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

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STUDENT LIFE 8 ACADEMICS 82 ATHLETICS 128 ORGANIZATIONS 222 PEOPLE 270 INDEX 318 ADVERTISEMENTS 330 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RAZORBACK CK ' University of Arkansas Enrollment 23,199 119L Kimpel Hall, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 yearbook@uark.edu 479-575-3305 www.razorbackyearbook.com Volume 115 ©2012 Nick Carter, Editor Photo by Mandi Havens Photo by Gareth Patterson WE CAME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS defined by the identities OF OUR FAMILIES AND SHAPED BY OUR CHILDHOOD DREAMS. WE LOOKED FORWARDTO WHAT OUR FUTURES MIGHT BRING.TO GETTHERE, WE CALLEDTHE HOGS AT EVERY SPORTING EVENT, WE PULLED ALL- NIGHTERS IN OUR FAVORITE STUDY SPOTS, WE JOINED ORGANIZATIONS WHERE WE FELT WE BELONGED AND WE MADE NEW FRIENDS WHO BECAME FAMILY THROUGH IT ALL, WE BECAME RAZORBACKS. OPENING 3 WE RAN AROUND CRAINS AND GATES TO get to class on time, we wondered if WE WOULD SEE CAMPUS RETURNED TO NORMAL BEFORE WE GRADUATED. BUT DESPITE CONSTRUCTION, we knew we were going to be a the CROWDS AND part of the longest running TRADITION on campus both in miles and time, n 11 i l 1 - REMEMBER the day STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Erin Blasdel, Gareth Patterson, Logan Webster The cool Sunday morning, with the bar¬ est traces of a breeze and rays of sunlight covering the campus grounds, seemed just another day for many students of the Uni¬ versity of Arkansas. Despite the hundreds of flags waving in the wind, as 9:11 a.m. came and passed, many students were asleep, the tragedies of that moment 10 years ago almost too far away to feel. Yet 10 years ago, they were very real, as classes came to a halt, students were shaken from their beds and the country was thrown into a chaotic frenzy as terroristic planes crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, ending a sense of American stability forever. I was only in fourth grade, sophomore Adrianna Smith said. Just turning 10 ... I understood it was a bad day for America, but I didn ' t understand the magnitude until later, until now. Like Adrianna, most university students at the time of 9 11 were only in elementary school; curious, but too young to compre¬ hend the event ' s true devastation. Yet, a day that for some changed entire lives and futures, 9 11 for many was not nearly as life-altering. As sophomore Megan Englebrecht said, Honestly, 9 11 didn ' t impact me that much ... Each year [growing up], we had the mo¬ ment of silence and a prayer, but I don ' t think about it from day to day. But if September 11, 2001 was the day the world stopped, September 11, 2011 was the day it was remembered why the world is kept moving. Gathering a few days before Patriot Day, approximately 20 university stu¬ dents gathered to post hundreds of Ameri¬ can flags on the lawn outside the Union in silent remembrance of the hundreds that lost their lives. A participant of the activity, sophomore McKenna Gallagher described the task with a mixture of pride and solem¬ nity. I ju st transferred here and wanted to get involved ... I appreciated the event for what it was. It was as small as putting flags out, Gallagher said. STORY CONTINUED PG. 13 10 STUDENT LIFE ABOVE In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of 9 11, senior Mason Shaw gathered with other students on the Old Main lawn to host a candlelight vigil for the victims. During the ceremony, the school also dedicated a section of ground where a memorial flagpole will be built. 12 ABOVE Crouched low, junior Jennifer Bermudez works with a group of students to post flags on the Union lawn. This act was one of many tributes paid to the fallen heroes of 9 11. ABOVE Dressed in an American flag morphsuit, a student calls the Hogs with the rest of War Memorial stadium during the Sept. 9 game against New Mexico. In honor of 9 11, students and fans filled the stands in their assigned colors for the themed Red White and Blue Out STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 10 Students seemed in clear disagreement when asked about how well or poorly the uni¬ versity ' s efforts to observe Patriot Day ' s ten-year anniversary on campus. A candlelit vigil was held in the latter part of the day, and the flags posted by students remained there for nearly a week before September 11, but some students felt the university could ' ve done more. I was a little disappointed ... I loved what they did in Little Rock ... [but] I wish there would ' ve been more [on campus] ... more involvement, ' ' Gallagher said. Conversely, sophomore Megan Englebrecht commended the university ' s efforts. The university did a good job of [providing the opportunity] to recognize 9 11 if you wanted to. I felt like they did more than other universi¬ ties, Englebrecht said. Vet despite the varying opinions on the issues of national security and the longevity of 9 11 and its remembrance, students of the University of Arkansas agreed about the future of Patriot Day on campus. When asked should the university continue its remembrance ceremonies yearly, the response was adamant. I think it ' ll always reside in people ' s hearts ... [it] shouldn ' t go unrecognized, Gallagher said. Smith said she hoped that it doesn ' t go to the back of people ' s minds. Miles away in the state ' s capital, 9 11 and its anniversary were certainly not forgotten for Arkansas Razorback athletes and fans on September 10. There, packed i nto War Memorial stadium, thousands dressed in shades of red, white and blue in memory of the day thousands lost their lives and families. The songs and anthem that held a nation ' s people together as they withstood tragedy united a people again on a day that, despite its growing distance, will never be forgotten. Adrianna Smith, whose father is a pilot, traveled to Little Rock for the ceremony and described it with a smile and clear note of pride. It ' s going to sound cheesy, it was nice to bond with everyone over not just the football game but this day in our country ... It was really a ' Go America! ' feeling, Smith said. September 11 and its memory will remain as clear as the hundreds of flags that waved amid the winds of a cool Sunday morning. RF.MLMBl RING 9 11 13 f r i is k 1 V? J ABOVE Packs of bikers cruise down Dickson Street during the four day Bikes, Blues BBQ motorcycle rally Sept. 28- Oct. 1. Profits earned from the event were given to local charities around the Fayetteville area. ABOVE Dim lights stream across the stage as a band performs during the final hours of the day. Concerts were held as late night attractions for the bikers and other visitors. RIGHT Set up on the side of Dickson Street, a man works to cook barbecue ribs for visitors. Vendors lined the area to sell food and other items to local guests. 14 STUDENT LIFE WILD HOGS STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Enn Blasdel, Mandi Havens, Whit Pruitt The roar, deafening, like an approaching mon¬ ster, grew louder as the smoke filled the air in great wisps and gales of grey. Across campus, the usual combination of raised eyebrows and deep sighs of exasperation filled the air; Bikes, Blues and Barbeque was on. One of the na¬ tion ' s largest conglomerations of bikers in the country, the annual Bikes, Blues, and Barbeque Weekend was an event that attracted hundreds of thousands in 2011. The annual festivity opened and closed with vivacity that left students at the University of Arkansas feeling everything from gleeful and amused to disgruntled and disgusted. Perhaps the perspective depended on age. Senior Brian Guard, for example, enjoyed the events on Dickson Street. You get to see so many people, Guard said. Though he admitted some annoyance when the streets around Dickson became uber crowded with people, Guard still enjoyed the weekend, especially the diversity. What seemed like a hoard of wild-haired, chap wearing bikers actually maintained another identity behind the bikes and tough attitudes. They have their bikes, but really a lot of them are professionals... not hardcore bikers at all. They are doctors, lawyers, businessmen and women... It ' s interesting to see them all, Guard said. Not all students enjoyed the festivities of the weekend, however. Freshman Michael Marquez had a different perspective. Even in reminiscence, a light frown played across his face as he recalled his visit to Dickson Street. It was kind of disgusting, Marquez said. I felt like I was inhaling carbon monoxide down there ... and worse, there were young kids down with their parents smoking in front of them. If I was uncomfortable breathing it in, I know they were. At the end of the weekend, some found Bikes, Blues and Barbeque annoying, yet some—like Guard—remained inspired. I went to Dickson because my friend has a bike [and] I want one... It is cool to look at them all ... to see everything, Guard said. I liked be¬ ing there, but I would have felt more a part if I had a bike. Hopefully, someday. V MJr ■ I ' Pi n f J 1 JQHL cS SM f H J Y ' M 0 Hr w m LEFT Gangs of frater¬ nity boys take to the streets on mopeds, laughing all the while. Many students joined in on the motorcycle rally and explored the booths and restaurants on Dickson during the event. BIKES, BLUES BBQ 15 m i j DEVASTATION IN JOPLIN STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Jacki Frost May 22, 2011 was supposed to be a historic day in freshman Stewart Pence ' s life. High school graduation. A time of hope. A new beginning. It lasted too long, had too many speeches and too many people Pence said. But when it was over, I couldn ' t believe I was finally there. Graduated. I couldn ' t wait to go home and be with all of my family. Still wearing his cap and gown, Pence jumped in his vehicle and headed home, only to be greeted with a sight more horrific than ever imaginable. From where I was driving, I saw the tornado. It was directly over Rangeline road, directly over the path I was going to take to go home, Pence said. Pence immediately turned on the radio to hear the record-breaking one-mile wide monster tornado tear through six miles of Joplin. I have never felt so shocked or helpless as I was listening to reports of the damage, Pence said. All I could do was listen to the radio name off building after building that had been destroyed. Pence volunteered for days after, navigating through debris, the smell of natural gas and newly homeless citizens to help in any way he could. I will never forget the things I saw trying to do search and rescue, Pence said. At one point I remem¬ ber sitting down and crying because I couldn ' t tell where I was because all of the city ' s landmarks had been destroyed. Cell phone service was out and so was power. That week was the slowest of my life. Pence learned that a good friend was one of the estimated 153 re¬ ported tornado victims. Grasping the loss was almost impossible, Pence said. The more time that passed, the harder it be¬ came on me emotionally to under¬ stand the gravity of the situation. Though hard to leave behind, Pence said moving to Fayetteville for college provided a very welcomed change of scenery. Getting away has helped me to cope with the situation, Pence said. It ' s weird going home and seeing open fields instead of piles of debris, but incredible seeing how the town has reacted. Everyone in Joplin is closer, and the rebuilding effort has been nothing short of excellent. I couldn ' t be more proud. 16 | STUDENT LIFE LEFT Relief workers take a moment ' s rest to evaluate the dam¬ age from the Joplin tornado May 22, 2011. The twister cut a path nearly six miles long and more than a half- mile wide through the center of town. BELOW A Joplin, Mo. resident walks past a demolished home spray-painted with the words God Bless Everyone. An esti¬ mated 2,000 homes and buildings were destroyed. After a long day of classes, many students have to find a way to escape stress and sometimes even homework. Each person has his or her own unique way of taking a break from school, but some are more unique than others. STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Erin Blasdel, Mandi Havens, Gareth Patterson WORKING OUT Working out was a great outlet for students to relax or get in shape. The University provided various group exercise classes, fitness rooms and personal training sessions for students in the HPER.The exercise classes varied between beginner, intermedi¬ ate and challenging. Some of the favorites were Zumba, Rock Hard Abs, Group Cycle and Yoga. Still, although students enjoyed the classes, some liked going back to basics. Kelli Schalis, junior industrial engineering major, said, I like running the best, and I like working out because it makes me feel healthier and more en¬ ergized for the rest of the week. Also, it makes me look good! 18 STUDENT LIFE BMX BIKING Smooth, breathtaking, fun. These were just a few words to describe the experience of BMX riding. I don ' t really try to learn tricks. I just ride for fun. I would hate it if I had to compete. It ' s smooth and relaxing, Jesse Turner, freshman mechanical engi¬ neering student, said. The BMX riders liked to frequent parks in both Bentonville and Fayetteville, including Walker Park. One stu¬ dent was particularly passionate about the personal challenge of BMX. Grad student and microelectronics photonics major Nathan Burford commented, It ' s really satisfying whenever you learn something new, whenever you ' ve been working on something new to try for so long. Finally, one day you do it, and it ' s just an amazing sense of accomplishment. HAMMOCKING Hammocking was a favorite pastime at the University. No one was sure how it began, but one student believed he was the trendsetter. Matt Chaple said, I bought my hammock before anybody on campus started getting hammocks. It just kind of took off. Everybody started getting them and enjoying what we do. Caleb Jenkins, freshman business major, said, The point of hammocking, essentially, is to relax and do recreation without playing video games or watching TV. It ' s more like having fun yet not exerting yourself. It ' s fun to hang out, literally. ROCK CLIMBING Rock climbing gave students a powerful rush. Although the OCC inside the HPER provided an easy way to rock climb on the cam¬ pus, some students preferred the outdoors. I started the begin¬ ning of last year out at Lincoln Lake and Horseshoe Cannon Lake. I like it better just being out in nature, but it ' s (the OCC] a good way to train for being outside,” Matt Brelsford, sophomore, said. Many of the students who rock climbed enjoyed the challenge of it while others found it to be a relaxing experience. McKenna Potter, junior, said, It ' s just something I have fun doing. It ' s like a challenge, but it ' s also a good way to exercise and have fun with your friends. PET TIME For students who lived off campus, many invested in adopting or buying pets. Each student had his or her own reason for selecting a pet, but many did so to avoid feeling lonely. The favorite off- campus pet was a dog. Kat Grotowski, sophomore biology pre- med major, said, McKenzie is a companion that is always happy to see me, and I love to take her everywhere, including the dog park and hiking. Students greatly enjoyed exercising with their dogs. I like having Zoey because she is happy to see me every time I come home, and loves to play. She is also a good running buddy, Melissa John, junior communication disorders major, said. No matter the reason behind adopting pets, many students cherished the decision. PROCRASTINATION 19 TOP Pages lit by the overhanging lamp, student Caroline Garner reads in her platinum rated eco modern flat. BOTTOM LEFT Sprawled out across the length of her couch, student Maddie Logan catches up on assigned reading in her duplex. BOTTOM RIGHT Junior Savannah Kelley enjoys the living room in the Alpha Omnicron Pi sorority house, equipped with a study area and piano. 20 STUDENT LIFE WHEREYOU REST YOUR FEE! STORY Cassye Hall PHOTOS Chad Arnold, Tabatha Pollock Some students desire to live in a hip new place, and that was exactly what Caroline Garner found in the Eco Flats. I love how modern and urban it looks with the concrete floors and cinder block walls, Garner said. Compared to many other apartments around town, the Eco Flats stood out for their chic, modern look. One of the many great features that the Flats had was that every apartment had its own personalized deck. I have my own deck on my roof where I can study and relax when it ' s nice outside, Garner said. Mustafa Fakhri was a second year grad student, and like many other college students, he lived in an apartment not far from campus. Flowever, his apart¬ ment had its own unique twist: a ball pit. When you think of ball pits, Chuck E. Cheese ' s or McDonald ' s may come to mind, but Fakhri decided he wanted one all to himself. My uncle made one for his grandkids, and when I went and visited them, I realized how much fun they were and decided to build one, Fakhri said. The ball pit fitted perfectly into his room and the bed is in perfect position for jumping off of and into the pit. So if you heard from someone on campus that a student had a ball pit in their apartment, it wasn ' t a myth. One of the biggest college adjustments is getting used to a new living environment. Maddie Logan found a way to make the transition easier. I wanted something homie so I found this duplex and made it the way I wanted. Logan said. I live so close to campus that I could literally roll out of bed. Leaving home for many students can be a difficult adjustment, but Logan was able to put a positive spin on her new environment. The Alpha Omega Pi sorority house is large enough to be called a mansion, but Savannah Kelley just called it home. It ' s like living with your family. We have a sisterly bond and share secrets that don ' t go outside the house, Kelley said. A sorority house may not be for everyone, but Kelley definitely benefited from living in it. It ' s the only house on campus with its own eleva¬ tor, Kelley said. ABOVE Mustafa Fakhri plays in his ball pit, which he constructed himself in his apartment at Duncan Apartments. Fakhri was inspired by the ball pit that his uncle had built for his grandkids. WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME 21 is o o LU O OQ GO It was 6:50 a.m. The brisk cold set upon the students as they waited near the door. Some had pillows and blankets, having chosen to sleep while others bit their nails down in anticipation. At 6:59 a.m., a petite lady walked to the entrance, star¬ ing out at the sea of hungry students. She gulped nervously and turned the closed sign to open. The fresh smell of rising dough, sizzling bacon and coffee beans escaped the shop and floated out towards the students as the door finally opened. During the 2011 fall semester, students at the UA were hit with a special surprise: Einstein Bros. Bagels would be opening in Willard Walker Hall. Doors opened up on Monday, Sept. 12 at 7:00 a.m. However, this grand opening came with a twist. The first 50 people at the door received free bagels for an entire year. The free bagels came in the form of a coupon book with various items included. I ' ve used more [coupons books] than I should. I feel worried about my weight, definitely, fresh¬ man Lindsay Smith said. Senior Hyoseung Kim and other students were willing to wait as long as possible to receive the free bagels. My friend told me they were going to do kind of an event, and I came here with my two friends at 3:00 a.m. and we waited for four hours, and we got it, Kim said. Kim and students brought blankets and coats to take naps while they waited. Even at 3:00 a.m. there were already more than 10 people waiting in line. Kim Johnson, marketing director of Chartwells at the University, said, We had well over 50 customers in line the morning we opened, and they just kept coming- even after we gave the 50 coupon books away. For junior Iris Monye, Einstein Bagels quickly became a go-to place on campus. It ' s so convenient. It is a beautiful thing. I come here like twice a week, more or less, Monye said. TOP Einstein Bros. Bagels wasn ' t known just for their fresh bagels; their coffee was ' ' Darn Good too. MIDDLE On any given weekday morning, you could find the line trail out the doors as students and faculty waited for their morn¬ ing pick-me-up. BOTTOM At Einstein ' s Grand Opening, the first 50 people received a coupon book for free bagels for a year. A free breakfast sand¬ wich was one of the coupons included. 22 | STUDENT LIFE ABOVE Junior communications disorder major, Iris Monye, enjoys her bagel sandwich on the patio outside of Einstein Bros. Bagels. EINSTEIN BROS. BAGELS | 23 ABOVE Twitter account visible, the hidden face of @UofA_Fresh_Move poses behind one of the three devices he uses to manage his account. Most of the time in a typical day, I wait until I get a free chance to sit down with my phone, iPad or computer and look through mentions and messages, but I ' m frequently browsing the newsfeed or checking up on things thanks to mobile Twitter apps, the creator said. 24 STUDENT LIFE TOTAL F r eshm0VE STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTO Gareth Patterson Following the ranks of University of Arkansas parody twitter accounts comes the account by name of @UofA_Fresh_Move. Started July 2011 by an anonymous senior student, the account created to highlight freshmen mishaps, misfor¬ tunes and totalfreshmoves has managed to garner much backing, nearing 3,000 followers in a mere six months. @UofA_Fresh_Move was conceived after its founder spent his summer as a New Member Orientation mentor on campus. Several of the supervisors suggested we get Twitter accounts because it would be fun for freshmen to follow us, the creator said. Not long after, I discovered @UofA_Frat_Style and other parody accounts. Me and some of my coworkers discussed the idea that I could make a similar account based on questions we would get from freshmen. After gaining a following from incoming fresh¬ men and support from larger parody accounts, @UofA_Fresh_Move ' s momentum began to skyrocket. The purpose was originally to log a list of stereotypical freshmen ' moves ' specifically at the University of Arkansas. A totalfreshmove was meant to be anything funny that a freshman would mistakenly or unknowingly do, the creator said. At the beginning, it was mainly quotes and occasional submissions. Now, after an insane and surprising following, it is quotes, pictures, person¬ al blurbs, sightings, submissions and retweets. Campus life proved to be the perfect opportu¬ nity for the creator ' s tweets and interaction. Social and sporting events on or around campus are usually good times to tweet because everyone else gets really involved in what is go¬ ing on through social media, the creator said. I definitely tweet more when I am on campus, but due to the fact that I ' m a senior majoring some¬ where in the realm of education, I ' m really not on campus as much now. With an account so popular, the creator said follower participation was heavily relied on. I enjoy interacting with followers and skim¬ ming through submissions to see what contribu¬ tions I can find, the creator said. Retweets are also what keeps me going. I ' m a busy guy, but I ' m always willing to spend a few minutes to offer a pick-me-up or make people laugh a little. Though anonymous, @UofA_Fresh_Move ' s identity is not completely masked. My account is very much laced with my personality, the creator said. There are a surpris¬ ing amount of people who know I manage the account, and I have been asked to my face many times. Sometimes I brush it off, but usually I will tell people the truth, and I ' m always met with them saying, ' It sounds exactly like stuff you would say! ' Though the account is new, as a senior, @UofA_Fresh_Move ' s opportunity for freshmen interaction is time-limited. Even though the twitter is more than my observations, I don ' t think I will be able to do the account justice after I graduate. I would hate to leave it be or delete it, though, the creator said. I hope by the time this article is seen I will have found my successor. If and when I do turn my ac¬ count over, my followers will know. @UOFA_FRESH_MOVE 25 Frijoles rojos oscuros SlASiSlS Value Dark Red lASxOJU Value Crunchy peanut Butter i ) equate Tomatoes Kidney Beans Natural | f I Echinacea One Daily HHWU 80 Z :UB 1 ? 0 Z) 794 q IV li a I r llrrb Super -Complex Chicken Noodle SOUP m t } JiT Tn SSSU I00c Supplement 80 lABtin 1 , |(rwI M 5 0 Z (411g) IIHW1 PES0 NETO 15.50Z(439g) irk ft •J ABOVE UA student posts a Do Not Touch sign in order to keep their roommate away from their food. Having a roommate was a way to learn how to settle con¬ flict whether that was through compromise or legality. I Know I ' m Not a Criminal! STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Emily Rhodes Eyes half closed, pajamas still rum¬ pled from a deep sleep, Snuffles wasn ' t sure who or why someone would be at her door so early on a weekday morn¬ ing. Her surprise when she greeted a policeman at the door was understated. I was here by myself... I went to the door and there ' s just this policeman there. I was scared [because] I didn ' t know what he was here for,” she said. Yet as the policeman began his inqui¬ ries of the situation, Snuffles—a student at the University of Arkansas who has asked to remain unidentified— rolled her eyes as a situation gone entirely too far began to unravel into chaos. At best a stage of transition, col¬ lege is a constant lesson in the art of compromise with roommates. Rarely, however, do those uncomfortable con¬ flicts end in the involvement of law en¬ forcement. Yet when asked about their own conflicts, Snuffles and her room¬ mate, a student who ' s opted to use the name Bubbles,” exchanged glances in remembrance of the horror. Snuffles explained the way it hap¬ pened in tired recollection: Everybody pretty much got along at first,” she said. When an altercation between friends of the varying roommates became out of hand, things changed quickly and drastically. Bubbles commented that she tried to meet with the girl for a roommate mediation, but was told by the roommate that her attorney advised against it.” As the situation ' s seriousness increased, so did the tempers of those involved. It was scary ... intimidating. I ' ve never been in trouble with the law be¬ fore ... I thought she was going to sue us, Bubbles said. The girls were asked to report to the University police station to give state¬ ments and have not been bothered since, though the day is one Snuffles will never forget. You never know what people are capable of,” Snuffles said. You have to realize your roommate ' s not just like you. They come from different places and you never know what someone can do. Thank God it ' s over now, though. 26 STUDENT LIFE ABOVE Smells fill the kitchen as one roommate ignores his dirty dishes. Wars over who cleaned the dishes caused conflict with many UA students throughout the year. ROOMMATE WARS 27 ABOVE Freshmen Katy Rogers and Taylor Walker work at their desks while Sarell Keith studies on a sofa. All three girls were put in a common room that had been converted into a bedroom in an attempt to solve the housing overflow issues. SHARING SPACES STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTOS Tabatha Pollock Welcome to Humphreys, the dorm otherwise known as the hottest place on campus. Step onto the ninth floor and imagine being one of few people living in a room with air-conditioning, a flat screen television and couches, a room that was originally intended for the entire floor. This situation is one that freshmen Sarell Keith, Taylor Walker and Katy Rogers became completely familiar with when over¬ flow housing forced them into the dorm common room, a living situation nothing less than unusual during their freshman year. We had a few people that would just come in, see us sitting here and just walk out, Walker said. We were really nice, though. We let people come in here when it was really hot. Despite this and the other minor complication of having no internet in the common room, the girls quickly adapted to their living situation. The worst part about it is having to leave, Rogers said. This viewpoint was held by the oth¬ er common room occupants as well. We all got so used to it, and now we have to move in the middle of the week, Keith said. I ' m still trying to figure out where to put stuff in my new room. While the girls were upset about leaving their roommates and adjusting to new rooms, the rest of the floor wasn ' t as troubled. We already have a few programs scheduled for the day they move out, Resident Advisor Justin Massingill said. We ' ll probably have a grand opening of the room and probably have pizza or something. Though these comments may seem harsh, Massingill pointed out that it wasn ' t an issue with the girls themselves, but more of an issue for the rest of the floor. Whenever people are just in their rooms, I feel like it ' s kind of awkward to just go up to someone and intro¬ duce yourself, Massingill said. Other people on the floor agreed. It prevents our floor from being so¬ cial, a resident said. It ' s not fair that they get that room and we don ' t 28 | STUDENT LIFE ABOVE Paper covering the door displays one of the issues with living in a common room. Multiple roommates and the room ' s former status as a common area made strangers walking in a more likely occurrence. COMMON ROOM LIVING 29 30 STUDENT LIFE t ' ir W i mm RIGHT 45,000 students swarmed the Georgia Dome for Passion Con¬ ference 2012. Together, these students raised over $3.5 million to fund the fight against human trafficking. FAR RIGHT Recording artist Kristian Stanfill leads worship at Uni¬ versity Baptist Church on October 5. Passion Conference teamed up with Kristian Stanfill and Charlie Hall to travel the country and promote Passion 2012 on college campuses. RIGHT Speakers Lecrae, Beth Moore, Francis Chan, Louie Giglio and John Piper read from the Bible to the students. Since its start in 1997, Passion has revolved around empowering students to be the movement behind a spiritual awakening on college campuses. n iAb n 1 w 1 ' C o ' ri 32 STUDENT LIFE THE PASSION MOVEMENT STORY Meleah Gross PHOTOS Courtesy Students crowded into the University Baptist Church. Music began playing and lights began shining around the room. Charlie Hall Band and Kristian Stanfill performed a concert unlike normal ones that occur around the city. This one had a specific event that it was marketing. The Passion Concert Series promoted the Passion Conference that is held for college students in Atlanta. I ' d imagine it ' s what Passion would be like on a smaller scale, senior Mary Beth Martin said. There were tons of people praising Jesus. It was great to see [those artists] come to Fayetteville to spread the word about Passion. The concert, promoted by big-name Christian artists and speakers, such as Louie Giglio, Beth Moore and John Piper, was designed to tell students on many cam¬ puses about the conference ' s message. Some of the students who attended the concert also attended the conference later in the year. Passion was an incredible opportunity to remove myself from the chaotic, mundane routine and societal expectations that I was immersed in, sophomore Karis Heinz, who attended the conference with her church, said. I was surrounded by people who shared the same values and beliefs as me, so I felt no fear of judgment or any need to fit in. And more importantly, my faith in God was stretched and challenged in a lasting way. Many were impressed that Fayetteville was chosen to promote the conference since much bigger schools were also selected. I loved that some famous bands were able to come. I think it helped encourage people to go, and it was also neat seeing people we hear about all the time be able to be on our campus with us, senior Rebekah Haynes said. Mary Beth Martin said she enjoyed the concert be¬ cause it provided something unique for college students. It was a great opportunity for students of Arkansas to come together and worship and experience a small taste of what the Passion Conference would be like, Martin said. Even though I didn ' t get to attend the Passion Conference, it was great to have a piece of the conference here in Fayetteville. UNIVERSITY PASSION TOUR | 33 CO O cn 7= 2 £ O CO J= 6 CD (0 0) .Q d |55 - o ec h- o o DC O INI DC Stroking his beard, senior Jordan Hinson picked up his trimmer. For the first time in a month, he ran it from neck to chin to lip, watching as hair fell in the sink. Hinson was one of the many men on campus that participated in No-Shave November, a facial hair feat. It ' s been a good beard,” Hinson said. This is my first full month [to participate]. I ' ve been proud of myself because I get bored of my facial hair. But I ' ve stuck with it.” Hinson said that No-Shave November can be a kind of bonding experience, which is why many men get involved. Women are left out by default. There may be a brotherhood to it because of that,” he said. Hinson believed there were many reasons to participate. I would say that if you look at history from Abraham Lincoln to Zeus, greatness is synony¬ mous with beards, Hinson said. It ' s a chance to honor them. It ' s more natural [too]. Since the beginning of time, people didn ' t shave. Used to, it was considered normal. Maybe it ' s a chance to get back to our roots. Sophomore Adam Woodward, however, said that there were things about growing facial hair that he hated. They start growin g and itch so bad,” Wood¬ ward said. For people who can ' t grow a full one, it looks bad. So, if it ' s not the itch, it ' s the look that makes you want to shave it.” 2011 was also Woodward ' s first year to suc¬ cessfully last the whole month without shaving. We had family pictures overThanksgiving, and I had to tell my mom that I can ' t shave. If you start it, you ' ve got to finish because you can feel accomplished and you can hold it over the heads of friends that don ' t, Woodward said. Both Hinson and Woodward felt a sense of freedom when they participated. The majority of females don ' t like the scruffy face, but we can blame it on No-Shave November, Woodward said. Hinson agreed that it gives men a chance to do what they want with their facial hair. I don ' t walk around saying, ' Oh, that beard ' s horrible, ' he said. It gives you leeway if your beard is unappealing. You have to stick with it. A beard ' s not going to look very good after a week. TOP Before applying shaving creme and shaving with a razor, Senior Jordan Hinson trims the bulk of his beard with an electric trimmer. MIDDLE After trimming his beard, Hinson applies shaving creme and uses a razor for a closer shave. BOTTOM Hinson cleans and dries his face after the process of shaving his beard. STUDENT LIFE 34 ABOVE Hinson strokes his beard contemplating whether to shave or not. No-Shave November is an annual tradition in which guys choose to refrain from shaving th eir facial hair for an entire month. NO-SHAVE NOVEMBER | 35 1 Dressed as a banana and a gorilla, sopho¬ more Nathanael Franks holds freshman Evan Word law. 2 Freshman Ched¬ dar Ordorica was the winnei of the Murder Mystery Friday Night Live costume contest. For winning he received a pumpkin basket filled with famous Halloween movies and candy. 3 Xiaoyun Wang posed for the Murder Mystery themed Friday Night Live event. 4 Sophomores Rikki Minkler and Taylor Gohman walked down the Halloween cos¬ tume fashion runway together at Univer¬ sity Baptist Church on October 26 dressed as Raggedy Ann and Andy. 5 Fahad Alshami and Faisal Alsubaey impersonated members of S.W.A.T. 36 STUDENT LIFE ghostly STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Mandi Havens. MattTrauschke Although Halloween fell on a Mon¬ day. students at the UA still embraced many fall traditions, including costume contests, movie showings and pumpkin carvings. The Baptist Collegiate Ministry h meir annual runway event. It ' s alw; really funny, Dillon Rhea, sophomo Psychology major, said. The costur and prizes are great. The BCM is a len dly community, and going to e ls an eas v way to meet people. It v an odd, yet amusing sight to see th °ker, Justin Bieber and Pikachu mi p 9 on Halloween treats together. acebook costume was hilarious. A would think to put a piece of cardbc on Their face? Rhea said. After awards were presented, St ek, ak- a graduate student and con netted member of the church, took GATHERINGS moment to mention how the BCM was actively involved in several organizations focused on providing for those in need. Most of the organizations will ac¬ cept donations any time, Rhea said. For instance, you can always donate to NeverThirst which is a project that builds wells in other countries to provide clean water for communities in poverty. Meanwhile, students als o celebrated Halloween at the midnight presenta¬ tion of the Rocky Horror Picture Show People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality and University Programs, co-sponsors of the event, organized interactive bags for the audience. I still have confetti all over my floor, AnnalisaTailor, a member of PRIDE, said. I had watched Rocky Horror before, but it ' s a whole different experience with other people. Other students agreed. It ' s much better in an interactive en¬ vironment, Ashley Saldana, freshman journalism major, said. A Pokemon trainer, Mario, Nyan Cat and many others gathered at the front of the Union Ballroom to dance to the infamous time warp scene. Even though a lot of people didn ' t know the moves, they eventually got the hang of it and everyone ended up leav¬ ing their seats to dance by the middle of the song, Saldana said. Inappropriate comments were yelled, rice was thrown and by the end of the night Rocky Horror virgins were proud to wash the lipstick off of their cheeks. I would definitely do it again next year, Tailor said. HALLOWEEN | 37 THE BE ST OF FAYETTEVILLE COMMON GROUNDS While there are what seems like hundreds of coffee spots in Fayetteville, where students are guaranteed the best iced lattes, smoothies and cappuc¬ cinos on every corner, Common Grounds takes the spot for best loved coffee shop. With its laid back atmosphere that boasts chill music, serene lighting and a fun place to spend an afternoon with friends, it ' s a great place for stu¬ dents to study or relax with one of their many drink specialties. Everyone there is so friendly, and it ' s a very homey atmosphere, said junior interior design student, Emily Robertson. Th e location is so convenient because you can walk down after class and have a place to chill and do your home¬ work and study. With a great location right in the middle of Dickson Street, Common Grounds offers lunch, dinner and some taste-tantalizing desserts. From Raspberry Hot Chocolates to Oregon Chai Tea, Common Grounds has a flavor for everyone and gets the vote for best coffee house in town. 38 STUDENT LIFE STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTO Chad Arnold LAKE FAYETTEVILLE STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTO Chad Arnold neighbor But ma ' 6S ' arnes anc Noble ‘ s Poetically its next door an awesome Fayettevi,le y° ure ocking your brain trying to think of several boat °° r 9et away ap venture. Not only does the surrounding area contain great for hiki hv 3 baSeba ' e ' ut tra ' s arour| d the lake itself are don ' t think thT Wa in anc i°99‘ n 9- New trails are emerging all the time, so ly and is horn 3 hT 036 y ° U V6 Seen a you Can see ' ake ‘ s ver Y dog-friend- the turn for th ° aUt ' ful scener Y al1 Y ear r ound. It takes about 15 minutes to make limits to reachm 3r I ' 9 ° m ' n com P ar ' son t0 driving 45 minutes outside city e Quipment for r q en ' ' ake a so as a ar 9 e Frisbee-Golf course and available stroll thrnnnh +Iuf nt ’ ° ° r ose you w h° want a relaxing day in the sun or a fun 9 the wo °ds, Lake Fayetteville is the place to be. CAMPUS BOOKSTriRF STORY Emily Rhodes Though We do ' • 1 � L PHOTO Tabatha Pollock eac h semester, we th k text ool prices that P la 9ue our wallets at the sta YOu need for a succe i Campus bookstore is a great place to get every orback merchand ' S U 8 9reat se ecPon of new and used textbook eve rything. StarkprT Spec ' a Y stores like Clinique, our bookstore has a If fers a place to qrab m Wlt Un ooie 9 ' Tts for the whole family, the bookstoi bookstore is that thp t JUSt ° Ur text 00 s - My favorite part about the ca b ° U9ht a few sororitv ® Fayettechil1 shir said freshman Sydney Ganus Wa V to chapter meetin Di 6, 8nd sometimes LH go to the coffee shop on th ma V remember the old P9d ' R ar anc ' so ' t s located in a great spot. Tories, but the ,° 0kstore in the Arkansas Union as one of our greatest ci Pick up everythinn tho °° St0re ' S modern ' trend Y and a fun place for students ever ex Pandi nq s L rt V ne ® d ' We love the bookstore because of the friendly staf Cornin 9 back. IOn ’ dellclous cof fee spot and relaxed atmosphere that kee WILSON PARK After a long day of class, when Old Main lawn is packed with Frisbees and students, many of us head to Wilson Park, which is our favorite park in town to spend time in. Like most students enjoying the Arkansas weather, junior business major 3 heads to Wilson after class to relax with friends. I like going there because of the location, and the fact that there are always others around doing something. My friends and I usually play a pick-up game of basketball with whoever is there, and run around the track once or twice, Hong said. In the summer, Wilson Park offers a great place to walk pets or spend time with friends at the pool or basketball and tennis courts, and in the fall and winter months, the park is a great spot to take photos with friends and spend a chilly afternoon outdoors. Wilson Park is more like a college atmosphere since it is so close to campus, and it has an awesome layout compared to other parks in the area, Hong said. Getting our vote for the best park in Fayetteville, Wilson Park is always full of friendly student and local faces, making it our number one pick. In order to stand out in this day in age, we have to become more original. So get cre¬ ative and save money, too. Pass up the chains in the mall and drive down College Ave. to Potter ' s House Thrift Store, 2703 North Drake Street. From the outside, the store looks like a huge warehouse. But just through those double glass doors lies an expan¬ sive stretch of goodies. Potter ' s carries everything from lightly used kitchen equipment to furniture, including couches, drawers, jewelry, slightly worn shoes, purses, books and toys galore. They have an extensive array of pillows, electronics, lamps, picture frames and movies, even cassette tapes and records. But the best part is the cloth¬ ing. They ' ve got vintage tops and seemingly brand new jeans. They ' ve got wedding dresses and formal apparel, even Fratastic T-shirts. They ' ve got cute summer shorts and hefty winter jackets. And the prices will make your eyes water with joy. They have on-going sales year-round, and depending on the colored price tags, your merchandise can cost anything from $0.50 to maybe $20. Personally, I have never spent over $30 in this store, despite piling my basket with as many treats as it can carry. BEST OF FAYETTEVILLE | 39 RIGHT Gourds are commonly seen at the farmers ' market. Gourds are a type of vegetable that can be dried out and carved for practical and deco¬ rative uses. MIDDLE Local crafts are one of the highlights at the farmers ' market. The variety seen around the square was just a glimpse of the creativ¬ ity that could be found in the area. FAR RIGHT At the last farmers ' market of the year, many holiday- themed items could be found. 40 STUDENT LIFE CHILDREN, DOGS AND WREATHS STORY Megan Clark his shr u W ' tkl 3 a 9 a PP les over hua U er rUnS at 3 trerT| hling Chihua- veiiJ ? an comrnun icate with dogs, he the ' n9 ' tr ‘ es t0 enr| brace beforp th o 9 S neck ' His father st °P s hin Iona , h ® Chlhuah ua is crushed. Before ra m li e a r t 0yiSdiStraCtedbYab00th arouncTth c 3nd d ° 9S walked over v! 8 Fayetteville Square, pausing f Sed ?n th 8nd frUitS ' Banj0 music ber air a u unseason ably warm Noverr Luckilv th- 20 1 year commenced, to show hlSmarket was also dedicated holiday season CraftS th8 UpC0min9 farm s , 0 ? 0 trans P la nts relished the at e studp + ar et havawn Smith, a gradu slish ' ,eoemiv mov9d ,o vettevhe f rom Nevada came here 6 ' 6 eVerY W6ek Since we • he pure magic of being dow here at the Square draws us every Saturday morning, Smith said. Although she admitted to being sad to see the market go, Smith looked forward to upcoming events. I am excited about the Lights of the Ozarks. We will miss seeing all the very cute animals with their peoples and their small children, Smith said. As the market wound down, Jan Bryant kept busy at her loom. Her husband, Harry Bryant, explained that they made everything in their booth by hand - from the birdhouses to the placemats. We are sad. We like to come here. Since we are retired, we spend all our time doing this, Bryant said. They said business had increased as the holidays approached, and they appreciated the buzz about this special crafters market. Bryant wove rugs, potholders and placemats from upcycled materials like sheets, bedspreads and drapes. I went to a weaving studio, but I didn ' t have an appointment.They were too busy, so they said ' here ' s a book. ' I don ' t know everything about weaving, but I know enough to do what I do, Bryant said. Harry Bryant grinned as the wind rustled their tent. You don ' t get rich at it, Bryant said. You have to like to do it. After this, we will prepare for next year. HOLIDAY FARMERS ' MARKET 41 RIGHT Ambur Dryer’s pantry was packed with easy meals and snacks. As a busy college student, it was easier for Dryer to stock up on cheap and quick food options. BELOW A student eats a taco from Taco Bell instead of cooking. Fast food was easy for students who were on a limited budget and needed a quick meal. OFF-CAMPUS NIGHTMARE 42 STUDENT LIFE STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Meleah Gross, Mandi Havens Walking into her kitchen, Ambur Dryer, junior kinesiology major, headed straight for the cabinet containing her main food source. She grabbed a box of macaroni, pulled a pot from the cupboard and prepared to make her weekly meal. For off-campus students, the trouble with getting food was a constant struggle in their college lives. Some students decided to use the campus meal Plans to help with their situations. The UA offered off-campus students meal plan options to help. The Off Campus I Plan was $1,206 a year with 80 meals a semester, and the Off Campus II Plan was $484 a year with 25 meals a semester. However, it was impossible for many students to add on a meal plan to their other costs. Just thinking it ' s at least $1,000 to buy a meal plan up front, I can ' t do that, Dryer said. A few commuter students ate out every day at places like Taco Bell, McDonalds and Eureka Pizza in order to survive. Some were even willing to go to their neighbor ' s places and eat their food. Others were forced to use food stamps in order to have something to eat. Ambur Dryer, on the other hand, fell somewhat in the middle of the food problem. I usually cook macaroni and just eat on that for a couple days.” Ambur ' s eating habit consisted of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese and frozen TV dinners. It ' s just filling. I don ' t really think about it. I just know I need some¬ thing to eat, and this is what I have. It ' s e asier for me to just buy ten TV dinners and call it good. Because TV dinners are like $.99, but if I buy stuff to make a meal, that ' s like $20. I got bills to pay, I can ' t do that. When short on time, macaroni was convenient compared to an entire meal. I probably could make things, but it takes too much time, Dryer said. You actually have to learn to cook. It can ' t be macaroni forever. LEFT Senior Rebekah Martin enjoys a burger from the dollar menu at McDonald ' s. Many students utilized the cheaper menus be¬ cause they were easy and inexpensive. COLLEGE FOOD SURVIVAL 43 THE MAIN ENGAGEMENT STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Gareth Patterson While many seniors prepared for graduation, others planned for another special ceremony: a wedding. Erin Robertson, senior English and journalism major, had textbooks as well as bridal magazines gathered about her apartment. She organized various aspects of the wedding with her fiance, Andrew VanGenderen, senior international relations major. We ' ve decided on a sort of rustic, vintage theme, Robertson said. The plan is to bring the outdoors inside. Meanwhile, Leeanne Compere, senior nursing major, and Timothy Yopp, senior anthropology major, were also making necessary arrangements for their wedding. We ' ve taken different things we like and incorporated that all together, Compere said. We ' re using decorated mason jars as centerpieces that my fiance loves, and a chocolate fountain because it is my absolute favorite. Although each couple was clearly in the midst of preparing for the events, the girls enjoyed reminiscing about the first day they met their fiances. Andrew and I met when I moved into Promfret Hall freshman year, Robetson said. There was a single moment when we were dancing at the Pratt Place and then click, I thought, ' It ' s always been Andrew. ' Compere coincidentally met her fiance in Pomfret Hall as well. We met freshman year at a Bible study and ended up hanging out with the same friends, Compere said. Then he invited me to take walks at the park, where we ' d talk for hours. Both soon-to-be brides happily recalled how their boyfriends popped the big ques¬ tion. Andrew and I went to Old Main Lawn, Robertson began. About a year before we did the same thing. He said, ' If you remember that night, we asked a lot of ques¬ tions and I have one more question to ask you. ' Memories were also an important part of Yopp ' s absolutely perfect proposal. On our first date, we found a tree at the park where I realized I loved him, Com¬ pere said. At that same tree he gave me a letter that he had written for his future wife. I just bawled. The brides-to-be emphasized cherishing every moment of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Being engaged is a beautiful time for you as a couple to think about your future together, Robertson said. 44 STUDENT LIFE TOP Senior Andrew VanGenderen prepares to surprise senior Erin Robertson with an engagement ring as she reads a note he wrote for her. MIDDLE Robertson re¬ acts to VanGendern ' s engagement proposal. BOTTOM VanGendern and Robertson em¬ brace and kiss follow¬ ing the proposal. WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS | 45 STORY Cassye Hall PHOTOS Logan Webster Exciting, chaotic and tiring are only a few words that can be used to describe the emotions many felt while wait¬ ing in line for the midnight release of the video game Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. Seniors Matthew Burns and Preston Boyd were among many who waited in line to get one of the first copies of the game. How many games of the Call of Duty Modern Warfare series do you own? BOYD: Seven. BURNS: Eight. What led you to wait in line until midnight for the release of the game? BOYD: So I can be one of the first to play. BURNS: I want to be the first to get started. How much time did you spend playing the game immediately after you bought it? BOYD: Six to seven hours multi-player. BURNS: It ' s embarrassing, four to five hours. How does playing the game affect your personal life? BOYD: Chelsea, my girlfriend, doesn ' t care too much for it. BURNS: My girlfriend loves it and encourages me to play. Does the game keep you from doing homework? BOYD: Absolutely, I just keep putting it off and off. BURNS: Yes, Call of Duty takes precedence over my homework. How do you figure in eating while you play? BOYD: Well, you eat while you play. BURNS: I stop to plug the fryer in, continue to play, put chicken strips in, play some more and then stop long enough to eat. Do you take any breaks to use the bathroom? BOYD: Yes, I stop to go, I don ' t wear diapers. BURNS: No, I wear Depends. Just kidding. Yes, I stop to go to the bathroom, only if it ' s really bad. What is the longest you have played at one time? BOYD: Oh I don ' t know, five to six hours. BURNS: I don ' t know, probably the same. Five to six hours Are you an expert at playing the game? BOYD: Nah, not an expert. BURNS: Yes, I ' m better than Preston. TOP RIGHT A group of Call of Duty fans dressed in costume represent characters from the game. Call of Duty MW3, a first-person shooter video game, was released at midnight on November 8, 2011. The third installment of the Modern Warfare series sold 6.5 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale. BOTTOM RIGHT Seniors Matthew Burns and Preston Boyd sit in their living room playing Call of Duty MW3. Both Burns and Boyd waited in line for the much antici¬ pated release and were among the first to buy the game in Fayetteville. 46 | STUDENT LIFE CALL OF DUTY MW3 47 PETRINO LIVE STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Emily Rhodes Busy chatter erupted into a loud cheer and applause as Bobby Petrino, head football coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks, entered the Razorback Room at the Catfish Hole. As the comforting smell of fried chicken, catfish and hushpup- pies filled the air, Petrino put his headset on, ready to begin the show. I was really excited about our football team and how we prepared for the South Carolina game. We look forward to the next few weeks of football,” Petrino said in his mat¬ ter-of-fact voice, leaving the crowd with nothing left to do but cheer the Hogs in noisy succession. Though the audience sat listen¬ ing to the god of the Southeast Conference, what everyone really looked forward to were the breaks for radio commercials. The minute the deejay spoke the words we ' ll be right back,” both kids and adults joined the hefty line of people want¬ ing an autograph before the Petrino Live music started back up. It wasn ' t just Petrino who took part in the show from week to week, though. In early November, Razorback football players Eric Ben¬ nett and Chris Gragg joined him, talking excitedly about their season, their commitment and their senior friends who would leave the Razor- back family in a few short months. After Gragg and Bennett talked about the past season on the field, Barrett asked them about going from high school seniors to college superstars. You always see the guys on television, but I never thought I would be signing autographs, Gragg said. You never realize how much people love the Razorbacks until you ' re down on the field and people are cheering you on. The UA is my life, and the best part of being a Razorback is the fans. As the show came to a close, Petrino and his athletes finished their food and took a break from the chatter of football, injuries and hopeful season statistics. The fans started shuffling out from their tables and booths, and for another week, Bobby Petrino Live was over, leaving the Catfish Hole to close its doors and rest from a hectic night of food, fun and football. 48 STUDENT LIFE LEFT Razorback foot¬ ball head coach Bobby Petrino ' s hour-long radio show, Bobby Petrino Live, was held at the Catfish Barn for the third straight year. Tickets were sold for $25 and included all-you-can-eat catfish, shrimp and chicken. BELOW Sophomore safety Eric Bennett and junior tight-end Chris Gragg autograph merchandise for fans during the Petrino broadcast. Different players appeared on the show each week to answer questions and meet-and-greet with some of Hog nation. THROUGH STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Jacki Fro st, Gareth Patterson, Emily Rhodes Shoulders hunched against the wind with the de¬ termination, their eyes blazed with exhilaration. Tents, lined haphazardly against the stadiums walls, assured watching alumni that tradition had in fact been maintained as students camped literally all night in the hopes of getting premiere seats. The banners, flashy in the sun and whipping against the wind, seemed to do so in defiance of the cold. And the cheers of students, parents, alum and fans alike carried through the blustery morning and afternoon and well into the night. STORY CONTINUED PG. 52 STUDENT LIFE ‘WJ ' 4 _ fl f B m w| v Ji ■ ■XV- • 1 ¥ ■ 1 1 mm : 1 1 1 Ba JPHi WKKS KKIKfmmmim I ir? f-C 1 1 Mr} k T A u V Uf f C J LL lylwL r mI? i s tudents tUClentS ° heer and bang buckets at the 2011 Homecoming pep rally on November 4. The pep rally repared for the football game against the South Carolina Gamecocks. was the Last homecoming event of the week as HOMECOMING 51 HOMECOMING STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 50 The University of Arkansas is a campus in which tradition seems to emanate from its every corner and cranny. And for students, and game day camp¬ ers alike, it was an unforgettable week. Football Homecoming 2011 proved to be as memorable as promised. Freshman Lindsay Pottorff, an avid fan of the Razorbacks, had plenty to say about the week and especially the weekend as a whole. It brings the idea of my new home to my mind, a home that I can share with all my friends because they ' re here too, Pottorff said. It ' s so different from high school. Back then it was a spirit week and it was great, but here everyone is so overly excited; it means so much more. Despite its round campus cheer and excitement, however, homecoming wasn ' t a week of festivity for all. College of Engineering freshman Matt Brumett noted apathetically that homecoming was pointless [for him] mostly because he had so much work to do. We played one hell of a game, Lindsay Pottorff said. Pompoms ... crazy fans ...The whole thing definitely set my Homecoming Game experience, it was amazing. As she sat in her room readying herself for a return to normalcy, Pottorff gave a small half-smile. I am so blessed to be a part the UA and such an amazing community. ABOVE UA students perform in the Homecoming talent show. The show featured various acts from students including performing magic tricks, playing music and singing. 52 STUDENT LIFE Ab °VE Dressed to impress, Sue E„ Pork Chop and Big Red ride on top of Tusk ' s holding pin during the pre-game Homecoming celebrations. ABOVE Crown d p| ause after bein 800 senior Holly Hilburn stands before the thunderous crowc 9 announced as the 2011 Homecoming Queen at the South Carolina ABOVE Baton twirlers perform at the Homecoming pep rally on November 4. HOMECOMING 53 WILD WILDERNESS CLOSE TO HOME STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS J3cki Frost Most UA students knew that Northwest Arkansas was fa¬ mous for its great outdoor activities and nature-loving locals. Fayetteville sat close to Mount Sequoyah, Devils Den State Park and a multitude of camping, canoeing and outdoor fun, but what many students didn ' t discover was that a taste of the African safari was just a short drive from campus. The Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Zoo was one of the most overlooked attractions in Northwest Arkansas, but for those who found this eclectic gem, the animal interaction and scenic drive was one to remember. Jordan Scott, a senior human environmental science student, visited the zoo as a child and returned years later as a UA student. If you are a kid, it ' s really fun and exciting. I ' ve been to there about five times, and the monkeys used to be able to run around - now they are caged. It ' s not the same, Scott said. Settled in Gentry, Ark., just minutes from Siloam Springs on Hwy 412, the four-mile drive-through zoo offered a fun- filled afternoon away from campus in the company of arctic foxes, ring-tailed lemurs and American black bears. Though, Scott has better memories from visiting as a child. It seemed like there were more animals when I was younger. The monkeys would ride around on your rear-view mirror. We used to feed them bananas and bread and they would hang out with you, Scott said But the zoo still offered many of the same attractions that were fun to see, she added. When students finished their scenic drive through the animal kingdom and Arkansas landscape, students could visit the petting zoo, where guests had the opportunity to interact with monkeys, kangaroos and many other animals. When I went, the camels attacked the car behind us be¬ cause they were feeding them. They went inside the window, which was really funny, Scott said, remembering her visit in the spring semester. Though the drive-through attraction made changes throughout the years, many students made the short drive to spend time with friends in a fun and different atmosphere. Even though it has changed, it ' s still something that you don ' t get to see every day, Scott said. It ' s different from a traditional zoo, and it ' s so close that it ' s worth the visit. TOP Spencer Karnes spends time with a monkey at the Gentry Wild Wilderness Drive-Thru Safari in Gentry, Arkansas. The 400-acre safari was home to a variety of exotic animals, and provided a natural environment featuring the Arkansas landscape. BOTTOM Driving by on the safari, Spencer Karnes pets a zebra. The safari consisted of a 4-mile drive-through, petting parks and walk-through areas for interaction with the animals. 56 STUDENT LIFE WILD WILDERNESS DRIVE-THRU SAFARI 57 RIGHT Sophomore driver Daniel Laughlin transports students across the UA cam¬ pus. During operat¬ ing hours, Safe Ride picked students up at any location within the Fayetteville city limits and transported them to their residence as indicated on ISIS. BELOW Since Safe Ride was first established in 2001, DUI DWI in Fayetteville dropped over 60 percent. Safe Ride ' s main goal was too provide a safe means of transporta¬ tion for students from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. BEHIND THE RIDE 58 STUDENT LIFE STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTOS Logan Webster People spilled from the party like a drink slowly tipped on its side. The red lights of the Safe Ride bus cast a hazy glow on its inhabitants who were situations. Despite what some might believe, Safe Ride did not exist solely for intoxicated individuals. There ' s a lot of people that I ' ll pick up at the watching as person after person found their way Past. They watched the police strategically park, ,ea dy catch anyone not fit to drive. The bus idled, re d ' ’9hts glowing, waiting for the people who had called. I really do enjoy this job because I get to pick people that would probably get in trouble ... plus 9 e t paid for it, and I get to have a little fun, safe r| de driver Daniel Laughlin, sophomore mechanical engineering major, said. Each student ID card was printed with the number for Safe Ride, the lifeline for those in University who are studying late ' ' Laughlin said. Our job is to help out the cops half the time, [pick¬ ing up] people who are sleepy or upset... some people can have a bad night, and driving upset is just as bad as driving when you ' re really tired. When the sober people were safe and sound, the real party began. Drunk people can be belligerent, but if you just start talking to them about stuff, they will love it. If they hear a song on the radio and you start blasting it, they won ' t even start complaining about how it ' s takina forever to get home, Laughlin said. We ' ve been told that we should sell hot dogs and we ' d make a fortune. I ' d have to call the senator, though. I don ' t know if the state would like the money going to [that]. The talk of food led to a related topic. Throw-up can be bad, but it really only happens once in a blue moon ... We have trash bags that fit your face, Laughlin said. With the number of people, situations and other on-the-job pressures such as late hours, not everyone was fit to work for Safe Ride. One way you do this job is to train your body to stay up, Laughlin said. Even on weekends I don ' t work, I ' ll still be up until three in the morning. My body ' s natural wake-up time is about five or six even when I don ' t have PT [physi¬ cal fitness test]. People say I ' m a freak of nature. I just say I ' m a busy person. LEFT Safe Ride provided rides for students through two components: Night Owl, which operated on Monday and Tues¬ days from 10:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., and Safe Ride, which operated Wednesday through Saturday from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. SAFE RIDE 59 RIGHT One of the most sacred parts of tailgat¬ ing is the grilling factor. If there ' s a good grill full of food, you have a great tailgate. BELOW Alumni and fans alike gather in sur¬ rounding areas of the stadium to share in the social event of the fall: tailgating. SOMETHINGS NEVER CHANGE 60 STUDENT LIFE STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Mandi Havens You get to meet people, Kelley said when asked what she enjoyed most about tailgating. Stu¬ dents, parents, alum. It ' s like one big party, really. Indeed one big party seemed to be exactly what tailgating at the University of Arkansas was like for most. Pait noted, among other things, that one of her favorite parts of tailgating was the tremendous amount of delicious food available. It ' s Southern cooking, Pait said. Everything, from BBQ, to homemade potato salad and lemon¬ ade. We cook a good meal, and then we watch the game. Its presence is stated all over campus, but not everyone at the University of Arkansas gets to enjoy the benefits of tailgating. Freshman Erik Bricker said, I enjoy [tailgating], but I don ' t get to participate very much. I wish I did. Like many UA students, Bricker couldn ' t join in many of the tailgating festivities because he had to arrive early and hold a place in line for the student section. Students who arrive too late are not always guaranteed seats in the student section and are sometimes forced into other sections. Still, as Kathleen Pait reflected on the things she enjoyed most about tailgating, her words seemed to represent not only herself, but the feeling of many students who tailgate on the UA campus. [It ' s about] relaxing with friends ... [in] those few hours, I can just sit back and forget my worries while enjoying the game and people watching ... wearing a Hog T-shirt and jeans. LEFT Even the resident halls on campus like to join in on the fun by hosting their own tailgates. Grilling ham¬ burgers and hot dogs and playing the popular game bean bag toss are always required along with enjoying time with fellow Hog fans. In present day, tailgating before a football game almost seems a given; something that happens without question. The influx of alumni, students and families from across the state brings forth a feeling of warmth and assured bonding each season. The stories and memories made in this ritualistic pre¬ event are at times arguably more memorable than the game itself. I tailgate with my sister, my best friends and my boyfriend, sophomore Kathleen Pait said. We oc¬ casionally stop by the frat houses to [see] friends... [and] usually tailgate a few hours before the game, nothing too serious. Pait wasn ' t the only one who enjoyed the social¬ ity of tailgating; freshman Cat Kelley said. TAILGATING | 61 ABOVE Chi Alpha student leader Mack Clements stands in front of a banner advertising the Biggest Loser competition. More than 100 participants signed up for the event, hoping to win the prize money by losing the most weight. THE FIGHT FOR FITNESS 62 STUDENT LIFE STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Logan Webster Junior animal science major Jessica Per¬ kins was one UA student out of many that Was dedicated to shedding off the pounds for the Biggest Loser challenge event, wh jch was hosted by Chi Alpha in 2012. • have lost 11 pounds since the pro¬ gram began at the first week of February, Perkins said. She emphasized that the grand prize -a tC) tal of $500- went to the person who lost the highest percentage of body weight. •ts a great motivation to drop a few Pants sizes, Perkins said. Perkins had a long history of her strug¬ gle with weight loss. After being diagnosed as Pre-diabetic in high school, she began w °rking on her diet and exercise. I started the South Beach diet, which is heart-healthy and low-carb, Perkins said. I J°n t go on diets anymore, but that jump- started my weight loss, and I continue to Practice healthy habits from South Beach. Perkins lost about 70 pounds by fol¬ lowing their three steps, which include re Placing sugars with protein and reducing drinking calories from sodas. On top of balancing a full schedule between work and school, she made time to exercise at the gym at her apartment c °mplex or the HPER on campus. I ' ve built up endurance by using the elliptical, so I can run for about an hour,” Perkins said. I also do cardio and then lift weights in certain areas, like my arms. Despite various obstacles, she was successful by setting realistic weight-loss goals and staying determined to accom¬ plish them. My ultimate goal is to weigh about 155, which is healthy for my height and body frame, she said. The physical transformation due to weight loss was encouraging to Perkins, but the confidence gained was the most rewarding aspect of the competition. Biggest Loser has helped me get over feeling embarrassed of being the heavi¬ est person in the group, Perkins said. I realized that no one made fun of me at the gym. Everyone focuses on themselves and not the person next to them on the treadmill. Because of her experience, she had advice to offer to other students struggling with weight loss. Accept yourself, Perkins said. When you appreciate your body, it makes losing weight a lot easier. Accepting your image will allow so many more opportunities in college. LEFT Participants in the Biggest Loser challenge weighed at the beginning of the event, on February 1, and then again on March 14. The winner was awarded a prize of $500. THE BIGGEST LOSER 63 TWEET y °u r teach STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS MattTrauschke Wake up, get dressed, tweet. Late for class ... tweet. Go to class, tweet about utter boredom, then open up YouTube to watch another Jenna Marbles video. Sud¬ denly ... Alright class, says your teacher, I want you to pull up ...Twitter. You stop in the middle of your Sh Sorority Girls Say viewing. Was that right, did your teacher just say open Twitter? Bizarre as it sounds, for several groups of University of Arkansas students, using the Internet and accessing social media services such as Facebook, Twitter and Blogger on a regular basis were more than commonplace—they were required for some classes. Sophomore Venus Wilson, enrolled in agricultural and human environmental sciences and applications of microcomput¬ ers, used several different social media services. I used Facebook,Twitter, a program called Second Life and search engines like Google and Yahoo! regularly, Wilson said. In her class, Wilson actually used the program Second Life to create a virtual avatar, and often met with her professor in a virtual world instead of the traditional classroom. Wilson admitted she probably wouldn ' t use it outside class, but the rest of the media she did concede to using regularly. I like Facebook and Twitter most... it allows you to stay connected to people, even internationally. Likewise, sophomore Katie May used social media in both social media commu¬ nication paradigm and computer mediated communication in personal relationships and loved it. We don ' t just use social media ... we study why and how people use it, she explained. I thoroughly enjoy using it in classes ... [we ' ve] looked at the impor¬ tance of monitoring information that we put on the Internet ... [and] it ' s interesting to see how different people can [market] and promote their brands. In a world of constant technological ad¬ vancement, the question of social media ' s use within academics was important. It might allow teachers to post wide¬ spread information quicker that students could access, but I think the majority of students would like abuse of it, because it is social media, Wilson said. I know that especially when I ' m bored, I multitask and zone in and out. May, in closing, agreed. Having the ability to help classmates through network¬ ing is useful ... but I think that it really de¬ pends on the class at the end of the day. 64 STUDENT LIFE AB °VE Sophomore Venus Wilson rnu nicating with their students. checks all of her social media pages during her free time between classes. Some teachers have adopted social media in com- SOCIAL MEDIA 65 RAZORBACK I always knew I was coming to Arkansas; there was never really a second choice. I was so excited the day I moved into my new [dorm] room my freshman year. I blew off my dorm floor meeting and got my tattoo. -Jordan Compton, senior KANGAROO I chose to get a kangaroo tattoo because it reminds me of the time I used to live in Australia. -Chris Ryan, senior BLUE WAVES I was a swimmer for many years and have always found comfort in Shakespeare ' s writing. This reminds me to stay true to myself and find the best fit for me. -Shannon McCarthy, senior 66 STUDENT LIFE SPACE COWBOY I got the Space Cowboy because my mother is one of the most inspiring people in my life. The first song she remembers me sing in the back-seat of the car was Joker by the Steve Miller Band, so it ' s kind of in honor of her -Andrew Haygood, junior CHERRY BLOSSOM TREE I chose a cherry blossom tree because it means every¬ day is a new day. -Kayla Palmer, senior FAMILY I got the Family tattoo maily because I am an only child and my family has always meant a lot to me and done a lot for me - Andrew Haygood, junior unman I PHOTOS Jacki Frost, Whit Pruitt TATTOOS 67 CUDI ' S PERFORMANCE WAS MOST DEFINITELY IN MYTOP 10 FAVORITE LIVE PERFORMANCES. HE LITERALLY HAD ALL OF BARNHILL ON THEIR FEET -SENIOR ISAAC allen 68 | STUDENT LIFE KID C U D I APRIL 28, 2012 BARNHILL ARENA b °VE Big Boi and ChipTha Ripper performed alongside Kid Cudi.The Head- ABOVE Hip hop recording artist Kid Cudi performs in front of a crowd of about 7000 lner Concerts Committee, a student-led organization, organized the event. at Barnhill Arena. Tickets were available to students for free and upon reservation. KID CUDI CONCERT | 69 ABOVE Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of the best selling book Night, speaks at the Walton Arts Center. Audience members were selected to participate in a question and answer session which followed Wiesel ' s address. 70 STUDENT LIFE AFTER AUSCHWITZ STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Logan Webster Students, faculty members and resi¬ dents from all over the state surrounded the Walton Arts Center for several hours to w ' tness Elie Wiesel, acclaimed Holocaust survivor, deliver an inspiring lecture and a utograph copies of his best-selling novel, Night. Freshman drama major Priscilla White rec alled learning about the Holocaust at a young age. No one could read a chapter of Night an d have nothing to say the next day,” dite said. There are some things he described that I will never forget.” Sophomore creative writing major Mary Guthrie also remembered reading the well- known novel. It was horribly vivid, but I realized I c °uld never reproduce it in my mind the Way Wiesel experienced it,” Guthrie said. Once I became interested in Holocaust history, | attempted to understand the darker side of human experience. It made m e aware that no matter which part of history I was studying, the events in my textbooks happened to real people.” Hundreds of students waited in anticipa¬ tion for Wiesel ' s lecture at the Walton Arts Center. Many of them were crossing their fingers, hoping to get inside. There were so many people that overflow seating had to be prepared in the side theaters. Although the lecture was on screen, that did not detract from the expe¬ rience,” Guthrie said. ”1 was so happy to hear him speak that I was moved to tears. Both students explained their favorite aspects of the lecture and the reasons behind each one. ”1 enjoyed when Wiesel talked about indifference,” White said. If people are not aware of what is happening, terrible things go by unnoticed. The good work people do to help abolish a little more of this plague of indifference can cease suffering around the world. Guthrie took away an important lesson from the lecture as well. Much of it explored the idea that disastrous mistakes are repeated through¬ out history, and sometimes, it is the most educated who make them. What good is education, then, if it has not prevented numerous catastrophes? Guthrie said. And yet, ' we must keep trying to change for the better. ' When I see how Wiesel has struggled to teach this to others, I know that I cannot give up. LEFT Students and Fayetteville residents listen to Elie Wiesel speak at the Walton Arts Center. Overflow seating was prepared due to the size of the attendance at the event. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR 71 TOP ALBUMS SOURCE: Apple iTunes Rewind 2011 1. 21, Adele 2. Sigh No More, Mumford Sons 3. Tha Carter IV, (deluxe edition) Lil Wayne 4 Watch the Throne, (deluxe edition) Kanye West, Jay Z 5. Mylo Xyloto, Coldplay 6 . Born This Way, (bonus track version) Lady Gaga 7 Loud, Rihanna 8. Take Care, (deluxe version) Drake 9. Teenage Dream, Katy Perry 10. Doo-Wops Hooligans, (deluxe version) Bruno Mars TOP SONGS SOURCE: Apple iTunes Rewind 2011 1 Rolling in the Deep Adele 2. Party Rock Anthem (feat. Lauren Bennett GoonRock) LMFAO 3. Firework Katy Perry 4. Grenade, Bruno Mars 5. ForgetYou Cee-LoGreen 6 . Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack Nayer) Pitbull 7. E.T., (feat. Kanye West) Katy Perry 8 . Moves Like Jagger (studio recording from The Voice feat. Christina Aguilera) Maroon 5 9. Pumped Up Kicks Foster the People 10. Super Bass Nicki Minaj YOUTUBE ' S MOST WATCHED VIDEOS SOURCE: YouTube - 2011 Year in Review 1. REBECCA BLACK -FRIDAY rebecca 2. ULTIMATE DOG TEASE klaatu42 3. JACK SPARROW (FEAT. MICHAEL BOLTON) thelonelyisland 4. TALKING TWIN BABIES jayrandall22011 5. NYAN CAT [ORIGINAL] sarajOOn 6. LOOK AT ME NOW (KARMIN COVER) Karmincovers 7. THE CREEP thelonelyisland 8. MARIA ARAGON - BORN THIS WAY rojuanearagon 9. THE FORCE Volkswagen 10. CAT MOM HUGS BABY KITTEN dragomimet86 TOP DVD BLU-RAY TITLES SOURCE: Nielson-2011 1. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART I 2. TANGLED 8. WNNKt ram mmMi mvom-.vMo w tv. .mmmmMmuw MOST ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADED MOVIES Through BitTorrent - 2011 1. FAST FIVE 9,260,000 2. THE HANGOVER 2 8,840,000 3.THOR 8,880,000 cv.. i jofcfc MOST ENGAGING PRIMETIME TV SHOWS SOURCE: Nielson-2011 1. GRIMM NBC 2. SUBURGATQRY ABC 8. DESPERATE HQVISEXNNES ABC TOP PRINT BOOK SALES-NON FICTION SOURCE: Nielson-2011 1. HEAVEN IS FOR REAL by Todd Burpo TOP PRINT BOOK SALES-YOUNG ADULTS SOURCE: Nielson-2011 1. THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins THE HUNGER GAMES SUZANNE COLLINS 2. STEVE JOBS by Na tet saacson 2. CABIN FEVER by M Kinney 8. UNBROKEN by VamMwtavA 8. CAtCVWUC FVBBby Svsiaanetafc a . vmeavu v m vs vwwv a . AHtt n « fa� % ■ - ' NVQCMAWC. A KM Vn .whkwvw THE YEAR IN NUMBERS TOP MOVIES JUNE 2011 - JUNE 2012 MARVEL ' S THE AVENGERS TOTAL GROSS: $586,737,000 THE HUNGER GAMES TOTAL GROSS: $401,774,000 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART II TOTAL GROSS: $381,011,219 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON TOTAL GROSS: $352,390,543 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 TOTAL GROSS: $281,287,133 TOPSELLING AnnO IPHONE PAID AfTO 1. ANGRY BIRDS 2. FRUIT NINJA 3. ANGRY BIRDS SEASONS 4. CUT THE ROPE 5. TINY WINGS 6. ANGRY BIRDS RIO 7. WORDS WITH FRIENDS 8. CAMERA+ 9. DOODLE JUMP 10. PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES SOURCE: Apple iTunes App Store Rewind 2011 TOP SELLING VIDEO GAMES 1. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 2. JUSTDANCE3 3. THE ELDER SCROLLS V:SKYRIM 4. BATTLEFIELD 3 5. PORTAL 2 6. BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY 7. JUST DANCE 2 8. MADDENNFL12 9. GEARS OF WAR 3 10. CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS Based on Amazon sales - 2011 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS TOTAL ENROLLMENT 23,199 UNDERGRADUATE 19,027 ( 82 %) GRADUATE 3,773 ( 16 . 3 %) LAW 399 ( 1 . 7 %) ARKANSAS RESIDENTS 14,480 ( 62 . 4 %) OUT OF STATE RESIDENTS 7,493 ( 32 . 3 %) INTERNATIONAL 1,226 ( 5 . 3 %) 51 % MALE 49% FEMALE LARGEST MAJORS 1. FINANCE 2. BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 3. MARKETING AND MARKETING MANAGEMENT A.SPEKtt L11KH MW Mlt 17-1 STUDENT TO TEACHER RATIO 26 ACT AVERAGE 350 REGISTERED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS OFFICIAL HASHTAG 130 BUILDINGS 345 ACRES mvss STUDENTS U THE YEAR IN NUMBERS 1 GALLON MILK $3 EVERYDAY COSTS Ginn most expensive 5 IUU PARKING TICKET $173.70 CREDIT HOUR MINIMUM WAGE $7.25 PAN flF PRICE OF GAS UrtlU Ul ARKANSAS AVERAGE COKE $1 ' $3.20 LEAST EXPENSIVE PARKING TICKET $65 STUDENT 07 Rfl™ ALL ACCESS SPORTS PASS V 1 ■ « U LARGE PEPPERONI PIZZA $8 45c STAMP APPLE IPHONE 4 4S 16GB $199 WITH CONTRACT facebook 901 MILLION USBIS ACTIVE APRIL 2012 rnwirn fiffifim TTffT f- 106 DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT The number of Facebook users ages 18 to 24 fell sharply from 2007 to 2012, while that of users 25 to 34 jumped. Percentage of unique U.S. visitors in each group: _ December 2007 ■ March 2012 AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIME COLLEGE STUDENT SPENT ON FACEBOOK PER WEEK MOST VIRAL: CHARLIE SHEEN 2 MILLION •LIKES ' ON FACEBOOK IF TWITTER WERE THE NEWS... MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE YEAR: BEYONCE REVEALS HER PREGNANCY AT THE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS TWEETS PER SECOND MOST IMPORTANT PERSON OF THE YEAR: JUSTIN BEIBER HIS TWEETS WERE RETWEETED 5 MILLION TIMES ON AVERAGE OBAMA ' S TWEETS WERE ONLY RETWEETED AN AVERAGE OF 250K TIMES MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS DO NOT TWEET ACTIVE USERS ARE ACTIVE ON MOBILE NEWS OF THE WORLD SHUTS DOWN JULY 7 - British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, announced it would shut down its publication. The announcement followed accusations that the paper illegally eavesdropped on phone messages of murder and terror victims, politicians and celebrities. NASA SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCHES FOR FINAL TIME JULY 8 — At 11:29 local time, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the 135th and final space shuttle mission. The first space shuttle launched in 1981, followed by 134 successful launches and 133 successful re-entries. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2 Photos by MCT Campus JULY 15 - Harry Potter 7, part 2 was released in theaters, cinematically ending J.K. Rowling ' s tale of the wizarding world. The movie became the third highest grossing film all- time at $1,328,111,219. AMY WINEHOUSE DIES JULY 23 - English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead at her home in north London, England. Winehouse suffered from substance abuse and health issues. NFL LOCKOUT ENOS JULY 25 - Following 132 days of work stoppage, owners and players finally agreed to end the NFL lockout. Major issues disputed were the salary cap, players ' safety and health benefits, revenue sharing and television contracts, transparency of financial information, rookie salaries, season length, and free agency guidelines. 76 STUDENT LIFE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES U.S. EAST COAST AUGUST 23 - Northern Virginia was shaken by an earthquake w ' th a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale. Tremors were felt all along the East Coast, as far north as New York. No Injuries were reported. RECORD ENROLLMENT AT UA AUGUST 22 - Fall semester classes began at the University of Arkansas with a record enrollment of over 4,400 freshman. Due to the record enrollment, some freshmen were forced to live in dorm study rooms across campus until more space became available. STOCK MARKET WOES SEPTEMBER 9 - The stock market dropped sharply as Europe reported problems. The Dow and S P 500 posted declines for six out of the past seven weeks. REMEMBERING 9 11 SEPTEMBER 11 -The tenth anniversary of 9 11 was given a formal ceremony in New York at the newly completed memorial at the site of the World Trade Center. Students across the University of Arkansas campus also paid respects through on-campus gatherings. storm lashes the east coast AUGUST 27-29 - Hurricane Irene, once a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds, made landfall on the shores of North Carolina before it continued to move northward along the East Coast. Altogether, the storm was the sixth costliest hurricane in U.S. history. AT T AND T-M0BILE DENIED MERGER AUGUST 31 -The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT T andT-Mobile in an effort to cancel their intended merger; such a union could increase prices and reduce product quality. OCCUPY MOVEMENT SEPTEMBER 17 -The Occupy Wall Street movement, which argued against major banks, multinational corporations and the economical effects of Wall Street, began in Liberty Square in Manhattan ' s Financial District. THE YEAR IN NEWS | 77 DR CONRAD MURRAY GUILTY STEVE JOBS DIES OCTOBER 5 -Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, 56, died of respiratory arrest at his home in Palo Alto, California months after resigning as chief-executive officer of Apple on August 24. Jobs was notable for his hand in creating the Mac computer, iPod, and revolutionary iPhone. NOVEMBER 7 - Michael Jackson ' s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson by a jury in Los Angeles. NBA SEASON CUT SHORT OCTOBER 10 -The NBA announced the first two weeks of the regular season would be cancelled due to the NBA locked out, which had began July 1. Major issues disputed were salaries, the salary cap, revenues and revenue sharing. Eventually players and the NBA, agreed to a 66-game schedule, with the first games set for Christmas Day. JOEPATERNO FIRED NOVEMBER 9 - Joe Paterno, head football coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, was fired in wake of a sexual abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach and the university ' s failure to act to halt further harm. At the age of 84, Paterno held the most victories of any coach in major college football history at 409. Paterno coached the Nittany Lions for nearly 46 years, from 1966 through 2011. CARDINALS WIN WORLD SERIES OCTOBER 28 -The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Texas Rangers 6-2 to win the World Series four games to three. It was the 11th championship for the Cardinals. For the Rangers, who had never won a World Series, it was the second consecutive year playing for the title, after losing to the San Francisco Giants the year before. CRYSTAL BRIDGES OPENS TO PUBLIC NOVEMBER 11 -The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas opened to the public, showcasing both historical and modern artworks. The museum was founded by Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton and designed by Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie. OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY TRAGEDY NOVEMBER 18 - Oklahoma State University women ' s basketball coach Kurt Budke, assistant women ' s basketball coach Miranda Serna and two others were killed in a plane crash in Arkansas. RAZORBACK FOOTBALL PLAYER PASSES NOVEMBER 20 - Freshman Garrett Uekman, tight end for the Razorbacks, passed away due to an undiagnosed heart condition called cardiomyopathy. 78 STUDENT LIFE HEISMAN GOES TO BAYLOR QB DECEMBER 10 - RG3 (Robert Griffin III), a quarterback from a V or University, won the Heisman Trophy, an annual award given to the most outstanding player in collegiate football. e was f ' rs t player from his respected school to win the awar d, finishing the season with 45 touchdowns. END OF OCCUPATION IN IRAQ DECEMBER 15 - After nine years of occupation in Iraq, the United States officially declared its withdrawal. Remaining troops were given until the end of the month to leave. THE REMATCH JANUARY 9 - Dubbed The Rematch, top-ranked LSU and second-ranked Alabama, faced each other again in the BCS National Championship at the Mercedes Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The previous meeting between the two teams during the regular season, LSU won 9-6 in overtime. However, in the rematch the Crimson Tide took a decisive victory over the Tigers 21-0. SITES PROTEST SOPA JANUARY 13 - Sites including Google and Wiki pedia blacked out services on their sites in protest of the U.S. government ' s Stop Online Piracy Act. The law would have given the government power to permanently remove sites from the web. NORTH KOREAN LEADER DIES DECEMBER 18 -Aged 69, Kim Jong-il, previous leader of communist North Korea, died of a heart- attack at the age of 69, leaving power to his son, Kim Jong-un. BREES BREAKS RECORD DECEMBER 26 - With one week left in the regular season, New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees became the NFLs single-season passing leader, eclipsing Dan Marino ' s 27-year- old mark. Brees ended Week 16 with 5,087 yards, three yards more than what Marino amassed in 1984. CRUISE SHIP RUNS AGROUND IN ITALY JANUARY 13 - Costa Concordia, an Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people, ran aground off the coast of Italy. Shortly afterwards, the ship listed with the starboard side submerged in the water and a 160-foot gash showing clearly on its upturned hull. OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS January 24 - President Obama delivered his State of the Union address, focusing on education reform, the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq and maintaining energy sources in America rather than relying on foreign parties. THE YEAR IN NEWS PUTIN RETURNS TO PRESIDENCY IN RUSSIA GIANTS WIN SUPER BOWLXLVI FEBRUARY 5 - Super Bowl XLVI, played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, hosted the New England Patriots and New York Giants. In a game that came down to the final play, the Giants defeated the Patriots 21-17. In 2008, the Giants beat the Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII. MARCH 4- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, declared victory in Russia ' s presidential elections, returning for a third term after spending the last four years as the country ' s Prime Minister. HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAKS MARCH 7 - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel delivered a speech in the Walton Arts Center on his time spent in a Nazi Concentration camp. ' THE NEW IPAD MARCH 7 - Apple unveiled ' ' The New iPad ' , ' the predecessor to the iPad 2. The new iPad featured a higher resolution display called the Retina Display, LTE 4G technology, a faster processor and other technological surprises. The new device was priced at S499. WHITNEY HOUSTON FOUND DEAD NORTH KOREA TO LAUNCH ROCKET FEBRUARY 11 - American recording artist, actress and model Whitney Houston, 48, was found dead, submerged in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The cause of death was not immediately known. However, it was determined later that accidental drowning along with effects of drug use were the cause of death. Houston won over 400 awards over a career spanning nearly 35 years. ADELE DOMINATES GRAMMY AWARDS FEBRUARY 12 - At the fifty-fourth Annual GRAMMY Awards Show, Adele dominated the night by winning 6 Grammys. MARCH 15 - North Korea announced plans to launch a satellite mounted on a rocket to mark the 100th birthday of its late former President Kim ll-sung.The last time North Korea launched a rocket-mounted satellite the United Nations imposed sanctions. PEYTON MANNING TO THE BRONCOS MARCH 19 - Less than two weeks after he was let go by the Indianapolis Colts, quarterback Peyton Manning announced his new team would be the Denver Broncos. Manning had previously spent his 14-year career with the Colts with whom he won numerous accolades including Super Bowl XLI in 2007. 80 | STUDENT LIFE PAT SUMMITT STEPS DOWN APRIL 18 - Less than a Year after her diagnosis °f early onset dementia- Alzheimer ' s type, Pat Summitt, head coach °f the Tennessee Lady Volunteers and winningest coach in college basketball history, announced that she was stepping down. As head coach of the LadyVols, she won eight national titles with an overall record of 1,098- 208. She also led the 1984 Olympic team to a gold medal. ZIMMERMAN CHARGED APRIL 11 - George Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder after shooting unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. THE AVENGERS MAY 4 -The Avengers movie, showcasing Marvel ' s The Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, was released. It broke the box office record for opening weekend, which was previously held by Harry Potter and the Death Hollows - Part 2, grossing over 200 million dollars. m TITANIC IN 3D APRIL 4 -The re-release of James Cameron ' s 1997 blockbuster Titanic converted to 3-D, hit theaters around the world. The film, which had reigned as the top grossing film ever, until Cameron ' s Avatar overtook it in 2009, pushed Titanic ' s worldwide total to $2 billion, along with S55 million from the US. ARKANSAS COACH BOBBY PETRINO FIRED APRIL 10 - Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino was fired with cause after lying about an affair with four-day employee Jessica Dorrell, who had been recently gifted with $20,000; these events were discovered just days after Petrino was hospitalized after a motorcycle crash on April 1. ADAMYAUCH DIES MAY 4 - Adam Yauch, founder of The Beastie Boys, passed away at age 47. JAPAN SHUTS DOWN NUCLEAR POWER MAY 5 - After previous nuclear disasters during 2011, Japan shut down its last nuclear reactor, thus leaving the country without nuclear power for the first time since 1970. OBAMA SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE MAY 7 - U.S. President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage during an interview. With the announcement, Obama became the first sitting US president to back gay marriage. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential hopeful running against Obama, promptly said he was against gay marriage. THE YEAR IN NEWS ACADEMICS CRYSTAL BRIDGES 84 HELP PORTRAIT 108 COLLEGE COVERAGE 118 LOOKING CLOSER STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Kathleen Pait Third year interior design student Dani¬ elle Alexander peered at the massive Andy Warhol canvas before her, immediately inspired. Alexander was at the newly built Crystal Bridges Art Museum for class, and had been given several questions that, as she explained, forced us to pay attention to the details ... wall and flooring materi¬ als, access to natural light, steel frame structure and spatial layout. Run completely by volunteers ' knowl¬ edge of the arts, students in a Studio 6 Interior Design class visited the Crystal Bridges museum in March 2012 for ap¬ proximately five hours, giving them ample time to survey both the architectural and artistic components of the center. [It] surprised me incredibly, Alexander said. In my opinion, it is one of the best designed contemporary spaces in North¬ west Arkansas. Fellow interior design student Eileen Heulitt seemed to share many of Alex¬ ander ' s feelings. After the initial surprise upon finding a museum of Crystal Bridge ' s size in Northwest Arkansas, Heulitt noted the center ' s impressive capture of the region ' s landscape. I would have imagined that museum to have been placed in a much larger city, but I ' m so glad it was placed in Arkansas, Heulitt said. The thing I like most was the use of nature and natural light. Never throughout the museum did I feel isolated from the outside Like Alexander, Heulitt had never been before the class visit, but she shared an appreciation for both the museum ' s archi¬ tecture and featured pieces. My favorite piece would have to be Bunker ' s Anne Page, Heulitt said. It ' s a painting of a woman ... clearly mourning ... but she has a look of strength in her TOP The Crystal Bridges art museum located in Bentonville, Ark. In addition to the art galleries. Crystal Bridges included 3.5 miles of trails, a restaurant, museum store and a library. BOTTOM A painting is displayed in a spotlight at the museum. The art that Crystal Bridges displayed ranged in eras from colonial to modern and contemporary. eyes and posture that she will overcome her struggles. I found the painting very comforting and powerful Alexander mentioned that, since her initial visit, she visited an additional two times with her family and planned to visit as new artwork was featured. Heulitt, like Alexander, seemed to wholeheartedly intend on visiting again. [It] was an amazing experience ... Northwest Arkansas is truly blessed to have it. I can ' t wait to visit again—I am trying to take my boyfriend with me soon—and hope other UA stu¬ dents take the opportunity to visit also. 84 ACADEMICS ABOVE Guests of the museum observe art pieces, including sculptures and paintings. The art displayed in the museum offers an overview of American art, both masterworks and lesser-known works. CRYSTAL BRIDGES | 85 TOP Potted plants are ready to be planted in the UA community garden. There were a few setbacks when it came to establishing where the garden would be placed on campus. BOTTOM LEFT Seedlings in a greenhouse is one way to establish a plant ' s root growth, especially during the plant ' s off season. BOTTOM RIGHT A handful of watermelon seeds are ready to plant. The community garden was just starting to establish, so most of the plants fro the university ' s garden started in the Leverett Garden instead. 86 | ACADEMICS VICTORY GARDEN STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Erin Blasdel A new parking lot entered the University of Arkansas campus in early November, representing one of many ongoing proj¬ ects behind Donald W. Reynold Stadium. Though most students and faculty appreci¬ ated the extra space to park their cars, this was a new setback for the community gar¬ den. Now we ' re back to square one, said Sammi Jones, president of the campus RSO Grow Green and lead in the upcoming community garden project. We don ' t really know what ' s happen¬ ing with the site situation right now, Jones said. There are a few other places that we looked at, but due to miscommunication there was a parking lot built in the site that we were going to use for the garden. For many students, the idea of healthy eating and living is nothing more than pick¬ ing up a NutriGrain bar on the way to class instead of the regular double shot latte, but for others, having access to healthy food is nearly impossible. The on-campus community garden, projected to begin February 15, would provide students with access to healthy, homegrown food. The idea behind the garden is that students can become involved in garden¬ ing and use the individual plots of land to grow produce that they can take home... while the community plot of land will be used to grow food for the Full Circle Food pantry, Jones said. The garden operates to bring food security to campus. There is a huge need for fresh produce at the pantry, and through the garden we can provide for those in need. Besides catering to the nutritional needs of students, the garden would also encour¬ age diverse interaction. The garden provides a really cool way for students to come together and work on a goal. There aren ' t really a lot of ways that students from lots of different majors get to interact, but this gives them an opportu¬ nity to work as a team, Jones said. Through the efforts of Grow Green, a few students and an idea to make the UA campus green and sustainable, students may have another way to stock their fridges in the coming years without taking a step toward the store. ABOVE Tomatoes begin to appear from their yellow flowers. Community gardens commonly had tomatoes within their food plots. COMMUNITY GARDEN ABOVE Students take notes on their laps in the arena-turned-classroom. The use of Barnhill arena as a classroom helped to solve some of the overcrowding issues, but proved difficult for students. 88 ACADEMICS EDUCATION IN THE ARENA STORY Cassye Hall PHOTOS Chad Arnold As he sat in 8:30 a.m. chemistry, he looked up to see the final points from the previous night ' s volleyball game remaining on the scoreboard. This sight wasn ' t anything new for freshman Matt Brumett, who had class in Barnhill Arena, home of the Razorback Volleyball and Gymnastics team. There were numerous classes dispersed throughout campus due to the demolition and reconstruction of the Science and Engineering Auditorium and the Geology building. When asked how Brumett felt about having class in a gymnasium, he said, It ' s very hard to pay attention in such a large area, and there aren ' t any desks, so we have to write on a book in our laps. Freshman Taylor Bates and many other students were experiencing the same frustrations as Brumett. It ' s very easy to get distracted in that large of a space, Bates said. The reconstruction of the Science and Engineering Auditorium left many students scattered across campus. Due to the sizes of the new classrooms, the Union Theatre being too small and Barnhill too large, students took their exams in other designated buildings. It ' s very hard to arrive on time for an exam because I have a class across campus immediately before the exam, Bates said. The thought of classes being held in a gymnasium might be a dream for most young students, but college freshmen were left feeling lost in such huge rooms. Moving from high school to college was an adjustment on its own, and throwing abnormally large class sizes into the mix only served to heighten initial impressions. ABOVE The 10,000-seat multipurpose center hosts over 1,200 students during each class session. ENROLLMENT 89 RHODES VS ANXIETY STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Emily Rhodes My hands shake so badly that I can ' t do my job. The music major that I chose to do is constantly counteracted by my inability to stop my anxiety in front of people. It wasn ' t an issue when I was in high school four years ago. I was in the Jazz Band and played in school performances all the time, but something happened when I came to college and hindered me for the major¬ ity of my time in school. My anxiety has always been there in the background, but at one recital in my junior year, I suddenly started feeling like everyone was laughing at me, for no reason, and it caused me to mess up my performance. I had practiced my piece for months and I knew it by heart, but I couldn ' t seem to get past my anxiety. By the end of the recital my hands were sweating and shaking so much that I couldn ' t finish my music piece, and after that, every performance I took part in was the same. That year of school, my anxiety got so bad that I ended up failing some classes because I couldn ' t focus my attention on getting past my anxiety in crowds. Not only did this hurt my academic success, but it also affected my social life with my friends and in my classes. It made me worry that I couldn ' t go further with my major, since guitar performance requires social involve¬ ment. I reached a breaking point where I considered changing my major and leaving school altogether, but then I re¬ alized that I couldn ' t just give up when there were cures out there that I could be a part of. At first I was nervous to get on medication because there are so many people who think ' I have anxiety, ' but I took medication for about a year before turning to natural methods. Medica¬ tion didn ' t work for me, but making the switch to taking a medication that is only required when I need it rather than an every day pill makes me feel more in control of myself. Over the past year, I was able to work th rough my anxiety with natural therapies like exercise, herbal remedies and by practicing in front of crowds rather than on my own. The main thing that I realized through all of this is that anxiety is just a natural thing that happens to some people, and not something to be embarrassed about. Through medica¬ tion and counseling, I am able to live a healthy life, and have been able over the past year to overcome a lot of my stress in performances. The fear is always there, but being able to handle it is what gives me control. -Trent Rhodes, senior music major 90 ACADEMICS ABOVE Trent Rhodes faces anxiety before every musical performance. Natural exercise therapy helped Rhodes work through his anxiety. STUDENTS WITH ANXIETY ABOVE Jacob Costello, freshman, and Matthew Heckmann, sophomore, relax in their hammocks while discussing their reading assignment. Composition students were exposed to new ideas about sustainability in their assigned book, No Impact Man NO IMPACT HAS BIG IMPACT STORY Megan Clark PHOTOS Logan Webster New York City blazes gold as the sun sets behind the Hudson River. As the sky darkens, the city ' s over 8 mil¬ lion residents flick on light switches to combat the night. On the ninth floor of an unassuming building, one apartment remains dim. Colin Beavan threw the circuit breaker in his home. He lights beeswax candles and switches on a so¬ lar-powered lantern. He has dedicated the past year to leaving zero impact on the environment. Beavan ' s book No Impact Man chronicles his adventure in creating no trash, no pollution and no negative impact. Over 2,500 freshmen composition students read his book as a part of the One Book, One Commu¬ nity project. Dr. Kevin Fitzpatrick, a sociology pro¬ fessor, and Dr. David Jolliffe, an English professor, helped start the One Book, One Community Project three years ago. The goal was always about more than simply reading books. The critical part is where it will generate interdisciplinary discussion. If it is all about one thing - sociology, anthropology - then it ' s not going to cut it, Dr. Fitzpatrick said. The project committee tried to choose a book with a living, lively au¬ thor that could visit campus. For many of these students, this is the first entire book they have read that isn ' t a novel or a textbook. Book length non-fiction is new, and very few have ever met an author, Dr. Jolliffe said. He stated that students could better understand a book once they heard the author ' s voice. Interdisciplinary activities were key for One Book, One Community. The university just implemented a minor in sustainability, so it is perfect timing for No Impact Man ' . ' We plan events that tie into it, Dr. Fitzpatrick said. Movies over climate change and activities like building a water bottle sculpture were all events students could attend. The future goals for One Book, One Community included see¬ ing the book adopted in more courses. We want every faculty member, regardless of discipline, to know the story and why it is important, Dr. Fitzpatrick said. 92 ACADEMICS ABOVE During the One Book, One Community week, the Sustainability Council constructed a tower in the shape of a bottle to portray the campus ' massive amount of waste. The UA sends about 11,629 water bottles to the landfill per day. NO IMPACT MAN 93 REELING IN DARKNESS STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Mandi Havens Twelve students dressed in multicolored scarves and thick¬ framed glasses hung black and white photographs on a corkboard that took up a majority of the wall space. Each one stepped back to examine their pieces, making last- minute adjustments and sneaking glances at their peers ' work. The images consisted of a variety of subjects, including lily pads, denim jeans and chocolate chip cookies, as well as many unidentifiable objects. The students fidgeted during the critique period, obviously concerned about the quality of their prints. Mike Peven, an instructor of Photography I, assured his anx¬ ious students that they captured textures and patterns wonderfully in their pictures. However, all of their pieces had room for improvement. The purpose of the critiques was to make every individual aware of one another ' s work. The period be¬ gan with each artist explaining the meanings behind their photographs as well as the troubles they had throughout the experience. Senior Meleah Gross explained some of the many challenges each student had to face. We have to load the reels in complete darkness and must only touch the edges of the film, Gross said. Despite various hassles, Peven ' s positive feedback encouraged the students to appreciate their hard work and the results. The primary purpose of the course is to train each artist to become proficient in photography through a series of assignments demonstrating various processes, techniques and ideas. Throughout the critique, it was clear that the class gradually began to analyze their work from an ad¬ vanced artistic perspective. The class also learned how to use a darkroom, as well as many techniques for developing film. Gross claimed that she expected to become skilled with the chemical washes required for the photo¬ graphic paper by the end of the semester. Don ' t be afraid to ask for help when you need it, Gross said. Although old-fashioned meth¬ ods used for making pictures are complex, Gross believed the results were worth it. I enjoy taking a common sub¬ ject and making it beautiful, Gross said. I love capturing the world and transforming it. 94 ACADEMICS LEFT Senior Anisha Martin and instructor Joanne Jones study a photo in a drying tray. After a photo is put on photo paper the photo goes into a drying tray to dry without tearing or wrinkling. BELOW A student examines a roll of film to select only the pictures they want for development. ABOVE Dr. Lindsay Puente strikes the berimbau to get the rhythm going. The berimbau was a Brazilian instrument used to dictate the movements of the capoei- rists. AN EVOLUTION OF DANCE 96 ACADEMICS STORYAyana GrayPHOTOSTabatha Pollock Passing the usually quiet studios of the HPER building, a UA student might be sur¬ prised to hear, on some nights of the week, a steady cadence of percussion floating through the halls. Upon closer inspection, one might see a group of encircled people moving rhythmically and artfully in a sort of choreography. If watched long enough, the common passerby may even begin to feel an inclination to join into the group. And that is what Dr. Lindsay Puente, assistant professor in world languages, literatures and cultures and Latino and Latin American studies, wants to hear. After arriving at the University of Arkansas in 2010, she brought the art form Capoeira. Alongside masters engineering student Grace Richardson, Puente has worked to see its influence and recognition grow in Northwest Arkansas. An increasing interest on campus and in Fayetteville itself, Capoeira—(pronounced ca • POH • air • ah)—is a martial arts form derived from Afro-Brazilian culture dating back to the early 1800s. In modernity, it has become a game and budding exercise form. During a typical match of Capoeira, participants—capoeirists—encircle what . is called a roda. A berimbau—a wooden instrument held together by tight wire—is struck rhythmically to dictate the move¬ ment of the capoeirists as they combat. Classes open to students and the public were taught four times a week and involve forming a roda and playing the game form of the art, called jogo. Participants seem like performers, musicians, athletes or dancers; the pace of Capoeira is lively and constantly upbeat. Capoeira certainly is an art form, but it provides more than a fun and unique opportunity for fitness. It also maintains a culture and a history. As Dr. Puente said, Superficially [Capoeira is] about getting in shape, learn¬ ing cool moves, but it is also about com¬ munity, history and culture. Centrosul, the organization on campus in which Capoeira was regularly practiced, enjoyed performing and practicing the art throughout areas of whenever and wher¬ ever we can, Puente said. Historically, Capoeira as a martial arts form has faced repression and evolution. It transitioned from various areas of South America to California in the early 1900s and has only recently become introduced in Arkansas. Capoeira is an interactive expression, [one that] demands the participation its audience...in every performance, Puente said. LEFT Moving to the rhythm, Lindsay Puente demonstrates how to use sticks within the dance. Puente not only taught Capoeira but she also taught in the world language department in J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. CAPOEIRA 97 HANDS-ON APPROACH Cali Elliott Emily Rhodes During the online rush of signing up for classes each se¬ mester, many students tend to search for traditional science courses to satisfy their major requirements. However, the UA provides a wide variety of fun, non-conventional labora¬ tory classes that promote interactive education instead of textbook agendas. Josh Plafcan, senior anima l science major with an equine minor, got to work up close and personal with his four-legged lab partners in introduction to animal science. We actually get a hands-on experience with the ani¬ mals we ' re talking about. We ' ve been covering cattle, sheep and just recently we ' ve been looking at horses, Plafcan said. He focused on long term benefits of the lab. I like it because it ' s not in an actual laboratory where you just sit there talking about something in a book, Plaf¬ can said. We ' re getting experience with the animals we ' ll be working with in the field one day. Freshman Isaac Boroughs got a unique opportunity to study the human genome in biological anthropology. We get to deal with bones, and I ' ve actually touched a few real ones, Boroughs said. It kind of creeped me out just a little. I went through a few bottles of Germ-X. Although out of the ordinary, the biological anthropology lab was an enjoyable and educational course. It ' s a good class to take because you find out where humans start from, which is interesting, Boroughs said. Most labs are doing the same thing every year; they get the exact same layout, exact same studies. In the water quality lab, we go out and take samples from changing envi¬ ronments rather than just being given stuff, senior Michael Kirch said. Besides working with research, the water quality lab stu¬ dents also traveled to Lake Sequoia, Lake Fayetteville and even the Illinois River for additional information. We did an all-day float and took samples from that. It was pretty awesome, Kirch said. He valued the lab for its potentialities. The stuff we ' re doing is not just to learn a concept, Kirch said. It ' s stuff that people are still learning about and discovering in the field. 98 ACADEMICS FAR LEFT Senior animal science major, Kameron Sullivan, reflects on the hard work he did in his introduction to animal science laboratory. Those in the class were able to get out of the traditional classroom and work outside in the field. LEFT Biological anthro¬ pology lab students get up close and personal to the human genome. The university provided labs such as this one that were more interactive. LEFT Cows eat feed provided by animal science students. The students were able to work hands on at the UA research farm. LABS 99 ABOVE Stacks of Razorback Duct Tape were available at the Homecoming game tailgate event. The company suggested the tape could be used for securing open food bags and containers, creating team flags and pennants and dressing up tailgating gear and clothing. STUCK ON THE RAZORACKS 100 | ACADEMICS STORY Katherine Hunt PHOTOS Tabatha Pollock Arkansas fans are unmatched. We hold strong in times of desperation. We wear hogs on our head and strap snouts to our faces. We woo our players out of their pigpen. And our spirit runs deep a ll throughout Hog Nation. Arkansas fans bleed Razorback red—and now our tape does too. Public Relations students of the Lemke Department of Journalism were a little star struck when Duck Tape, marketed by ShurTech, came to town, asking for their creative strategy and social expertise in the promotion of their Razorback-themed tape. The Razorback Duck Tape project was a hit amongst our class, junior Anne Marie Hastings said. The minute Dr. Phyllis Mill¬ er told us what we were doing, my friend, Madi Wright, and I started to brainstorm. Public Relations students and members of Public Relations Student Society of America competed against the University of Texas, the University of Alabama and West Appalachian State to promote col¬ legiate Duck Tape on campus and support various Duck Tape sponsored events. Judg¬ ing criteria included creativity, resourceful¬ ness and the use of local media for support and publicity. Arkansas students utilized the tape to create functional promotional tools, includ¬ ing Duck Tape commercials, hammocks, grills, flags, apparel, etc. Each group developed and implemented a social media strategy to stimulate Duck Tape-related conversations around campus. Hastings recounted her group ' s contribution. First, we wanted to get some football players involved, Hastings said. Jake Be- quette and Tyler Wilson were nice enough to be in our flyer to promote the duck tape. This brought our slogan for the campaign, Bequette and Wilson approved, Razorback Strong. ' Students noted how the production part of the assignment led to a few obstacles. The most difficult part for our group was working with the Duck Tape itself, junior Emily Newport said. It was hard because Duck Tape isn ' t necessarily an easy product to make things with, but in the end it ended up being worth it despite the hassle. This project brought out our creativity, as well as our school spirit, Hastings said. Who knew duck tape could be so ver¬ satile? From fixing something around the house to using it for decorating a tailgate party, this product is a great way to show Razorback pride. LEFT Razorback fans toss bean bags at a Baggo board for a chance to win a free role of Razorback Duct Tape. A tailgate was held at the Homecom¬ ing game to help cre¬ ate awareness about the product. RAZORBACK DUCTTAPE | 101 ABOVE Equine student shows off her horse to potential buyers at the Department of Animal Science ' s student ran auction. Approximately 600 guests attend annually. RIGHT Participants at the auction look watch possible horses to purchase. All of the proceeds at the auction went to the teaching programs in the Department of Animal Sciences. 102 ACADEMICS LEFT UA student pro¬ motes a horse for the Razorback Roundup auction. The auction was student managed by horse and livestock merchandising stu¬ dents, as well as those in the equine behavior and training classes. RAZORBACK ROUNDUP STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Jacki Frost hile many students started eir November with plans for - anl s 9iving break, the equine Pr °gram A gnculture ,n the College of spent time in the an d out of the classroom field Paring for the Razorback u ndup, an annual horse auction Ur ds the program each year. At the start of the summer, j e stap ted getting our horses wplc h are donated from Vone and everyone, Stephanie c e nna, teacher assistant in e e quine program and leader in e Razorback Roundup, said. The °gram received world champion the° dlineS stemming from r °ck-bottom horse prices, M enna said. ho Sr stuc ' ents rece i ve d the rse s, they began an intensive (Timer of training, preparing m for the auction and updating a daily training journal. Afterward, students prepared for the November public auction. Our day starts at 5:30 a.m. when the event staff comes together for breakfast. From there, it ' s off to the races. The first thing we do is pull the horses and begin cleaning them up, and then do the close inspections and answer questions. After the demos, we start on the auction, Richard Reynolds, a UA student who took part in the auction, said. Arden Leraris, a UA student in the equine program, trained a yearling buckskin named Just Plain Oscar for the auction, preparing him to take part in the show ' s obstacle course. One of the highest sellers in the auction, her Oscar sold for $3,500. It ' s definitely a long and emotional day for the student trainers and their horses, but it went smoothly because we had so many students, volunteers and teacher assistants who helped out with the day, Leraris said. The students managed to sell 19 horses and over $42,000, which raised a significant amount of the funds needed to carry on the program. Since the program is self- funded, the roundup is one of the biggest money makers of the year. The sale is a great way to present our program as well as raise funds, Reynolds said. It does create a lot of stress because so much of our budget comes from the sale, but, if you asked anybody in the program, they would tell you it ' s worth it. HORSE AUCTION 103 FROM CANS to CASTLES STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Emily Rhodes We have to start all over again, a group of students cried out as their tower of cans came crashing down. We ' re going to have to start all over again, guys. Let ' s hurry up and rebuild. Another tower of meticulously placed canned food hit the cement with a loud thud, followed by screams and laughter from the student builders. Taking a break from three-hour-long lectures, nearly 20 groups of students swarmed the Union courtyard to embark on a building project that not only helped their grades but also supplied food for families in need. Can struction, a building project that students in the architecture program take part in each year, gives freshmen an opportunity to integrate themselves into their major and meet other design students, all the while giving back to the community, Alex Bayless, senior interior design major and student mentor, said. In 2009, the interior design major moved into the architecture program, so now landscape architecture, architecture and interior design all take part in the building project, Bayless said. I think it ' s a good opportunity for the mentors to teach students everything they have learned through the program. Bayless, who led his group in their Can Castle project in the fall, helped students gather cans for the project and assisted with the design principles. There have been some really cool can projects in the past, like last year where the students had to build a Rubix cube out of cans - it had to be color coded and everything, Bayless said. In 2011, the winning team Can-sas City collected the most cans, while other teams like Pac-can and Can Castle competed for different awards. While the programs works mainly to TOP Architecture students display their constructed sign Never Hide Your Hunger. This event was not only a learning opportunity, but also aided in the donation of over 4,000 cans to the community. BOTTOM A canned structure is built to represent a castle. Some of the building projects that the freshmen architecture class constructed were canned castle ' , ' a Christmas tree, pac-can ' , ' Can-sas City and many others. integrate new freshmen into the program, the real treat is giv¬ ing back to the community after the event is over, Bayless said. The event ended up donating over 4,000 cans in 2011. Donating to anyone makes the event worthwhile, but giving to people so close to home is a great way to give back, Bayless said. In college, everyone ' s life story is so different. You might have friends who you may not know are starving, but donating to an on-campus source is a great way to help a community you ' re directly involved in. 104 ACADEMICS ABOVE Architecture students form the base of their canned Christmas tree. Due to the precarious structures of the cans, projects often had to be restarted. ARCHITECTURE CAN STRUCTURE 105 ABOVE Students collaborate on math problems in one of the computer labs. Instructors find MyMathLab computer program to be helpful in grading. MATH LABS DON ' T ADD UP 106 ACADEMICS STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS MattTrauschke From college algebra to survey of calcu¬ lus, mathematics was a core requirement for every student attending the University of Arkansas. No matter whether students hated the numbers or loved the equations, the graduation stage was off-limits without first paying a visit to the math lab and com¬ pleting a few online tests and homework assignments. Many students complained about the math department ' s overly complicated online program MyMathLab, as well as the problems that came with computer-based teaching methods. However, for instructors and students, the program offered better grading solutions, immediate feedback and more opportunities, Deborah Korth, vice chair of the math department at the UA, said. We use MyMathLab in a lot of the courses, and of course there are students who love it and then those who hate it, Korth said. I think that MyMathLab gets blamed for a lot of the difficulties that come from learning college level math. There is a shift from how math is taught at the high school level and college level, and college level mathematics is just different. For junior business major Benjamin Holderby, the multiple math classes re¬ quired for his accounting degree stopped him from advancing in his coursework over the year. With the online course, if you get the problem wrong, you get zero points, Holderby said. You either get all or nothing, and it ' s hard to prove, unless you simply missed a comma or typed a decimal in wrong, to show the professor that you got the problem right. Holderby and many other students had issues learning in the math lab, where teacher assistants were available to help with problems but homework was com¬ pleted on an individual, computerized basis. I just don ' t feel like there is a lot of teaching in the math department. You attend 50-minute lectures, and then the rest is up to you, Holderby said. It is really hard when you are sitting at a computer basically teaching yourself. For Korth and other faculty in the math department, the challenge of creating a bet¬ ter way of instruction is something that the entire staff worked towards relentlessly. Math is difficult. It ' s a really difficult subject, Korth said. But I enjoy helping students to discover the power and beauty of math, and to help them get through the stuff that makes it scary or hard. LEFT A student uses scratch paper to work out problems he will later type in MyMathLab for grading. MyMathLab, a computer-based program, has b een deemed over-compli¬ cated by students. MATH PROBLEMS 107 PHOTOS HELP HEAL STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Gareth Patterson The Help Portrait, a non-profit event that started in August 2009 by Nashville photographer Jeremy Cowart, had a simple philosophy - Find someone in need, take their portrait. When The Help Portrait became international, volunteers in Northwest Ar¬ kansas joined the movement. Hundreds of families have been photographed over the past three years. Eric Gorder, UA photojournalism and technology center faculty member, became involved in the event after finding out about it through social media. I was following Jeremy Cowart, the founder of the project, on Twitter, and after reading about it I decided that it was something that I shoul d be a part of... It was a way that I could give back to the community, Gorder said. For families who signed up for the event, an entire day of fun came with the free portrait session. Free breakfast and lunch, as well as childcare, hair and makeup services, gave families a chance to let loose and do nothing more than say cheese for the camera. UA art student Celi Birke, an editor at the event for the 2010 and 2011 years, described the day as a way for volunteers to give people in need something that they would love. A lot of people last year had never had their photograph taken, and they were 50 or 60 years old, so in a way it was almost tragic but a really cool experi¬ ence because of the emotional response that they had to seeing themselves on paper, Burke said. You don ' t think about that as a big deal, but it ' s really moving to be a part of. In 2011, over 40 volunteers gave up their Saturday morning and afternoon to TOP One of the volunteers puts makeup on a child that will be photographed. Free make-up sessions were part of the program. BOTTOM A couple poses for one of the volunteer photographers during a session. The Help Portrait allowed any family in need to come get photos made free of charge as well as have free meals, childcare provided and hair and make-up services. help at the event. For Gorder, Burke and the other Help Portrait volunteers, the holiday season was not all about receiving gifts, but rather giving back to the community. I feel pretty confident in the fact that if I can pull this together and help a few families out over the holidays, I can make an impact and a little change and awareness of people ' s plights this time of year, Gorder said. ACADEMICS ABOVE One of the participants has her hair fixed by a volunteer. Hair styling was complementary for anyone in the program as an added bonus. HELP PORTRAIT 109 FENCED IN FUTURE STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Jacki Frost, Logan Webster During the 2011 year, the UA campus took on more than just a few extra freshmen. Returning students found the maze of campus to be a major frustration, while new students had to figure out the differences. Some of the new construction projects included a new Pi Beta Phi gate outside of Old Main and two new science and engineering auditoriums, called Hillside. For UA juniorT.J. Wuellner, an in-house member of Sigma Phi Eplison, getting past the construction was a daily issue. How did the construction on campus affect your access to campus? Before the construction, I would walk through Old Main lawn ... but then I had to walk through the muddy side yard, which added an extra five minutes to my walk each way, which added up over time. The construction definitely made me late for class throughout the year. What was the worst part? The worst part had to be the temporary fences that were put up around campus. They just made the campus look really bad, and none of the students know whether the construction will be finished by the time we graduate. How do you think campus will be better after the construction? I think that the campus will be better suited for the rapid increase of students. Getting people out of having classes in Barnhill Arena is always a good thing. The projected pictures that they have around campus are really exciting, and if it ends up looking like that, the campus will look much more appealing for incoming students. Do you think the university took on too many projects? I do think that the campus took on too much, but I also think that it needed to be done because of the major increase in students. I also think that it will be worth it in the long run because if we don ' t expand soon, there could be problems. How do you feel about potentially graduating amid the construction? Of course it upsets me a little bit but at least I know that I ' ll be able to come back as an alumni and see the progress that the UA is making. 110 ACADEMICS LEFT Bricks are laid 0ne by one while instruction crew Jfntbers repair the en traveled sidewalk !? h,nd Old Main, ise projects caused tardiness and a less- ap Pealing campus. BELOW Fences block off different walk a Vs and paths to ude nts ' classes near ° ' dMain - One of the ns truction projects as to remodel 2a rk Hall in order to eet the university ' s 9 f °wing enrollment. C D GO LU The camaraderie in the room was based on mutual respect and long hours of hard work. An exchange of jokes and talk about the business at- hand created a mood that showed how the Space Hogs operated. They got down to work, but they had fun doing it. NASA ' s third annual Lunabotics Mining Competition was held May 21-26, 2012 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. UA students Eric Boumgardner, Ryan May, John Munkus, Nathan Hill, Timothy Jones, Brett Sparkman and Chris Farnell teamed up with Professor Scott Smith to try their hand at the competition and what was, for some, a senior design project. We ' re building a robot to try and collect a lunar simulate, Farnell, an electrical engineering doctoral major, said. Universities from around the world prepared for the competition in Cape Kennedy at the end of May. We ' ll all compete against each other to see who can dig the most dirt in ten minutes, Smith said. There are a lot of other categories to get points in as well, like how autonomous the robot is ... and the size and weight of the robot. Bumgardner, senior and electrical engineering major, described the process of creation. We ' ve got aluminum connectors, and that ' s what we ' re making the drive-shaft and the chassis out of, and we ' re going to use a direct drive system ... which just means that there ' s no chain or belt driving the wheels, Bumgardner said. Our method for excavation is going to be an auger system ... and we ' re also going for a fully autonomous design. There were many different ways in which these students became involved. The seniors are working on it as a part of their senior design project, Smith said. Nathan Hill, the business major, is a friend of ours who is helping out with fundraising, and then the two PhD students are working on it as an extracurricular project. A process described by Boumgardner as two months of debate over what to do, part research, a little more debate and more part research eventually led to a robot design the team was happy with. There are around 70 teams signed up this year, Smith said. Hopefully, we do well. TOP After months of debate and design, seniors Timothy Jones and other PhD students work multiple tasks to create a robot. This was a national competition hosted by NASA. MIDDLE Doctorate students Chris Farnell and Nathan Hill inspect the circuit board made for the team ' s robot design. Farnell and Hill are doctorate students involved with the Lunabotics Mining Competition. BOTTOM Professor Scott Smith advised students that particpated in the robotics project. Some worked on it as part of their senior design project, others worked on it as an extracurricular activity. 112 ACADEMICS ABOVE The team Space Hogs personalizes its robot with a Razorback emblem. Through fund raising, debate and design, the team was able to build a robot capable of mining on the moon. LUNABOTICS MINING COMPETITION 113 FROM STYLIST TO STUDENT STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Chad Arnold Ashleigh Sojka relaxed in a blue leather seat in Black Sheep Salon, twirling her pristinely styled hair. She of all people knew what style was - it was her job. A stylist at the modern and minimalistic salon on Dickson street, Sojka not only handled working a full time job, but also managed to squeeze in finally fulfilling her dream of go¬ ing to college. While most students looked forward to celebrating their 21 birthdays with graduation right around the corner, Sojka enjoyed her big birthday enrolling in freshman-level, early morning classes. ' After my classes ended for the day, I would work on school stuff until the salon opened, walk down the hill and go back to work, Sojka said. A part time student at the UA, Sojka enrolled in seven hours for the spring semester with hopes of one day completing a degree in small business ownership. I always wanted to go to school, and I just felt that the time was right - I could take on the extra hours and jumped to the opportunity of taking the new major, Sojka said. Having already graduated from the Paul Mitchell cos¬ metology school in Fayetteville, Sojka felt a need to learn more to advance her career. I wanted to learn a little more about the industry - how to bookkeep, manage other people and learn a little about computers. This program was perfect for that, Sojka said. But while her school schedule fit into her busy work¬ week, Sojka felt the pang of being an older student in college. I ' m taking freshman classes like business law, so I definitely feel a lot older than the 18-year-olds in the classroom, she said, followed by a quiet chuckle. I had problems with Blackbo ard, because it ' s a program I had never used before, and I kept annoying my teachers be¬ cause I didn ' t have Word or Excel or anything like that. Though Sojka had to catch up on college-level programs and work with students almost three years younger than her, she looked forward to earning a degree that she could use, with hopes of working in property management as well as opening her own salon in the future. 114 ACADEMICS LEFT Sojika washes a client ' s hair. Though she is trained as a styl¬ ist, her goal is to finish college. ASHLEIGH SOJKA 115 DOWN TO DIVE STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Chad Arnold Scuba diving equipment and wet suits hung on a red bar, and there was a bustle as UA students dived into the pool, undoubtedly looking to blow off some steam after a long day of class and work. Yet, for some swimmers, the weekly trip to the HPER was not for a workout, but rather a grade for their PEAC 1831 class, better known as Beginner Scuba Diving. In the four hour-a-week commitment, students not only learned scuba basics through classroom lecture with instructor Larry Anderson, but also practiced their diving skills in the pool through weekly drills. Anderson began scuba diving in the 1980s. Since becoming certified, Anderson dove across the world, in places such as Cozumel and Belize. In 2012, rather than traveling the world, he headed to the HPER to share his knowledge with UA students. And though some believed the class to be a blow-off, Anderson was quick to note the intensity and fun of the eight-week course. I ' ve had half a dozen students who have taken the class and gone on to make their living diving, said Anderson, smiling. It influenced their lives so much that they went on from taking a one hour RE. class to teach¬ ing people how to dive, which of course makes me feel good. Lisa Heffernan, a communication disorders student, became certified and went on to plan a Costa Rica dive trip for her summer birthday. One of my friends took the class and really enjoyed it, so I enrolled and it was so much fun. Larry was always so funny and a great teacher. Plus, there were only 15 of us in the class, so we all got to know each other really well, Heffernan said. Taking the class to get scuba diving certified, Hef¬ fernan described the class as one of the best she took at the UA. It was an actual class I wanted to go to, not like composition or something required. It was something I truly enjoyed going to, Heffernan said. An underwater lecture that made a splash among students, the scuba class remained a favorite elective. Watching the students overcome their fears is awesome - God didn ' t make you to breathe underwater, Anderson said. You ' d be amazed at what students can get from taking one little hour class at the UA. 116 ACADEMICS A_tlA FAR LEFT Scuba students get ready to practice their dives during their beginner scuba diving class. The class was one hour for eight weeks long. LEFT Scuba diving equipment and wet suits are required during the four hour- a-week scuba class at the HPER. Some div¬ ers became certified in order to make scuba diving their future careers. LEFT Students make their final adjustments before taking to the water. Those enrolled in the course had to purchase all equipment and water wear needed for underwater scuba diving. SCUBA 117 ABOVE Assistant engineering department head, Dr. Ed Clausen, works with middle school instructors to create effective and hands-on teaching methods. The objective was to teach the teachers how to let students come up with their own ways to solve problems. BRIDGING THE GAP COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING STORY Megan Clark PHOTO Courtesy Don ' t be fooled by his easy¬ going nature and good humor. Dr. Ed Clausen works, and he works hard. For now, he leans back languidly in his chair, overlooking the breezeway in Bell Engineer¬ ing. Up until 2009, Dr. Clausen, a chemical engineer, researched bioenergy, looking at waste mate¬ rials, gasifying them and turn¬ ing them into ethanol.Then, he quit. Dr. Clausen transferred the responsibilities to his colleagues and took on a very different role as an assistant department head, participating in education research. We are working with middle school teachers, and we are try¬ ing to get them to use hands-on activities in their classrooms. We first did this with science teachers - Northwest Arkansas science teachers - for six years,” Dr. Clausen said. The group ' s goal was to show teachers how to create hands-on activities. They didn ' t want the teachers to be given recipes to follow, but rather let the students come up their own ideas to solve problems. He heard stories from teachers that students who once sat at the back of class unengaged would soon lead the class with the use of hands-on activities. Nearly 70 to 80 teachers from the NWA and the Arkansas Delta region were participating in the program. The middle school teachers came to the university to take the workshops. Then, Clausen and the others traveled to each one of the classrooms. On our science grant, we vis¬ ited to see if we can help out. It ' s fun to get to help out, Clausen said. That ' s my research, if you want to call it that. Most people would call that pseudo-research. Some might think Clausen ' s research necessary, as it looks to engage more students in the math and sciences, but Clausen acknowledged an ulterior motive for the program. It is selfish as well. We want to get the best students possible to come to the university and when you think about that, when you are thinking about math and science, middle school is when you start making some of these decisions,” Clausen said. He advocated getting student interested in such subjects early so they would want to continue their studies in college. However, Clausen did not just deal with middle school or high school stu¬ dents. In addition to his research he advised all the students in his department. He was also the Honors College director for the College of Engineering. It ' s sad that students become turned off to math and science. We have seen a 30 pen cemt increase enrollment here at the College of Engineering, Clausen said. We want to see that continue. 118 ACADEMICS ABOVE Mexico b n ' 0r archltecture student Paul Mosley works on a figure ground drawing of Tacubaya, a section of Mexico City. He chose to visit ecause the program provided invaluable studio training in hand drawing techniques. 0n au Mosley rode ten hours fill 9 US t 1rou 9h a glaring desert tot w hat locals believe e Magical cacti that flashes °wn and green outside the as ' n dow- His journey included cending mountain ranges va ° Ver 0 °k e d the sparse e Y bus had just traveled trj r ° u 9h- Nearly 17 miles of the consisted of bumping over a ° hlestone road, which ended a nnel that reeked of diesel tu nies. ar , S a University of Arkansas S C ec ture student, Mosley, a o e ni°r, was presented with two Ptions: Rome or Mexico. He j n ° Se to spend his summer living e al de Catorce, Mexico, a Wn that had yet to enter the ates t century. 1 saw previous Mexico dents ' work, and the drawings ere incredible. They would draw °n the same board sheets of a Psr, which total 48x72 inches, Se mester. They just worked on those four sheets all semester, Mosley said. It was interesting because you could see history of their work behind other draw¬ ings. Besides wanting to hone his drawing skills, Mosley chose Mexico because the program afforded access to places tour¬ ists usually could not go. Rome seemed easily accessible. Mos¬ ley valued the unique experience Mexico would give him and did not see Mexico as an ' inferior ' location. It seems to me like many people assume that architecture in Rome is better than in Mexico. I wouldn ' t say it is a matter of bet¬ ter or worse - it ' s just different. I assume you learn different les¬ sons at each one, Mosley said. The best part of the trip was the trek to Real de Catorce. Mosley described how the group had to endure nearly half a day traveling to reach the site. The town rested between two moun¬ tain ranges and sat on the edge of a cliff. All the buildings in the town were made from stones the lo¬ cals quarried from the mountains that surround them. The archi¬ tecture students went to view a ruined hacienda. Despite being off the buses, the students then had to mount horses to reach the house. Once up the mountain, to a height of nearly 11,000 feet above sea level, Mosley and the rest of the students unpacked their belongings and began to sketch upon their pads, choosing to take in Mexico and leave as¬ sumptions behind. It is one of the most isolated places - the most isolated place I ' ve ever been - but the road is nothing compared to what the city actually was, Mosley said. That city is like - pass¬ ing through a tunnel - like going backwards through time - they are not living in 2012. They were still living in the first century. DRAWING ABROAD FAY JONES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE STORY Megan Clark PHOTO MattTrauschke ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE 119 ABOVE Associate professor of management, Dr. Carol Reeves, was recognized by Fortune magazine as one of 10 women around the world Doin ' It for Themselves in 2011. Others featured were Chelsea Handler and Arinna Huffington of the Huffington Post. FORTUNE FINDER SAM M. WALTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STORY Megan Clark PHOTO MattTrauschke Imagine being in a room with the likes of Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, and Chelsea Handler, well-known comedienne and co-founder of Borderline Amazing Productions. Think of how people would gape and stare. Now imagine that you have been listed in Fortune along¬ side these women and several other powerhouses in business. This scenario is a reality for Dr. Carol Reeves, an associate professor in management, who was recently named one of the ten women ' Doin ' It forThem- selves ' by the magazine. Labeled as ' The Coach, ' Dr. Reeves seeks to mold students in her classes into viable businesses. Her model of dedication has resulted in win¬ ning teams that do astoundingly well at national competitions, beating out colleges like MIT, Stanford and Michigan. ' ' They said that they wanted to include me, and I obviously said please do. They heard I men¬ tor all these teams and my teams do really well. At Rice in particu¬ lar, which is the most competitive competition. We won in 2010 and had two finalists last year,” Reeves said. Throughout the year, she worked with graduate students across campus to form startup companies. They wrote business plans for their companies, made presentations and competed for significant prizes. These students stood in front of judges from Google and other venture capi¬ tals, vying for millions of dollars in prize money. Over the years, Reeves ' teams won over a million dollars in cash and about a million dollars in investment money as prizes. They also received nearly $13 million in real funding. Her competi¬ tive teams came not only from Walton college, but all across the university. This semester I have a microelectronics-photonics Ph.D student, a chemistry and biology Ph.D candidate and a computer science student. They are very strange languages to each other - business and science. They learn from each other remarkably well, though, Reeves said. In addition to coaching her teams, Reeves also acted as the associate vice provost for entrepreneurship. She promoted entrepreneurship across the University and across Arkansas. Her mission included trying to generate jobs in the state based on startup activity. All six of my former teams are located in Arkansas. If they are successful, they will generate a lot of jobs, Reeves said. My students are directly or indirectly responsible for 100 created over the last 6 years, which is no small feat. 120 ACADEMICS n otechh USan ayes ' ' nstructor n health, human performance and recreation, teaches students ballroom dancing at the HPER. Mayes at Popular television shows like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars have encouraged student interest. Students waltz around the ar dwood floor. Their steps es °und off the concert walls Wlt h each move. Most keep their e Gs glued to their feet, counting ® ac h move. No toes have been ra mpied. Yet. Hip-hop music fr om a n aerobics class down the c as hes with the classical mu- Slc being played in their room. The HPER building was home the university ' s most popular a Active - ballroom dancing. , Usan Mayes, an instructor in ea| th, human performance and | ecrea tion, relished the oppor- urrity to teach dance classes at the UA. father was an accounting Professor here, and I attended in 9- Mayes said. I came back university after 10 years Public school experience in c °3ching and physical education. Unlike others in her depart- H nt, Mayes did not play sports ln school. Rather, her parents en¬ rolled her in, as she called them, country club sports such as tennis, golf and swimming. But always her first love was dance. I am pre-title IX. Fayetteville High didn ' t have competitive sports for girls. So, I started dance at age five and trained classically in ballet - also jazz and tap. We still had a dance major at UA, and I really considered major¬ ing in dance but I knew I wasn ' t good enough to be a pro dancer - I was too tall, Mayes said. Decided to major in PE because it was the closest thing I could do, other than dance. With television shows such as So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing with the Stars, Mayes admitted that recent media attracted more attention to her dance class. However, she reminded people that often such shows over-sensationalized dancing. I think Dancing with the Stars has been a good thing in general. I don ' t watch it very much. But I think the good outweighs the bad. It puts the word dance in front of people. People are seek¬ ing outside kinds of performance they wouldn ' t normally do, Mayes said. The question remained, if the dance elective was so popular, why did the university disband its dance major? Earlier, the depart¬ ment suffered a blow when a faculty member left and was not replaced. Additionally, the num¬ ber of students enrolled in dance was not very high. Of course I disagree, Mayes said. I think there should be a dance major here at this campus because there isn ' t one in the state of Arkansas. That ' s raising the level of education for the people of Arkansas and those in the community. KEEPING THE RHYTHM AUVE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH PROFESSIONS STORY Megan Clark PHOTO MattTrauschke WALTON CEHP | 121 Dylan Craig, Greg Rogers, Owen Cook and Keenan Cole had only 72 hours starting April 20, 2012 to work as a team and develop a video game. The students programmed the game, named Red, in javascript. ODYSSEY IN GAMING FULBRIGHT COLLEGE OF ARTS Megan Clark Courtesy Leaping across rooftops, you breeze above alleyways. Clouds move across the moon and you feel invincible. You spot an assailant. Quietly, you remove a dagger and crouch toward him. Unfortunately, at that moment, an unseen advisory comes up behind you. Your screen turns red; the words Mission Failed hover over your crumpled form. No matter how hard the level is, you must finish it for homework. Gaming as an assignment - sound absurd? It ' s not. Dr. David Fredrick, associate classics professor, taught courses that molded together two divergent words: classical literature and game design. His students interacted and built video games, using technology to bridge the gap between old and new ways of learning. Originally, Dr. Fredrick taught a digital Pompeii course that used game design technology to visu¬ alize Roman housing. Students built houses and placed black and white photos of art within so they could visualize the space. Dr. Fredrick expanded this connec¬ tion of technology and classics to his latest course, that of myth¬ making and game design. It occurred to me we were only using a little bit of the game engine - we weren ' t taking advantage of the interactivity of games, Dr. Frederick said. The premise is to take a classic text like the Odyssey and use [it] as basis for game ideas. So stu¬ dents build games and have to pull material from the literature. They have to think about how the Odyssey itself is like a game. In the spring 2012 semester, the group received a grant from Unity for the course, which is the game engine the students use. The use of actual gaming soft¬ ware tools used by professional was not something students an¬ ticipated doing when they came to the UA. They fact we now have a Playstation to play games, they are like, is this really our home¬ work? But games are incredible at teaching people stuff fast and in clever ways, Dr. Fredrick said. Often among professors, games are viewed as the enemy or a distraction. Games are teaching better than us, quicker, smarter. To dismiss it as a waste of time is a loser strategy. Students have critical skills about games. Let ' s tie those to a piece of literature. ' 122 ACADEMICS Q a Th SCattered before him Dr - Andrew Sharpley works on his environmental waterways project, the Arkansas Discovery Farm e program, which was supported by the Farm Bureau, worked hand-in-hand with farmers to determine runoff volumes. Of Z ° ne ' n ■ ex ' co stretches across a ar 9e swath of water. Its size + 1 ?° s 1a P e shift, but it is rough I 6 s ' 2e °f Delaware and Rho s 3nd combined. High levels Phosphorus and nitrogen floo( e Qulf from the Mississippi ' er ' n the dead zone, fish a er marine life struggle to -- in the oxygen-deplete o er - eca use Arkansas is a the Mississippi River Valley a i, e State Qrappled with how t opiate its impact on rivers a Ihe ocean. c Andrew Sharpley was °P� soil and environmental s nce Processor looking to kee a er clean. Sharpley worked ' th farmers and cities in the orthwest Arkansas region tc develop practices that helped not only state waterways, but those nationally. Tm looking at how farmers affect water quality, and then also looking at chemistry and what processes occur in soil and how they affect water quality. From that, I looked at doing field work to help farmers manage those lands to minimize the losses but still stay in business, Sharpley said. This program, called the Arkan¬ sas Discovery Farm Program, was supported by the Farm Bureau. They mainly worked with farmers to instrument fields to determine runoff volume. Arkansas remained a water rich state, but much of the water flowed into other states, which led to environmental problems for the water ' s end users. Sharpley hoped this program would help farmers become proactive and vocal about regulations, actively participating instead of waiting for agencies to step in. Farmers listen to other farmers. We have good demon¬ strations, but if a farmer sees something working for a neigh¬ bor then they are more likely to follow that, Sharpley said. Part of this program is empowering farmers to spread the word. They feel passionately about letting people come on their farm and have demonstrations and be spokespeople for what they are doing. NO WASTED WATER Megan Clark MattTrauschke FULBRIGHT BUMPERS 123 SAM M. WALTON BUSINESS • FAY JONES ARCHITECTURE • J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT ARTS SCIENCES • DALE BUMPERS AGRICULTURAL, FOOD LIFE SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • LAW EDUCATION HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACADEMICS .v V ' AFTER SURVIVING COUNTLESS ALL-NIGHTERS ANDTRIPS UP AND DOWN DICKSON STREET, STUDENTS REACHEDTHE FINISH LINE. WHETHER ITTOOK FOUR YEARS OR A FEW MORE LAPS, STUDENTS COULD FINALLY CALLTHEMSELVES GRADUATES OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS. 126 ACADEMICS ABOVE Senior Marvell Waithe, Razorback basketball forward, smiles as he receives his diploma. LEFT A recent gradu¬ ate hugs her mother outside of Bud Walton Arena after the fall commencement on December 17, 2011. FAR LEFT Anticipating the beginning of the spring commence¬ ment, Fulbright fac¬ ulty watch the excited crowd of students. GRADUATION 128 ATHLETICS JEFF LONG 138 NCAA WOMEN ' S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 182 CARDINALS RANGERS FANS 208 BITERING ELITE TERRITORY Photo by Matt Trauschke 2012 COTTON BOWL VS. KANSAS STATE 29 16 6 ARKANSAS 8 KANSAS STATE SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 3 16 7 3 KSU 0 9 7 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK KSU 1st DOWNS 13 19 TOTAL YARDS 345 260 PASSING 216 173 RUSHING 129 87 PENALTIES 6-43 5-38 3rd DOWN CNV. 8-17 4-15 4th DOWN CNV. 0-1 1-2 TURNOVERS 1 2 POSSESSION 26:09 33:51 ABOVE Freshman cornerbackTevin Mitchel 8 celebrates with teammate Lonnie Gosha 48 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,Texas on January 6, 2012. The Hogs ' defense in the Cotton Bowl was coordinated by newly installed defensive coordinator, Paul Haynes, following the exit of former defensive coordinator Willy Robinson. LEFT Senior wide-receiver Joe Adams 3 and teammates hoist the 2012 Cotton Bow game trophy after beating the 8 ranged Kansas StateWildcats at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,Texas on January 6. 2.012..Tbe Razorbacks 111-2i tied tbe RECORD 11-2 FINAL C SFC6-2 RMUflMfi 3 2011 OVERALL FBS RANKINGS PASSING OFFENSE: 13th - 300.7 YARDS RUSHING 0FFENSE:81st - 137.4 YARDS scorn orast. 5th - so.a points 2011 TEAM LEADERS PASSING STATISTICS NAME COMPLETIONS ATTEMPTS COMPLETION % TOUCHDOWNS INTERCEPTIONS YARDS QB RATING TYLER WILSON 277 438 63.2 24 6 ' 3638 148.4 BRANDON MITCHELL 22 32 68.8 2 1 271 154.3 RUSHING STATISTICS NAME CARRIES YARDS AVERAGE TOUCHDOWNS DENNIS JOHNSON 106 1670 6.3 3 RONNIE WINGO JR. 104 458 4.4 3 RECEIVING STATISTICS NAME RECEPTIONS YARDS AVERAGE TOUCHDOWNS JARIUS WRIGHT 66 1117 16.9 12 JOEADAMS 54 652 12.1 3 FINAL 2011 SEC STANDINGS EAST CONFERENCE OVERALL 19 GEORGIA 7-1 10-4 9 SOUTH CAROLINA 6-2 11-2 FLORIDA 3-5 7-6 VANDERBILT 2-6 6-7 KENTUCKY 2-6 5-7 TENNESSEE 1-7 5-7 WEST CONFERENCE OVERALL | 2 LSU 8-0 13-1 1 ALABAMA 7-1 12-1 5 ARKANSAS 6-2 11-2 AUBURN 4-4 8-5 MISSISSIPPI STATE 2-6 7-6 OLE MISS 0-8 2-10 SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th OT TOTAL ARKANSAS 117 136 117 108 0 478 OPPONENTS 58 117 66 48 0 289 21 27 FIELD GOALS-ATTEMPS 59 TDs SCORED POINTS SCORED IN 2011 SEASON (2ND HIGHEST IN SCHOOL HISTORY) RED-ZONE SCORING TIED SCHOOL RECORD WITH ELEVEN WINS WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM (LITTLE ROCK) CAPACITY: 54,120 2011 AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE: 66,990 DONALD W REYNOLDS RAZORBACK STADIUM CAPACITY: 72,000 2011 LARGEST HOME ATTENDANCE: 74,191 VS 15 AUBURN ABOVE Junior quarterback Tyler Wilson 8 scrambles and prepares to throw the football at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Sept. 3, 2011. The Razorbacks opened their 118th season at Razorback Stadium ranked 15th in the Associated Press preseason poll. The ranking was the highest for the Razorbacks since they were 14th prior to the 1990 season. VS. MISSOURI STATE 51 7 15 ARKANSAS MISSOURI STATE SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 20 10 14 7 M0SU 0 0 7 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK M0SU 1st DOWNS 24 9 TOTAL YARDS 466 163 PASSING 364 79 RUSHING 102 84 PENALTIES 8-76 4-25 3rd DOWN CNV. 6-12 1-11 4th DOWN CNV. 2-2 1-1 TURNOVERS 1 1 POSSESSION 31:29 28:31 oto by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Senior guard Grant Cook 72 carries the American flag as the team runs through the A at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sept. 10, 2011. The game occurred on the 10-year anniversary of the 9 11 attacks on the U.S.To commemorate the anniversary, the crowd dressed in red, white and blue. Players also wore red, white, and blue Razor- back stickers on their helmets. Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Sophomore defensive- end Chris Smith 42 awaits the football to be snapped at Bryant- Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala¬ bama on Sept. 24, 2011. The game featured Arkansas ' offense, which led the SEC in scoring offense, passing offense, and total offense and Alabama ' s defense, which led the SEC in scoring defense, pass¬ ing datens® and o a defense. @ ALABAMA 14 38 14 ARKANSAS 3 ALABAMA SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 7 0 7 0 ALA 7 10 21 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK ALA 1st DOWNS 14 16 TOTAL YARDS 226 397 PASSING 209 200 RUSHING 17 197 PENALTIES 3-17 5-55 3rd DOWN CNV. 4-15 5-13 4th DOWN CNV. 1-2 k TURNOVERS k w Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino and team hoist the Southwest Classic game trophy at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Oct. 1, 2011. The loss for Texas A M was their 7th versus a SEC team dating to 1995. The Aggies would leave the Big 12 conference for the SEC the follow¬ ing season in 20t2. VS JEW MEXICO 52 3 14 ARKANSAS NEW MEXICO SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 14 17 7 14 UNM 3 0 0 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK UNM 1st DOWNS 34 15 TOTAL YARDS 632 297 PASSING 373 202 RUSHING 259 95 PENALTIES 7-45 3-33 3rd DOWN CNV. 4-9 5-17 4th DOWN CNV. 1-1 0-2 TURNOVERS 2 0 POSSESSION 31:35 28:25 Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Freshman runningback Kody Walker 40 guards the football as he rushes for 3-yards for a touchdown at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Sept. 17, 2011. With the win, Arkansas extended its streak to 28-0 over members of the Sun Belt conference. VS. TROY 38 28 14 ARKANSAS TROY SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 14 10 7 7 TROY 0 7 14 7 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK TROY 1st DOWNS 26 22 TOTAL YARDS 454 457 PASSING 303 373 RUSHING 151 84 PENALTIES 4-27 7-75 3rd DOWN CNV. 8-16 8-20 4th DOWN CNV. 1-1 2-4 TURNOVERS 3 1 POSSESSION 30:14 29:46 VS. TEXAS A M 42 38 18 ARKANSAS 14 TEXAS A M SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 7 10 10 15 TA M 14 21 0 3 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK TA M 1st DOWNS 28 30 TOTAL YARDS 581 628 PASSING 510 247 RUSHING 71 381 PENALTIES 14-112 7-72 3rd DOWN CNV. 8-17 7-15 4th DOWN CNV. 0-0 rrr TURNOVERS 1®. k Photo by Matt Trauschke ABOVE Junior linebacker Ross Rasner 35 tackles Auburn running back Quan Bray 4 at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Oct. 8, 2011. The game featured many Arkansas natives on the Au¬ burn sideline including Auburn run¬ ning back Michael Dyer from Little Rock, quarterback Kiehl Frazier and otienswe coordinator Gus NlaVzahn XsoWn vovn S v nn ada e. f V.ansas. VS. AUBURN 38 14 10 ARKANSAS 15 AUBURN SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 7 14 7 10 AUB 14 0 0 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK AUB 1st DOWNS 17 18 TOTAL YARDS 438 395 PASSING 262 104 RUSHING 176 291 PENALTIES 4-26 11-105 3rd DOWN CNV. 5-16 6-17 4th DOWN CNV. 1-1 | 0-0 TURNOVERS k k n-.vi a7.-Aa ARK MISS SCORING SUMMARY TEAM STAT COMPARISON by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino confers with a game official at Vaught-Heming- way Stadium in Oxford, Missis¬ sippi on Oct. 22, 2011. Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt fell to 2-2 against the Arkansas program he coached for 10 seasons before leaving for the University of Mis¬ sissippi. 1st DOWNS 20 24 TOTAL YARDS 438 370 PASSING 232 219 RUSHING 206 151 PENALTIES 2-4 12-85 3rd DOWN CNV. 4-13 4-13 4th DOWN CNV. 2-3 2-2 TURNOVERS 1 1 POSSESSION 22:42 37:18 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 0 7 19 3 MISS 3 14 0 7 @ OLE MISS r 29 1 1 24 | I 9 ARKANSAS OLE MISS | Photo by Logan Webster ABOVE Sophomore quarterback Brandon Mitchell 17 extends the football past Vanderbilt defend¬ ers for a total 4-yard rushing touchdown at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee on Oct. 29, 2011. The game was Arkansas ' third time in the 2011 season hav¬ ing trailed by double digits before coming back to win. Vanderbilt led 21-7 with 1:39 left in the first half. Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Junior running-back Dennis Johnson 33 runs past Tennessee defender at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Nov. 12, 2011. The game featured many highlights, including senior wide- receiver Joe Adams ' 60-yard punt return for a touchdown, shaking off six attempted tackles by Ten¬ nessee players. VS. TENNESSEE 49 7 8 ARKANSAS TENNESSEE SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 14 7 14 14 TENN 0 7 0 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK TENN 1st DOWNS 21 16 TOTAL YARDS 499 376 PASSING 245 238 RUSHING 254 138 PENALTIES 7-58 5-36 3rd DOWN CNV. 5-9 4-18 4th DOWN CNV. 0-0 1-4 TURNOVERS 2 1 POSSESSION 22:54 37:06 Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Junior tight-end Chris Gragg 80 fends off Mississippi State defensive-back Johnthan Banks 13 at War Memorial Sta¬ dium in Little Rock, Arkansas on Nov. 19, 2011. With the win, Arkan¬ sas completed its first undefeated season at home since 1999. @ VANDERBILT 31 i 1 28 1 f m ARKANSAS VANDERBILT | SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 7 7 6 11 VAN 7 14 7 0 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK VAN 1st DOWNS 22 19 TOTAL YARDS 388 462 PASSING 316 240 RUSHING 72 222 PENALTIES 7-59 3-35 3rd DOWN CNV. 5-15 6-15 4th DOWN CNV. 2-2 2-2 TURNOVERS 2 3 POSSESSION 28:26 31:34 ARK SCAR VS. SOUTH CAROLINA Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Arkansas players celebrate with junior defensive-tackle DeQuinta Jones 92 at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Nov. 5, 2011. On this date in 1977, Arkansas head coach Lou Holtz and the 8th ranked Arkansas Razorbacks defeated Baylor 35-9 en route to an 11-1 season and an Orange Bowl victory. 1st DOWNS 20 17 TOTAL YARDS 435 207 PASSING 299 128 RUSHING 136 79 PENALTIES 9-60 9-45 3rd DOWN CNV. 5-15 8-12 4th DOWN CNV. 1-3 0-0 TURNOVERS 1 4 POSSESSION 30:55 29:05 SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 10 14 6 14 SCAR 7 7 7 7 TEAM STAT COMPARISON VS. MISSISSIPPI STATE 44 17 6 ARKANSAS MISSISSIPPI STATE SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 14 10 10 10 MSST 3 7 0 7 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK MSST 1st DOWNS 29 13 TOTAL YARDS 539 211 PASSING 373 127 RUSHING 166 84 PENALTIES 4-30 3-28 3rd DOWN CNV. 10-17 5-16 4th DOWN CNV. 0-0 1-3 TURNOVERS 1 1 35:21 24:39 Photo by Gareth Patterson ABOVE Senior linebacker Alonzo Highsmith 45 and junior defensive-end Tenarius Wright 43 sack LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson 9 for a loss of 10 yards at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisisana on Nov. 25, 2011. The last time two teams ranked in the top three played each other in Tiger Stadium was 1959. @ LSU 17 41 3 ARKANSAS 1 LSU SCORING SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th ARK 0 14 3 0 LSU 0 21 3 17 TEAM STAT COMPARISON ARK LSU 1st DOWNS 11 26 TOTAL YARDS 254 494 PASSING 207 208 RUSHING 47 286 PENALTIES 5-36 6-34 3rd DOWN CNV. 6-13 9-14 4th DOWN CNV. 0-0 0-0 TURNOVERS 3 2 22:51 37:09 POSSESSION POSSESSION RIGHT Sophomore tight end Austin Tate, a fellow teammate of Uekman, speaks with teammates Zach Hooker, Luke Charpentier and Brian Buehner at Uekman ' s vigil held at Bud Walton Arena on Monday, November 21, 2011 FOREVER A RAZORBACK STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Whit Pruitt, Logan Webster One by one, thousands of friends, family, classmates and students solemnly filled the seats of Bud Walton Arena, stickers wrapped in black ribbons with a white 88” covering each chest as they held candles to light the darkened arena. Soon after, Ra- zorback football players entered, wiping away tears as they took their seats, all in remembrance of 19-year-old redshirt freshmanTE Garrett Uekman, who died Nov. 20 , 2011 . Uekman was found uncon¬ scious and unresponsive in his dorm room less than 24 hours following the Razorback 44-17 victory against Miss. St. in his hometown of Little Rock. Having suffered from an enlarged heart, Uekman was pronounced dead shortly after. Garrett Uekman was a spe¬ cial member of our family, and we are all saddened by his passing, Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino said in a statement. His loss is a terrible shock, and it makes you realize how precious life is. Uekman ' s death was a shock¬ ing upset to all. Thousands in the UA community took to social media with W88PigS88ie Twitter hash tags and posts in the Remember Garrett Uekman Facebook page to express grati¬ tude and sadness for the beloved player and friend. Junior running back Knile Davis, among others, tweeted shortly after Uekman ' s death. Garrett Uekman rest in peace my brother Watch over us as we continue to chase the dream u started with us. I love u and will forever miss u, Davis said. Having started in nine of the season ' s games, Uekman lived his passion for being a Razorback athlete. He wanted to be a Razorback forever, a statement released by the Uekman family said. He got to live that dream. Though lost so young, those closest to Uekman said his impact on the university was far greater than the short time he spent there. I speak for the whole team when I say Garrett Uekman will always be a part of us, sopho¬ more Austin Tate said. He loved being a part of this team and cherished every moment that he was here. I just wish I had a lifetime of knowing Garrett Uek¬ man. 136 ATHLETICS in ABOVE Students hold candles during a vigil for Garrett Uekman Monday, November 21, 2011 at Bud Walton Arena. Friends, relatives and classmates attended the candlelight vigil with approximately 2,500 candles providing light in the darkened arena. LEFT Sophomore Garrett Uekman runs through pre-game passing drills at Razorback Stadium on Saturday, November 5, 2011. Uekman started in nine season games before his death. GARRETT UEKMAN 137 ABOVE Athletic director Jeff Long announces his decision to fire Bobby Petrino at an evening news conference April 10, 2012. Four years after hiring Petrino away from the Atlanta Falcons, an emotional Jeff Long cited Petrino ' s conscious decision to mislead the public as one of the main reasons for Petrino’s dismissal. INTEGRITY GOES A LONG WAY STORY Nick Carter PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Logan Webster It ' s not easy making the tough deci¬ sion. It might even be harder to carry it out. Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long was forced to do both when he made the announcement to fire head football coach Bobby Petrino. Petrino was promptly placed on ad¬ ministrative leave pending the review of a motorcycle accident involving 25-year-old university employee Jessica Dorrell. It was later revealed that there had been an inappropriate relationship between Petrino and Dorrell. Petrino adversely affected the reputation of the Razorbacks, said Long. He said the relationship wasn ' t against University policy, but found that Petrino abused his authority and jeopardized the integrity of the football program. We have high standards, Long said. And a national reputation. Our expecta¬ tions from our employees can be no less than what we expect of our students. No individual can be bigger than the team, the Razorback football program or the University of Arkansas. Long made the decision to hire Ar¬ kansas assistant coach John L. Smith as head coach for the 2012 season. When coach Smith first approached me about returning to Arkansas to serve in this position, he talked about his desire to be a part of the continued success of these student-athletes, this coaching staff and the Razorback program, Long said. Smith coached with Petrino at Arkan¬ sas, Michigan State, Louisville and Utah State and was the special teams coach at Arkansas for three seasons before leav¬ ing to take over at Weber State. Petrino later released a statement endorsing Long ' s decision to hire Smith. I think Jeff Long made a great hire, Petrino said. While there were several outstanding internal candidates, John L. brings a lot of head coaching experience to the table that will help Arkansas ' transi¬ tion. He will unify the staff, the team and the Razorback fan base. I wish coach Smith, his staff and the Arkansas football team the very best. Despite a year of turmoil on the hill, Long kept the Razorback nation together by maintaining the integrity of both the athletic program and the University of Arkansas. 138 ATHLETICS LEFT Bobby Petrino, who was later fired, speaks during a news conference regard¬ ing his motorcycle accident on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Petrino, who was fired via a let¬ ter from Long, issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to heal his family. TURMOIL ONTHE HILL 139 [Sn l itit | A capacity crowd of 19,050 attended the game against the Michigan Wolverines at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday, January 21, 2012. Arkansas won 66-64. • m 1 1 i 1,1 � t Mi ' • Tx ' ( af J . ’ jMH WmW rr ijLt 1 Senior forward Michael Sanchez 31 shoots against a Houston defender at Verizon Arena in Little Rock, Ark. on Friday, November 18, 2011. 2 Freshman guard BJ Young 11 ignores Michigan defender going up for a slam dunk at Bud Walton Arena on Saturday, January 21, 2012 . 3 Junior guard Julysses Nobles 23 penetrates through the defense looking for an open teammate at Bud Walton Arena on Saturday, February 11,2012. With the win, Arkansas improved to 17-0 at home. It was the most wins in one season in Bud Walton Arena for the Razorbacks since the arena opened in 1993. 4 Senior forward Marvell Waithe 22 looks to make a shot against a Houston defender at Verizon Arena in Little Rock, Ark. on Friday Nov. 18, 2011. The Razorbacks went on to lose the game 87-78. 18 WINS 14 LOSSES OVERALL I 6-1(1 SEC 17-4 AT HOME I 1-9 AWAY 16-1 NEUTRAL 2,299 TOTAL POINTS I 71 POINTS PER GAME 265 TOTAL STEALS I 8.3 STEALS PER GAME November December January February March USC-Upstate 63-83 W 10 Connecticut 62-75 L Savannah State 66-83 W LSU 65-71 L Mississippi Sta Oakland 68-91 W Oklahoma 63-78 L 16 Mississippi State 88-98 W Georgia 59-81 L LSU Houston 87-78 L SE Louisiana 55-62 W Ole Miss 63-71 L South Carolina 66 76 W Utah Valley 59-67 W Eastern Kentucky 57-71 W LSU 60-69 W Tennessee 58-77 L Hod denotes confi Grambling State 44-86 W LouisianaTech 63-77 W 2 Kentucky 63-86 L 12 Florida 98 68 L Mississippi Valley St. 64-97 W Charlotte 67-80 W 19 Michigan 64 66W Alabama 79 68 L Texas Southern 49-77 W Auburn 53 56 W Auburn 77-71 W Alabama 66-72 L Ole Miss 77-75 L Vanderbilt 74 82W 142 | LEFT Sophomore guard Rickey Scott 3 draws contact from Auburn player while driving through the lane for a shot at Bud Walton Arena on Wendesday, January 25, 2012. With the 56-53 win over Auburn the Razorbacks remained undefeated at home. L m uJ ■ ' f 7 J K - Ml f | - Bl 1 STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Logan Webster The crowded gym of 5,000 rang in thun¬ derous applause as signs with Welcome Home waved frantically for the man of the hour. A smile covered his face as he greeted the delighted crowd and began calling the Hogs. It was a special welcome for Mike Anderson, who was returning to the school where he spent his first 17 years as assistant coach. Anderson was anything but new to the University of Arkansas and its basketball program. He was assistant coach to leg¬ endary Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson when Arkansas established itself as one of the top basketball programs in the coun¬ try. From 1985 to 2002, Richardson and Anderson won 370 games, attended 15 NCAA tournaments, three Southwest Con¬ ference championships, two Southeastern Conference titles, made three Final Fours, won a national championship in 1994 and a second-place finish in 1995. When Richard¬ son was fired in 2001, Anderson took over the rest of the season as head coach. After leaving Arkansas in 2002, Ander¬ son found success at UAB and Missouri. It came as no surprise, when, after seasons of unimpressive results, Arkansas knocked on Anderson ' s door, offering him a 2.2 million dollar a year 7-year contract with Arkansas. It is a tremendous honor to be named the head men ' s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas, Anderson said. With the continued passionate support of all Razorback fans, I am confident that we will have the opportunity to succeed on and off the court and continue to build on the University of Arkansas ' championship tradition. Anderson ' s long-time mentor, Hall of Fame coach Richardson, offered his bless¬ ing to the newly hired Razorback coach. I ' m happy for him, R ichardson said. I support Mike and I will support him wher¬ ever he goes. He ' s like a son to me. Though the Razorbacks were unsuc¬ cessful in making the 2012 NCAA tourna¬ ment, Anderson was confident for the future, hoping to stay as long as possible to grow his young team and return to the famous 40 Minutes of Hell that once left Bud Walton Arena packed with supporters. I ' m at home, I ' m at home, Anderson said. As long as they want me here, I ' m at home. RIGHT Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson takes a break during the game against LSU at Bud Walton Arena on Saturday, January 14, 2012. Anderson ' s style, up-tempo, with intense pressure defense, known as 40 Minutes of Hell brought about renewed excitement to the Razorback fan base. 144 ATHLETICS ABOVE Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson calls a play during the game against Vanderbilt at Bud Walton Arena on Tuesday, January 31,2012. Anderson led the Razorbacks to 17 consecutive victories at home but fell short of making it to the NCAA Basketball Tournament in his first season at Arkansas. A FAMILIAR FACE RETURNS MIKE ANDERSON ABOVE Looking toward the volleyball court, senior J.J. Baggies cheers along with the fans during a home game. Hogwild Band ' s main mission was to help create an interactive atmosphere for players and fans alike. 146 | ATHLETICS 7 BAND COES HOGWILD STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTOS Mandi Havens, Gareth Patterson, Logan Webster Home to the sounds of basketballs dribbling down the court, volleyballs being served over the net and roaring crowds, UA sporting events have a resonance of their own. Fans can feel the strength and adrena¬ line of the team, the nervous anticipation of a win within reach. With each shift in the course of a game, the UA ' s Hogwild Band is there to help the fans, and the team, stay motivated. The graduate assistants and I work really hard to make sure that we have a wide variety in our library. During the course of a game, we try to respond to STORY CONTINUED PG. 148 HOGWILD BAND 147 ' IF JUL ABOVE Instruments at attention, a swarm of red fills the stands during a home basketball game. The Hogwild band offered timeout and halftime pep for the fans. STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 147 what ' s happening on the court and what ' s happening with the fans. If the energy in the arena dies down, we try and play a tune to pick them back up, ' ' Hogwild Band Director Benjamin Chamberlain said. We ' re kind of like the ignition switch on a car; when the crowd needs to get into the game, we turn the key. As the new Hogwild Band director, Chamberlain had a chance to work with an already successful program. [Hogwild Band] used to be the premier band in the country, and they got a lot of recognition on national TV, Chamberlain said. It kind of went hand in hand with the late 80s and early 90s when basketball was everything ... Hog¬ wild was a big part of that, and as the basketball team got big, the Hogwild Band also blew up. The UA ' s band program started in 1874 as a Cadet Corps Band and has since transformed into the program that exists today, consisting of a march¬ ing band, a pep band and four concert bands. The students in the band program here are really positive, and they have tremendous enthusiasm for everything that they do, Chamberlain said. The Hogwild band has a very special place here and a very special history, so I feel a great sense of responsibility to keep up the strong tradition and its relation¬ ship with the University. 148 ATHLETICS TOP LEFT Bandmates perform for fans before kick-off during a home game. The marching band played the alma mater and fight song before and during the game. TOP RIGHT Senior Nik Nennet jams with the Hogwild band during a home voJIeyball game. The band can be seen at football, basket¬ ball, volleyball and gymnastic sporting events. MIDDLE The Razorback marching band performs the Star-Span¬ gled Banner at Razorback stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The band performed in front of a crowd of 70, 607 who attended the opening game versus Missouri State on September 3, 2011. BOTTOM The Razorback marching band, along with accompany¬ ing majorettes, entertains fans during pre-game tailgating for the Homecoming game against South Carolina. HOGWILD BAND 149 ABOVE Arm-locked, Arkansas cheerleaders sing Hard To Be Humble” in front of the crowd following Arkansas ' win over Texas A M at Cowboys Stadium in Arling¬ ton, Texas on October 1, 2011. Singing the song had become a tradition for cheerleaders and fans alike following an Arkansas win. 150 | ATHLETICS THE ROOKIE AND THE REBEL STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Whit Pruitt, Logan Webster Ethan Clare sat slouched on his couch in the living room he shared with fellow cheer¬ leader Dalton Fralin. He was a nineteen-year-old business major with an active background in athletics. He had never cheered in his life and had never intended to do so. After com¬ ing to college, Clare stopped playing sports but continued a routine work-out regiment. And that ' s where it happened. They [a few cheerleaders] actually found me in the HPER.They kept asking me about it [cheering], so eventually I went to one of the practices just to see what it ' s all about, Clare said. He quickly caught on to basic stunts and made it through tryouts. Clare then sky¬ rocketed from total rookie status to a member of the red squad, a group that traveled with teams to out-of-state sporting events. He received more positive responses about becoming a cheerleader than not. It was a concern at first, ' cause I didn ' t know what to expect, Clare said. But every¬ one ' s been really supportive about it. All my friends think it ' s a really cool experience to have. And the best part about being on the squad? You get to meet girls. That ' s part of it. STORY CONTINUED PG. 153 SPIRIT GROUPS 151 152 ATHLETICS STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 151 Unfortunately, sophomore kinesiology major Dalton Fralin had a less than desir¬ able experience as a freshman cheer¬ leader in high school. At six feet, seven inches, he faced problems of ridicule and stereotyping. All four years, I was teased and made fun of for it [cheerleading]. I was called names and mocked because in the mindset of most people, it is a female sport only, which is far from the truth, Fralin said. But he chose to turn his back to the negative attention and continue the sport into college. Unlike Clare, the cheer coach Kraig Jiminez recruited Fralin for some time. Afterward, Fralin made more friends and connections than he could count and hoped to someday open a gym for the sport. Without hesitation, he added that his favorite memory was definitely after the first touchdown in the game against Alabama during the 2011 fall. It ' s the loudest I ' ve ever heard that stadium go, Fralin said. I got goose- bumps and everything right then and there. It was just insane. FAR LEFT Melissa Millwood leads the crowd in a cheer at the Homecoming football game against South Carolina at Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Nov. 5, 2011. TOP Jerrod Roberts performs during the pregame performance at the Arkansas versus Texas A M football game in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas on Oct. 1, 2011. MIDDLE Taylor Sparkman takes part in a chant during a time out at the women ' s basketball game against Alabama Feb. 2, 2011. BOTTOM Cheerleaders Whitney Elkins and Shawn Burns lead the crowd at the Arkansas versus Texas A M football game in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Oct. 1, 2011. SPIRIT GROUPS 153 154 ATHLETICS SPIRIT GROUPS CHEERLEADERS LISTED: Zane Adams, Patience Beard, Shawn Burns, Ethan Clare, Kevin Ellstrand, Dalton Fralin, Madelynn Gates, Carly Glover, Miranda Horton, Sam Hughey, Olivia Lensing, Conner McCay, Lauren McFalls, Macy Manning, Melissa Millwood, Abby Moody, Audrey Nettles, Bridget Orfield, Conner Pitts, Roland Pollard, Nick Ramey, Alex Ray, Jerrod Roberts, Kyle Stadler, Imani Smith, Kathryn Snyder, Taylor Sparkman, Hunter Waddell MASCOTS ROW 1: Pork Chop, Sue E., Boss Hog, Big Red, Ribby POM SQUAD LISTED: Rachel Carney, Morgan Beal, Allie Droste, Joanna Bentley, Audrey Gregory, Lindsay Bobbitt, Megan Ferguson, Olivia Hargreaves, Megan Meador, Abby Hile, Savannah Nall, Elisa Mills, Sydney Scholten, Madeleine Sherrington, Miranda Tims, Courtney VanDorple, Meridith Weaver, Maurie Vaughn, Melia Whitaker, Melanie Yerger TOP Razorback mascots pause for a moment as the Razorback marching band performs the Star-Spangled Banner at one of the home football games at Razor- back Stadium. Mascots were present at every home game to provide entertainment for fans and support for the team. BOTTOM Cheerleaders wave at fans while riding on top of TUSK. Before every home game, cheerlearders and the Razorback marching band would travel around Razorback stadium and campus providing cheer for fans. SPIRIT GROUPS | 155 ABOVE The University of Arkansas debuted the new Boss Hog mascot outfit during the 2011 Homecoming game. Boss Hog was named after the character from The Dukes of Hazzard. 156 ATHLETICS ABOVE Boss Hog leads Razorback fans in a first-down cheer at a home football game. Since 1999, Boss Hog has served as the 9-foot-tall inflatable mascot. THE BOSS GETS A NEW SUIT STORY Cassye Hall PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Mandi Havens Some students camp out days before a Razorback football game, and other students tailgate until the very last minute before kickoff. But when it comes to having the best view in every sporting event, Boss Hog takes the !ead. A fan favorite, Boss Hog can be seen anywhere from the football field to the gymnastics floor. His name will remain anonymous in order to keep the spirit alive. There is only one Boss Hog, there¬ fore he remains busy throughout the school year. Our coaches always say education is first, athletes are second. They are also really good about working with me, Boss Hog said. Like many other people, Boss Hog used to believe that being a mascot wouldn ' t require a lot of work. I realize now it ' s hard to be a mas¬ cot. You ' re constantly moving, and it ' s definitely a physical activity, Boss Hog said. Popular belief is that mascots put on their suits and just run around; however, the job requires more preparation than many think. We practice for the student pep rallies, road hog pep rallies, performing skits and especially for homecoming week, Boss Hog said. When asked if he ever wished he could take off the suit and be a normal student in the stands, Boss Hog said, I love being down in the action, and I can still go in the stands. I ' m just nine feet tall when I do. He focused on the positive aspects of his work. I love it. I work with the pom squad, cheerleaders and other mascots. It ' s like our own little family, Boss Hog said. Boss Hog truly loved his job. Sometimes I catch myself waving at little kids like I ' m still in my suit but I ' m really not, Boss Hog said. So you may be asking yourself, Who is the man who calls himself Boss Hog? Is he in one of my classes? Have I talked to him outside of his suit? These questions may always remain unanswered, but one thing is for certain, you can count on seeing Boss Hog at every game dressed and ready to cheer the Razorbacks to victory. BOSS HOG 157 “ W i 4 ts J 4 1 Pi r □ 1 A ABOVE Sophomore midfielder Jessie Givens 7 plays strong defense against Oklahoma State ' s offense on Sunday, August 28, 2012. Givens was named to the Southeastern Conference ' s Community Service Team for volunteering at community service functions. 158 ATHLETICS YOUNG BUT DETERMINED STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Logan Webster The whistle sounds, cutting through the air as the soccer team races onto the fresh-cut grass of the soccer field for the first practice of the season.Though there are returning faces, an overwhelming 18 nervous freshmen hurry to join the huddle of 33. Though youth dominated Arkansas ' soccer lineup and roster in 2011, the experience the young Razorbacks gained should serve as an advan¬ tage to the program ' s future. We were very young this year, junior Allie Chandler said. Inexperi¬ ence was a big factor, which created hurdles we had to deal with just as any team would have to. Though the group was young, Chandler proved a major beneficiary for the girls. Leading the team with 29 shots on goal and 4.61 shots per STORY CONTINUED PG. 160 SOCCER 159 STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 159 for the girls. Leading the team with 29 shots on goal and 4.61 shots per game, Chandler earned second-team All-SEC honors and team captain status for the upcoming season. It ' s important to play the best I can every game Chandler said. This season, though, I focused on playing well for myself and for my young team¬ mates. These girls have all the potential in the world. Being a positive impact for the team meant as much off the field as it did on. Team building exercises and group events provided an opportunity for men¬ toring and unity. The older girls on the team helped set expectations for us as a squad, freshman Corinne Parkins said. I think their presence alone helped many of us become more confident players throughout the season, whether it was just being a team family or pushing each other in practice and games. Although the season ended with an overall record 4-15 and the resignation of head coach Erin Aubry, the youth¬ ful team ' s determination for growth remained constant, especially with the hire of new head coach Colby Hale. Now, more than ever, we ' re ready to prove we are a strong program, Parkins said. ABOVE Senior forward Kailey Anders 22 reacts to a play during the game against Missouri State on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. Anders was named, along with Allie Chandler, to the Capitol One Aca¬ demic All-America All-District 6 team. RECORD 4-15 Red denotes conference opponent TOP RIGHT As she dribbles the ball down the field, freshman midfielder Beth Stratton 1 concentrates on the win. The Razorbacks fell to Oklahoma State 2-3. BOTTOM RIGHT Freshman midfielderTyler Allen 5 takes control of the ball from the Missouri State offense. The Razorbacks lost 0-2. Oklahoma 2-3 L SMU 2-1 W Kansas 1-4 L Oklahoma State 0-4 L Nebraska 0-6 L Missouri State 0-2 L Air Force 2-1 W Colorado College 0-5 L Ole Miss 2-1 W Mississippi State 1-0 W Georgia 0-1 L Tennessee 0-4 L Kentucky 1-2 L Vanderbilt 0-2 L Alabama 0-3 L Auburn 0-3 L Florida 1-2 L South Carolina 1-3 L LSU 0-3 L 160 ATHLETICS SOCCER 161 RUNNING ™ E COURSE STORY Ayana Gray PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Courtesy They ran, synchronized in their steps, as if one entity. The autumn air rushed into their lungs in gusts, and the cadence of their strides was steady beneath pounding feet. For the men of Arkansas ' Cross Coun¬ try team, each competition was not merely a race; it was a challenge against them all. For many runners, such as national champion and leading competitor Eric Fernandez, it was one to be maintained years after a collegiate career ended. “[It has] been a very personal journey for me, Fernandez said. “Running started for me probably ear¬ lier than most people ... at the end of sixth grade. He explained that he had competed in Amateur Athletic Union track meets initially and, after the small taste of competition, had never looked back. Fernandez succeeded as the 2012 top Arkansas finisher, placing within the top ten competitors in every 2011 fall meet. STORY CONTINUED PG. 164 162 | ATHLETICS ABOVE Members of the men ' s cross country team run against Missouri Southern. The men ' s team placed no lower than fifth in all of their team races. MEN ' S CROSS COUNTRY 163 STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 162 Fernandez was not alone in bringing success to what was already a powerhouse of runners. As a team, Arkansas finished first of 11 teams in the SEC Championship meet and second of 32 teams in the Chile Pepper Festival meet. Notably, freshman Patrick Rono received the national recognition of Freshman of the Week throughout his debut season; he later earned membership in the SEC ' s All-Freshmen team as well. Head Coach Chris Bucknam was also named Men ' s Coach of the Year by the SEC for the second consecutive year while Fernandez was named Runner of the Year. In spite of his achievements, Fernandez remained humble. He credited much of his success to his teammates. Training side by side ... brings satisfaction, pride ... and a humbling feeling of the greater things that are open to us for accomplishment, Fernandez said. It ' s spiritual ... beautiful. Racing for Arkansas is the greatest, hardest and most fulfilling thing I ' ve ever done in my life. TOP Coach Bucknam motivates his team at a meet. Bucknam was named coach of the year. MIDDLE Eric Fernandez finishes first at the 2011 SEC Championship. The team won first overall twice this season. BOTTOM The men call the hogs in front after winning the SEC Championship. The coaching led the team to a high record of wins, including coming in second of 32 teams at the Chili Pep¬ per Festival. RECORD Red denotes home invitationals Razorback Invitational 1st MSSU Stampede Cancelled Cowboy Jamboree 5th Chile Pepper Festival 2nd SEC Championship 1st NCAA Regional Championship 3rd NCAA Championship Individual 164 ATHLETICS ABOVE Running side by side, the m en focus on the finish line. Fernandez was one of the runners to receive a title. MEN ' S CROSS COUNTRY 165 RACING RAZORBACKS STORY Elena Sanz PHOTOS Gareth Patterson, Courtesy The women ' s cross country team at the UA made significant improvements within the 2011-2012 school year. The team was able to advance to the NCAA Championship in Terra Haute, Ind. because of its group efforts and dedication to its training program, which led it to being ranked No.14 in the nation. Kristen Gillespie, senior dietetics major and SEC runner of the year, perfectly summed up what Arkansas Cross Country is about. It ' s about to what degree you are going to be successful and improve, Gillespie said. Furthermore, Gillespie said the best thi ng she liked about being a part of the Razorback Women ' s Cross Country program the different individual and team aspects to the sport. Jessica Jackson, freshman psychology major and four-time SEC freshman runner of the week, signed with the UA because of Coach Carter. He shared my desire to get better and was willing to help me get to where I wanted to go. Also, the team atmosphere is great and the team is really fun, Jackson said. It took a lot of training and group effort for the team to reach their goal of advancing to the NCAA Championships. Each athlete totals around 50 to 60 miles a week, respectively. STORY CONTINUED PG. 169 ABOVE Rounding the corner, a pack of Razorback runners race to pass opponents from Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and other SEC teams during the SEC champi¬ onship Oct. 31 in Maryville, Tenn. WOMEN ' S CROSS COUNTRY 167 ABOVE Senior Arkansas cross country runner Kristen Gillespie leads the pack during the SEC Championship. The Razorbacks finished 2nd out of 12 teams. 168 ATHLETICS STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 166 Running is first, then school and then friends and church, Jackson said, summing up her priorities. With all the women ' s hard work, the cross country team reached their goal of making it to the NCAA Cham¬ pionships. The atmosphere at nationals was great. There were a lot of tal¬ ented runners and you just don ' t get to run in races like that very often ' Gillespie said. Newly motivated, the women ' s cross country team set higher stan¬ dards for the next season, but there were also individual goals. Gillespie expected to race in the Olympic Trails and dreamed of being contract¬ ed to run professionally, and Jackson focused on future successes. In high school, I just ran not expecting to win. In college, I felt pressured to run well so it brought a whole other person out of me, Jackson said. Now my goal for next season is to be in the Top 5 runners in the SEC. TOP The team gathers for a pre-race pep talk before the home sponsored 23rd annual Chili Pepper Invitational Oct. 15. The lady Razorbacks finished 2nd of 34 teams. MIDDLE Focused forward, Arkansas runners speed to complete the Razorback Invitational Sept. 2. The team earned a perfect score in the season ' s opening meet at Agri Park in Fayetteville. BOTTOM Freshman Shannon Klenke follows behind a fellow cross country teammate during the Razorback Invitational. Klenke placed 7th overall in the 3,000-meter race. RECORD Red denotes home invitationals Razorback Inv. 1st Inter-Regional Bubble Buster 1 st Notre Dame Inv. 2nd Chile Pepper Festival 2nd SEC Championship 2nd NCAA Regionals 1st NCAA Championship 14th WOMEN ' S CROSS COUNTRY 169 ABOVE Lady Razorbacks embraced each other as they celebrated a defeat over Auburn. The team finished the 2011-2012 season with a 18-13 overall record. 170 ATHLETICS FOCUSED ' “FUTURE STORY Megan Clark PHOTOS Logan Webster, Gareth Patterson Jasmine Norton waited, coiled and ready, at outside hitter. Her eyes followed the volleyball as an LSU player smacked it back over the net. Only a few seconds passed before Norton became vertical, slamming the poorly hit ball onto the opponent ' s side of the court. Another score for the Razorback volleyball team. Norton, a junior majoring in sports management, was named first team SEC and sat in sixth place on the Arkansas ' career kills list. Despite her personal achievements, Norton felt the 2011 season would have been sweeter with a spot in the NCAA tournament. We wanted to win the SEC West. We were right there and we just couldn ' t push through to get that win. The team is doing better than last year, but our ultimate goal is to get into the tournament and that hasn ' t STORY CONTINUED PG. 172 STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 171 happened yet, Norton said. The team ended the season with 18 overall wins and 10 conference wins, which were program highs under head coach Robert Pulliza.They finished the season tied for second in the SEC Western Division; it was the program ' s highest conference finish since 2005. We had a good year playing in one of the tough¬ est conferences in the country with a tough schedule. We felt that we had a schedule that was a NCAA tournament schedule. Unfortunately, we couldn ' t play ourselves in, Pulliza said. Heading into the offseason, the volleyball team did not look back, but instead focused on the seasons to come. With an impressive class of new recruits and large group of senior players, Razorback volleyball remained hungry for next season. I think we have all the pieces; it ' s just walking the walk and doing it, Norton said. Getting those wins that we need to get and should have got. And that ' s why we didn ' t reach our goals. Next year we have to. Next year is the year. TOP Junior middle blocker Marci King stretches to tap the ball over the net during the first home match against Colorado State August 26, 2011. Though the Razorbacks lost 0-3, their season home record against opponents was 8-6. MIDDLE Sophomore setter Raymariely Santos and junior outside hitter Kasey Heckelman block a spike from opposing Colorado State play¬ ers. The Lady Razorbacks were defeated 0-3 by the Rams. BOTTOM Freshman Christina Alvarez holds her position as she returns the ball to the opposing team. The team finished the season with 18 overall wins, 10-of which were conference wins. 172 ATHLETICS LEFT Sophomore setter Raymariely Santos prepares a set for junior middle blocker Janeliss Torre-Lopez, who readys herself to spike the ball. The Lady Razorbacks tied for second in the SEC Western Division. RECORD 18-13 Red denotes conference opponent Colorado State 0-3 L McNeese State 3-0 W Middle Tennessee 3-0 W Oral Roberts 2-3 L Charleston Southern 3-0 W Wake Forest 3-0 W Georgetown 3-2 W Oklahoma 1-3 L Dartmouth 3-1 W Army 3-0 L NJIT 3-0 W Alabama 3-1 W Ole Miss 2-3 L Mississippi State 3-0 W Kentucky 1-3 L Tennessee 0-3 L Florida 0-3 L South Carolina 3-0 W Auburn 3-1 W Georgia 2-3 L Ole Miss 3-0 W Alabama 3-0 W LSU 3-0 W Mississippi State 3-0 W Georgia 2-3 Auburn 3-0 South Carolina 3-0 Florida 2-3 Tennessee 0-3 Kentucky 2-3 LSU 0-3 VOLLEYBALL 173 FULL- t| meJOB STORY Cali Elliott PHOTOS Logan Webster Early rays of sun touched Old Main ' s highest tow¬ ers on a chilly Saturday morning. Most UA students would not wake up for hours. Yet for Arkansas diver Courtney O ' Grady and swimmer Alex House, each Saturday started at 8 a.m. at the HPER pool. My parents were speechless the first time they saw my schedule, ' ' House said, talking about her freshman schedule. [It] was my most difficult... not only did I transition [academically] ... but I ' d never realized the small details that went into training, espe¬ cially the dieting and sleeping. O ' Grady agreed wholeheartedly. STORY CONTINUED PG. 176 174 ATHLETICS ABOVE Timers wait anxiously for the swimmers to finish their races and hit the wall. Sensor pads were used to record swimming times, but time keepers were also used in the event of a malfunction. SWIMMING DIVING 175 _ BELOW Head to the right, Razorback swimmer takes an opportunity to breathe during her freestyle lap. Swimmers could participate in over nine different freestyle races and relays. FAR BELOW lands clasped in line with her heat, Razorback swimmer prepares to mount the diving board and begin her race. Swimmers wore caps and special goggles to help with agility and concentration. STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 174 It ' s a full time job. Most people don ' t even know we have a team ... those that do think we swim for fun all day, but ... I ' ve swum for 20 hours in a given week before, O ' Grady said. Between practice and meets, Arkansas swimmers had to balance academic priorities. Being a student athlete is a wonderful opportunity ... however, sometimes I wish I could go out of town, stay up late, or go home for the entire summer like most college students, House said. The traveling commitment was another aspect of swimming for Arkansas; depending on the team ' s success, athletes could miss almost three full weeks of school. Spring semester is our toughest time ... doing work on the road is not easy, House said. People see how much we travel; they don ' t understand how we do it. By spring break, I don ' t want to go anywhere except my couch. Despite the intensity of swimming for Arkansas, House was quick to speak what she loved most: the team itself. We meet with our coach beforehand and say: H-O-G- S, Go Hogs, go! Woo Pig Sooie! Razorbacks! House said. Life as an Arkansas athlete may not have been easy, but for the women, it was worth it. I absolutely love swimming for the Razorbacks, O ' Grady fondly said. I ' ve made so many friendships along the way ... it ' s like a family. At times, it ' s dysfunctional, but just as events happen that throw everyone for a loop, some things are good. At the end of the day, we love each other and are sisters through our team. 176 ATHLETICS ABOVE Arkansas swimmer competes in the freestyle competition at home against Vanderbilt on Feb. 4. RECORD 10-3 Red denotes conference opponent Ay bum 100.5-142.5 L Rorida 125-173 L Rice Invitational- Day One 1 st of 5 Rice Invitational- Day Two 1 st of 5 Tennessee Invitational- Day One 4th of 7 Tennessee Invitational- Day Two 4th of 7 Tennessee Invitational- Day Three 4th of 7 NTC Invitational Individual N avy 232.5-67.5 W p enn State 132.5-167.5 L Kansas 199-96 W Vanderbilt 220-57 W SEC Championships- Day One 7th SEC Championships- Day Two 7th SEC Championships- Day Three 8th SEC Championships- Day Four 6th NCAA Last Chance Invitational Individual NCAA Zone Diving- Day One Individual NCAA Zone Diving- Day Two Individual NCAA Zone Diving- Day Three Individual NCAA Champions- Day One Individual NCAA Champions- Day Two Individual NCAA Champions- Day Three 41 st SWIMMING DIVING 177 Photo by Logan Webster ABOVE The Arkansas women ' s basketball team and head coach Tom Collen celebrate following their win over the South Carolina Gamecocks at Bud Walton Arena on February 9, 2012. The Razorbacks achieved a 14-2 record at home with an average home crowd of 2,127. 178 | ATHLETICS A CHANGE OF PACE THIS HAS BEEN ONE OFTHE MOST ENJOYABLE SENIOR CLASSES I HAVE EVER COACHED. THEY TOOK A CHANCE ON ME FOUR YEARS AGO AND IT HAS BEEN GREAT COACHING THEM -ARKANSAS HEAD COACHTOM COLLEN WOMEN ' S BASKETBALL 179 RIGHT Senior guard C ' eira Ricketts 22 goes up for a shot at Bud Walton Arena on February 9, 2012. With the win against South Carolina, the Razorbacks moved past the Gamecocks into fourth place in the SEC. Arkansas had not finished the regular season in the top four of the SEC since the 1994-95 season. Photo by Logan Webster 180 1 Senior guard Lyndsay Harris 33 attempts a three-pointer from beyond the arc. In support of breast cancer awareness, players wore pink uniforms while pink t-shirts were available for purchase to fans. 2 Junior forward Sarah Watkins looks for an open teammate at Bud Walton Arena on January 8, 2012. Arkansas entered the game 1-22 all-time versus Tennessee. 3 Arkansas head coach Tom Collen watches his team play from the coaching box. In his fifth season as head coach at Arkansas, Collen led the Razorbacks to a 24-9 season and third postseason appearance in five years. 24WINS 9 LOSSES OVERALL 110-6 SEC 14-2 AT HOME 1 6-5 AWAY 1 4-2 NEUTRAL 2,049 TOTAL POINTS I 62 POINTS PER GAME 1,277 TOTAL REBOUNDS I 38.7 STEALS PER GAME November Minnesota 68-60 L South Florida 65-61 W 1 3 Florida State 55-52 W e xas-Arlington 34-57 W Utah 56-57 W Grambling State 49-69 W December MiddleTennessee 59-53 W Stephen F. Austin 46-61 W Oral Roberts 37-65 W Morgan State 50-81 W Texas Southern 41-86 W Mississippi Valley St. 40-59 W January 18 Georgia 57-67 L 11 Kentucky 72-84 L 7Tennessee 69-38 L Ole Miss 60-54 L Auburn 69-39 W Vanderbilt 69-47 W LSU 72-52 W Mississippi State 51-35 W Florida 73-72 W February Alabama 70-52 W South Carolina 68-47 W Auburn 51-48 W LSU 50-42 L Mississippi State 67-53 W 7Tennessee 72-71 W South Carolina 53-47 L March Ole Miss 67-47 W LSU 41-40 L SIU Edwardsville 75-37 W NCAA Tournament Dayton 55-72 W Texas A M 59-61 L Red denotes conference opponent WOMEN ' S BASKETBALL 181 ROAD TO GLORY STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTO Arkansas Media Relations After a season of program-bests, the lady Razorbacks 23-8 record propelled them as an at-large bid to the NCAA Tour¬ nament for the first time since 2003. We have always had the NCAA Tournament as our goal, Razorback head coach Tom Collen said. We would have liked to have been here sooner, but we had to let our senior class grow up. We play great competition night in and night out to prepare for this competition Though they beat first-round competi¬ tor Dayton, the Razorbacks were unable to defeat defending national champion Texas A M on their home floor in the second round. The game proved to be an exciting match-up as current Arkansas head coach Collen squared off against former Razorback head coach and current A M head coach Gary Blair. Even with the tournament cut short, the team made many firsts throughout the season. They finished with 10 SEC wins, tied for fourth place overall in the league, won an SEC Tournament game for the first time in 6 seasons and had senior C ' eira Rickett drafted to the WNBA, the second Razorback to be selected. Ricketts finished her career ranked seventh in points (1,537), tenth in rebounding (664), third in assists (516), sixth in field goals made (606) and first in career steals (320). This is an exciting opportunity for C ' eira to be drafted, Collen said. I ' m ex¬ cited for her. She certainly is one of the best guards of the country and worthy of this opportunity. I think this says a lot about the program we are building here that we can turn out a WNBA player. Another reason to boast came with the news that Collen was named South¬ eastern Conference Coach of the Year in his fifth season at Arkansas, and he became a contender for national coach of the year. It ' s been a great year and I ' m really proud of this team and our accomplish¬ ments, Collen said. This award is a reflection of all of their hard work, and I ' m honored to have been selected. MKANS 33 182 ] ATHLETICS ABOVE The Arkansas women ' s basketball team and Razorback cheerleaders sing the Arkansas fight song during the NCAA tournament game against Dayton at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas on March 17, 2012. The sixth-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks beat Dayton and afterwards played the defending national champi¬ ons Texas A M led by former Arkansas head coach Gary Blair. NCAA WOMEN ' S BASKETBALLTOURNAMENT 183 RAZORBACKS OVERCOME INJURIES STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTOS Logan Webster It was the middle of the season. Stakes were high. The pressure was rising. Toward the beginning of the spring semester, the all-female gymnastics team was number eight in the nation and was home to the num¬ ber one gymnast in the country, senior Jaime Pisani. Holding on to this prestigious position and moving up in the ranks depended on one thing—staying healthy. Right now we ' re a little dinged up, Mark Cook said. He and his wife, Rene Cook, were co-head coaches for the team. The most important aspect of maintaining a positive mentality is remaining consis¬ tent and clean, getting healthier and staying a little stronger, Cook said. STORY CONTINUED PG. 187 ATHLETICS ABOVE The Razorback gymnastics team pauses for a moment during the Star-Spangled Banner before a gymnastics meet. With its sixth-place finish in the na¬ tion in 2012, Arkansas recorded its fourth top 10 finish in the last five years. GYMNASTICS 185 186 ATHLETICS STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 184 And the girls did this by leaning on each other for support and motivation. It ' s a very close-knit team.They ' re like family.They look out for each other. It ' s a very healthy envi¬ ronment, Cook added. With only three regular season meets left, the girls were gearing up for the SEC Championship, the NCAA South Regional Championship, which would take place in Fayetteville in early April, and the NCAA Championship. They competed and won against Kentucky, LSU and Auburn, but lost against Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama and Nebraska. Even with those losses, the girls didn ' t lose sight of their original goals. And despite the several injuries sustained earlier in the season, the team morale was as high as ever, especially since the girls set the bar high during the 2012 season. My best memory was beating the school record and scoring 197.225 against Kentucky, junior Kelci Lewis said. But the overall goals for the team were discussed and decided on in the beginning of the fall. Our goal is Super Six. Super Six is making it to the second day at Nationals, Genny Salvatore, senior visual design major, said. The team has so much fight and heart, and I am excited to see us reach our goals. RECORD 14-12 Red denotes conference opponent Kentucky W LSU W Florida L Auburn W Oklahoma L Georgia L Alabama L Nebraska L Minnesota W West Virginia L Missouri L SEC Championship 6th NCAA South Central Regional 2nd NCAA Championship 3rd NCAA Super Six 6th TOP LEFT Coach Mark Cook gathers around the team to celebrate their win against Minnesota at their last home meet. Mark and his wife, Rene Cook, are co-head coaches for the Arkansas Gymnastics team. BOTTOM LEFT Senior All-American Jaime Pisani ends her routine flawlessly during the meet against Auburn. Pisani was ranked No. 1 nationally on the floor for five weeks straight. GYMNASTICS 187 AIMING BELOW PAR STORY Elena Sanz PHOTOS Arkansas Media Relations The University of Arkansas men ' s golf team set a new record on April 10, 2012, in The Woodlands, Texas after winning its seventh tournament of the season. With only two tournaments left for the 2011-2012 season, the team hoped to continue their winning streak. Sebastian Cappelen, sophomore economics major, explained the team ' s improvements and goals. Our fourth and fifth guys are definitely better this season, Cappelen said. Our goals for the last two tournaments are to win, of course. We play to win every time, and I think we can do it. The team had a solid chance at winning with support from its fans. It ' s great to be a Razorback, Cappelen said We have a lot of sup¬ port from the team, school and parents. Ethan Tracy, a senior majoring in kinesiology exercise science, was also proud to be a Razorback. I like the tradition that comes with being a Razorback, Tracy said, and there is such a huge support group at every tournament. STORY CONTINUED PG. 190 ABOVE Senior Ethan Tracy watches his golf ball disappear into the cup. Tracy was one of 28 collegiate student-athletes that was named to the Ben Hogan Award Watch List in February, an award that is presented annually to the top men ' s NCAA Division I, II or III, NAIA or NJCAA college golfer. MEN ' S GOLF 189 STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 188 As Tracy ' s senior year was coming to an end, he hoped the team would finish out the 2011-2012 season strong. We try to do the best we can every time, Tracy said. We want to keep our winning streak going and try to catch up with our NCAA winning record, which is currently set at nine. The team already set a new record with seven wins. If the men performed well individually and as a team, they could potentially catch up with their NCAA winning record. In order to do so, the Razorbacks had to win NCAA regionals and NCAA Championships, which would difficult after placing fifth at the SEC Championship in St. Simons Island, Ga. on April 22, 2012. The improvements from the 2010-2011 season to the 2011-2012 season, though, showed how the men ' s golf team was capable of excelling. TOP Senior Ethan Tracy fired a five-under par, 67, the third best score by a Razorback at a NCAA Regional ever, on the second day of competition at NCAA Bowling Green Regional held at The Club at Olde Stone on Friday, May 18. MIDDLE Arkansas Head Coach Brad McMakin instructs Sebastian Cappelen on his shot. Our freshmen played great today, McMakin said. They really stepped up to some challenging conditions and showed that they can play at this level. BOTTOM The University of Arkansas men ' s golf team achieved two wins in two tournaments on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The team came from behind to defeat a loaded field at the Golfweek Conference Challenge at Spirit Hollow Golf Club in Burlington, Iowa. FAR Sophomore Sebastian Cappelen watched has he drove the ball down the course. Cappelen was named to the European team for the 2012 Palmer Cup by the Golf Coaches Association of America. RECORD Gopher Invitational 1st Golfweek Conference Challenge 1st The Jack Nicklaus 6th Windon Memorial Classic 1st Cabo Collegiate 2nd Gator Invitational 1st John Hayt Invitational 1st General Hackler Championship 3rd Woodlands All-American 1st SEC Championship 5th NCAA Bowling Green Regional 6th 190 ATHLETICS MEN ' S GOLF 191 SWINGING TOTHE-fOP STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTOS Logan Webster The women ' s golf team during the 2011-2012 year had only seven players, none of which were seniors. Leadership for the team fell on juniors Meagan Roberts and Victoria Vela. Among their most notable performances, the girls came in fourth out of 15 teams at the Puerto Rico Golf Classic tournament in mid February. After a rocky beginning during the Liz Murphy Collegiate Classic tournament in late March, they came in ninth out of 18 teams in the third round. We were in a tough spot after round one, unfor¬ tunately, coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said. I just told the girls that, look, we ' re talented, we ' re prepared, and our mind has to match their talent level. This was the coach ' s fifth year with the team, and she has been part of the most successful recruiting class in Arkansas history, according to arkansasrazor- backs.com. Freshman Hally Leadbetter had a fantastic person¬ al finish at the Liz Murphy tournament as well. In a press conference with Coach Estes-Taylor, she stated that the most important lessen learned after the quick transition from high school golf to collegiate golf was to keep a sturdy, positive mental attitude. STORY CONTINUED PG. 195 192 | ATHLETICS ABOVE Sophomore Emily Tubert scoops up the ball out of the sand trap to land it on the green. She ranked fourth in the nation and second in the SEC for the 2011- 2012 season. WOMEN ' S GOLF 193 ABOVE Sophomore Emily Podzielinski crouches down to judge the slope of the green to determine her putt. Podzielinski transferred at the beginning of the year from Michigan State and started out the season as a redshirted sophomore. 194 ATHLETICS STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 192 I feel that it ' s the people who have the most belief in their games and are just going to get it in the hole no matter what, those are the people who are winning week in and week out, Leadbetter said. The team used the entire season to prepare for the biggest golf tour¬ nament yet, the SEC Championship hosted here in Fayetteville in late April. One advantage the team had, other than playing on home turf, was that they had the opportunity to set up the actual course. That ' s part of hosting, coach Estes-Taylor said. It ' s getting the course set up to your strengths. Leadbetter added that besides having a home-field advantage with family and friends cheering support, the experience was even more spe¬ cial since she was a freshman. I can ' t believe how fast it ' s [the year] gone. We have such great team chemistry. The last tournament, we had an egg toss, Leadbetter said. We ' re out there, we want to kick butt and win these tournaments but we ' re having fun doing it. TOP Bag slung behind her back, Razorback golf player heads toward the green to finish the hole. MIDDLE Head coach Shauna Estes-Taylor and assistant coach Mike Adams survey the next hole with sophomore Emma Lavy. BOTTOM Freshman Hally Leadbetter keeps an eye on the ball, hoping that it lands close to the green. The Florida native competed in four events and qualified to play in the SEC Championship for Arkansas in 2011-12 RECORD Red denotes home invitationals NCAA Fall Preview 14th Lady Tar Heel Invitational 15th SEC-Pac 12 Challenge 19th Longhorn Classic 9th Puerto Rico Golf Classic 4th Darius Rucker Intercollegiate 11th Gator SunTrust Invitational 6th Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic 9th SEC Championships 2nd NCAA Regionals 8th NCAA Championship 23rd WOMEN ' S GOLF | 195 •Yiv - y ABOVE Arm extended, sophomore Mike Nott volleys the tennis ball back over the net during a doubles match against Wichita State March 16. The Razorbacks won 5-2. 196 ATHLETICS GAME SET MATCH STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Logan Webster Junior Mike Ward stands alone on the empty tennis-court, staring at the green grass as visions of lost hopes and dreams play out before him. Reality sets as the painful stench of sweat, tears and a finished season invade his senses. The Razorback ' s SEC tournament stretch has ended to 13-ranked Ole Miss in the first round of the 2012 Southeastern Conference Men ' s Tennis Tournament. Though the season ' s start was strong, with hopes to capitalize on talent and rank among the nation ' s leading teams, the Razorbacks finished with a No. 43 ranking and 14-13 overall record. This isn ' t what we wanted,” Ward said. I wish we could have played to our fullest potential. We have a good team, but we missed a lot of opportunities that could have propelled us forward. STORY CONTINUED PG. 198 TENNIS 197 STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 197 Not to say the 2012 season did not prove to be successful. The 14 season wins included beating five ranked opponents, and the Razorbacks even ranked as high as No. 34 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, its highest ranking since the 2008 season. Much of the success was heavily attributed to the play of Arkansas ' three seniors, Nikolas Zogai, Matt Walters and Taj Harrison, who combined for 33 percent of the Razorbacks ' singles wins. In addition to them, the team ' s eclectic blend of players helped shape their success, with all but two teammates from out-of-state and out-of-the-country, including places like Belgium, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, France and England. Being a foreigner himself, Ward said he was continually impressed by how diverse the team was. The distance, culture and talent we bring from so many different locations is incredible. I came from Knutsford, England, but I was able to fit right in with my teammates. I think that is really due to the universal language that is sports, and tennis especially. No matter where we all came from, tennis was something that bound us automatically. After finishing SEC tournament play, The Razorbacks awaited their fate as a potential at-large team to participate in the NCAA Men ' s Tennis Tournament. Whatever the outcome, Ward said he was still proud of his team. We continue to grow, and that ' s all anyone can hope for a program, Ward said. I can definitely say I ' m proud of my junior year, and am excited to continue trying to achieve national standing and NCAA tournament play next year as a senior. RECORD 14-12 Red denotes conference opponent UT-Arlington 7-0 W Oral Roberts 6-0 L Oral Roberts 5-0 W Iowa 6-1W DePaul 5-2 W Purdue 2-5 L Stetson 6-1W Tulsa 1-6 L Santa Clara 4-3 W Pacific 7-0 W Vanderbilt 4-3 W Kentucky 1-6 L Cowley County CC 5-2 W Auburn 2-5 W Alabama 1-6 L Wichita St. 5-2 W Southern Miss 4-0 L Lamar 7-0 W UMKC 4-1 L Georgia 0-7 W Tennessee 2-5 W Ole Miss 1-6 L Mississippi St. 1-4 W Florida 0-7 L South Carolina 1-4 W LSU 0-4 L SEC Tournament Ole Miss 0-4 L TOP Sophomore Manfred Jeske prepares to return a hit from his opponent during the home match against Tennessee. The Razor- backs hosted 19 home matches. BOTTOM Anticipating a returning serve, senior Matt Walters and his doubles partner prepare to slam the ball back onto the oppo¬ nent ' s court. Walters was one of only three senior players. 198 ATHLETICS MEN ' STENNIS 199 DETERMINED 10 SUCCEED STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTOS Logan Webster The women ' s tennis team was a close, intimate group. Composed of only six members, two of the team ' s strengths laid in, ' ' Team unity and friendship, ' ' senior Emily Carbone said. Carbone had been playing the sport for fifteen years, since she was seven years old. She had an outstanding number of single victories her freshman year and came in first place for dual match wins her junior year. The 2012 spring season was no less intense. STORY CONTINUED PG. 203 200 ATHLETICS ABOVE Junior Claudine Paulson hits the ball in a match against Oklahoma State on February 4. Paulson won her singles match 6-2, 6-3, which was her tenth match to win in the season. WOMEN ' STENNIS 201 202 ATHLETICS STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 200 The team had 13 losses and 12 wins. Despite these numbers, the team still enjoyed fulfilling and challenging matches. My favorite two moments of the season were beating Ohio State, because their crowd was so loud and there was a lot of excitement... My other favorite moment was making NCAA Tournament with only six other girls, Carbone said. The team was lead by Michael Hegarty. Robby Edwards, from Athletic Media Relations, said that since Hegarty became head coach seven years ago, the team had, won two Southeastern Conference Western Division championships and has made four trips to the NCAA Tournament Hegarty graduated from Auburn University, then worked as an assistant coach for the college. He also coached the Kentucky Wildcats, Fresno State and worked as an assistant coach for the men ' s tennis team at the University of Florida. The team had only one freshman, Catherine Parenteau from Montreal, Canada. Senior Stephanie Roy was also from Montreal. Other members hailed from all parts of the world. Sophomore Laurie Gingras was from Quebec City, Canada; sophomore Abby Hayley was from Texas; senior Kate Lukomskaya was from Minsk, Belarus; and junior Claudine Paulson came to the university all the way from Guayaquil, Ecuador. According to Paulson, it was a long season, but it ' s all worth it because you represent the U of A. Doesn ' t get better than that and makes you want to fight even more. And despite their different backgrounds, all the girls had the same perseverance and determination to succeed, Carbone said. RECORD 12-13 Red denotes conference opponent Louisville 6-1W Nebraska 2-5 L Dartmouth 6-1W North Texas 4-3 W Oklahoma State 4-3 W Kansas State 5-2 W Oklahoma 5-2 W Yale 2-5 L DePaul 3-4 L Ohio State 4-3 W Vanderbilt 0-7 L Kentucky 4-3 W Auburn 2-5 L Alabama 1-4 L Oral Roberts 5-1 W Georgia 0-7 L Tennessee 4-3 W Ole Miss 1-6 L Mississippi State 3-4 L Florida 0-7 L South Carolina 0-7 L Tulsa 0-7 L LSU 5-2 W SEC Tournament LSU 4-1W Alabama 0-4 L TOP Freshman Catherine Parenteau focuses to return a ball. Parenteau won the February 10 match against Oklahoma 7-6(5), 6-3. BOTTOM Senior Kate Lukomskaya returns a ball during a February 10 match against Oklahoma. Lukomskaya defeated her opponent 7-5, 6-1. WOMEN ' STENNIS 203 BOYS OF SUMMER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE 2012 RECORD 45-20 (16-14 SEC) HOME: 28-8 AWAY: 11-9 NEUTRAL: 6-3 Villanova 11-5W Villanova 13-1 W Villanova 17-1 W Northwestern State 8-7 W Northwestern State 6-2 W Valparaiso 7-3 W Valparaiso 4-3 W Valparaiso 10-9 L BYU 5-0 W BYU 8-1 W TexasTech 3-1 W Houson 4-1 L 21 Texas 7-3 W Binghamton 4-0 W Binghamton 5-3W Binghamton 6-OW Gonzaga 1-0 W Gonzaga 5-3 W Alabama 4-3 W Alabama 8-4 W Alabama 7-4W Nevada 10-2 W Mississippi State 11-2 L Mississippi State 8-0 W Mississippi State 8-5 W 15 LSU 10-6 L 15 LSU 2-1 L 15 LSU 3-2 L Georgia 4-2 L Georgia 8-3 W Georgia 8-0 W Oklahoma 4-0 L 3 Kentucky 8-7 W 3 Kentucky 5-4 L 3 Kentucky 2-1 L Stephen F. Austin 8-3 W Stephen F. Austin 4-3 W 22 Ole Miss 8-2 L 22 Ole Miss 1-0 L 22 Ole Miss 11-3 W Oral Roberts 6-1 W 5 Florida 3-2 L 5 Florida 5-1 W 5 Florida 3-1 W Missouri 6-3W Missouri 2-0 W 5 South Carolina 8-6 L 5 South Carolina 7-6W 5 South Carolina 10-7 L Auburn 3-2 L Auburn 5-4W Auburn 12-5 L LouisianaTech 6-5W Tennessee 8-0 W Tennessee 10-3 W Tennessee 8-2 W SEC Baseball Tournament 24 Mississippi State 9-1 L Ole Miss 2-0 L NCAA Houston Regional Sam Houston State 5-4 W 8 Rice 1-0 W Sam Houston State 5-1 W NCAA Waco Super Regional Baylor 8-1 L Baylor 5-4 W Baylor 1-0W College World Series Kent State 8-1 W South Carolina 2-3 L Eliminated by South Carolina 206 ATHLETICS 1 Redshirt senior infielder Tim Carver 18 leaps over the opposing runner while going for the double-play. 2 Sophomore catcher Jake Wise 19 slides into home plate hoping to avoid being tagged Out by the opposing catcher. 3 Freshman right-handed pitcher Greg Milhorn 33 pitches from the mound. 4 Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn encourages sophomore catcher Jake Wise 19 after being called Out at home plate. 5 Junior right-handed pitcher DJ Baxendale throws a pitch against Kent State at the College World Series atTD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday, June 15. 2012 . 6 Redshirt seniorTim Carver 18 slides into 1st base after failing an attempt to steal 2nd base. 7 Junior infielder Matt Reynolds 5 attempts to run into 3rd base after a single¬ hitter. 8 Sophomore infielder Dominic Ficociello celebrates with teammate Sam Bates 16 after scoring a run. 9 On the mound, sophomore right-handed pitcher Ryne Stanek 55 straightens his cap between pitches. BASEBALL 207 THE CARDINALS FAN Sam Fanara knew from birth which baseball team to root for. Being a St. Louis native, he sported the red and white of Cardinal Nation. Now that Fanara, a sophomore architecture major, lives in Fayette¬ ville, he still supports the red birds. How much Cards stuff do you have? What is your most interesting piece? I ' ve got a lot. Probably has to be the rally squirrel T-shirt. I was on board with the rally squirrel. Expect when one - when a squirrel - chewed up the wiring in my car. Did you watch all of the World Series? I did, I did. But I ' m very superstitious. My roommate, every time he watches the game they end up losing. I made him sit in his room with the TV off. So whenever some¬ thing good happened, I would yell, and he would flip the TV on and have to flip it off. Do you wear any special clothing for games? At one point I did. I did have to wear a red Cardinals dry-fit long sleeve shirt. Then it got jinxed because of my roommate. He put on his Cardinals stuff and it cancelled it out. He ' s a good fan; he just doesn ' t understand superstition. Since coming to the University of Arkan¬ sas, have you encountered more Rangers ' fans? The people that live below us [at the Hills Apartments] are Rangers fan. We are pretty good friends. We had a feud going on during the World Series. We would jump up and down, and they would hit the ceiling with a broomstick. They did leave notes on our door. After game seven, we left notes on their door. 208 ATHLETICS Travis Russell ' s life revolves around base¬ ball. Originally an Atlanta Braves fan be¬ cause of his parents, Russell, a freshman turf grass science major, soon took pride in his home state of Texas. Ever since he was twelve, he has worn the blue and red for the Rangers. What is your favorite piece of Rangers merchandise? My favorite has to be my claw and antler shirt. If you have one, it identifies you as a true Texas Ranger fan because you have to know the meaning of the symbols. Can you explain the deer antler hand gestures? Ah, the Claw and Antlers. To break it down, the Claw is a sign of power. You know, when someone gets a hard hit, they would turn to the dugout and do the claw. The antlers were all about speed. You threw up the antlers if you stole a base or beat out a throw. Do you have any superstitions while you watch games? All my buddies back in Texas have this game we like to play called the ' Call Game. ' When we feel like one of our guys is going to hit a homer, we have to say, I ' m putting in the call. If the player then hits a homer, whoever made the call usually goes absolutely nuts. the So, what was your viewing routine for the World Series? Any rivalries with friends? My friend, Dillon Rhea, and I had a Twitter war going on throughout the series. We ' d post fake quotes that the other said, making it sound like we wanted our team to lose. He even went as far as to screenshot our text messages that made it look like I a was Cardinals fan. RAN G ERS fan STORY Megan Clark PHOTOS Whit Pruitt CARDINALS RANGERS FAN 209 J,V ABOVE Eyes focused on her target, freshman Devon Wallace winds back to slam the ball toward the outfield. Over the course of the season, the team scored a record 51 home runs. 210 ATHLETICS SLAMMING °«k RECORDS STORY Cali Elliott PHOTOS Logan Webster The Arkansas softball team improved its stats during the 2011-2012 year by beating its home run record from 2010-2011. Up until A pril 27, 2012, the team scored 51 home runs, but by the end of the 2010-2011 season, the team scored 18 home runs. It ' s great. It ' s a lot easier to go out there and pitch when you know your team is going to score runs for you, Chelsea Cohen, junior pitcher and hospitality management major, said. The team made significant improvements as a whole and individually. It feels really good, Cohen said, who improved her pitching stats during the 2011-2012 season. I ' ve worked really hard to get where I am and it feels good to be paying off. STORY CONTINUED PG. 213 SOFTBALL 211 TOP Sophomore Jennifer Rambo and junior Amanda Summerford look on as freshman Alyssa Bass yells a reaction to a play during the home game against Mississippi State April 7. BOTTOM Glove ready, sophomore catcher Jayme Gee waits for junior Chelsea Cohen ' s pitch during their home game against Tulsa Mar. 28. 212 ABOVE Dirt flying, a Razorback softball player slides to beatTennessee-Martin opponent to third base. The softball team won the game 6-4. STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 211 Clarissa Nava rro, a sophomore short-stop majoring in criminal justice, explained her point of view on how the team improved as a whole. We are a lot better, Navarro said. From what I see, we improved in offense, defense and pitching. Cohen and Navarro were happy to be a part of an improved, close-knit team. I am proud to be here because we all love each other,” Navarro said. Being an Arkansas Razorback, everyone is family and everyone loves each other. The Arkansas softball team was ranked ninth in the SEC, which meant they would not be able to advance to the SEC tournament in Tuscaloosa, Ala. unless they made it to the eighth position. Whether they made it to the tournament or not, they had many more years to improve as a team. The team had two seniors graduating, leaving nine freshmen, seven sophomores and six juniors. This gave the Arkansas softball team the potential to perform phenomenally over the next two years. Moreover, Cohen was most proud of how the team was so close. I think it ' s just all of us working together and it ' s one of our biggest accomplishments, Cohen said. They are friends we will always have. We are family, we love each other and they are people you can rely on for life. Record 11-23 Red denotes conference opponent Oie Miss Ole Miss S °uth Carolina S °uth Carolina th Carolina Missouri Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Florida 0-13 L Florida 2-3 L Kentucky 7-3 W Alabama 1-5 L 6-7 L Florida 0-5 L Tennessee-Martin 6-4 W Missouri State 4-0 W 5-4 W Tulsa 0-6 L Tennessee-Martin 4-2 W Georgia 2-3 L 2-7 L LSU 0-1 L UMKC 2-0 W Georgia 2-1 W 7-8 L LSU 1-9 L Auburn 2-3 L Georgia 1-7 L 0-4 L LSU 3-2 L Auburn 1-5 L 0-8 L Mississippi State 1-2 L Auburn 5-1 W NCAA Tournament 4-1 W Mississippi State 2-7 L Tulsa 9-12 L California 0-7 L 0-2 L Mississippi State 13-2 W Alabama 6-13 L 0-6 L Kentucky 7-9 L Alabama 8-1 W SOFTBALL 213 ABOVE Sophomore Kevin Lazas competes in the pole vault event in the Arkansas-Texas Dual indoor track meet held in the Randal Tyson Track Center January 13. The track team hosted seven meets in the 2012 season. 214 ATHLETICS TOGETHER AS4 TEAM STORY Elena SanzPHOTOSLogan Webster, MattTrauschke The Arkansas men ' s track team finished second at the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 9 and 10 in Nampa, Idaho with 47 points, only five points away from the champions: the Florida Gators. Despite the team ' s NCAA loss, they were proud of winning SEC Indoor Championships. The team really pulled it together to win SEC Indoor Championships, junior history major Eric Fernandez said. Junior Anthony Lieghio agreed. We came together as a team and also became closer. SEC Indoor Championships was my favorite meet because of this, Lieghio said. STORY CONTINUED PG. 216 MEN ' STRACK 215 ABOVE Senior Luke Laird competes in the javelin throw in the March 31 outdoor Arkansas Spring Invitational. Laird placed third in the javelin throw with a distance of 62.36 meters. STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 215 Lieghio, a middle distance runner, typically did three workouts a week, including morning runs and a long run « on the weekend. Fernandez totaled up to 110 miles a week with workouts varying from fartleks, mile repeats, aqua jogging, progression runs, morning runs and core strengthening. My number one priority has always been track. It is supposed to be student first then athlete second, but in my mind it ' s the other way around, Fernandez said. I am only going to be competing in this high level of a program for a couple more years, so that ' s why it ' s my priority, but I also like to study and do well in class. Fernandez explained how he changed since his freshman year at the UA. I was struggling to stay in the middle of the pack, and now I am leading the pack. I am beating people I never thought I would beat, Fernandez said. I want to win both SEC individual titles in the 5k and 10k, get All- American in the 10k and qualify for the Olympic Trials in the 10k. As for Lieghio, he wanted to make the Olympic standard in the 800-meter and wanted to place in the top eight in the 800-meter at NCAA Championships and the European Championships. As I said before, as a team we want to win outdoor SEC Championships and NCAA Championships, Leighio said. Both athletes came to the University of Arkansas because of its well respected program and tradition. When you are wearing the Arkansas singlet, you feel like everyone is watching you and expecting you to perform well, Fernandez said. I picked the school completely 100 percent for the track team. Lieghio, a transfer from Iowa Central, also felt the red and white draw. I like the tradition of being a Razorback, said Lieghio. I want to be the best athlete I can be and I want to continue the tradition of being an Arkansas Razorback. TEAM RANKINGS INDOOR OUTDOOR SEC Championships - Top 5 12 1 Arkansas 2 Florida 3 Georgia 4 LSU 5 Auburn NCAA Championships - Top 5 1 Florida 2 Arkansas 3 Arizona 4 Arizona State 5 LSU SEC Championships - Top 5 12 1 Arkansas 2 LSU 3 Georgia 4 Florida 5 Mississippi State NCAA Championships 1 Florida 2 LSU 3 Texas A M 4 Florida State 5 Virginia Tech 8 Arkansas 216 | ATHLETICS TOP Nathanael Franks, sophomore, sprints to finish the 110-meter hurdle event. Franks competed in several different events throughout the season. He often competed in the heptathlon and decathlon. BOTTOM Senior Terry Prentice competes in the 110-meter hurdles. He finished eleventh with a time of 14.82 seconds. 217 ABOVE Sophomore Kevin Lazas competes in the pole vault event in the Arkansas-Texas Dual indoor track meet held in the Randal Tyson Track Center January 13. The track team hosted seven meets in the 2012 season. 218 ATHLETICS COMPETING T0A STANDARD STORY Elena Sanz PHOTOS Logan Webster, MattTrauschke The Women ' s Track and Field team placed fifth at the NCAA Championships on March 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho. The team went into the NCAAs ranked number two but came out lower than they expected. Despite this, the team looked forward to improving and win¬ ning SEC and NCAA Championships for the outdoor season. Martine Borge, junior business management major and middle distance runner from Norway, anticipated the upcoming events. I want to PR [personal record] and qualify STORY CONTINUED PG. 221 WOMEN ' STRACK AND FIELD 219 TOP Pole vaulter extends past the bar in a pole vaulting competition at the Arkansas Spring Invitational at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas on March 31, 2012. BOTTOM Competing in a long jump competition, freshman Amalie Skage lands in the sand pit at the Arkansas Spring Invitational at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas on March 31, 2012. ABOVE Sophomore Danielle Nowell competes in pole vaulting at the John McDonnell Invitational at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday, April, 21, 2012. Nowell placed fifth at the weekend event. STORY CONTINUED FROM PG. 219 for nationals in the 800-meter; ' Borge said. I have come a long way in my training program. I had to adapt to the workouts at the UA because they were so different from what I was used to in Norway, but now that I have been moving forward my time has dropped from 2:13 to 2:05 within the past two years.” Regina George, junior criminal justice major and 10-time All-American 400-meter runner, had similar goals. ”1 want to be the NCAA Champion in the 400-meter. I was the national runner-up during indoor season and I was happy about it, but I am not fully satisfied because I wasn ' t number one, so I am going to fight for the first spot in outdoor season,” George said. Strength-wise, I am much stronger and keep getting better each year and have not had a setback yet.” Borge and George enjoyed being part of the women ' s track and field team mainly because of their teammates. You always have people that are better than you that can push and motivate you during workouts, Borge said. Also, everyone wants each other to do well ” ’ Beyond balancing academics, training and other activities, George referred to the team as her second family. ' ' The team communicates with each other well, and the coaches are always there for you, George said. The main reason I came to the UA was because of the coach. Coach Greene is like a father figure to me away from home. He always looks out for the best for me.” Even though George wasn ' t completely satisfied with her second place finish at nationals, it let her recognize where she was in her training and helped prepare her for the outdoor season. We don ' t give up as a team even if things don ' t go the way they are supposed to go,” George said. We keep striving for the best and I am proud that our team doesn ' t give up.” TEAM RANKINGS INDOOR SEC Championships - Top 5 12 1 Florida 2 LSU 3 Arkansas 4 Tennessee 5 Georgia NCAA Championships - Top 5 1 Oregon 2 Kansas 3 LSU 4 Texas 5 Arkansas OUTDOOR SEC Championships - Top 5 12 1 LSU 2 Florida 3 Arkansas 4 Georgia 5 Tennessee NCAA Championships 1 LSU 2 Oregon 3 Texas A M 4 Kansas 4 Clemson 24 Arkansas WOMEN ' STRACK AND FIELD 221 ABOVE During a practice exercise, sophomore Jim Curry and senior Jen Newcome wrestle for possession of the bludger. Teammates split into separate groups depending on positions. As beaters, both Curry and Newcome focused mainly on chunking dodge balls at one another to build strength and agility. A GAME OF FICTION STORY Sydney Hoffmans PHOTOS Matt Trauschke Friendly taunts and shouts, Bite her on the ear and establish your dominance! ring through the Gardens as Razor- back Quidditch members run, leap and hurl balls at opponents as each practice team attempts to score on the other, all while keeping a plastic broom between their legs. Senior Ethan McCormick ' s whistle and fake British accent com¬ mand most of practice, and after, he takes a seat with senior Jen Newcome, sophomore Jim Curry and sophomore Lauren Grantham to explain in more detail what makes the club so unusually fascinating. Explain what University quidditch is. MCCORMICK: Quidditch is a club sport that was recently instituted in colleges in dedication of Harry Potter Quidditch. It ' s especially important now that the series is finally over. GRANTHAM: We ' re playing the non-magical version of the sport. Since we obviously can ' t fly around on brooms, we run around with one between our legs instead. What is the team ' s name? MCCORMICK: Officially, we go by Razor- back Quidditch, but our nickname is The Whomping Willows. GRANTHAM: Yeah, it ' s our little inside joke for all the brooms we break. NEWCOME: No one expects a bunch of Harry Potter nerds to actually hit each other and be as physical as we are. GRANTHAM: But that ' s the cool thing about our team. It ' s not all fun and it is not all action and physicality. It ' s the healthiest mixture of both. CURRY: Everywhere you go that mixture varies. Some teams are solely jocks and some are just goofballs running around like crazy with capes on. We have fun, but we know how to compete. How long has quidditch been around at a university level? GRANTHAM: The first team was started in 2006. There are over 100 now, actually. NEWCOME: We ' ve been around since spring of 2010. We ' ve played in three tournaments since then. MCCORMICK: We actually hosted our first tournament in the spring of 2011, called Hogshead. Seven teams came from surrounding states. And how was that? GRANTHAM: Magical. It was one day, early morning until the sun went down. CURRY: We had two games going at the same time so it got pretty crazy. MCCORMICK: All in all it was quite exciting. We want to host a tournament every year. How do you get funds for tournaments? MCCORMICK: ASG funds us right now. We get funding for brooms and other little things. GRANTHAM: Most of it is self-funded, though. Whenever someone has spare money, we ' ll just buy whatever we need. NEWCOME: We pay for everything when we travel. We just cram into as few cars as possible and go. We have to pay our 224 ORGANIZATIONS °Wn gas and hotel fees. CORMICK: I ' ve been saying that we ne ed our own plane. No luck so far, though. hat is the difference in a practice Se tting versus game? MCCORMICK: We try to tone it down with ° Ur own players. But, against another team ... Gr ANTHAM: It gets violent. Ggr RY: Concussions, tripping, broom backing. EWCOME: We ' ve never had a full out ' 9ht with a competitor, but we ' ve seen it ha Ppen. MCCORMICK: It ' s difficult for their not to conflict, because in essence you have three different games combined into ° ne - Beaters are defending, chasers are dodging balls thrown from the beaters and trying to score, and then you ' ve got the seekers chasing the snitch around. What do the players wear? GRANTHAM: I ' m designing a jersey this year so we can appear more legit to our competitors. Before we just wore red as our color. CURRY: The person who dresses up as the snitch dresses up in gold. I ' ve seen a few bedazzled snitches. MCCORMICK: Our snitches always wear fairy wings. It ' s not mandatory, but they like them. Theoretically, they are just the vehicles to carry the snitch, so they can do whatever they want and wear whatever they please. NEWCOME: Generally, the other players just dress in their colors and nothing more. LEFT Freshman Kat Stewart defends against an op¬ posing teammate during a practice scrimmage. Points were earned by scoring in one of three ringed hoops. BELOW While keeping a firm hand on his practice broom, freshman Ray Williams struggles to pass his defender during a pre-scrimmage exercise. There was a girl once, though, that had just had brain surgery and was wearing a bike helmet. She was like, Don ' t hit me in the head or I ' ll bleed out. So that was different. Why is quidditch unlike anything else on campus? GRANTHAM: Apart from the obvious, as far as sport teams and clubs go, this club is 100% acceptance. No matter who you are, how athletic, what religion ... We all love Harry Potter and we just want to run around and pretend that we ' re magical. We are all friends and we never turn any¬ one away. We ' re one big happy family. CURRY: Just like the Weasleys. QUIDDITCH 225 RIGHT Junior Justin Bryant and senior Camilla Harris honor the great dancer and choregrapher Kath¬ erine Dunham by performing a Alvin Ailey routine. BELOW In synchroniza¬ tion, swing dancer impersonators senior Brett Gilbertson and Vanessa Gilbertson showcase popular 1920s dance moves. HISTORY IN THE MAKING 226 I ORGANIZATIONS STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Whit Pruitt LEFT Umbrella in hand while gesturing to the crowd, sophomore Kaprisha Fields models as dancer, entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker for the 1920s decade. Raven Cook, junior history and African Ameri¬ can studies major and president of Black Students Association (BSA), headed to the Verizon Ballroom with the BSA executive board. The BSA Essence of History Fashion Show was only a few days away, and dress rehearsals were steadily going. The BSA was a student run organization that pro¬ moted the success of black students at the Univer¬ sity of Arkansas. The fashion show was the club ' s way of doing something different to commemorate Black History Month for the 2012 year. I just wanted more students to take interest in Black History Month, and not just celebrate it during February but every day. Through history, you can en¬ courage yourself to continue even when you ' re hav¬ ing a low moment in your life, Raven Cook, junior history and African American studies major, said. Instead of modeling clothes, the fashion show, which took place on Feb. 9, modeled 18 impor¬ tant African Americans throughout the decades of black history. In each decade, two individuals were recognized with a detailed biography. The individu¬ als shown included Zora Neale Hurston, Phillip Randolph, Katherine Dunham, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Ann Marie Geist and Barack and Michelle Obama. Besides modeling, there were also acts per¬ formed. The 1940s included a dance that was cho¬ reographed by Brandon Bibby, a third year architec¬ ture major. Bibby ' s dance, titled Eve, put a twist on the concepts of sin, temptation and the rise and fall of man. I was asked by Raven Cook to participate in the Essence of History Fashion Show, Bibby said. She wanted a dance performance that would be a tribute to the legacy of Alvin Ailey and Katherine Dunham. For the 1920s, Brett Gilbertson, senior music education major and his wife Vanessa Gilbertson per¬ formed swing dancing. We were notified that they wanted swing dancers so they con¬ tacted me because I ' m the swing dance teacher here, and I thought it would be a lot of fun to do, Gilbert¬ son said. The routine used inspira¬ tions such as Frankie Manning, flips and line dances. We just kinda threw it all in, and made a big swing dance cas¬ serole. BLACK STUDENTS ASSOCIATION 227 HOGS gleekouT STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Emily Rhodes I love when it ' s all too much, 5 a.m. turn the radio up. Where ' s the rock and roll? The sound of ten eclectic voices redoing the popular Pink song Raise Your Glass were muffled only by the classroom door of room 113 in the music department. The occasional burst of laughter erupted from the small room where the Arkansas Glee Club, commonly known as the RazorGleeks, practiced, followed by another run-through of the music they were working on. During the busy school week, members joined together after classes to let loose and perform some of their favorite songs with friends. After discussing an¬ nouncements and fundraising ideas, this exciting group of students immediately jumped to their feet in antici¬ pation of a new melody. Gentle applause and excited chitchat began to sound after Glee Club president Jes¬ sica Nichols and another member began to sing, and the excitement churned as more students joined in. Although the RazorGleeks only became an official RSO in the fall, this was not the first time that UA stu¬ dents have burst into song. Now we ' re bringing it back more like a show choir - we get together, we jam and choose a song we want to do and then figure out how we want to work it, Nichols said. Apart from practicing current pop music, other ses¬ sions included Disney classics and unique mash-ups like the Justin Timberlake-Michael Jackson mix. They planned to use this particular song for a Halloween flash- mob. It ' s crazy what we come up with, said Nichols. At the first meeting we handed out lyrics to a song that we had never worked on, and I heard at least 10 different harmonies, she said. It just happened without any background music, just voices, which was totally amaz¬ ing. Getting prepared for an exciting future, RazorGleek member Joe Buercklin summed it up in the best sense: Expect awesome performances. We ' re in of our own self, and we ' re a totally individual sounding performance, so get ready for greatness in the upcoming years. 228 ORGANIZATIONS FAR LEFT Club mem¬ bers gather behind the club ' s piano to rehearse potential performance mate¬ rial. Songs ranged in theme and genre. LEFT Arkansas Glee Club started on September 6 with their first meeting. The en¬ ergy in the room was high as the students met their future club- mates. t j A m LEFT After discussing announcements and fundraising ideas, group members hand out song lyrics and begin warm-ups and practice. GLEE CLUB 229 ALTERNATIVE SPORTING Deep in the heart of the HPER Building, many students rushed to get their intramural sports teams signed up before the deadlines. Intramural f- | sports were a great way for students to participate c 5 jn athletic and non-athletic recreational activities as ■ O o o well as socialize with fellow classmates. Flag football was an alternative for those who loved the game of football. However, instead of tackling, the defensive team had to remove a flag from the players ' flag belts. The league champions were team YMCMB, but freshman biology major Luke Fair was confident that their team would be number one. You can ' t have doubt. You got to believe in your heart, ' ' Fair said. Jake Monteverde, freshman business major, shared similar enthusiasm. We like to win. We don ' t lose. We ' re all just confident in our abilities, and when we bring them all together it ' s unstoppable, Monteverde said. Intramural volleyball was just as competitive as the other sports. The University had both sand volleyball and indoor volleyball. The differences between the two included surface, team size, scor¬ ing and blocking as a team touch. Most students stuck with the traditional indoor version. Although the majority of volleyball players were in it to win it, sophomore Lewis Hall from Nut Presence team just loved the fun of the game. We just play for fun. They [the other teams) all take it pretty seriously, Hall said. Junior Sarah Wood and others met each week at Ozark Lanes for intramural bowling, dressed with matching uniforms and their own bowling balls. Student ambassadors is a division in admis¬ sions, and we help give tours. So as people who are a part of the university, we try to get involved in different parts j ust to know more things about the campus, Wood said. The Student Ambassadors team included Wood, junior Justin Massingill, sophomore Kathleen Pait, senior Amy Crawley and junior Tiffany Chiu. TOP Dressed in leisure wear, freshmen Morgan Michel and Kimanh Tran race to catch the frisbee during a game of Ultimate. Matches were held at different locations across campus, from the Gardens to the Union yard. MIDDLE Ball gripped tight to his side, sophomore Tommy Vecchio dodges his competitor during a flag football match played at the intramural practice field. BOTTOM In full stride, sophomore Jake Hughes stares down the bowling pins in hopes for a strike. Hughes and friends met weekly at Ozark Lanes to compete against one another. 230 ORGANIZATIONS ABOVE Fully equipped, freshman Bailey Hamilton gears up for his next lacrosse match. The recreational team was open to experienced and nonexperienced play¬ ers, who competed against Oklahoma, Hendrix, Ole Miss and Nebraska. INTRAMURAL SPORTS 231 RUGBY BROTHERS STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTOS Mandi Havens It ' s all about the intensity, aggres¬ sion and team playing. At least that ' s what Ryan Boggs, childhood educa¬ tion major and captain of the Arkan¬ sas Rugby club, claimed. After being ranked fifth in the nation during the 2010 season, his team took strides to improve even more last year. ' ' Rugby is one of those sports that is recognized worldwide, which is what makes it so cool, ' ' Boggs said. You can travel anywhere and be surrounded by people who know the game, and it ' s fun because the rugby culture is different to that of any American sport. The game of rugby, when compared to sports that everybody knows, is like soccer for all of the running and continuous play, the football tackle contact level but with¬ out the pads, and a few other sports that, along with the rugby rules, cre¬ ate the game, Charles Ajarrista said, an international business student and fly-half for the team, as well as a recent Heart of America conference all-star along with Boggs and five other Arkansas players. The Arkansas Rugby club, es¬ tablished in 1971, was the largest recreational sports club on campus, as well as having outstanding team players. Currently we have 75 members signed up with our club, Boggs said. You have to have people who are knowledgeable about the game, a great mixture of aggressiveness and strength, but you also have to have a team that works together to win, which is what we have. Not only can students benefit from the sport and athletic aspect of playing the game, but Boggs and Ajarrista said that rugby brings a great sense of team awareness. It ' s a very large brotherhood type community, we are really close as a team, said Boggs. A lot of our guys consider being in the club as their fraternity. We get a lot of guys who drop their fraternity to be on the field with us. We always say the rest of our team members are our brothers. It ' s a huge family that we have. 232 ORGANIZATIONS LEFT Arkansas rugby players stand in a scrum, a formation used as a way of restarting a game after an infringement or the ball has gone out of play. A scrum is formed by binding together three rows of designated forwards. BELOW Senior, captain Ryan Boggs, center, was ranked fifth in the nation after the 2010 season. The five players shown below are recent Heart of America conference all-stars. prnnn|| REDBALL J’HODUCTlONSi ICE IMPACT STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTOS Erin Blasdel The shrill shriek of the whistle filled the air as the hard sound of a slap-shot died off. Bring it in, Coach Brain Gallini yelled, and the members of the UA club sport hockey team, the Ice Hogs, crowded around to hear his directions at the Jones Center in Springdale. They skated off, bodies bent to increase speed, and shavings of ice flew in a wintery trail behind them. They lined up, breathed heavily with exhaustion and prepared for another drill. It ' s a good way to stay in shape, Trent Ritchie, undeclared major, said. We practice two times a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:15 p.m. until 10 p.m., and we also have team workouts on Mondays and Wednesdays. The team was established in 2007, business major Brendan Desjardins said, but the majority of us have been playing since 2009. The team grew to its roster of 19 players as the team members invited friends to try out and practice. Our whole premise of the year is just to get back to nationals and make an impact. That ' s actually why I came back to play as a graduate student, Desjardins said. There is a great support system among families of teammates and a small group of students who regularly attend games, the team ' s public address announcer Chase Brantley, senior business management and marketing major, said. I think what makes them good is that Arkansas Hockey is relatively new, and they always have a good time when playing. The team is consistently one of the top teams in the South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference ' Brantley said. The games are a great atmosphere, and I believe the players strive to make the program stronger and have more awareness among students and the University of Arkansas community. My favorite moment thus far has definitely been a recent game against the Grand Valley State Lakers, where the game was tied, went into overtime, then onto a shootout, where our goalie, senior Brenden Desjardins, was perfect on saves, and Arkansas won by scoring on the opposing goalie in the shootout, Brantley said. ORGANIZATIONS LEFT Scratch marks scar the hockey rink ' s plexiglass while team members practice. The Ice Hogs continued to grow to a total of 19 players with the strive to make it to nationals. BELOW Helmets on and hockey sticks in hand, the Ice Hogs scrimmage during a regular, weekly practice. The team practiced and had team workouts twice a week. [4 1 ! [ , Ail ABOVE Anti-abortion activists rally outside of the Supreme Court on the 39th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade case, Monday, January 23, 2012 in Wash¬ ington, DC. 236 ORGANIZATIONS ABOVE Tape reading Life covers a pro-life activist as she marches silently during an anti-abortion rally. STUDENTS FOR LIFE STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Courtesy by MCT Junior psychology major Julia Pritch¬ ett stood in front of a crowd of over 800 people. She was one of several presenters at the Pro-Life Conference whose goal was to motivate students to go back to their campuses and get involved in the pro-life movement. Pritchett knew that by the end of the workshop, more students would learn and be inspired to get involved. Students at the UA had many oppor¬ tunities to get involved with organiza¬ tions that represented their interests. One group that many students chose to join was the RSO chapter Students for Life. Started by Julia Pritchett in 2009, the group dedicated the 2012 year to do more to promote life and educate others on life issues. We actually have two missions: one is to educate people about abor¬ tion, and then we ' re here to break through the apathy about abortion, Pritchett said. Through various fundraising activi¬ ties, the organization was able to send 40 students for the first time to Wash¬ ington D.C. for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1973). Ever since then [Roe v. Wadej, pro¬ lifers have been coming together on the capital, and they ' ve been marching, Pritchett said. The UA chapter attended the largest Pro-Life Conference on Jan. 22, 2012. The conference featured various work¬ shops regarding the movement plus many congress members, doctors and even Mike Huckabee. Catered toward college students, the conference was themed around Envision a World with¬ out Abortion . The next day was the 39 th annual March for Life. This year we had 500,000 people, Pritchett said. It is the largest march ever on Washington for any cause, and many people there are under the age of 30, so it ' s very youthful. Students for Life at the UA made steps to educate the campus. They participated in Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity on campus where members gave up their voices for the day for the children who have been silenced. Pritchett hoped that the chapter would continue to do great things. This has really been our most ac¬ tive year, Pritchett said. I ' m hoping it ' s only going to grow. STUDENTS FOR LIFE 237 RIGHT A crowd forms while waiting to hear the results of the ASG elections. The winners of the 2013 election were ASG president, Tori Pohlner, vice president, Bobby Pennington, treasurer, Blake Hirschman and secretary, LauRon Smith. MIDDLE RIGHT ASG meets to represent UA students. ASG was comprised of three branches: the executive, the judicial and the legislative in order to make campus decisions. FAR RIGHT Michael Dodd was the 2011- 2012 ASG President. His goal was for more student outreach and involvement. Question nnu rlcciinmare MHH ■ ' • nk about 20 ;. I ■■MM . ■ : uun-asi; student w ■HH m ,4wrn mniunitv? oj i VI [ j A i n P ® rivn jj 238 ORGANIZATIONS THETRUE FACE OF ASG STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Courtesy Although the A ssociated Student Gov¬ ernment could have an effect on student life, many students on campus were unaware of the organization ' s purpose. Through meetings with administration, projects and fundraisers, ASG tried to represent the UA community and help the family of students. ASG consisted of an executive board and cabinet, a judicial board of nine jus¬ tices and a legislative board of 50 sena¬ tors and one Chair of the senate. ASG was the voice to the diverse group of students who came to the UA. However, some had no idea what ASG actually did for them. The Media Coordinator for ASG, Alexandra Marquez, junior broadcast and political science major, hoped to improve that lack of communication. Most people don ' t even know what it [ASG] is unless they ' re specifically looking for something, Marquez said. We ' ve been focusing on ... making sure to con¬ nect with students on campus, RSOs and student media just to make sure every¬ one knows what it is. Keiron Durant, sophomore chemical engineering major, was familiar with the regular campaigns. As far as campaigning, every year to me it ' s like a popularity contest, or who has the most money to give out the most stuff, Durant said. However, I do think this current administration is cool. Michael Dodd has been very supportive to the Caribbean Students Association and I really appreciate that. Michael Dodd, senior transportation and logistics major and president of ASG, hoped to give a different perspective to the organization. Every year I feel like we try to reach out to more and more students, but... a big goal of my administration was to really make ASG more accessible, Dodd said. During the 2012 year, ASG wanted to be A Whole New Ball Game. They created various initiatives, including RazorRewards, Sustainability, Fresh Hogs, a diversity position, medical amnesty and a reform on RSO funding. ASG also hosted an SEC Exchange where the SEC student governments came together in Fayetteville to discuss ideas. Like any organization, ASG was not without its challenges. I think trying to represent 23,000 students is very difficult. It is a daunting task trying to gather data and information from students on things that they want to see changed, Dodd said. It ' s very rewarding when you end up being able to step away and say I ' ve been able to do what I could with the challenges that were presented to me. ASSOCIATED STUDENT GOVERNMENT 239 ABOVE A prospective student looks at a map of campus as sophomore student ambassador Carmen Perry gives a tour. Student ambassadors were student volun¬ teers that gave campus tours, helped with recruitment events and assisted in the Office of Admissions. W BEHIND THE TOURS STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Tabatha Pollock Carmen Perry looked out into the sea of people before her. Her fellow ambassadors each introduced themselves to the crowd until it was her turn. My name is Carmen Perry, and I am a sophomore dietetics and community health promotions pre-med major from Wynne, Ark. The crowd was split into groups so the tours could begin. Carmen took a small breath, walked over to her group and headed out on a journey that could change their lives. The UA student ambassadors were a group of undergraduate students in the Office of Admissions who took time out of their schedules and volunteered to give tours of the university to prospective students and their families. Their goal was to present information about the UA, share experiences and help the new students through their transitions to college. I became an ambassador because I wanted to represent the University of Arkansas in a way that connected the prospective students with current students, Perry said. Also, I thought it was pretty cool when I saw people giving tours while walking backwards. Before giving tours, the ambassadors had to learn the tour route and all of the information that was usually went along with it. The tours typically lasted around 50 minutes and happened throughout the year regardless of rain, snow or sunshine. My most interesting moment while being an ambassador would have to be giving a tour in pouring rain, Perry said. I was cold and extremely wet from the rain, but I made sure the families got the tour they came for. Even if there were challenges, the ambassadors were able to pull through and make the tours a great experience. I ' ve given tours to some families who will ask off-the-wall questions that you might not be expecting or really don ' t know how to respond to it, Perry said. When that happens, I kind of chuckle, brush it off and just try to respond to their question no matter how outrageous it is. Overall, the people make being an ambassador a great experience. 240 ORGANIZATIONS ABOVE Carmen Perry leads a campus tour outside of Humphreys Hall. Campus tours were opportunities for prospective students to see the campus, meet with an admissions counselor, visit with an academic advisor and eat lunch in a dining hall. STUDENT AMBASSADORS 241 STUDENT AMBASSADORS Row 1: Megan Wary, Charity Walker, Brittany Mitchell, Emily Noah, Rachael Pellegrino, Tiffany Chiu, Hannah Anderson, Ali MaAtee, Kanah Thor, Bayley Baker. Row 2: Adam Yates, Amy Crawley, Arthur Leal, Mason Shaw, Karsten Powers, Andrew Russell, Christina LaRocca, Kathleen Pait, Marquetta Lollis, Lakia Lennon, Kristina Dominguez, Will Simpson, Bianca Gellington. Row 3: Matt Holiman, Johnathan Kezeg, Nora Farrell, Chelsea Clem, Chancellor Gearhart, Karen Ramey, Kolbee Gilmore, Anum Rasheed, De ' Marius Davis, Michael Altemus. Row 4: Carmen Perry, Matt Kullman, Caleb Tyson, Matt Cope, Haley Dugger, Mariel Williams, Devyn Grathwohl. Row 5: Roger Valdez. Morgan Byttner, Emmanuel Shoyinka, Sarah Wood, Emmy Crossfield, Addison Scott, Merissa Hoffman. Row 6: J.R. Wilson, Justin Massingill, Joshua Felice. RAZORBACKS FOR CHRIST Row 1: Mallory Bennett, Margo Yaeger. Row 2: Kelsy Bryant, Meredith Eades, Joshua Lee, Kevin Smith. Row 3: John Coffey, Kylee Lewis, Baillie Valier, Taylor Hamilton, Zach Robinson. Row 4: Steve Comer (campus minister), Derek Daniels, Tyler Moudy, Jordan Haynie, John Judkins. 1 f 3 ; J ff j ►.Ti ARKANSAS SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Row 1: Trey Davis, Johnathan Tran, John Wehmer. Row 2: Aaron Douglas, Jason McGinnis, Bryce Robertson. Row 3: Malachi Nichols, Robert Murray, Tyler Scogin, Dr. Rick Couvillion. JAPANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION Row 1: Hiromi Higuchi, Namiko Bagirimvano, Tatsuya Fukushima, Mika Tsuiimoto, Isaac Morgan. Row 2: Tolephi Yang, Tomovuki Shibata, Alcichilan Marahashi, Ginjiro Taniguchi, Kazutcka Nojalea. ARKANSAS j§ i 242 ORGANIZATIONS JUGGLING Row 1: Jian Zhang, Brittany Butler, Eric Jackson, Joel Paul, Mustafa Fakhri. INVISIBLE CHILDREN Row 1: Christy Harrington, Olivia Merritt, Flannery Wasson, Tracy Belcher, Emily Coats. Row 2. Moriah Lyons, Taylor Randle, Casey O ' Grady, Samantha Gerner, Lindsey Butler, Sarah Lipscomb, Bailey Cox, Evan Barber, Shawna Wethington, Faith Webb, Jacqueline Homer, Annalise Papineau, Emily Collins. Row 3: Andy Barrett, Rachel Kravis, Hallie Hickman, Christan Buechael, Jonah Maher, Nicholas Brennan, Evan Souly, Tom Wisean, Leann Riley, Michael Clark, Jeanna Watson. BLACK STUDENTS ASSOCIATION Row 1: Einnod Williams, Raven Cook, Melanie Monts. Row 2: Lakia Lennon, Sheleana Evans, Candace Daniels, Marc Lewis. STUDENT ATHLETE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Listed In Alphabetical Order: Barrett Astin, DJ Baxendale, Liz Braun, Stephanie Brown, Emily Carbone, Daunte Carr, Vonnie Desjarlias, Elton Ford, Erin Gatling, Laurie Gingras, Jessie Givens, Taj Harrison, Kelsey Hatcher, Kikko Haydar, Brian Heldman, Courtney Hubbard, Julie Inman, Whitney Jones, Kevin Lazas, Kelci Lewis, Kate Lukomskaya, Hope McLemore, Will Meason, Brandon Moore, Jasmine Norton, Courtney O ' Grady, Jaime Pisani, Terry Prentice, Emily Podzielinski, Ben Skidmore, Kelli Stipanovich, Mardracus Wade, Matt Walters, Katie Whitbeck, Lizzy Whitbeck. REGISTERED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS 243 SIGMA PHI LAMBDA Row 1 Kaley Lawler Laura, Stephanie Zaring, Mary Sears, Beth Martin, Katy Wright, Meleah Gross, Beki Martin, Shelby Robinson, Rebecca Buedden, Sarah Smith, Lauren Filgas. Row 2: Miquela Shipman, Megan Mayhugh, Callie Wilson, Amanda Johnson, Phuong Duong, Caitlyn Berry, Jennifer Holmes-Smith, Allie Eldridge, Chloe Farley, Megan Yates, Andrea Preston, Kassi Furnas, Jordan Amadon. Row 3: Emily Graham, Megan Dare, Lauren Hines, Connie Utley, Christine Nelms, Kayla Thompson, Kayla Osbourne, Hanna Holden, Nicole Shuler, Megan Wilt, Jessi Camden, Kelby Ferguson, Karis Heinz. Row 4 Kim McConniel, Lindsey Mathews, Ashley Green, Clara Ugbade, Hayley Crump, Lauren Huey, Kori Beams, Michelle Rock, Morgan Boyles, Kasey Whitworth, Amanda Campo, Kelly Reynolds, Danielle Brambott, Stephanie Higgins. GOLDEN KEY Row 1: Christine McAlphine, Molly McDaniel, Lauren Beserra, Emily Shields, Irma Bredekamp, Toyin Aseeperi. Row 2: Thomas McKnight, Katie Johnson, Eric Carter, Marla Larey, Jason Bugeja, Brittany Butler. III 1 II 1 j i kL± n J -1—TU -f—i—|—ijnj— n p Ip j 4 f iV JL 1 • - .a j UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS Row 1: Chelsea Hollander, Kalyn Oden, Antha Johnson Row 2: Aramis Douglas, Annalise Setorie, Lana Hackler, Ashley Wyatt, Carolina Valdizon, Trisha Blau, Jonathan Chesser. STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL Row 1: Holly Tallon, Madeline Olander, Jennifer Park, Andrea Love, Jordan Schanda. Row 2: Brittyn Horn, Andrew Dugan, Zach Wilson, Breanna Patterson, Victoria Pendergrass. Row 3: Thomas McKnight, Hunter Stovall, Carlos Hernandez, Robert Millsop, Fien Dobbelaere, Myria Allen. 244 ORGANIZATIONS PEOPLE RESPECTING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND EQUALITY Row 1: Madeleine Young, Flannery Wasson. Kanchana Gingsumrong, Karly Schichtl, Lynzee Hatcher. Row 2: Zach Wilson, Caitlin Curry, Michelle Betzner, Justin Mabie, Brandon C. Butler, Reon Mobley. GAMMA THETA UPSILON Geographer ' s Honor Society Row 1: Matthew Moore, Addison Pritchard, Christopher Pryor, Catherine Tennal, Lyndsay McGee, Grace Henderson, Ginny Holcomb, Eric Holder, Kathryn Wolff. REGISTERED ORGANIZATION Row 1: Cambry Awtrey, Rachel Relic, Sarina Mann, Janessa Curry, Jennifer Hubbard, Natalie Shuff, Jennifer Park, Liz Ashley. Row 2: Eriel Lynn Robinson, Kristen Killgore, Axelle Chouquette, Olivia Brown, Abby Witty, Berkely Anderson, Alexa Smith, Carla Chang, Meghan Hutto, Kathryn Taylor, Victoria Pendergrass, Coach Susan Blakely. KAPPA KAPPA PSI Listed: Ryan Trovillion, Cody Walter, Eric Barnett, Matt McCaskey, Jacob Siemens, Bobby Cather, Kody Chastain, Emily Parr, Josh Matlock, Ryan Jones, Sam Davies, Eddie Raber, Mario Palomino, Paul Smith, Taylor Ping, Aaron Hodges, Ross Fondren, J.B. Fridell, Andy Rowan, Dustin Gililland, Kaylee Christee, Trevor Smith, Jason Forte, De ' Andre Dennis, Dylan Gililland, Matt Cope, Eddie Hale, Chris Kinnison, Thomas Richardson. REGISTERED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS 245 [ e Razpfback Nation Greek Life Bustin’ ItUj Green Submarine: A Sandwich Like No Other The Elite Greek Counter Protest Sun Sets onRazorback I ft ii iy - i tW Ml ML m‘ ' ' A STUDENT MEDIA UATV • THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER KXUA•THE RAZORBACK STUDENT MEDIA 247 ESTABLISHED: 1995 CHANNEL: Cox Communications 214 STATION MANAGER: Joe DelNero Row 1: Alexandra Marquez, Joe DelNero, Aaron Pryor, Melissa Bollero, Channing Barker, Courtney Brown. The University of Arkansas television station rapidly expanded, starting with a strong senior staff and the largest freshman class it had ever seen. The station excelled with the addition of a brand new set featuring five large background TVs, specialty shows and news programs. Freshmen volunteers brought the station to new heights through their dedication to improve the station week after week. They performed live shots and got on-air experience starting week one. The expansion of the station created a team-dynamic between volunteers that helped fuel better programs. UATV was unique compared to other college television stations because of the lack of direct faculty involvement. By allowing students to experiment on their own in the studio, producers and volunteers were enabled to expand beyond the classroom environment. UATV was a training ground for students who are currently employed by CNN, ESPN and other large affiliates across the country. Producers brought in politician Sheffield Nelson for Campus Crossfire and Chris Bahn from Arkansas 360 to talk about state politics and the state of the Arkansas football team after the firing of coach Bobby Petrino. UATV also put more stress on moving across media by increasing content available on the web and moving audiences to watch the 24 7 live stream on the website. By increasing the availability of content, students learned valuable lessons in multimedia and created unique content for different mediums. The senior staff worked extra hard through the year to teach freshman and sophomore volunteers more technical aspects behind the scenes of a TV station, technical directing, audio editing and proper broadcast styles of writing. Volunteers developed more dedication to the station with a well-rounded expertise in studio equipment, which meant UATV would continue to excel for years to come. 248 | ORGANIZATIONS THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER ESTABLISHED: 1906 PUBLISHED: Daily, Mon.-Thurs. EDITOR: Saba Naseem Row 1: Mattie Quinn. Emily Rhodes. Saba Naseem. Row 2: Jimmy Carter, Kate Beebe, Brittany Nims, Kelsi Ford. Sean Morrison. Row 3: Ben Flowers. Chad Woodard. Megan Huckaby, Lauren Leatherby. Imagine a newsroom—phones ringing off the hook, reporters frantically calling to get quotes, copy editors marking red all over stories, photographers running in and out, designers deep in concentration, the managing editor assuring the press that the pages are on the way and, of course, the editor-in- chief, sitting in a leather chair behind glass doors, watching the mayhem while smoking a pipe. Welcome to the Arkansas Traveler newsroom— well, perhaps not as chaotic, and without the editor sitting back with a pipe, but nonetheless, a busy atmosphere. The Arkansas Traveler has been the official campus newspaper for 106 years, and though it has changed over the years, it remains faithful to its motto, ' About you, for you.” Aspiring journal¬ ists strive to create a product that covers students, faculty, administration and campus life. In the 2011-2012 school year, university enroll¬ ment increased drastically. For Traveler journalists, this campus became their city. With more than 23,000 students attending the University of Arkan- sas, the Arkansas Traveler saw the need to increase from publishing once a week to publishing four times a week. This transition gave staff members the means to grow as journalists—photographers had the oppor¬ tunity to shoot more often, reporters wrote several articles a week, designers perfected their skills in In- Design and editors stepped up their leadership. They successfully created an award-winning paper and fostered journalists who won awards both regionally and nationally. The 2011-2012 Traveler staff did a phenomenal job in establishing a solid foundation for years to come. They progressed the paper and transformed the atmosphere of the newsroom to a place where reporters came to work, where editors formed close bonds of friendship and where pot-lucks and laugh¬ ter accompanied a busy day of production. STUDENT MEDIA 249 K X U A umvERsm of Arkansas ESTABLISHED: 1999 FREQUENCY: 88.3 MHz STATION MANAGER: David Zeek Martin Listed In Alphabetical Order: Jose Bonilla, Tyler Eck, Ginny Garber, Harrison Grimwood, Timothy Keas, David Zeek Martin. KXUA was a student-run radio station broadcast¬ ing out of the UA. The station was a non-profit dedi¬ cated to serving the Northwest Arkansas commu¬ nity with the most eclectic blend of music possible. While public service announcements were read each hour, the format was commercial-free. They never played any songs that had ever appeared on the Billboard Top 40 charts in the last 50 years. All of the DJs were volunteers, and anyone affiliated with the university could apply. During the day KXUA had rotation shifts, where DJs played several tracks each hour from a set of CDs. The rest of the time they were free to play anything they liked, including requests. Begin¬ ning at 6 p.m. on weekdays and all weekend long, they had genre shows which could be anything from underground hip-hop to world music to film scores. Some KXUA DJs podcasted their shows and posted them on the KXUA blog. They did it for the sole reason of promoting music they loved. Beginning in 1973, the UA had a student radio station known as KUAF, broadcasting at 91.3FM. In 1986, however, KUAF changed their format to National Public Radio, gaining a wide following, but at a loss of student input. After three years of listening to talk radio, stu¬ dents hatched a plan in 1989 to form KRFA, based on the college radio format. But the broadcasting was done via cable and carrier current, available to on-campus facilities only. In the spring of 1994, KRFA disbanded. That fall, KRZR was formed as a student organiza¬ tion with the goal of creating an FM station. A con¬ sulting engineer was hired to do a frequency check for a 500 watt station at 90.1 FM. In the spring of 1996, a communications lawyer was hired to com¬ plete the FCC application for 90.1 FM. The American Family Association (AFA), dedicated to buying up radio frequencies, also filed for 90.1 FM. Subse¬ quently, KRZR filed for 88.3FM; so did the AFA. After several months, the AFA and the University of Arkansas came to a settlement and the stu¬ dent radio station, rechristened KXUA, was given 88.3FM. 250 ORGANIZATIONS ■razor “back UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS YEARBOOK ESTABLISHED: 1897 PUBLISHED: 4,000 EDITOR: Nick Carter Row 1: Ryan McSwain, Kathleen Pait, Nick Carter, Ashyle Horton, Mandi Havens, Gareth Patterson. Row 2: Katherine Norwood, E lena Sanz, Cali Elliott, Kristen Karnes, Elysia Hampel, Tabatha Pollock. Row 3: Whit Pruitt, Jacki Frost, Rebecca Soard, Emily Rhodes, Sydney Hoffmans, Matt Trauschke, Olivia Jones Row 4: Meleah Gross, Megan Clark, Chad Arnold, Michelle Betzner, Chris Pryor, Logan Webster. Down in the basement of Kimpel, past the Traveler newsroom and UATV station, in the far left corner of the hallway lies a small room —better known as the glorified janitor ' s closet. Despite the obscure location and tight space, inside you ' ll find the cozy home of the Razorback, where designers, photographers and writers work hard to finish yet another deadline. Established in 1897, the Razorback yearbook was the first student media program at the University of Arkansas. Through the years, the task of creating a book that captures the entire university and communities ' student life, academics, sports and organizations for each year remains daunting. With a mixture of veteran s and freshmen, the 2011-2012 photographers, writers and designers hit the ground running the first day of classes trying to cover more than just the usual first day excitement and confusion. Big things were happening on campus. A record number enrollment of freshmen and campus wide construction were having a big impact on the entire university. The staff covered everything from students taking classes in Barnhill Arena, students living in common rooms and the firing of Bobby Petrino. After a year of campus chaos and sports drama, the 2012 Razorback yearbook was put to rest the first week of June and was handed out to the student body in September. The monumental task of telling the stories of an entire year in one book couldn ' t have been done without the senior staff that ran and managed the day-to-day business of the yearbook. An assistant editor, copy editor, photo editor, marketing executive and a full-time webmaster were hired. Through the leadership of the senior staff and the hard work, dedication and creativity of the entire staff, a work environment was created that brought the staff closer together than ever before. Through these changes the staff became a family that ate, slept and dreamed yearbook. STUDENT MEDIA 251 ? 7 ' |jK W - - wry A . -ft I 1 � ' n Big 81 «jj ■ 1 Ljl ■ FsS: ii II Arp • AKA • AOA • A All • AOn • AXQ • BOn • AA A AI0 • FarmHouse • KA • KAMJ • KA • KKr • KI ■ AXA 04 0 • nBO • nKA • OBI • OrA • OA0 • OIA • OM XQ • IAE • IIA • in • IN • IX • IOE • ZOB • ZTA GREEK 253 CRAZED TO COMPETE STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTOS Kathleen Pait, Whit Pruitt March 28, 2012: the day had finally come. Each sorority was ready for the event to begin. It was time for the organi¬ zations to show off their skills, teamwork and earn bragging rights for the year. Only one group could be crowned the winner. The Greek Variety Show Derby Days was a weeklong annual event sponsored by Sigma Chi. The event pitted several sororities on the campus against one an¬ other in various competitions. At the end of the week, one sorority was crowned the winner based on a points system. Each competition had a certain number of points that could be earned. The event was a tradition for Sigma Chi that raised money for their philanthropy. We contribute to Arkansas Children ' s Hospital and The Huntsman Cancer Insti¬ tute, Ryan Johnson, junior agribusiness management and marketing major and president of Sigma Chi, said. The event kicked off with Find the Derby. The contest was a citywide scav¬ enger hunt where the sororities had to find the red derby cup. We had three or four different cars racing all over Fayetteville to find this red cup. We went to each end of Fayette¬ ville, Allie Burks, sophomore journalism Ad PR major and president of Tri Delta, said. The rest of the week involved a ban¬ ner competition, field events, a donation jar, blood drive and arm wrestling. The week ended with the Variety Night Dance Competition. The Variety Show is a large portion points-wise for the competition but also in raising money, Johnson said. This year over 800 people attended, and it has grown every year. The sororities were encouraged to get creative with the event. It was just a big dance competition, TOP In mid-rotation. Alpha Delta Pi member spins before the crowd of onlookers during the Variety Show at the Fayetteville Town Center. The Variety Show was one of Derby Day ' s main events. BOTTOM The front line of Pi Beta Phi perform their dance routine. Throughout the week, Pi Beta Phi placed second in field events, third in donation jar and third in the blood drive. and everyone had a different theme. Our theme was a circus - it was a creep circus deal, Burks said. It ' s just one big long week of competition with the sororities on campus, and I think the boys get a kick out of seeing how competitive we get. Derby Days took place March 28 till April 4. After campus¬ wide efforts, the winner for the 2012 year was Delta Delta Delta. The second and third place winners were Chi Omega and Alpha Omicron Pi. I value the effort we see from Panhellenic, Johnson said. It shows that we have a strong Greek system that supports each other and their philanthropy. It ' s rewarding. 254 ORGANIZATIONS ABOVE With teased hair, painted faces and crazy costumes, Delta Delta Delta sorority members perform their circus-themed dance during the Greek Variety Show After a month ' s worth of practice, the girls won first place at the event. DERBY DAYS 255 256 ORGANIZATIONS ALPHA DELTA PI ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1957 PHILANTHROPY: Ronald McDonald House PRESIDENT: Ashley Jones SYMBOL: Diamond GREEK GROUPS 257 ALPHA 0 P ESTABLISHED AT UA: 2006 PHILANTHROPY: American Juvenile Arthritis Organization PRESIDENT: Lauren Lavender SYMBOL: Rose 258 ORGANIZATIONS CHI OMEGA ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1895 PHILANTHROPY: Make-A-Wish Foundation PRESIDENT: Mary Kennedy SYMBOLS: Skull and Crossbones GREEK GROUPS I 259 DELTA DELTA DELTA ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1913 PHILANTHROPY: St. Jude Children ' s Hospital PRESIDENT: Kelsey Castleberry SYMBOLS: Pearl and Pine Tree 260 ORGANIZATIONS DELIA SIGMA THETA ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1974 MASCOT: Elephant PRESIDENT: Amy Carson SYMBOL: Fortitude GREEK GROUPS 261 KAPPA DELTA ESTABLISHED: 1989 PHILANTHROPY: Girl Scouts of America PRESIDENT: Jennifer Kurtz SYMBOLS: Nautilus Shell, Dagger and Katydid 262 ORGANIZATIONS KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDED: 1923 PHILANTHROPY: Reading is Fundamental PRESIDENT: Chelsey Gilbreth SYMBOLS: Golden Key and Fleur-de-Lis GREEK GROUPS I 263 PHI IOTA ALPHA PRESIDENT: Louis Inarra VICE PRESIDENT: Jessica Galan SECRETARY: Rocio Bedolla TREASURE: Roger Valdez 264 ORGANIZATIONS PI BETA PHI FOUNDED: 1909 PHILANTHROPY: Children ' s Literacy PRESIDENT: Elizabeth Milburn SYMBOLS: Arrows and Angels GREEK GROUPS 265 S ALPHA E ESTABLISHED: 1894 PHILANTHROPY: Children ' s Miracle Network PRESIDENT: Graham Talley COLORS: Royal Purple and Old Gold 266 ORGANIZATIONS SIGMA CHI ESTABLISHED: 1905 PHILANTHROPY: Arkansas Children ' s Hospital PRESIDENT: Jake Fair SYMBOLS: White Cross GREEK GROUPS 267 SIGMA NU ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1904 PHILANTHROPY: Helping Hand Initiative PRESIDENT: Andrew Buchta COLORS: Black, White and Gold 268 ORGANIZATIONS SIGMA PI ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1948 PHILANTHROPY: Sam Spady Project PRESIDENT: Gentry Wahlmeier COLORS: Lavender and White with Gold GREEK GROUPS 269 ZETA TAU ALPHA ESTABLISHED AT UA: 1903 PHILANTHROPY: Breast Cancer Awareness and Education PRESIDENT: Rachel Petty SYMBOLS: 5-Pointed Crown and Strawberry Robert Arthur Adams Political Science, Senior, Mesa, Arizona Kyani S. Alford Industrial Engineering, Sophomore, W. Memphis, Ark. Adrienne M. Amerine Apparel Studies, Sophomore, Pine Bluff, Ark. Stephen Ampadu Kinesiology, Sophomore, Ghana, Md. Arnold Ankrah Mechanical Engineering, Senior, Accra, Ghana Chad Arnold Art, Junior, Russellville, Ark. Toyin Christie Aseeperi Chemical Engineering, Graduate, Nigeria, Osun State Kevin Scott Autry Psychology, Graduate, Hot Springs, Ark. Rani A. Bakhsh Tech. Education, Junior, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Alvin Dewayne Barens Jr Management TLOG, Senior, Springdale, Ark. Bailey Rene Barnes Bio-Chemistry, Sophomore, Basel, Switzerland Katherine Maria Barnett Journalism Art, Junior, Hollister, Mo. Taylor Kaleb Bates Animal Science, Freshman, Van Buren, Ark. Emily Beatrice Bays Biology, Sophomore. Bentonville, Ark. Luke Nathaniel Bergan v Biochemistry, Junior, Sonora, Calif. Betsy Beckenbauer Blessen Communications, Freshman, Kansas City, Kan. Seth Allen Boone Biology, Senior, Mountain Pine, Ark. Terrance L. Boyd Retail Accounting, Junior, Pine Bluff, Ark. Andrew Jack Bright Childhood Education, Sophomore, Tontitown, Ark. Micah Brandon Brooks Hospitality, Sophomore, St. Augustine, Fla. Rose Kathleen Brorsen Chemistry, Junior, Stillwater, Okla. Brandon C. Butler English, Sophomore, West Memphis, Ark. Brittany Butler Journalism, Senior, Fayetteville, Ark. Joe Louis Cabrera Criminal Justice Sociology, Freshman, Bentonville, Ark. Edward Matthew Candlland Geology, Senior, Seligman, Mo. Jennifer Lynn Carter Childhood Ed., Senior, Broken Arrow, Okla. Sarah Beth Casey Pre-Nursing, Sophomore, Carrollton, Texas Chance Reid Cash Chemistry, Freshman, Bald Knob, Ark. Madison Eileen Casper Kinesiology, Freshman, Katy, Texas Katelynn Anne Cassidy Business, Freshman, Blytheville, Ark. 272 PEOPLE THE STUDENT ATH LETE STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTO Logan Webster Sporting events on campus are a good source of entertainment for fans. The athletes work hard to win games and bring recognition to the UA, going to practices and training every day. Fans know about the games, but how much do they really know about what it takes to be a student athlete? You have to pace yourself and bide your time. You can ' t really go anywhere without planning, Hunter Mickelson, freshman basketball player, said on how he manages classes, games and practices. [Student athletes] are kind of going all the time, not to say that other people aren ' t, but [other stu¬ dents] probably get more down time than we do, Mickelson said. Sometimes we [miss out on things] because if we play well, we don ' t get a spring break, and we don ' t get to go home for the whole month for Christmas because we ' re sti ll playing. But socially, we pretty much have free roam. Mickelson started playing basketball in elementary school and continued on with the game, eventually becoming a forward for the UA. I ' ve always been in love with sports. My dad played sports in high school, my mom played sports, so I just kind of fell in love with it, Mickelson said. His love of sports drove him to his place among the Razorbacks. Being around other basketball play¬ ers, being in the atmosphere [is my favorite part] ... The competition is a big part of it too, Mickelson said. Waking up at 6 a.m. to do workouts or go run would definitely be my least favorite part. When it came to choosing a college Mickelson had a lot of positive things to say about the UA. I love the coaching staff, I really like the facilities and, of course, the fan base. I ' m from Jonesboro, so I ' ve been watching the Hogs pretty much my whole life, Mickelson said. I love playing for good fans, people who get excited about [the sport]. 274 PEOPLE ABOVE Freshman power forward Hunter Mickelson, from Jonesboro, Arkansas, declared his commitment to the University of Arkansas on May 5, 2010 after receiving offers from Arkansas, Baylor, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Wake Forest. Mickelson was a 4-star rated player according to Rivals.com and nationally ranked within the Top-100 players of his class out of high school. THE STUDENT ATHLETE 275 i by Gareth J’atterson Joey John Castrodale Industrial Engineering, Sophomore, Little Rock, Ark. Candice Marie Catlett Nursing, Sophomore, Little Rock, Ark. Emily Chase Art, Senior, Tahlequah, Okla. Shane Francis Clark Geology, Junior, Mountain Home, Ark. Kiera Clegg Kinesiology, Senior, Pine Bluff, Ark. Cassie Lynn Cobb Psychology, Junior, Texarkana, Texas William W. Cole Recreation Sport MGMT, Junior, Prairie Grove, Ark. Emily Zella Collins Undecided, Freshman, Jefferson City, Mo. Jacob Todd Connelly Accounting, Junior, Magnolia, Ark. Ashlyn Michelle Cook Dietetics, Freshman, Jefferson City, Mo. Matthew Loren Cope Geology, Senior, Justin, Texas Amy Cosgrove Communications, Freshman, Prairie Village, Kan. David Cox Science, Senior, Tulsa, Okla. Emily Crossfield Biochemistry, Junior, Little Rock, Ark. Kelly Sue Cuya Ortiz Industrial Engineering, Senior, Lima, Peru PEOPLE 277 ABOVE Grant Gaines, a senior marketing major, sits at the microphone in the recording studio at 92.1 The Ticket. After working at the The Ticket several months, Gaines planned to continue his radio career in his hometown of Plano, Texas. 278 PEOPLE SPORTS RADIO HOST THE SUNDAY SPORTS PAGE WITH GRANT GAINES ON 92.1 THE TICKET How did you get involved in radio? God really opened some doors. No joke, so my friends and I were working at a law firm last summer as interns. We were kind of bored so we were emailing back and forth during work a lot through the Dallas Mavericks playoffs. I started blogging on the Internet and we decided we should try to get on the student radio station, but they don ' t have talk shows, they only do music. So I sent an email [to KXUA] and I came back two weeks later and there was the email that [said], yes, we would like to have you on. And then I started doing shows briefly at the beginning of the semester. Since I was new to the industry, I emailed Josh Bertaccini, program director and host for ESPN Radio 92.1 theTicket. I asked if he had any advice on planning shows. And he said, We actually need a producer right now. Would you be interested in coming in? And then Josh offered me the opportunity to do air checks, and in November I started doing my own show on this airway on Sunday mornings. Have you always been a big sports guy? You already talk about sports with your friends so much. Obviously here you have to be more polished and you have to think out your thoughts better because 40,000 people hear you and if you make a really dumb comment people are going to let you know about it. Where as if you are with your friend, you can be like ah whatever. What kind of calls do you get? If you say there are eight teams in the SEC regional baseball tournament then they will call in and say there are 10 and they will start arguing with you. And you are like dude I ' m looking at it online. And if you stumble or mess up or stutter on a word and say words that are very similar, they will let you know. They are unforgiving but it ' s fun. Is there a caller that really sticks out in your mind? The one that always sticks out for me being really good was the first time I did my Sunday show [and I was] so nervous. I was like I am never going to get a call because it is 10 on Sunday morning so either college students are still sleeping or everyone is still in church and I ' ll never get a call. And then I actually got a call on my first show and it ' s been pretty steady throughout. So I ' ll always remember that first call and the guy was like, Hey, man, I love the show. You ' re sounding great. I was like, is this my dad or what? How much did they pay you? It was really cool. How do you prepare for a show? You don ' t prepare; you just kind of go with the flow. Nowadays with Twitter, that ' s the most helpful thing ever because you ' re just looking at your Twitter feed and all of a sudden Adam Schefter and all of those guys are breaking all of this news and then you start looking at ESP V and FOX Sports Southwest. You also always have the radio on, listening to things like Mike Mike and The Herd. You listen to other people to see if they are bringing up topics that you are like, hey that ' s good idea. I should use that. Do you ever get nervous? Well, you imagine 40,000 people in their underwear... no, I ' m just kidding. On Sundays I ' m at the mic and I have to stand up because I ' m too nervous. I ' m bouncing around ... and moving my hands. Before the shows I literally run in place. I don ' t have to do it as much anymore. It ' s like anything; you get used to it. There are still a little bit of butterflies but I think the moment that I come in and there aren ' t butterflies, that means I need to stop doing it because I don ' t care about it as much. I need to always care if I ' m going to mess up, just not worry about it. It ' s easy to get up to talk about sports if you love sports. THE SPORTS RADIO HOST 279 Photo by Mandi Havens _ Sarah Ekizabeth Dahlberg Early Childhood Ed., Freshman, N. Little Rock, Ark. Ashlyn C. Dale Supply Chain, Sophomore, Russellville, Ark. Meredith L. Day Childhood Education, Freshman, McGehee, Ark. Eric Jay Dethamphaivan Arichitecture, Sophomore, Huntsville, Ark. Danny Antonio Dixon Industrial Engineering, Junior, Little Rock, Ark. Benjamin Jackson Doby Electrical Engineering, Freshman. Augusta, Ark. Michael Dodd Supply Chain Management, Senior, Leawood, Kan. John Andrew Dominick Biomedical Engineering, Freshman, N. Little Rock, Ark. Ellie Donoghue Communications, Sophomore, Springdale, Ark. Lindsay Elizabeth Douglas Accounting, Freshman, Southlake, Texas Katie Dowdy Communication Disorders, Junior, St. Louis, Mo. Morgan Ashley Draper Business, Freshman, Paragould, Ark. Andrey Viktorovich Dumchev Journalism, GA, Kurgan, Russia Katherine Elizabeth Easley Biology, Freshman, Little Rock. Ark. Morgan Lea East Journalism, Junior, Fort Smith, Ark. PEOPLE 281 THE FRESHMAN STORY Rebecca Soard PHOTO Whit Pruitt The first year of college can be daunting to anyone. Away from home, skills such as time management, laundry and note taking suddenly become more important than before. Some students fold under the newfound pressure, but others, such as Amy Eller, take it in stride. Coming from a graduating class of 53 people in Oktah, Okla., Eller said she had some adjustments to make. I came from a place where all of my classes were in one building to a huge campus, Eller said. I remember thinking ' this is not normal ' when I walked into my first lecture class. It wasn ' t scary, just overwhelming realizing that there actually are that many people around. Despite the large campus, Eller soon felt at home. The campus seems really big, but once you get used to it, it ' s not that bad, Eller said. The campus environment also made the transition fairly simple for her. The campus is super friendly, Eller said. If I ever needed help with finding something, I would just ask people if they were sophomores and they would always help me out. While the start of college wasn ' t too daunting for Eller, she still faced aspects that most freshmen deal with. Some stu¬ dents have it worse though. I ' m not a very stressful person, Eller said. I know a lot of people get super stressed, but I don ' t let myself get that way. Though some adjustments were neces¬ sary, Eller pushed through and tried to stay actively involved on campus. She was a member of Chi Omega, a diamond doll, part of a Bible study and was interested in joining a few clubs. It ' s all part of the college experience, Eller said. Although the first year of college can be full of trials as higher level classes, inde¬ pendence and opportunities to branch out from high school are experienced for the first time, most students find their way. I think getting involved is important, Eller said. Otherwise you ' ll have a boring experience, and college shouldn ' t be bor¬ ing. ABOVE Freshman Amy Eller is faced with many of the common questions that freshmen encounter their first year of college. Freshmen entering UA were required to participate in First Year Experience, a course designed to help freshmen transition from high school to college. THE FRESHMAN 283 Clarissa Nwamaka Ebigwu Interior Design, Sophomor e, Tulsa, Okla. Lindsey Michelle Edwards Economics, Sophomore, Fort Smith, Ark. Amy Lynn Eller Apparell Studies, Freshman, Oktaha, Okla. Leslie Anne Ellis Kinesiology, Junior, Tulsa, Okla. Allison Nicole Enderlin Early Childhood Ed., Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Rose Margaret Faherty Hospitality, Sophomore, Oklahoma City, Okla. Victoria Marie Faulkner Accounting, Sophomore, Springfield, Mo. Gregory John Ferguson Psychology, Sophomore, Allen, Texas Joe C. Fernandez Poultry Science, Freshman, Claremore, Okla. Lisa Michelle Figgins Nursing, Junior, Springdale, Ark. Ashley Renea Flippin Creative Writing, Junior, Fort Smith, Ark. Sarah Caitlan Fontenot Animal Science, Senior, Sugar Land, Texas Malea Graham Frank Poultry Science, Graduate, Green Forest, Ark. Hillary Fromme Music Education, Sophomore, Bethalto, Illinois Shrijeeta Sukdev Ganguly Biology, PhD, Maharashtra, India Joey Jamar Gardner Sociology Criminal Justice, Senior, Pine Bluff, Ark. Lauren E. Gentles Biology, Sophomore, Pearcy, Ark. Joseph Charles Gerke Civil Engineering, Senior, Fayetteville. Ark. Dustin Ray Gililland Music Education, Senior, North Little Rock, Ark. Emily Anne Gilliam Recreation Sports MGMT, Senior, Jefferson City, Mo. Robert Ethan Glaess Industrial Engineering, Junior, Fate, Texas Rachel Lynne Glasscock Dietetics, Freshman, Sugar Land, Texas Deven James Goddard Psychology, Sophmore. Springdale. Ark. Celene Gonzalez Pre-Nursing, Sophomore, Denver, Colo. Hillary Renae Gould Industrial Engineering, Senior, Jonesboro, Ark. Jesse Chandler Grace Pre-Childhood Ed., Freshman, Fayetteville, Ark. Ryan Holt Graham Spanish, Sophomore, Bella Vista, Ark. Jacie Gayelle Gregory Journalism-Ad PR, Freshman, Benton, Ark. Quincy Schylar Grigson Information Systems,-Senior, Prairie Grove, Ark. Meleah M. Gross Visual Design, Senior, Bryant, Ark. 284 PEOPLE V? A - ■—rr k mm t % ABOVE Dr. Kathleen Condray, a second-generation German immigrant, did not learn to speak German until she attended college. She graduated with her bachelors from the University of Arkansas in 1994 and returned to her alma mater to teach in 1999. 288 PEOPLE DEUTSCH , KREATIV UNTERRICHTET ■ (Teaching Creative German) STORY Megan Clark PHOTO Courtesy A glossy page ripped from a magazine shows Heidi Klum with a milk mustache in a short red dirndl holding the reigns to a large dairy cow; it says ' Haute Cowture ' . Below it, pictures of white castles and striped lighthouses mingle with fliers advocating language certification and sustainability. The hodgepodge was taped to an unassuming door on the fifth floor of Kimpel Hall. Behind it, Dr. Kathleen Condray typed away at her keyboard, sending emails about study abroad grants or potential internships to her students. Listed as one of Oxford American ' s ' ' Most Creative Teachers in the South, Condray attempted to keep her classes enter¬ tained with her enthusiasm for German. She would act like a dork if it would help someone learn. Despite being a second-generation German immigrant, Condray grew up not learning the language. Her grandfather came to America to live as a priest before the outbreak of World War II. When the war began, speaking German was discouraged within the family. She did not come to the language until a disastrous Honors Calculus class. I had a teacher whose strategy was to give all F ' s to motivate students to work harder, Condray said. So, I learned that an F plus an F plus an F equals a B for the semester. I ran screaming from biology. She switched her major to German and never looked back. Coming from a long line of teachers, Condray had an instinctive ability to keep her classroom buzzing. We go and play tag with me shouting true-or-false statements in German. The answer determines who chases whom, Condray said. I send them out on a scavenger hunt around campus when we learn directions. What made Condray a standout was her dedication to students. It ' s about talking to them about what else they are doing. What internships or study abroad they are looking at. College is about making connections. Making it worth something, Condray said. Condray made a strong case for the study of German in an area where many students opt for Spanish. What I can teach you in four se¬ mesters of German can get you a job at a European company, Condray said. German is the language of commerce and economy. Germany is number one in foreign-owned operations in Arkansas. THE GERMAN PROFESSOR 289 Anastasiia Gryshchuk Journalism, Junior, Odesa, Ukraine Taylor Nicole Guinn Health Science, Sophomore, Conway, Ark. Lauren Nicole Hadaway Nursing, Freshman, Texarkana, Texas Ashley Brooke Haines Art, Sophomore, Tulsa, Okla. Lily Jeannine Hale Psychology, Senior, Waldron, Ark. Rebecca Elysia Hampel Journalism- Ad PR, Junior, Fort Smith, Ark. Jordan Kelsey Harper Communications, Senior, Fort Smith, Ark. Mary Kate Harrison Pre-Comm. Disorders, Freshman, Fayetteville, Ark. Emily Katherine Harvey English and Art, Junior, Memphis, Tenn. David William Haskett History, Senior, Waco, Texas Paige Joetta Heller Biological Enginnering, Senior, Fort Smith, Ark. Anna Katherine Hill Undeclared, Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Meredith Ann Hoberock Law, Graduate, Nevada, Mo. Chelsea Hodge Music Performance, Senior, Berryville, Ark. Kathryn Elizabeth Holland Nursing, Freshman, Camden, Ark. 290 PEOPLE ABOVE Sophomore Amanda Wood has a hard time keeping her desk clutter free as she faces her daily responsibilities. Wood has to balance her classes, social life and all the challenges of being an RA. 292 PEOPLE THE RA STORY Ashyle Horton PHOTO MattTrauschke Sophomore apparel studies major, Amanda Wood, walked down the third floor hall of Humphreys. A few residents stopped and exchange words. Others raced to their rooms and quickly slammed the door. Amanda ' s cheeks turned cherry red. She headed into her single room, the room that many on her floor seemed to fear. Besides having to deal with classes, several students have to worry about supervising their peers who live in resi¬ dence halls. The Resident Assistant, or RA, is an upperclassmen who helps oversee and aid other residents. The role is very time-consuming and requires a student to be flexible. Although this was only her first year as an RA, Amanda Wood said she would definitely do it again. However, the job presented some personal challenges. Most residents on her floor felt comfort¬ able talking to her, but many still believed the RA stereotype. You get doors slammed in your face because you ' re an RA. They see you as more of an authority figure than friend. It ' s hard to realize that people don ' t think that you ' re normal. I don ' t always want to be the authority figure, Wood said. Along with the added pressure of trying to handle fellow students, Wood also had to deal with classes, desk shifts at Hum¬ phreys and Gibson Hall, time with friends and balancing the needs of her residents as well as her own schedule. The challenges to being an RA for many included time management, lack of sleep, late night calls and the residents in the hall. It can be time consuming with meet¬ ings every week. The extra desk shifts just mean more time spent in the dorms, Wood said. Despite the challenges to being an RA, Wood was still glad that she chose to com¬ mit to the obligation. I feel like I know more people. Last year I lived at Yocum, and I felt isolated. Now, I know all the RAs, and even the cleaning ladies. I ' m more social, everyone ' s willing to say hi. She was also grateful to her residents. However, she believed the residents need¬ ed to know one thing: We ' re not all m ean. We ' re all people. I mean, I ' m not even that much older than some of them, and a lot are older than me. We ' re not all out to get you, and you can talk to us. Where is your hometown and why did you choose to attend the UA? I ' m from Ruston, Lousiana and chose to attend to the UA because of the scenery of the Ozark Mountains. They ' re my playground. - SADIE MCDONALD, GRADUATE STUDENT What is it that you would change about the UA campus? I ' d prefer there not be as much construction. - KEATON PIPER, JUNIOR Where is your favorite place in Fayetteville to hangout and why? I like spending time at the Starbucks on Joyce Blvd. and College Ave.The setting there is really nice and I lo ve meeting new people there. -TABITHA FRASIER, FRESHMAN Shel Hollingsworth International Relations, Freshman, Bentonville, Ark. Courtnie Janssen Holt Journalism Political Science,.Junior, Lonoke, Ark. Su Jung Hong Finance Accounting, Senior, South Korea Kristen Hoover Journalism Ad PR, Sophomore, Rogers, Ark. Ricky Galen Horrton Business Administration. Graduate, Bentonville, Ark. Ashyle Noelle Horton Human Development Family, Junior, Kansas City, Kan. Leah Michelle Humphrey Creative Writing, Junior, Siloam Springs, Ark. Mollie Caitlin Ironside Communication Disorder, Junior, Fayetteville, Ark. Steven Andrew James Biology, Sophomore, Conway, Ark. Maria Cristina Janer Dietetics, Freshman, Panama, Panama 294 PEOPLE What would you like to Se e on campus that you think is missing? A ski lift. ADAM WOODWARD, SOPHOMORE What would you like to see on campus that you think is missing? I would like to see a zipline because I get shin-splints all the time going up the hill Where is your favorite place on campus to take a break and relax? The JB Hunt building because I ' ve taken some great naps in those orange chairs - CAROLINE KIRBY, SOPHOMORE - JULIANNA GRILLOT, SOPHOMORE Johnanthan Benjamin Jarmon Drama, Freshman, Ozark, Ark. Roxy Jien Childhood Ed., Senior, Santa Cruz, Bolivia Dereka L. Johnson Social Criminal Justice, Junior, Sparkman, Ark. Megan Nicole Johnson Biology- Premed, Junior, Memphis, Tenn. Bryttani Christine Johnston Mental Health Counseling, Grad., Carrollton, Texas Tommye R. Jones Biology, Freshman, Fayetteville, Ark. Chandler Abigail Jordan Nursing, Freshman, Hot Springs, Ark. Kristin D. Justis Anthropology, Sophomore, Fayetteville, Ark. George Michael Kelley History, Freshman, West Fork, Ark. Toni Leigh Kelley Recreation and Sports, Grad., Strickler, Ark. SIDEWALKTALK 295 RIGHT Two puppies gaze through the fence of the Fayetteville animal shelter puppy room. Fayetteville Animal Services aimed to educate citizens to be responsible pet owners, place animals into homes, return lost animals and reduce the number of animals humanely euthanized. BELOW Katie Clayton holds a cat in the cat room of the Fayetteville animal shelter. Clayton said volunteering at the shelter was rewarding and she wanted to impact the community. EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY 298 PEOPLE STORY Michelle Betzner PHOTOS Kathleen Pait Dogs of all shapes and sizes eagerly await visitors in hopes that someone will take them home. They squeeze their noses through openings in the cages, their brown eyes wide with excitement. Some wag their tails, while others cower in the corners, fearful of the slightest touch. Despite encountering abandoned and abused pets, the volunteers at the Fayetteville Animal Shelter feel that it is a place for new beginnings and second chances. Junior animal science major Katie Clayton and sophomore art major Lucie Patton are two in particular that strive to support their community and share their passion. My responsibilities include taking the dogs out from their kennel and playing with them inside fenced yards, Patton said. As a fellow dog-lover, Clayton had similar duties. She walked dogs so that they could receive exercise regularly and participated in checking records and processing adoptions. For them, serving as volunteers could be a frustrating yet rewarding experience. They were faced with many difficulties, such as having to witness malnourished and mistreated animals come into the shelter. Having to put down an animal for any reason breaks my heart, Clayton said. One dog was adopted twice and found in worse conditions than when she left the shelter. Patton had her own personal experiences with overcoming emotional obstacles. Not only did adoptive families sometimes neglect their pets, but animals were euthanized after remaining in the shelter for a long period of time. It hurts knowing that a dog you played with the week before had to be put down because of lack of adoption, Patton said. It ' s also frustrating that people get an animal and don ' t care for it. Adoption is a big commitment that they need to consider before making a decision Despite these obstacles, Clayton and Patton felt that their hard work and dedication paid off in the end. In addition to the staff having extra help around the shelter, the students got to relax and experience unique moments with the animals. I adopted my dog from the shelter, Clayton said. She jumped at the slightest noise when we brought her home, but now she ' ll eat treats out of our hands. If I can prevent an animal from feeling scared, then I ' ve done my job. The students had many aspirations concerning their volunteerism. They both strived to grow as separate individuals, support the staff at the shelter and make the animals comfortable and happy. My personal goal is to make as much of an impact in the community as possible, Patton said. LEFT A dog leans on the fence in the Fayetteville Animal shelter. The shelter rescued cats and dogs and cared for them until they were adopted. THE VOLUNTEER 299 John D. Kennedy Law, Russellville, Ark. Ross Kerr Drama, Sophomore, Fayetteville, Ark. Laurell Denise King Pre-Med Kinesiology, Fresh., Ashdown, Ark. Anton Kokorin Transportation Logistics, Junior, Tosno, Russia Jamie Rae Kraybill Business, Freshman, Stillwater, Okla. Philip James Lambey Jr. Business Marketing, Senior, Springdale, Ark. Kali Morgan Lantefield International Business, Fresh., Leawood, Kan. Lani Marie LaPlante Apparel Studies, Sophomore, Tulsa, Okla. Marla Sue Larey Mech. Engineering, Soph., Texarkana, Texas Remy A. LeCompte Business, Freshman, Wichita, Kan. Elaine Lee Business, Sophomore, Van Buren, Ark. Hayley Leonard Childhood Development, Soph., Coppell, Texas Autumn MacKenzie Lewis Political Science Economics, Soph., Joplin, Mo. Anastasia Alexandra Lofton Childhood Development, Senior, Fayetteville, Ark. Bonifacio Lopez Torres Hospitality Rest. MGMT, Soph., Lonoke, Ark. Shaquille Donnell Lowe Computer Engineering, Soph., Reed, Ark. Steven Franco Lung Transportation Logistics MGMT, Senior, Quito, Ecuador Chris M. Lyngaas Finance, Sophomore, Houston, Texas Ezra Ward Mable French, Senior, Marion, Ark. Andrew Joel Macquilkan Kinesiology German, Soph., Lucas, Texas Connor Allen Malone Psychology, Junior, Southlake, Texas Jason Matthew Maloy Human Devel. Family, Grad., Texarkana, Ark. Ashley S. Mayfield Civil Engineering, Soph., Miami, Okla. Maggie Corson McConnell Business, Freshman, Springdale, Ark. Justin Edward Jakob McCormick Journalism-Ad PR, Junior, Altus, Ark. Dexter LaMonte McRae Electrical Engineering, Junior, Hampton, Ark. Ryan Miles McSwain Architectural Studies, Senior, Maumelle, Ark. Andres Jose Mena Sports MGMT, Fresh., San Salvador, El Salvador Kayla Danielle Mendoza Pre-Nursing, Freshman, St. Louis, Mo. Omar Meson Espaillat Intern. Business, Fresh., Sosua, Dominican Republic jjW ' -r.v m hw fk OT1 300 PEOPLE Blaine Andrew Miller Criminal Justice, Senior, Gentry, Ark. Elizabeth Diane Miller Journalism, Freshman, Dallas, Texas Meghan Miros Finance, Sophomore, Little Rock, Ark. Reon Reon Mobley Anthropology, Soph., Prince Andrews Air Force Base Drema Moon Geology, Senor, Fort Smith, Ark. Courtney Taylor Moon Animal Science, Senior, Ft. Smith. Ark. Michael Robert Moore Music, Senior, Ruston, La. Leah Morrison Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Grad., Texarkana, Ark. Devonn Michael Moss Mathematics, Senior, Nassau, Bahamas Axelle Mouly Chemical Engineering. Senior, Cholet, France Maria E. Munoz Psychology, Freshman. Vancouver, British Columbia Sara Newby Business, Sophomore, Memphis, Tenn. Julianna Lee Nix Comm. Disorders, Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Emily Noah History, Junior, North Little Rock, Ark. Jill Frances Nola English, Freshman, St. Louis, Mo. PEOPLE 301 Jordan Rae Northcutt Engineering, Soph., Forrest City, Ark. Karl Eagleton Northfell Computer Science, Junior, Chicago, Illinois Marsha Norvell Human Resource Development, Senior, Prairie Grove, Ark. Vincent Z. Novak English, Junior, Fayetteville, Ark. Lilly R. Olaru Business, Senior, Hot Springs, Ark. Benard Omondi Omogo Chemistry, Senior, Kisumu, Kenya Mallory Anne Owens Apparell Studies, Soph., Wynne, Ark. Eric J. Pacheco Economics Spanish, Senior, Los Angeles, Calif. Garrett H. Park Communications, Junior, Bentonville, Ark. Dominic Sean Parks Hospitality Restaurant Mgmt., Junior St. Louis, Mo. Hannah Sue Parsons Honors Biology, Soph., Springdale, Ark. Gareth Edward Patterson Art, Soph., Bryant, Ark. Rachael Anastasia Pellegrino Chemistry Anthropology, Sophomore, Hot Springs, Ark. Brooke Katherine Pennings Nursing, Freshman, Southlake, Texas LaChassity Shanell Phillips Criminal Justice Sociology, Soph., Wynne, Ark. o Jenny Phomakay Chemical Engineering, Senior, Alma, Ark. Keaton Piper Biochemistry, Soph., Springfield, Mo. Anna Kathleen Plyler Pre-Nursing, Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Matthew S. Pollock Electrical Engineering, Junior, Huntsville, Ark. Carissa Porter French lnternat. Relations, Senior, Jonesboro, Ark. Tanner Andrew Posey Economics, Soph., Mountain Home, Ark. Mary Kate Powers Journalism- Broadcast Ad PR, Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Mary Kathryn Price Biomedical Engineering, Fresh., Russellville, Ark. Mattie Katherine Quinn Journalism, Senior. Little Rock, Ark. Valeria Quiroga Poultry Science, Freshman, Tarija, Bolivia Carl Wils Rainey IV Creative Writing, Soph., Little Rock, Ark. Sam Rauh English, Sophomore, Owasso, Okla. Shankar Ravi Public Policy, Graduate, Chennai, Tamilnadu Anna Lee Rea Communications, Freshman, Dallas, Texas Rachel Michelle Relic Pre-Med Biology, Freshman, Mount Ida, Ark. 302 PEOPLE THE DIE-HARD STORY Ashyle Horton p | | PHOTO Logan Webster 1 ' Vl The camera traveled its way across a sea of car¬ dinal red and white. Zooming in and out on various students, the camera finally stopped as one student covered in red paint and a white 0 graced the screen. Matt Chappell, junior sports management major, stared into the lens of the camera. His eyes stayed glued to the camera as he continued to dance to the UA Razorback Marching Band ' s tune. The University had an unlimited supply of die-hard Razorback fans. The die-hards were the first students at every football game dressed in various costumes to show their school spirit. They traveled together to away games and even had their own section during the basketball games. Among the die-hards, though, one stood out in particular. Matt Chappell was known as the die-hard who would always stare into the cameras during the games without blinking for long periods. It started as just a joke, and then everybody liked it so I just kept doing it, Chappell said. He and his fellow die-hards painted up each game to show their support. They would usually spell out Razorbacks. Right before the home basketball games, they ate corndogs, and subsequently the Razorbacks would win. It ' s done well so far. We ' ve won every game for that, Chappell said. Chappell ' s collection of Razorback items was vast. Out of all his shirts, only two were non-Razorback. His passion for the Hogs led him to become a student at the UA.The campus and the atmosphere led him to become a die-hard fan. It ' s kind of a born-bred thing, Chappell said. Ev¬ erybody born here is a Razorback, or you ' re really just not a fan at all. I believe in the Razorbacks, and that ' s just what I ' ve always known. 304 PEOPLE ABOVE Matt Chappell, junior, turns from viewing the Arkansas basketball game against South Carolina to pose and stare at the camera. Chappell became known for his long stares into the camera without blinking during football games. THE DIE-HARD FAN 305 Bo Renner Business Economics, Soph., Fayetteville, Ark. Jairo Angel Reyes Business Economics, Soph., Rogers, Ark. Christopher Trenton Rhodes Music, Senior, Tulsa, Okla. Adriana Celina Rivera Pre-Med Biology, Freshman, Hope, Ark. Hannah Rae Roark Business, Freshman, Magnolia, Ark. Sloane Ashton Roberts Communications, Junior, Rison, Ark. Kristopher Caleb Robertson Pre-Nursing, Junior, Jonesboro, Ark. Katie Rose Biology, MS, Cabot, Ark. Forrest Walker Roth History, Senior, Shaddox Hollow, Ark. Zachary Lloyd Rupe Journalism, Freshman, Fayetteville, Ark. Katherine Allison Sabatino Sports Mgmt., Sophomore, Edmond. Okla. Ashley Sauer Early Childhood Ed.. Soph., Joplin, Mo. Nicole Leigh Schuler Anthropology, Freshman, Florissant, Mo. Sable A. Sellick Agricultural Education, Comm. Technology, Junior, Berryville, Ark. Jillian Grace Sharp Social Work, Junior, Little Rock, Ark. Emily Shields Biological Engineering, Soph., Benton, Ark. Emmanuel Babajide Shoyinka Biology Pre-Med, Senior, Los Angeles, Calif. Nicholas Shuffield Civil Engineering, Freshman. Arkadelphia, Ark. Claire Louise Skillestad Journalism-Ad PR, Freshman, Dallas, Texas Miranda Small Communication Disorders, Junior, Dallas, Texas Mike Don Smith Social Work, Freshman, Stillwater. Okla. Kaylee Judith Smith Engineering, Freshmen, McDonald County, Mo. Secrete Janeti Smith Accounting, Sophomore, Wynne, Ark. Colby Levi Smith Food, Human Nutrition and Hospitality, Concentration:Dietetics, Springdale, Ark. Mallory A. Smith Inti. Relations French, Fresh., Kansas City Mo. Kathryn Grace Smith Social Work, Soph., Jonesboro, Ark. Rebecca Elizabeth Soard Journalism, Sophomore, Salem, Mo. Bridget Delilah Spencer Broadcast Journalism Pre-Law, Junior, Marietta, Georgia Breana Michelle Stewart Music Education, Junior, Springfield, Mo. Susan Joy Stiers HR Development, Senior, Farmington, Ark. PEOPLE 307 ABOVE James J. Bryant, sophomore, still takes college courses decades after he started. He traveled the world as a journalist and then moved from university to university with no intention of actually earning a degree. 308 PEOPLE A MAN OF THE WORLD STORY Kathleen Pait PHOTO Kathleen Pait His sole front tooth hung from his upper gum and extended over his bottom lip. When he smiled, the deep wrinkles around his eyes connected to the creases in his forehead. This was a man of the world. A man who had lived in Paris working for the Harold Tribune. A man who had traveled from Vietnam with the Marine Corps, to Bangladesh, parts of Central and South America, Beirut, Damascus, Israel, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and everywhere in between. This was James J. Bryant, a journalist who traveled to find the story, wherever that may be. [I went] all over really. Who was beat¬ ing one another this week or shooting at or bombing or whatever, ' ' Bryant said. He knew he wanted to be a journalist since age eight. He sought his own work instead of the family business. Journalism, Bryant said, was a thing where I could travel and have somebody else pay for it. He decided not to take the traditional route of earning a degree after four years in college. Instead, he began his undergradu¬ ate years at Texas A M in 1961. He then studied at Bradley University, St. Louis Uni¬ versity, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Paris. At sixty-eight years old, I ' m still a sophomore. Bryant said. I will never get a degree. I have no intention of ever getting started [on a degree]. I glory in this. He smiled again, and his tooth stuck out. All of his other teeth were knocked out in a polo match years ago. It was a perfectly legal follow-through, and I wasn ' t wearing a face mask, Bryant said. So what was a retired man such as Bryant doing on the University campus? Besides taking some French classes but primarily focusing on English, one could say that James Bryant was an ageless student of the world. In his own words, though, James said, I ' m just here for the beer and the girls. A MAN OFTHE WORLD 309 Stephanie Sypult Dietetics, Junior, Rogers, Ark. Aaron Yung Chieh Tan Communications, Senior, Fayetteville, Ark. Courtney Alexis Tarver Landscape Architecture, Soph., Fairfield Bay, Ark. Michelle K. Tate Biology, Freshman, Fayetteville, Ark. Tim Robert-Alien Tiffany Criminal Justice, Freshman, Plano, Texas Abel Noah Tomlinson Plant Pathology, Grad., Mountainburg, Ark. Brandon Heath Townsend Criminal Justice Sociology, Junior, Fayetteville, Ark. James T. Tran Biology, Senior, Fort Smith, Ark. Karson James Trevillion Comm. Disorders, Soph., Conway, Ark. Maggie Turner Hospitality, Soph., Cabot, Ark. Honore Kabeho Twagirayezu Business, Soph., Kigali, Rwanda Shelby Urban Broadcast Journalism, Fresh., Rowlett, Texas Alexander T. Vang Finance, Senior, Menomonie, Wis. Berkley Cate Vaughan Nursing, Freshman, Colleyville, Texas Peter Vayda Civil Engineering, Fresh., South Burlington, Vt. Meredith Caroline Velez Elementary Ed., Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Timothy N. Wages Staff, Springdale, Ark. Christopher Scot Wahrman Journalism-Ad PR, Fresh., Overland Park, Kan. Lauren Waldrip Marketing Ad PR, Senior, Moro, Ark. Anna Elizabeth Ward Comm. Disorders, Fresh., Texarkana, Texas Megan Rebeka Wary Biochemistry, Soph., Rogers, Ark. Matthew Watters Civil Engineering, Fresh., Arkadelphia, Ark. Logan J. Webster Journalism, Fresh., Nashville, Ark. Christopher J. Wendel Biology, Sophomore, Little Rock, Ark. Samantha Irene West Biology, Sophomore, Adona, Ark. Melissa Jane Whipple Early Childhood Ed., Freshman, Little Rock, Ark. Simon Wiley Civil Engineering, Junior, Booneville, Ark. Allyson Lynn Williams Biology, Junior, Sioux City, Iowa Kathleen Kraenzle Wilson Spanish Comm., Freshman, El Dorado, Ark. Leah Marie Wingerter Business Ed., Sophomore, Benton, Ark. 310 PEOPLE Chase Houston Wingfield Biochemistry, Sophomore, Little Rock, Ark. Johnny Wolf Computer Science, Junior, Tontitown, Ark. Bradley Wolfe-Binns Business, Freshman, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. TsungYueh Wu Information System, Junior, Taiwan Yingxue Shirley Xie Biochemistry Pre-Pharmacy, Senior, China Jack Tong Xu Computer Science Engineering, Senior, Tian Shui, GanSu Dave W. Yeager Nursing, Sophomore, Fayetteville, Ark. Lu Zhang Cell Molecular Biology, Grad., Shanghai, China MOTHER KNOWS BEST STORY Emily Rhodes PHOTO Jacki Frost As a group of Tri Delta girls walked through the front door, house mom Ellen Bradford was there to greet them in her thick, southern accent. Well, hi, girls. How are you doing today? she asked before settling down on her throne, a red armchair in the sitting room. Growing up in the heart of the Delta, Belzoni, Mississippi, Bradford never thought that she would one day end up living in a house with 93 college-aged girls. After facing hardships and tragedy, Bradford ' s life ‘took a different turn when she received a call from the Arkansas Tri Delta sorority. She was asked to ap¬ ply for the job of housemother. I was so surprised that they would ask me, Bradford said. I told them, honey, they ' d never hire me. I ' ve never had a daughter in my life, and I didn ' t go to school here, but they told me to come up and apply anyway. So I did and I got the job. Living in the house for the past 12 years, Bradford described the job as similar to running her own home. The most important thing I knew I had to do was to make it a home away from home for the girls. When they come in, they feel like it ' s a shelter, so we nicknamed it the Delta Shelter, Bradford said, laugh¬ ing. While some might think house moms simply stay in the shadows, Bradford ' s fun and bright attitude kept her on her toes. Just a couple of her adventures as the Tri Delta housemother included going with the girls to a piano bar for her 80th birthday and getting locked in a restaurant and having to climb out of the window with her friends. The girls have always done so many wonderful things for me that make me feel alive again ... You come up here and see all of them and you think that you ' re back in college again, Bradley said. How many women my age get to go to a pep rally or walk into a restaurant and hear ' mom, what are you doing here? ' It ' s such a wonderful job, and the most reward¬ ing job for me. 312 PEOPLE ABOVE Delta Delta Delta house mom Ellen Bradford poses for a photo before gametime. As a house mom, Bradford tackled duties such as maintenence and help¬ ing take care of the environment, which largely involved being interactive with her sorority girls in and out of the hosue. MOTHER KNOWS BEST 313 ABOVE Graduate student Michael Taiwo prepares for his classes in his office in Bell Engineering building. Taiwo came from his home country of Nigeria to study chemical engineering in hopes that someday he could return to Nigeria and influence the national consciousness. 316 PEOPLE NIGERIA T0 AR KANSAS AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ' S STORY Michael Taiwo JOURNEYTO ANDTHROUGH UA How did I come here? I was pretty naive in my graduate school search. I typed Chemical Engineering Graduate Programs in Google from my laptop in Nigeria, and UA was one of the results. The way I contacted the schools was equally naive. I sent the contact person in each department an email that read something like, I ' ve checked you out. I like you. Do you have a place for me? I finished with a first class honors degree in college and my GRE score is in the 99 percentile. It shouldn ' t come as a surprise that many schools didn ' t reply. A couple of them did, and UARK was one of them. Why University of Arkansas? This is the question I have been asked more than any other by a wide mar¬ gin in my four-year stay here. I chose Arkansas because of the cutting-edge interdisciplinary research taking place in the chemical engineering department. My professor is working on Hydraulic Fracturing and Natural Gas Develop¬ ment, and I know that ' s the immediate future of energy. I wanted to be part of something intellectually challeng¬ ing, personally rewarding and socially relevant. Any fears before coming? The view from half the world away is very different. I was applying for grad school in the wake of the horrible tragedy at Virginia Tech, and there were folks who feared for my safety. It was also the period when Obama ' s profile as a presidential candidate was rising and some of my friends were afraid I might be caught in the middle of a race riot, God forbid something bad happen to him. And quite frankly, this area [of the US] hasn ' t had the best reputation when it comes to race matters. But I knew intuitively from my correspondence with the admission staff here that this is where I needed to be. So fears gave way to hope, and dreams overshadowed doubts. I made the 9,000 mile overseas journey and four years later, I ' m getting my Ph.D in engineering. What I have done while here? I presided over the African Student Or¬ ganization for the 2009-2010 session. To¬ gether with the executives working with me, we rewrote the ASO constitution and instituted changes that rescued the association from oblivion and positioned it as one of the largest student groups on campus today. I was the Graduate Student Liaison to the ASG for the 2010- 2011 session. As the liaison, I worked with school administrators to make a plagiarism checking software available to students, the Safe Assign software in BlackBoard without any extra cost to them. What I am taking away from here? I am leaving UA with a 4.0 GPA and a Ph.D in engineering. But not everything that counts can be counted. I have learned how to handle stress, expanded my world view and have been equipped with tools needed for a successful career. I have come to know the beauty of America, the greatness of her institu¬ tions and the resilience of her people. Americans bounce back always. I have made a lot of friends, too, which is always a good thing. Where do I go from here? I am starting my career at Royal Dutch Shell just days after graduation on May 12. I will be designing the safety phi¬ losophy on new technologies employed in oil and gas drilling rigs offshore at the Gulf of Mexico. The company will be counting on me — and the team I will oversee — to make sure about 50,000 barrels of oil a day is produced safely. It is a huge task, but the compensation is also commensurate. Long term, I will return home to Nigeria to see how we can influence the national conscious¬ ness. The fun really does start after graduation. NIGERIATO ARKANSAS 317 INDEX A Adams, Joe 130 Adams, Mike 195 Adams, Robert Arthur 272 Adams, Zane 155 Ajarrista, Charles 232 Alexander, Danielle 84 Alford, Kyani S. 272 Allen, Isaac 68 Allen, Myria 244 Allen, Tyler 160 Alshami, Fahad 36 Alsubaey, Faisal 36 Altemus, Michael 242 Alvarez, Christina 172 Amerine, Adrienne M. 272 Ampadu, Stephen 272 Anders, Kailey 160 Anderson, Berkely 245 Anderson, Hannah 242 Anderson, Larry 116 Anderson, Mike 144 Ankrah, Arnold 272 Arnold, Chad 251, 272, 342 Aseeperi,Toyin Christie 244,272 Ashley, Liz 245 Astin, Barrett 243 Aubry, Erin 160 Autry, Kevin Scott 272 Awtrey, Cambry 245 B Baggies, J.J. 146 Bagirimvano, Namiko 242 Bahn, Chris 248 Baker, Bay ley 242 Baker, Josephine 227 Bakhsh, Rani A. 272 Barber, Evan 243 Barens, Alvin Dewayne Jr 272 Barker, Channing 248 Barnes, Bailey Rene 272 Barnett, Eric 245 Barnett, Katherine Maria 272 Barrett, Andy 243 Bass, Alyssa 212 Bates, Taylor 89 Bates, Taylor Kaleb 272 Baxendale, DJ 243 Bayless, Alex 104 Bays, Emily Beatrice 272 Beal, Morgan 155 Beard, Patience 155 Beavan, Colin 92 Bedolla, Rocio 263 Beebe, Kate 249 Bennett, Eric 49 Bentley, Joanna 155 Bequette, Jake 101 Bergan, Luke Nathaniel 272 Bermudez, Jennifer 13 Beserra, Lauren 244 Betzner, Michelle 245, 251, 342 Bibby, Brandon 227 Birke, Celi 108 Blair, Gary 183 Blakely, Susan 245 Blasdel, Erin 342 Blau, Trisha 244 Blessen, Betsy Beckenbauer 272 Bobbitt, Lindsay 155 Boggs, Ryan 233 Bollero, Melissa 248 Bonilla, Jose 250 Boone, Seth Allen 272 Borge, Martine 219 Boroughs, Isaac 98 Boumgardner, Eric 112 Boyd, Preston 46 Boyd, Terrance L. 272 Braddy, Neil 216 Bradford, Ellen 312 Brantley, Chase 234 Braun, Liz 243 Bredekamp, Irma 244 Brelsford, Matt 19 Brennan, Nicholas 243 Bricker, Erik 61 Bright, Andrew Jack 272 Brooks, Micah Brandon 272 Brorsen, Rose Kathleen 272 Brown, Olivia 245 Brown, Stephanie 243 Brown, Courtney 248 Brumett, Matt 89 Bryant, Harry 41 Bryant, James J. 309 Bryant, Jan 41 Bryant, Justin 226 Bryant, Kelsy 242 Buchta, Andrew 267 Bucknam, Chris 164 Buechael, Chr istan 243 Buedden, Rebecca 244 Bugeja, Jason 244 Burks, Allie 254 Burns, Matthew 46 Burns, Shawn 153, 155 Butler, Brandon C. 245, 272 Butler, Brittany 243, 244, 272 Butler, Drew 216 Butler, Lindsey 243 Byttner, Morgan 242 c Cabrera, Joe Louis 272 Candlland, Edward Matthew 272 Cappelen, Sebastian 188, 190 Carbone, Emily 200, 243 Carney, Rachel 155 Carr, Daunte 243 Carson, Amy 260 Carter, Eric 244 Carter, Jennifer Lynn 272 Carter, Jimmy 249 Carter, Nick 251,302, 343 Carver, Tim 207 Casey, Sarah Beth 272 Cash, Chance Reid 272 Casper, Madison Eileen 272 Cassidy, Katelynn Anne 272 Castleberry, Kelsey 259 Castrodale, Joey John 277 Cather, Bobby 245 Catlett, Candice Marie 277 Chamberlain, Benjamin 148 Chandler, Allie 159, 160 Chang, Carla 245 Chappell, Matt 304 Chase, Emily 277, 342 Chastain, Kody 245 Chesser, Jonathan 244 Chiu, Tiffany 230, 242 Chop, Pork 155 Chouquette, Axelle 245 Christee, Kaylee 245 Clare, Ethan 151, 155 Clark, Megan 251, 342 Clark, Michael 243 Clark, Shane Francis 277 Clausen, Dr. Ed 118 Clayton, Katie 298 Clegg, Kiera 277 Clem, Chelsea 242 Clements, Mack 62 Coats, Emily 243 Cobb, Cassie Lynn 277 Coffey, John 242 Cohen, Chelsea 211, 212 Cole, William W. 277 Coleman, Jacob 346 Collen,Tom 178, 181, 182 Collins, Emily Zella 277 Collins, Emily 243 Compere, Leeanne 44 Compton, Jordan 66 Condray, Kathleen 289 Connelly, Jacob Todd 277 Cook, Ashlyn Michelle 277 Cook, Grant 134 318 | INDEX c ook, Mark 184, 187 Cook, Raven 227 Cook, Rene 184 Cope, Matt 242, 245 Cope, Matthew Loren 277 Cosgrove, Amy 277 Costello, Jacob 92 Couvillion, Rick 242 Cowart, Jeremy 108 Cox, Bailey 243 Cox, David 277 Crawley, Amy 230, 242 Cross, Caleb 216 Crossfield, Emily 242, 277 Curry, Caitlin 245 Curry, Janessa 245 Curry, Jim 224 D Dahlberg, Sarah Ekizabeth 281 D ale, Ashlyn C. 281 Daniels, Candace 243 Daniels, Derek 242 Davies, Sam 245 Davis, Knile 136 Davis, Trey 242 Day, Meredith L. 281 DeAndre, Dennis 245 De ' Marius, Davis 242 DelNero, Joe 248 Desjardins, Brendan 234 Desjarlias, Vonnie 243 Dethamphaivan, Eric Jay 281 Dixon, Danny Antonio 281 Dobbelaere, Fien 244 Doby, Benjamin Jackson 281 Dodd, Michael 239, 281 Dominguez, Kristina 242 Dominick, John Andrew 281 Donoghue, Ellie 281 Dorrell, Jessica 138 Douglas, Aaron 242 Douglas, Aramis 244 Douglas, Lindsay Elizabeth 281 Dowdy, Katie 281 Draper, Morgan Ashley 281 Droste, Allie 155 Dryer, Ambur 42 Dugan, Andrew 244 Dugger, Haley 242 Dumchev, Andrey Viktorovich 281 Durant, Keiron 239 E Eades, Meredith 242 Easley, Katherine Elizabeth 281 East, Morgan Lea 281 Ebigwu, Clarissa Nwamaka 284 Eck, Tyler 250 Edwards, Lindsey Michelle 284 Edwards, Robby 203 Elkins, Whitney 153 Eller, Amy Lynn 284 Elliott, Cali 251, 343 Ellis, Leslie Anne 284 Ellstrand, Kevin 155 Enderlin, Allison Nicole 284 Engel, Zachary Glenn 346 Englebrecht, Megan 10, 13 Espaillat, Omar Meson 300 Estes-Taylor, Shauna 192, 195 Evans, Sheleana 243 F Faherty, Rose Margaret 284 Fair, Luke 230 Faith, Trenton II 346 Fakhri, Mustafa 21, 243 Fakhri., Mustafa 21, 243 Fanara, Sam 208 Farnell, Chris 112 Farrell, Nora 242 Faulkner, Victoria Marie 284 Felice, Joshua 242 Ferguson, Gregory John 284 Ferguson, Megan 155 Fernandez, Eric 162, 216 Fernandez, Joe C. 284 Ficociello, Dominic 207 Fields, Kaprisha 227 Figgins, Lisa Michelle 284 Fitzpatrick, Kevin 92 Flippin, Ashley Renea 284 Flowers, Ben 249 Fondren, Ross 245 Fontenot, Sarah Caitlan 284 Ford, Elton 243 Ford, Kelsi 249 Forte, Jason 245 Fralin, Dalton 151, 153, 155 Frank, Malea Graham 284 Franks, Nathanael 36, 217 Frasier, Tabitha 294 Fredrick, David 122 Fridell, J.B. 245 Fromme, Hillary 284 Frost, Jacki 251,342 Fukushima,Tatsuya 242 G Gaines, Grant 278 Gallagher, McKenna 10 Gallini, Brain 234 Ganguly, Shrijeeta Sukdev 284 Ganus, Sydney 39 Garber, Ginny 250 Gardner, Joey Jamar 284 Garner, Caroline 20 Gates, Madelynn 155 Gatling, Erin 243 Gauntlett, Akheem 216 Gearhart, G. David 242 Gee, Jayme 212 Gellington, Bianca 242 Gentles, Lauren E. 284 George, Regina 221 Gerke, Joseph Charles 284 Gerner, Samantha 243 Gilbertson, Brett 226, 227 Gilbertson, Vanessa 227 Gilbreth, Chelsey 262 Gililland, Dustin 245 Gililland, Dustin Ray 245, 284 Gililland, Dylan 245 Gillespie, Kristen 166 Gillespie, Scott 216 Gilliam, Emily Anne 284 Gilmore, Kolbee 242 Gingras, Laurie 203, 243 Gingsumrong, Kanchana 245 Givens, Jessie 158, 243 Glaess, Robert Ethan 284 Glasscock, Rachel Lynne 284 Glover, Carly 155 Goddard, Deven James 284 Gohman, Taylor 36 Gonzalez, Celene 284 Gorder, Eric 108 Gosha, Lonnie 130 Gould, Hillary Renae 284 Grace, Jesse Chandler 284 Gragg, Chris 49, 135 Graham, Emily 244 Graham, Ryan Holt 284 Grantham, Lauren 224 Grathwohl, Devyn 242 Gray, Ayana 342 Gregory, Audrey 155 Gregory, Jacie Gayelle 284 Grigson, Quincy Schylar 284 Grillot, Julianna 295 Grimwood, Harrison 250 Gross, Meleah 94, 244, 251, 284, 342 Grotowski, Kat 19 Gryshchuk, Anastasiia 290 Guard, Brian 15 Guinn, Taylor Nicole 290 Guthrie, Mary 71 H Hackler, Lana 244 Hadaway, Lauren Nicole 290 Haines, Ashley Brooke 290 Hale, Colby 160 Hale, Eddie 245 Hale, Lily Jeannine 290 Hall, Lewis 230 Hamilton, Bailey 231 Hamilton, Taylor 242 Hampel, Elysia 251, 343, 290 INDEX 319 Handler, Chelsea 120 Hargreaves, Olivia 155 Harper, Jordan Kelsey 290 Harrington, Christy 243 Harris, Camilla 226 Harris, Lyndsay 181 Harrison, Mary Kate 290 Harrison, Taj 198, 243 Harvey, Emily Katherine 290 Haskett, David William 290 Hastings, Anne Marie 101 Hatcher, Kelsey 243 Hatcher, Lynzee 245 Haute, Terra 166 Havens, Mandi 251, 342 Haydar, Kikko 243 Haygood, Andrew 67 Hayley, Abby 203 Haynes, Paul 130 Haynes, Rebekah 33 Haynie, Jordan 242 Heckelman, Kasey 172 Heckmann, Matthew 92 Heffernan, Lisa 116 Hegarty, Michael 203 Heinz, Karis 33, 244 Heldman, Brian 243 Heller, Paige Joetta 290 Henderson, Grace 245 Hernandez, Carlos 244 Heulitt, Eileen 84 Hickman, Hallie 243 Higgs, Raymond 216 Highsmith, Alonzo 135 Higuchi, Hiromi 242 Hilburn, Holly 53 Hile, Abby 155 Hill, Anna Katherine 290 Hill, Nathan 112 Hinson, Jordan 34 Hirschman, Blake 238 Hoberock, Meredith Ann 290 Hodge, Chelsea 290 Hodges, Aaron 245 Hoffman, Merissa 242 Hoffmans, Sydney 251,342 Hog, Boss 155, 157 Holcomb, Ginny 245 Holder, Eric 245 Holderby, Benjamin 107 Holiman, Matt 242 Holland, Catherine 342 Holland, Kathryn Elizabeth 290 Hollander, Chelsea 244 Hollingsworth, Shel 294 Holt, Courtnie Janssen 294 Homer, Jacqueline 243 Hong, Su Jung 294 Hoover, Kristen 294 Horn, Brittyn 244 Horn, Dave Van 207 Horrton, Ricky Galen 294 Horton, Ashyle 251, 294, 342 Horton, Miranda 155 House, Alex 174 Hubbard, Courtney 243 Hubbard, Jennifer 245 Huckabee, Mike 237 Huckaby, Megan 249 Huffington, Arinna 120 Hughes, Jake 230 Hughey, Sam 155 Humphrey, Leah Michelle 294 Hutto, Meghan 245 I Inman, Julie 243 Ironside, Mollie Caitlin 294 Irwin, Andrew 216 j Jackson, Eric 243 Jackson, Jessica 166 James, Steven Andrew 294 Janer, Maria Cristina 294 Jarmon, Johnanthan Benjamin 295 Jeske, Manfred 19 8 Jien, Roxy 295 Jiminez, Kraig 153 John, Melissa 19 Johnson, Antha 244 Johnson, Dennis 135 Johnson, Dereka L. 295 Johnson, Katie 244 Johnson, Kim 22 Johnson, Megan Nicole 295 Johnson, Ryan 254 Johnston, Bryttani Christine 295 Jolliffe, Dr. David 92 Jones, Ashley 256 Jones, DeQuinta 135 Jones, Joanne 95 Jones, Olivia 342 Jones, Ryan 245 Jones, Sammi 87 Jones, Timothy 112 Jones, Tommye R. 295 Jones, Whitney 243 Jordan, Chandler Abigail 295 Judkins, John 242 Justis, Kristin D. 295 K Kaley 244 Karnes, Kristen 251, 342 Karnes, Spencer 56 Keas, Timothy 250 Keith, Sarell 28 Kelley, Cat 61 Kelley, George Michael 295 Kelley, Savannah 20 Kelley, Toni Leigh 295 Kennedy, John D. 300 Kennedy, Mary 258 Kerley, Steven Todd 346 Kerr, Ross 300 Kezeg, Johnathan 242 Killgore, Kristen 245 Kim, Hyoseung 22 King, Laurell Denise 300 King, Marci 172 Kinnison, Chris 245 Kirby, Caroline 295 Kirch, Michael 98 Klenke, Shannon 169 Kokorin, Anton 300 Korth, Deborah 107 Kravis, Rachel 243 Kraybill, Jamie Rae 300 Kullman, Matt 242 Kurtz, Jennifer 261 L LaBuda, Kaitlin 346 Laird, Luke 216 Lambey, Philip James Jr. 300 Lantefield, Kali Morgan 300 LaPlante, Lani Marie 300 Larey, Marla 244, 300 LaRocca, Christina 242 Laughlin, Daniel 58 Lavender, Lauren 257 Lavy, Emma 195 Lawler, Laura 244 Lazas, Kevin 214, 243 Leadbetter, Hally 192, 195 Leal, Arthur 242 Leatherby, Lauren 249 LeCompte, Remy A. 300 Lee, Elaine 300 Lee, Joshua 242 Lennon, Lakia 242, 243 Lensing, Olivia 155 Leonard, Hayley 300 Leraris, Arden 103 Lewis, Autumn MacKenzie 300 Lewis, Kelci 187, 243 Lewis, Kylee 242 Lewis, Marc 243 Lieghio, Anthony 215 Lipscomb, Sarah 243 Lofton, Anastasia Alexandra 300 Logan, Maddie 20 Lollis, Marquetta 242 Long, Jeff 138 Love, Andrea 244 Lowe, Shaquille Donnell 300 Lukomskaya, Kate 203, 243 Lung, Steven Franco 300 Lyngaas, Chris M. 300 Lyons, Moriah 243 M MaAtee, Ali 242 Mabie, Justin 245 Mable, Ezra Ward 300 Macquilkan, Andrew Joel 320 INDEX 300 Maher, Jonah 243 Malone, Connor Allen 300 Maloy, Jason Matthew 300 Mann, Sarina 245 Manning, Macy 155 Marahashi, Alcichilan 242 Marquez, Alexandra 239, 248 Marquez, Michael 15 Martin, Anisha 95 Martin, Beth 244 Martin, David Zeek 250 Martin, Mary Beth 33 Martin, Rebekah 43 Massingill, Justin 230, 242 Matlock, Josh 245 May, Katie 64 May, Ryan 112 Mayes, Susan 121 Mayfield, Ashley S. 300 McAlphine, Christine 244 McCarthy, Shannon 66 McCaskey, Matt 245 McCay, Conner 155 McConnell, Maggie Corson 300 McConniel, Kim 244 McCormick, Ethan 224 McDaniel, Molly 244 McDonald, Sadie 294 McFalls, Lauren 155 McGee, Lyndsay 245 McGinnis, Jason 242 McKenna, Stephanie 103 McKnight, Thomas 244 McLemore, Hope 243 McMakin, Brad 190 McRae, Dexter LaMonte 300 McSwain, Ryan Miles 251, 300, 343 Meador, Megan 155 Meason, Will 243 Mena, Andres Jose 300 Mendoza, Kayla Danielle 300 Merritt, Olivia 243 Michel, Morgan 230 Mickelson, Hunter 142, 274 Milburn, Elizabeth 264 Milhorn, Greg 207 Miller, Blaine Andrew 301 Miller, Phyllis 101 Miller, Elizabeth Diane 301 Millsop, Robert 244 Millwood, Melissa 153, 155 Minkler, Rikki 36 Miros, Meghan 301 Mitchel.Tevin 130 Mitchell, Brandon 135 Mitchell, Brittany 242 Mobley, Reon Reon 245, 301 Mobley, Reon 245 Monteverde, Jake 230 Monye, Iris 22 Moody, Abby 155 Moon, Courtney Taylor 301 Moon, Drema 301 Moore, Brandon 243 Moore, Matthew 245 Moore, Michael Robert 301 Morgan, Isaac 242 Morris, Jacob 207 Morrison, Leah 301 Morrison, Sean 249 Morrissey, Christopher 346 Mosley, Paul 119 Moss, Devonn Michael 301 Moudy, Tyler 242 Mouly, Axelle 301 Munkus, John 112 Munoz, Maria E. 301 Murray, Robert 242 N Naseem, Saba 249 Navarro, Clarissa 213 Nelson, Sheffield 248 Nennet, Nik 149 Nettles, Audrey 155 Newby, Sara 301 Newcome, Jen 224 Newport, Emily 101 Nichols, Jessica 228 Nichols, Malachi 242 Nims, Brittany 249 Nitt, Marek 216 Nix, Julianna Lee 301 Noah, Emily 242, 301 Nobles, Julysses 142 Nojalea, Kazutcka 242 Nola, Jill Frances 301 Northcutt, Jordan Rae 302 Northfell, Karl Eagleton 302 Norton, Jasmine 171, 243 Norvell, Marsha 302 Norwood, Katherine 251, 342 Nott, Mike 196 Novak, Vincent Z. 302 o Oden, Kalyn 244 O ' Grady, Casey 243 O ' Grady, Courtney 174, 243 Olander, Madeline 244 Olaru, Lilly R. 302 Omogo, Benard Omondi 302 Ordorica, Cheddar 36 Orfield, Bridget 155 Ortiz, Kelly Sue Cuya 277 Owens, Mallory Anne 302 P Pacheco, Eric J. 302 Pait, Kathleen 61,230, 242, 251, 342 Palmer, Kayla 67 Palomino, Mario 245 Papineau, Annalise 243 Parenteau, Catherine 203 Park, Garrett H. 302 Park, Jennifer 244, 245 Parkins, Corinne 160 Parks, Dominic Sean 302 Parr, Emily 245 Parsons, Hannah Sue 302 Patterson, Breanna 244 Patterson, Gareth Edward 251, 302, 343 Patton, Lucie 299 Paul, Joel 243 Paulson, Claudine 201, 203 Pellegrino, Rachael Anastasia 242, 302 Pence, Stewart 16 Pendergrass, Victoria 244, 245 Pennings, Brooke Katherine 302 Pennington, Bobby 238 Perkins, Jessica 63 Perry, Carmen 240, 242 Petrino, Bobby 48, 134, 135, 136, 138 Petty, Rachel 269 Peven, Mike 94 Phillips, Duncan 216 Phillips, LaChassity Shanell 302 Phomakay, Jenny 302 Ping, Taylor 245 Piper, Keaton 294, 302 Pisani, Jaime 184, 187, 243 Pitts, Conner 155 Plafcan, Josh 98 Plyler, Anna Kathleen 302 Podzielinski, Emily 194, 243 Pohlner, Tori 238 Pollard, Roland 155 Pollock, Matthew S. 302 Pollock, Tabatha 251, 342 Porter, Carissa 302 Posey, Tanner Andrew 302 Potter, McKenna 19 Pottorff, Lindsay 52 Powers, Karsten 242 Powers, Mary Kate 302 Prentice, Terry 217 243 Preston, Andrea 244 Price, Mary Kathryn 302 Pritchard, Addison 245 Pritchett, Julia 237 Pruitt, Whit 251,342 Pryor, Aaron 248 Pryor, Christopher 251, 245, 343 Puente, Lindsay 96 Pulliza, Robert 172 Q Quinn, Mattie Katherine 249, 302 Quiroga, Valeria 302 INDEX 321 R Raber, Eddie 245 Rainey, Carl Wils IV 302 Rambo, Jennifer 212 Ramey, Karen 242 Ramey, Nick 155 Randle, Taylor 243 Rasheed, Anum 242 Rasner, Ross 134 Rauh, Sam 302 Raven, Cook 227 Ravi, Shankar 302 Ray, Alex 155 Rea, Anna Lee 302 Red, Big 155 Reeves, Carol 120 Relic, Rachel 245 Relic, Rachel Michelle 302 Renner, Bo 307 Reyes, Jairo Angel 307 Reynolds, Matt 207 Reynolds, Richard 103 Rhea, Dillon 37, 209 Rhodes, Christopher Trenton 90, 307 Rhodes, Emily 249, 251, 342 Richardson, Nolan 144 Richardson, Thomas 245 Rickett, C ' eira 180, 182 Riley, Leann 243 Ritchie, Trent 234 Rivera, Adriana Celina 307 Roark, Hannah Rae 307 Roberts, Jerrod 153, 155 Roberts, Meagan 192 Roberts, Sloane Ashton 307 Robertson, Emily 38 Robertson, Erin 44 Robertson, Kristopher Caleb 307 Robertson, Bryce 242 Robinson, Eriel Lynn 245 Robinson, Zach 242 Rogers, Katy 28 Rono, Patrick 164, 216 Rose, Katie 307 Roth, Forrest Walker 307 Rowan, Andy 245 Rowe, Matt 346 Roy, Stephanie 203 Rupe, Zachary Lloyd 307 Russell, Andrew 242 Russell, Travis 209 Ryan, Chris 66 s Sabatino, Katherine Allison 307 Saldana, Ashley 37 Salvator e, Genny 187 Santos, Raymariely 172, 173 Sanz, Elena 251, 342 Sauer, Ashley 307 Schalis, Kelli 18 Schanda, Jordan 244 Schichtl, Karly 245 Schuler, Nicole Leigh 307 Scogin, Tyler 242 Scott, Addison 242 Scott, Jordan 56 Scott, Rickey 143 Sears, Mary 244 Sellick, Sable A. 307 Setorie, Annalise 244 Sharp, Jillian Grace 307 Sharpley, Andrew 123 Shaw, Mason 12, 242 Sherrington, Madeleine 155 Shibata, Tomovuki 242 Shields, Emily 244, 307 Shoyinka, Emmanuel 242 Shoyinka, Emmanuel Babajide 307 Shuff, Natalie 245 Shuffield, Nicholas 307 Siemens, Jacob 245 Simpson, Will 242 Skidmore, Ben 216, 243 Skillestad, Claire Louise 307 Small, Miranda 307 Smith, Adrianna 10, 13 Smith, Alexa 245 Smith, Chris 134 Smith, Colby Levi 307 Smith, Imani 155 Smith, John L. 138 Smith, Kathryn Grace 307 Smith, Kaylee Judith 307 Smith, LauRon 238 Smith, Mallory A. 307 Smith, Mike Don 307 Smith, Paul 245 Smith, Scott 112 Smith, Secrete Janeti 307 Smith, Shavawn 41 Smith, Trevor 245 Smith, Kevin 242 Snyder, Kathryn 155 Soard, Rebecca 251, 342, 307 Sojka, Ashleigh 114 Souly, Evan 243 Southard, Travis 216 Sparkman, Brett 112 Sparkman, Taylor 153, 155 Spencer, Bridget Delilah 307 Stadler, Kyle 155 Stanek, Ryne 207 Stewart, Breana Michelle 307 Stewart, Kat 225 Stiers, Susan Joy 307 Stipanovich, Kelli 243 Stovall, Hunter 244 Stratton, Beth 160 Summerford, Amanda 212 Sypult, Stephanie 310 T Tailor, Annalisa 37 Taiwo, Michael 316 Talley, Graham 265 Tallon, Holly 244 Tan, Aaron Yung Chieh 310 Taniguchi, Ginjiro 242 Tarver, Courtney Alexis 310 Tate, Michelle K. 310 Taylor, Kathryn 245 Tennal, Catherine 245 Thor, Kanah 242 Tiffany, Tim Robert-Alien 310 Tims, Miranda 155 Tomlinson, Abel Noah 310 Torres, Bonifacio Lopez 300 Townsend, Brandon Heath 310 Tracy, Ethan 188, 190 Tran, James T. 310 Tran, Johnathan 242 Tran, Kimanh 230 Trauschke, Matt 251, 342 Trevillion, Karson James 310 Trovillion, Ryan 245 Tsuiimoto, Mika 242 Turner, Jesse 19 Turner, Maggie 310 Twagirayezu, Honore Kabeho 310 Tyson, Caleb 242 u Uekman, Garrett 137, 346 Urban, Shelby 310 V Valdez, Roger 242 Valdizon, Carolina 244 Valier, Baillie 242 VanDorple, Courtney 155 Vang, AlexanderT. 310 VanGenderen, Andrew 44 Vaughan, Berkley Cate 310 Vaughn, Maurie 155 Vayda, Peter 310 Vecchio, Tommy 230 Vela, Victoria 192 Velez, Meredith Caroline 310 w Waddell, Hunter 155 Wade, Mardracus 243 Wages, Timothy N. 310 Wahlmeier, Gentry 268 Wahrman, Christopher Scot 310 Waithe, Marvell 142 Waldrip, Lauren 310 Walker, Charity 242 Walker, Kody 134 Walker, Taylor 28 Wallace, Devon 210 Walter, Cody 245 322 | INDEX Walters, Matt 198, 243 Wang, Xiaoyun 36 Ward, Anna Elizabeth 310 Ward, Mike 197 Wary, Megan 242 Wary, Megan Rebeka 310 Wasson, Flannery 245 Watkins, Sarah 181 Watson, Jeanna 243 Watters, Matthew 310 Weaver, Meridith 155 Webb, Faith 243 Webster, Logan J. 251,302, 310, 342 Wehmer, John 242 Wendel, Christopher J. 310 West, Samantha Irene 310 Wethington, Shawna 243 Whipple, Melissa Jane 310 Whitaker, Melia 155 Whitbeck, Katie 243 Whitbeck, Lizzy 243 White, Priscilla 71 Wiley, Simon 310 Williams, Allyson Lynn 310 Williams, Mariel 242 Williams, Ray 225 Wilson, J.R. 242 Wilson, Kathleen Kraenzle 310 Wilson, Tyler 101, 134 Wilson, Venus 65 Wilson, Zach 244, 245 Wingerter, Leah Marie 310 Wingfield, Chase Houston 311 Wise, Jake 207 Wisean.Tom 243 Witty, Abby 245 Wolf, Johnny 311 Wolfe-Binns, Bradley 311 Wolff, Kathryn 245 Wood, Amanda 293 Wood, Sarah 230, 242 Woodard, Chad 249 Woodward, Adam 34, 295 Wordlaw, Evan 36 Wright, Katy 244 Wright, Tenarius 135 Wu.TsungYueh 311 Wuellner, T.J. 110 Wyatt, Ashley 244 X Xie, Yingxue Shirley 311 Xu,Jack Tong 311 Y Yang.Tolephi 242 Yates, Adam 242 Yeager, DaveW. 311 Yerger, Melanie 155 Yopp, Timothy 44 Young, BJ 142 Young, Madeleine 245, 266 z Zaring, Stephanie 244 Zhang, Jian 243 Zhang, Lu 311 Zogai, Nikolas 198 ; § v ; ' O 1 X 1 Photo by Logan Webster f } m 0 � m m m t g KB j fij 1 mm m m «f gpa mm m� — «i MM-- mmttt MMM — TTSmm T —■ Ml M — — m Zggm m ' MM , «MM MMMM M� MMMM « MMM ■ — V MM—� ' ' M XVMM — Mi Ml • pmm mm MM MMi _PjjSS S S m nSTLS _� MMMM Mi MM MM — — M .MM — — • hhm MMMM j lTm«- � 1 - 7 ———• •T——Ml Mi MM — MM _J B ___ 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Row 4: Meleah Gross, Megan Clark, Chad Arnold, Michelle Betzner, Chris Pryor, Logan Webster. 342 WRITERS DESIGNERS PHOTOGRAPHERS Michelle Betzner Emily Chase Chad Arnold Megan Clark Meleah Gross Erin Blasdel Ayana Gray Sydney Hoffmans Jacki Frost Cassye Hall Catherine Holland Mandi Havens Sydney Hoffmans Olivia Jones Tabatha Pollock Ashyle Horton Kristen Karnes Whit Pruitt Kathleen Pait Katherine Norwood Emily Rhodes Emily Rhodes Matt Trauschke Elena Sanz Logan Webster Rebecca Soard STAFF SENIOR STAFF ASSISTANT EDITOR Ryan McSwain The opportunity to work on the Razorback has been both an enjoyable and enlightening experience. The chance to work closely with the design of the book along with a group of talented people has better provided me with working experience in a profes¬ sional environment. I will always value my time spent with the Razorback. COPY EDITOR Cali Elliott Being on staff this year was wonderful because I learned more about my campus, my Fayetteville community and, more importantly, the people I worked with. It was a year¬ book because it defined my year PHOTO EDITOR Gareth Patterson I loved making this book because everyone on staff had a mindset that this year would be different. Our staff challenged both each other and our readers to see how college year¬ books and telling stories can be done differently. MARKETING EXECUTIVE Elysia Hampel I had the privilege of archiving the university ' s yearbooks dating back from 1897.1 got to spend my time looking at old books but I also got a feel for what the university has been to so many people in the past. I have seen where it has come from and I am excited to see what the future holds.” WEBMASTER Chris Pryor It was more fun than a clowder of cats in a field of catnip! STAFF 343 COLOPHON Production The 2012 Razorback yearbook is the official yearbook of the Univer¬ sity of Arkansas and was created entirely by students. The 115th volume of the Razorback was printed on 157-gsm China Gold East Matte paper by Multi-Media Technology Group, Poplarville, Miss. The book was produced in the USA and printed in China. The staff worked with the company ' s director, John Trotter, and asso¬ ciate director Anthony Granda during production. The 4,000 copies of the 352-page book were printed with 4-color processing. Pages were created on iMacs using Adobe Creative Suite 5. Student photogra¬ phers used personal and staff Canon digital cameras. The Razorback was a fall delivery book, containing the fall and spring semesters from the previous school year. The Razorback was handed out at various locations across campus and was free to students on a first-come, first-serve basis unless previously reserved. Creation of the book was made possible through the Student Media Fee. The book was produced at a budget of $65,000. The cover and end sheets were designed by Ryan McSwain and Nick Carter. The colors used were Super Black, White and Pantone 200. The cover was a matador charcoal by eco-fibers highlighted by red and metallic foil and white non-metallic foil. The end sheets were printed with 2-color processing on 140-gsm white offset. The fall and spring photo collage, football, basketball, concert and event pages, to list a few, were designed by Ryan McSwain. Templates and other designs were created by Emily Chase, Syd¬ ney Hoffmans, Catherine Holland, Olivia Jones, Kristen Karnes and Katherine Norwood. All copy for the yearbook was written and edited by student writers. All body copy is 9 point Univers LT Std Light. Cap¬ tions are 7 point Univers LT Std Light. Special thanks are due to Cheri Freeland, Gerald Jordan, Johanna Rowe, Carol Rachal and Steve Wilkes for their help and encourage¬ ment. Student photographers took all candid and portrait photos. Arkansas Media Relations and MCT Campus gave courtesy photos. The font used throughout the book was Univers LT Std family. AP Stylebook was used for consistency and proper journalistic style. The Razorback is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press As¬ sociation and Arkansas College Media Association. 344 | CLOSING LETTER FROMTHE EDITOR As the book comes to a close, I look back on my seven years of working on yearbooks. I have been blessed. I’ve met great people and have helped tell great stories. There isn ' t anything like the excitement of people in the office working on a deadline late at night, designers screaming for their photos, writers asking everyone if they have a contact and photographers dropping off too many photos. It just wouldn ' t be the same without it all of the chaos. But in the end, a book full of more than just stories from the year is created. From naps on the couch to intense games of laser tag, we had a year full of unforgettable memories. I approached this year with the mentality that I was simply the one keeping it all together. Our office was just that- our office. We were all in this together and we couldn ' t have told all the stories without the passion and hard work that every staff member gave. I said from the beginning that my main objective was for our staff to become a family that worked together. If we could do that, everything else would follow, and it did. We put together one of the best college yearbooks this university has ever seen, we created an environment that any and everyone is welcome and we told compelling stories. Yes, there are the ups and downs of being an editor. You have to keep it all together when everything is falling a part, you have to stop yourself from micro-managing every detail and you have to see the bigger picture everyday. But I wouldn ' t have traded the experience for anything. I ' ve learned, I dare say, more in this year than I have in my entire college career. The challenge of bringing 30 people from all different backgrounds and beliefs together to create a book filled with incredible stories is the biggest reward. I couldn ' t have done it without those that were sitting in the cave night after night by my side. Ryan, man, am I glad I was able to persuade you into being my assistant editor. I knew you were the perfect fit and you were with me every step of the way. Thank you for your creative ingeniousness, your sports updates and keeping me calm when things went array. I couldn ' t have done it without you. Cali, you brought a humor and decisiveness that kept us all going. Your keen eye for detail took the book to a whole other level. Thank you for your constant teasing, Pokemon jokes and hard work. I can ' t wait to see the great things you do as co-editor. Gareth, we finally got to produce a book together. Your ability to capture story-telling moments and teach those around you is what sets you a part. Thank you for the hours editing, sorting and perfecting every photo. Elysia, thank you for always doing what needed to be done with a smile on your face. You never ceased to amaze me. I can ' t wait to see the things you do as managing editor. Chris, you saved the day. Thank you for fixing all the technical problems and creating a website that was beyond my expectations. Oh, and sorry about all the Macs. To the staff: Sydney, thank you for the countless hours proofing and reproofing. You were vital to our success. I know you will do amazing things as co-editor. Olivia, your smile would light up the room every time you came in the office. Thank you for your immeasurable encouragement. Thank you to my designers, Kristen, Catherine, Emily C., Meleah and Katherine, for your dedication to make the book look its best. We owe much credit to you for putting it all together. Emily R., I think we can all agree you took great photos and wrote great stories but your baking was probably what brought everyone to the meetings. Rebecca, thank you for always being someone that I knew without a doubt I could call and you would be there at 8 a.m. to set up for portraits or to pick up a story. You have always been a solid foundation for the program. Thank you to my writers, Megan, Michelle, Kathleen, Ayana, Ashyle, Cassye and Elena, for writing with passion no matter the story. Chad, you could always make anyone laugh. Thanks for all you ' ve done and your friendship over the years. Thank you to my photographers, Jacki,Tabatha, Mandi, Erin, Matt, Logan and Whit, I feel like I have known you all for a lifetime. Thank you for your hard work. You were the backbone of the book. To my Traveler friends, Saba and Mattie, thanks for all of the laughs and trips to Taste ofThai. I ' ll always cherish our friendship and crazy adventures. My final thanks goes to Margaret Sorrows, Allen Loibner, Michael Daly, Beth Shull, my parents and my friends and family. Without you all I wouldn ' t have become the journalist and leader I am today. Thank you for your wisdom and unwavering support. Those that have been through it understand the passion that goes into producing a yearbook. I am thankful for the blood, sweat and tears that went into it and the friendships and memories I made along the journey. I am proud to have been a part of persevering Razorback history. To God be the glory, Nick Carter CLOSING 345 . --f - • m-,. i ’l-lpnt, Matt Rowe Trenton Faith II Jacob Coleman Zachary Glenn Engel Christopher Morrissey Garrett Uekman Kaitlin LaBuda Douglas Marek StevenTodd Kerley if n i .ill .t S , I . 1 • 4 i I ill ? I j i 1 M • ' I i 1 f Itl, if IN MEMORIAM WHETHER WE CAME FROM SURROUNDING CITIES OR HALFWAY AROUND THEWORLD ... Photo by Mandi Havens CLOSING Photo by Gareth Patterson il l ' ‘“ T l || ( ' o by Elysia Hampel RAZORBACK 2012 -. - — “ “TT -: - ISZ iZ Ill ) '