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

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100 YEARS OF -RAZORBACK- STORY I JULIA TRUPP PHOTO I MIKALA ULERY DESIGN I MADISON LANDRY Before the UofA had one of the biggest and best mascots in the Southeastern Conference, it had a much smaller and still quite majestic animal representing its name. Throughout the 1897 yearbook, there are comments on various athletic and extracurricular teams wearing cardinal red — the color was simply a way of identity. It was not until the 1902 and 1903 books that the little red bird made an appearance on the cover before it was dropped and the name stayed. This has caused quite the mystery over the years. Although many think the Cardinal bird was the reason for the name, it would seem from the books themselves the main reason was the color identity, the real reason only the editors of that time would know. Even the football team was not referred to as “The Cardinals,” but rather “Her team,” in reference to the university - students see this daily when talking about the “mother of mothers’” Old Main. After football coach for the 1909 season Hugo Bezdek made a comment that the team played “like a wild band of Razorback hogs,” newspapers and UA students latched on to the name and by 1910 decided on a name and mascot change with a vote. But 1916 is when the yearbook’s name change happened, as it was known as the Cardinal until then. 14 FALL

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A CAMPUS BY STORM STORY | JULIA TRUPP PHOTO I CAYDEN HARTMAN ILLUSTRATION I KAREN HESSING DESIGN | MADISON LANDRY Campus was quiet from the summer lull, but halfway through, Fayetteville wasn’t a ghost town anymore. It became a Gastly town, and students were ready to catch them all. Pokemon Go, a free, location-based game for iOS and Android phones hit the scene in July 2016 and quickly became a trending topic around the world. In the game, players set up virtual characters, or avatars, to play as Pokemon trainers. A map is set up with various Pokestops around the area. Players are in through the device’s GPS, and certain Pokemon are connected to those locations. By flicking a finger across the phone screen, players use a limited supply of Pokeballs to catch the nearest Pokemon, so it’s all very interactive - and at times, obsessive; players can get so focused on catching the virtual Pokemon in the real world shown through the camera on their phones they fail to pay attention to their surroundings. In Fayetteville, players can catch many Pokemon that range from Psyducks to Rattatas, and more than 86 Pokestops were made available on campus to help students try to, as Pokemon trainers attempt in the game, catch them all. But the location-based game makes this feature physically impossible, as one student said, because some Pokemon are only available in certain countries, so unless players want to buy plane tickets and travel around the world, realistically they will only be able to catch a fraction of the 151 total virtual creatures. UA senior Hansen Chao said there is a huge difference playing in the city versus playing in rural areas, which, to the game’s creator, Niantic, is what Fayetteville is considered. “I’m still surprised there are people sitting on Arkansas Avenue catching Pokemon,” Chao said. “It’s like, what are you still catching? But if you’re living in New York, you’re catching different things all the time.” Even local restaurants and businesses have caught the Pokemon Go bug. JJ’s Grill on Dickson Street created drink specials to go with the game. Some businesses like Red Kite Coffee and the Northwest Arkansas Mall, and even Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art were filled with some. As a trending movement in Fayetteville, it wasn’t surprising that most of the players around town were college students and young parents - the entire game stemmed from the t ime of their childhoods. “I fully believe that the reason I wear glasses is because I’d play Pokemon at night under the covers, hiding from my mom,” Chao said. “I’m sure that little screen in the darkness did not help my eyesight.” Whether the game sticks around for a while was to be determined, but one thing is for sure: these little pocket monsters have found their way back into the lives of their players. “Honestly, it’s just the appeal of Pokemon for the most part,” Chao said. “Pokemon has such a huge grasp on so many people’s childhoods. Just having that property and the new format was really exciting. You don’t even need a perfect aim or a perfectly working game to make it blow up like this. Now it’s a trending topic. Now anyone can play.” 16 FALL