estrello also volunteered. “We heard about it through the Panhellenic council and volunteered with the Red Cross doing trash pick-up and making some posters,” Burrow said. “I’ve been to the festival before, just to see the bikes, but this time I wanted to see the other side of it.” Other students felt the same way. “I really like to volunteer,” Estrello said.“And it’s a lot of fun to volunteer at. A lot of people are freaked out by bikers, when really they can be the nicest people.” Burrow agreed, and said some of the bikers didn’t fit the stereotypes. “Half the time, they aren’t what people consider ‘real’ bikers. They are just lawyers, policemen or people who work at banks just having fun.” different reason for volunteering at the festiv Colin Shaughnessy, a Phi Delta pledge, receive a citation from the University and had to wo some service hours. “I got this e-mail with some choices to wo off my service hours and Bikes and Blues W Jonathan Faught, a sophomore who signed up to work, manned the volunteer check-in table. “We work the table so that everyone can get their shirts and assignments and get their name on the list to show that they were there,” Faught said. “I really like the atmosphere, and I think the charity aspect to this whole event is great, even though the bikes can be a little loud sometimes.” There were some students that had a slightly one of them,” Shaughnessy said.“I thought, know, that really isn’t a bad deal,’ so I signed 1 to work it.” No matter what reason brought stude 1 volunteers to Dickson, the experience was erf of community for freshman Abigail Scott. “This is a big thing for Fayetteville,” Scd said. “It’s a lot of fun, no matter what, you $ united. Biker, volunteer, concession worker, v are all here for the same reason. Everyone g 6 along.”

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Where Tradition | STUDENT LIFE The theme for Homecoming Week focused on the past as well as the future. With the crowning of the next UA Homecoming Queen, the traditions continued. 1958